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"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."

"And we (sufis) 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..."

Great point!

It bears repeating again and again and again...

Eventually enough people will understand this enemy, and how it works.

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?

If they don't play the politically-correct "Islam is peace" game, they get flack from the American Muslim groups, IMO. The backlash has been mentioned by more than one writer, and I imagine it's much worse on TV, as evidenced by Lou Dobbs' being blasted from all sides about his "miltant Islamics" comment on CNN. I think, in general, we underestimate the influence of these groups, not only with the press, but with politicians -- including those Congress and the White House.

"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."

This should be shouted over and over again, till more people hear it!