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Massachusetts: Muslim inmates preached jihad using al-Qaeda recordings, officials say it was all about spiritual struggle

Nov 20, 2016 6:26 am By Robert Spencer

“FOX25 confirmed a report that inmates used recordings from Al Qaeda recruiter and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed years ago in a drone strike, to preach jihad to others at the state prison….In a statement to FOX25, the state Department of Correction said, ‘It was determined that the ‘jihad’ that was being preached was in the context of personal spiritual struggle with regard to oneself, as opposed to a war against non-believers.'”

Is the State Department of Correction full of fools, or is it just hoping that the general public is made up entirely of idiots?

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“FOX25 Investigates: ‘Jihad’ preached inside state prison,” by Eric Rasmussen and Erin Smith, WFXT, November 15, 2016 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):

BOSTON – Six inmates at MCI Norfolk are facing discipline after a probe into information that some convicts at the prison’s Muslim chapel were preaching jihad speeches by a former Al Qaeda recruiter, FOX25 Investigates has learned.

FOX25 confirmed a report that inmates used recordings from Al Qaeda recruiter and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed years ago in a drone strike, to preach jihad to others at the state prison.

The state Department of Correction has confirmed six inmates who attended the prison’s Muslim chapel are facing discipline for setting up a structure of power over other inmates, requiring uniforms and demanding contracts of allegiance.

Martin Horn, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who once led New York City’s prison system and set up an intelligence center on Rikers Island, said law enforcement officials need to look at more than just the jihad preaching.

“You want to begin to look at, for example, their phone calls. You want to look at the records of who’s sending money to their account,” Horn told FOX25 Investigative Reporter Eric Rasmussen via Skype. “If one were going to try to recruit individuals to engage in the kinds of terrorist activities that most concern us, what better place to look for recruits than inside a prison?”

In a statement to FOX25, the state Department of Correction said, “It was determined that the ‘jihad’ that was being preached was in the context of personal spiritual struggle with regard to oneself, as opposed to a war against non-believers.”

A DOC spokesman said there is “no evidence that their unauthorized activities were being used as a recruiting tool for any extremist ideology.”…

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  1. Angemon says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 6:51 am

    Is the State Department of Correction full of fools, or is it just hoping that the general public is made up entirely of idiots?

    I think it’s a bit of option a) and a bit of option b) – fools who think they cang et away with plausible deniability.

  2. Spike1033 says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 7:03 am

    I’ve just been listening to a recording of Josef Goebbels. God, I feel spiritually enlightened!

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Nov 20, 2016 at 12:31 pm

      Excellent analogy!

  3. Shmooviyet says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 8:32 am

    “…the jihad…was in the context of personal spiritual struggle…”
    This line is being used regularly now, by whichever gov’t entity needs it.
    The good jihad, as opposed to the bad. But both are apparently helped by recordings of dead terrorist rants.

  4. JOHN SPIELMAN says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 8:33 am

    the baseness and thuggery of islam which sanctifies (makes holy) lying, murder rape stealing certainly appeals to and emboldens the criminal types who have no moral restraint.
    who would have thought that prisons make criminals more vicious than they were before!

  5. David says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 9:14 am

    This is such a horror! I spent the first 11 years of my life, growing up in Mass. and Conn.
    As a teen spent about three or four more good years there, off and on!
    My Dad’s family has been there since 1620!
    In school, we learned all about the first Colonial settlers and the great War of the Revolution!
    (Today, I don’t think I would even recognize the place! I haven’t been back since the 1960’s)
    I wonder what is taught in our Public schools today? I wonder how many Junior Jihadist are being groomed right now? And how many more “Boston Bombers” are living on our Taxpayers money?

    • Frank Scarn says

      Nov 20, 2016 at 9:43 am

      No, you wouldn’t recognize the place. It is truly hard to believe that MA was one of the original 13.

    • TR says

      Nov 20, 2016 at 10:42 am

      When our Forefathers drew up the Mayflower Compact in 1620, “Having undertaken for the Glory of God and the Advancement of the Christian Faith.”
      I do not believe they mentioned anything about establishing this Colony to become an Islamic Caliphate..

      • Lucia Bartoli says

        Nov 20, 2016 at 12:33 pm

        Amen!

      • Mischief Maker in the Land says

        Nov 21, 2016 at 3:43 pm

        You must surely mean the Pilgrim Mullahs.

  6. Emilie Green says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 9:36 am

    “. . . determined that the ‘jihad’ that was being preached was in the context of personal spiritual struggle with regard to oneself, as opposed to a war against non-believers.”

    And yet, it goes without investigation how easily and seamlessly the Islamic glide path goes from the “greater struggle/jihad” to the “lesser struggle/jihad” (the lesser one being the one practiced so, so, so quite broadly, world-wide, against the non-Muslim).

    Massachusetts? Say, isn’t that the place that originated AA Flight 11, and isn’t that the home of the Tsarnaev Brothers who plotted and carried out the Boston Marathon Bombing right under the noses of all the Dick Tracys there in Massachusetts?

    Somehow the security people in Massachusetts don’t have a very good track record in being able to identify trouble spots.

  7. Jay Boo says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 10:00 am

    And Yet in spite of this:

    All Muslims are aware (at some level) that Allah and his pedophile rapist/prophet AKA, (the inventor of Islam) are a both a joke. Even those annoying tongue-flapping suicide vest wearing Alahu-wackos know this.

    Their repetitious sing-song chant about Allah being the greater makes it obvious that all Muslims are full of great insecurities about Allah without their daily peer-pressure mobs around.
    Muslims never, ever actually pray to unknowable Allah.
    Once again, Muslims —- do not pray to Allah.
    They pray only to impress their neighbor.

    A Muslim alone is truly alone.

    • Jackson03 says

      Nov 20, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      “All Muslims are aware (at some level) that Allah and his pedophile rapist/prophet AKA, (the inventor of Islam) are a both a joke. Even those annoying tongue-flapping suicide vest wearing Alaha-wackos know this.”

      Maybe rethink this one. Must be an awful tinee-tiny “aware” if it exists at all: Gotta be a lot of belief in that heaven full of cherry babes awaiting for a guy to blow himself up.

  8. Jack Holan says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 10:13 am

    DOC MASS is the Renascence of rehabilitation of Religious/Political ideologue prisoners setting an example on how to cultivate a stealth Army that upon release from incarceration can recruit others until their Army of terrorists are ready to strike.
    Even the ACLU, wasn’t crazy enough to demand the preaching of Al Awaki Sermons to fulfill their need for a personal Jihad amongst he Detainees at GITMO. The ACLU Attorneys know when to zip it because it’s just down right ludicrous.

  9. davej says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 12:44 pm

    Good luck prying apart the violent supremacist jihad from the “Internal spiritual struggle”. To the Islamist they are one and the same, as the Koran teaches. Islam needs to be banned as violent hate speech and the place to start is in the prison system. You shouldn’t be able to preach a criminal ideology inside a criminal rehab facility paid for by taxpayers.

  10. Kepha says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    I’m also sure that the prison authorities and the government agency overseeing them were every so scrupulous to exhibit even the slightest bit of “Islamophobia”.

    I also cannot help but notice that this is the same state of Massachusetts that decided that the taxpayers have to foot the bill for some inmate’s gender-bender surgery.

  11. gravenimage says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    Massachusetts: Muslim inmates preached jihad using al-Qaeda recordings, officials say it was all about spiritual struggle

    “FOX25 confirmed a report that inmates used recordings from Al Qaeda recruiter and U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki…
    …………………….

    Ah, yes–because Anwar al-Awlaki urging Muslims to murder Americans is so “spiritual”…sarc/off

    My God, what utter stupidity.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 3:48 pm

      Do the prison authorities remember that it was Anwar Al-Awlaki, traitor to the USA, who was killed in a targeted drone strike by the USA? He was killed for his INNER spiritual struggle?

  12. underbed cat says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    No one at the prison ever listened to the tapes before delivering the spiritual murder.lecture. But they will read all mail….without question.. This just show how successful the MB has been in the campaign to silence and misinform authorities by being the diversity authority and appearing pious praying with deceit.

  13. Ellen Shaw says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 8:19 am

    MA DOC should know better, especially at MCI Norfolk. Have they forgotten when we have our super max facility called Souza Baranowski Correctional Center ? Norkolk lost two Corections Officers due to lack of security. As a former employee of the DOC I am outraged that this was allowed to happen. My question would be if it happened here then where else is this happenng?

  14. Tommy says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 11:16 am

    Remember Sept 11th started in MASSACHUSETTS! Corruption is easy to infliltrate!

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