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  • NYC jail chaplain is suspended over Tucson comments

    03/11/2006 10:48:58 AM PST · by SandRat · 20 replies · 555+ views
    Arizona Daily Star ^ | STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
    The head chaplain for New York City jails has been suspended while the city investigates claims he made incendiary statements last year in Tucson, including a comment that the "greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House." The New York Post reported Thursday that Umar Abdul-Jalil made the remarks at a conference sponsored by the Muslim Students Association in Tucson. It said the Investigative Project, a Washington organization that tracks extremist Islamic groups, recorded the speech, in which he also allegedly said that Muslims jailed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were "tortured" in the Manhattan Correctional Center. Abdul-Jalil,...
  • Jailhouse Jihadists

    03/10/2006 12:20:01 AM PST · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 5 replies · 533+ views
    New York Post ^ | 03/10/2006 | Staff
    March 10, 2006 -- Mayor Bloomberg yesterday all but fired Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil as head of ministerial services at the city's Department of Correction. But no honor accrues to the mayor: He had no choice. Abdul-Jalil was iced after The Post revealed a series of hate-laced public remarks from the imam last year. "We know that the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House," Abdul-Jalil was caught on tape saying. He insisted Muslims are being "set up" - jailed just because they're Muslims and tortured in government prisons. "Zionists" are manipulating the news.