[browardchad]

The Darul Uloom Institute in Hollywood/Pembroke Pines is the same mosque attended by the Pakistani arrested in March for plotting to blow up a power plant.

Link to that story: Pakistani Plotted to Bomb Florida Power Plants, Officials Say

[lormand]

There are way too many examples of people turning to Islam, only to become extremely hate filled, be it Nation of Islam or other forms of Islam.

Malcom X
Johnny Jihad Walker Lindh
Jose Padilla
Calipso Louis Farakhan
Kalid Mohammed...etc

Can someone name a person who converted to Islam and became a humanitarian?

[Frances_Marion]

So now cons aren't just "finding jesus" to lend themselves some modicum of repectability, they're "finding mohammed" as well...isn't everyone happy that violent criminals have found a new religion to exploit?

[Frances_Marion]

"In Florida, Padilla spent a year in jail for aggravated assault and may have been exposed to Islam in jail. However, there are no records to confirm that. Imam Rafiq Mahdi of Masjid Al-Iman mosque in Sunrise and Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne held a news conference Tuesday to announce that there was no record of Padilla attending any services."

Why is it that journalists and so many others like to play "connect-the-dots" with petty political hack pieces, but not where it really counts? From an inteview with Islamic Supreme Council president and Sufi Muslim scholar Sheiykh Hisham Kabbani, conducted by Michael Savage (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/5/11503.shtml)

SAVAGE: "Shaykh Kabbani, I read several months ago that because you've spoken out so beautifully and eloquently on behalf of the peacefulness of Islam, your life has been threatened and you are now under Secret Service guard. Is that true?"

KABBANI: "Yes, they've threatened me many times and are still threatening me and many times they have tried to do something, but I am a person who believes in God and believes in His messages, so I believe that God is protecting me and I hope that my life is not in danger because of God's protection."

"But I would like to mention something very important that perhaps not many people are hearing about. We correspond with prisoners in the prison system; they ask us about books and seek our guidance and so on. And we have been told by some of them that some chaplains in the prisons are confiscating our books, they are confiscating any kind of book about tolerance. They are only introducing certain Wahabbi books, even in the prison system. And that is against the law, that even in the prison system these books are being introduced."

[aristeides]

Padilla’s wife, Cherie Stultz, who worked with Padilla at the restaurant, also converted, taking the name Marwa. She left the job in March 1994, three months after Padilla, according to Taco Bell corporate records.

So Jose Padilla left his job in or around Dec. '93. Today's Boston Globe says Padilla disappeared after he left this job. Yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times said he went to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early 90's. Surely he did not go until after his conversion to Islam, which would mean Dec. '93 is the earliest he could have done it. If he went to training camps in Afghanistan and/or Pakistan in Dec. '93 or so, he had plenty of time to become an explosives expert by 4/19/95, the date of the OKC bombing.

[RayBob]

I'll probably get some sh*t for this, but...

Shouldn't the preparation and serving of Taco Bell food, in and of itself, be considered a terrorist act?

[texasbluebell]

He was involved in a gangland murder when he was 13, according to sources. Just shy of his 15th birthday, Padilla and five others attacked and robbed three men in a Chicago street, records show. The attack left one man fatally stabbed. At 18, Padilla was charged with punching a man in the face when he tried to stop him from stealing a doughnut at a Chicago restaurant.

It certainly does irk me to no end, to see interviews on tv with his former neighbors who say he was such a nice young man, and his lawyer (who knows his criminal record) who said he was so gentle. Maybe the neighbors are terrified of being targets of current gang members, but it just is maddening to hear the swill about him.

[MEGoody]

Sounds like they should be investigating this mosque.

[aristeides]

Padilla told him he had accepted Islam at a mosque and had taken the Muslim name Ibrahim.

When Qureshi would slip and call him José, Padilla would always correct him.

Evidence Padilla converted before he left the Taco Bell job around Dec. '93, and not in '95, as today's Washington Post would have us believe.

[pyx]

José Padilla?s conversion to Islam could have helped him leave behind a life of violence and thuggery that saw him in and out of jails.

This is unbelievable, since by its very definition islam directs its adherants to submit and to be violent thugs.

[mconder]

Dude, they've resorted to recruiting at Taco Bell...I think we're in the clear.