What may be most disturbing about this AP story (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist) is that Salam Al-Maryati of MPAC is allowed to portray his organization as being "on the front lines battling extremism." You can see how absurd that is here. But the good news is that he says he is not being utilized by law enforcement. Keep it up, law enforcement.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Recent arrests have focused attention on a potential terrorism danger that federal officials have been warning about — that inmates in state prison systems are particularly susceptible to radical Islamist ideology.But prison officials across the nation say they so far have seen more potential for recruitment than real threats.
Federal officials have arrested three men in Southern California since early July in a plot that allegedly targeted National Guard facilities, the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles and several synagogues.
Authorities said they believe the plan originated among a shadowy group known as Jamiyyat Ul Islam Is Saheeh inside California State Prison, Sacramento.
Counterterrorism officials said the danger is not in the number of adherents to radical Islam but in the potential for small groups of dedicated believers to commit terrorist acts after they are released.
They point to Jose Padilla, an American Muslim convert arrested in 2002 for allegedly planning a "dirty bomb" radiological attack after he left jail.
"Nothing I have suggests there is a widespread Al Qaida recruitment movement within the prison system, but all you need is three or four to conduct an attack," said Gary Winuk, chief deputy director of the state Office of Homeland Security....
However, prison officials in other states, including Pennsylvania and Ohio, where Muslim inmates helped spark an 11-day fatal riot in 1993, said they have seen no signs of recruiting. And Muslim leaders dispute the idea that prisons are producing Islamic militants.
In a report last year, the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general found that the federal Bureau of Prisons was doing inadequate background or ideology checks on its Muslim clerics. It found that inmates and religious volunteers had "ample opportunity ... to deliver inappropriate and extremist messages without supervision."...
In California, chaplains' clerks or other inmates lead some religious ceremonies and sometimes preach an inflammatory version of Islam, said Lance Corcoran, executive vice president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. But he added, "I find most Muslim inmates to be very respectful, to be very easy to deal with."
The California prison system has 30 full- and part-time Muslim chaplains, civil service employees who undergo background checks and must adhere to mainstream Islam, said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Shakeel Syed, a contract chaplain for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, disagreed that prisons are turning out Islamic radicals. He joined representatives of Muslim groups Friday at a news conference in Los Angeles to say that chaplains can be part of the solution by steering inmates away from radical ideology.
"Those of us who are on the front lines battling extremism are not being utilized by law enforcement," said Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
I saw a statement from a muslim cleric dealing with prison ministries,( I don't know if it was the same man as in the above article)...anyway, the cleric said something to the effect of, It has never been "proven" that the clerics in prison inspire jihad. Not that they don't inspire jihad...you just can't prove it.
No surprise there. Their religion gives the "green light" to murder, lying and basically destroying anything you disagree with. I wonder when they'll start recruiting in the insane asylums.
Carolyn:
Nothing will ever be "proven" to a lying, Da'wa making Islamic cleric.
Jihad is one of the 5 pillars of Islam, and Islam is not 'radical' or 'moderate', it's always the same totalitarian ideology based on conquest and booty.
Besides, whom do you believe? Yourself or your lying eyes?
There should be TREMENDOUS concern....Here is why....
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[B]Certainly the most intriguing of the CRCIS sites, allahsreligion.com is the website of "Islamic Humanitarian Service"[8], an organization operated by an American citizen which runs a 'prison outreach program' in at least two state prisons[9] while simultaneously soliciting donations for Islamic centers and schools in Colombia[10].[/B]
Among the offerings on the allahsreligion.com site is a link titled 'Good Advice' and described as "Advice given by the Imam during the Islamic Revolution". During the months that this site has been under observation, the name of the Imam in question has been removed almost completely from plain view. Except for the file's name, that is: khomeini.htm[11]. Over time the site has been stripped of names and identifying information, which is unusual for what purports to be a legitimate charitable organization.
[B]We think it fair to ask the question: do we really want the Iranian regime, a regime that arguably has been at war with the United States since its very creation, conducting a 'prisoner outreach program' in state prison systems across the USA?[/B]
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For entire piece see Sofir Report #4....Excerpt is from Page 2 of that report....
http://sofir.org/sarchives/004209.php
Muslim prisoners, where they are not native-born citizens, such as those at Guantanamo, should be deported. They are too expensive to maintain. And they will use their time in prison to conduct Da'wa -- in other words, to further the Jihad by spreading Islam. We can't have that. It does us harm. We cannot keep pretending that Islam is only, or mainly, a "religion." It isn't. Start making sense. Start segregating Muslim prisoners in special prisons so that they cannot conduct Da'wa. And subject them to as much counter-Da'wa as is possible. For a few, if given the chance to read Ali Sina, Ibn Warraq, and others, the arguments against this belief-system which so obviously lends itself, as a Total Regulation and Total Expolanation, to totalitarianism, may finally win them over.
Listen to Spinoza, Hume, Voltaire, Diderot, Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, Churchill, and others less known (from Ricoldo da Montecroce, a Dominican who knew all about Islam, on up). Ignore those who pooh-pooh the cassandra cries. Cassandra was right.
I worked in a county jail in Colorado for 13 years. The Muslims were among the angriest and most "difficult" inmates with whom we had to deal.
We Americans have just all bent over backwards for these folks who intend to destroy us, no matter how generous and accommodating we may be - we're all infidels, after all, and not worthy of any true friendship with any real Moslem.
Convert, pay the jizya or die. Such a deal Islam has offered us. I'm overwhelmed, but not with gratitude.
We'd better take off the gloves and destroy this cancer, before it eats us alive.
The poster above bears the name "JohnnyDub." I wonder if that poster is by any chance an Americanized relative of Slavic "Ivan Dub, who never materialized," the single student who was enrolled in the Advanced Russian Class taught by Professor Timofey Pnin at Waindell College, nearly half-a-century ago. Or might he possibly be "Ivan Dub" himself, making an appearance for the first time.
This isn't rocket science. Prison inmates are already angry and disaffected. We create a ready-made army when islam is added. Any fool should be able to grasp this concept.
The Saudis have spent large sums of money to fund Wahabi based Islamic outreach centers in American prisons to convert criminals to Islam. This does not make them peaceful but more violent. The threat is not by terrorists from without, but by terrorists from within who are convinced that their criminal actions are justified under Islam. We should lobby our politicians to outlaw Islam from being taught in the US prison systems.