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Jail House Jihad
Two part series by CBS 11 in Dallas/Ft Worth. Part one, EFL:
It’s Ramadan, the holiest Islamic month, and the call to prayer rings out daily to the Texas prison system’s more than 7,500 Muslim inmates. Their burgeoning numbers are a testament to the fast pace of Islamic converts sweeping through the nation’s prisons. But CBS-11 has uncovered a disturbing half-hour videotape apparently used as a recruitment tool in the Beto One Prison Unit in East Texas. The confiscated video is titled “A Message to the Oppressed” and carried a militant Islamic sermon in praise of terrorists to inmates before authorities seized it during Islamic services. The tape features the anti-Semitic exhortations by the California-based Imam Muhammad Abdullah who claims that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were actually carried out by the Israeli and U.S. governments.
“Are we to believe that some person that some people walked in airports and hijacked airplanes and then just went and blew up buildings blew up the Pentagon? This is ignorance to the max.”
The Imam’s tape ends by giving credit to Hamas, al-Jihad and Hizballah. All three groups are listed as terror organizations by the State Department. Repeated efforts to reach Muhammad Abdullah were unsuccessful. Public records indicate that Abdullah has been an Imam in the California Youth Authority.
Well, isn’t that special.
Inmate David Swanson, Assistant Imam at the Ramsey One Unit, says his brothers there would never have allowed such a tape to be shown. “We don’t condone that and we don’t try to promote that but at the same time we want Americans, our families, our loved ones to understand that we are in this relationship with God, not any ideologies or any ideas that may be contradictory to what God want us to live,” he said.
"And God wants us to kill people. Lots of people..."
Some terrorism experts say the videotape is new evidence of militant Islamic groups infiltrating prisons through religious programs. The Senate judiciary subcommittee on terrorism concluded recently that U.S. prisons and jails are a key area of recruitment for Al Qaeda and other terror organizations. In the wake of 9-11, the Texas prison system’s office of inspector general increased monitoring inmate mail under state law.

Part two, EFL:
For the past 14 years, Omar Rakeeb carried an Islamic outreach from his mosque in Midland as a Muslim chaplain to federal and state prisons.
It's been a long time since I was in Midland. Obviously things have changed.
Rakeeb found himself under scrutiny for a controversial videotape shown to Muslim inmates in Texas under his watch. State prison authorities seized the tape at East Texas’ Beto One Unit after learning that it features a militant California imam trying to incite prisoners against the U.S. government. The tape gives support to three terrorist organizations in its closing credits. Rakeeb, speaking for the first time, disavows any connection to the tape. “I didn’t have anything to do with showing the tape,” Rakeeb said.
"I know nothing, nothing!"
"It ain't mine! Somebdoy left it here!"
He said an inmate ordered the tape to the chaplain’s office. “He came in and said I had ordered this tape and had it sent through this office, can we look it? Not right now maybe later.”
"Wait'll there ain't no screws around, Mug!"
Rakeeb was unable to explain who removed the tape from Rakeeb’s office and who else, besides him, had access to a VCR to show it to inmates.
"Errrrrr, can I get back to you on that?"
The prison system is investigating a tape that the Anti-Defamation League says spreads an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. The 55-year-old Chaplain said when asked about the message that he’s not familiar with what Anti-Semitic means.
Ah huh
He declined to disavow the theory that Israel and Jews orchestrated the attacks that killed more than 3,000 innocent American office workers. “Well, I heard that. I saw it in different
 I heard it, I believe on TV and I read it somewhere on the Internet and heard people talking like that,” Rakeeb said. Usually, I just treat it as news, whether it is true or not, I have no way of knowning.”
Either he’s a really bad liar, or he is just plain dumb.
The FBI warns that militant Muslim prison chaplains sympathetic to terrorists are trying to recruit inmates as future operatives. Rakeeb, however, says that he preaches that Islam is a religion of peace™.
Yeah, we’ve heard that one before.
He boasts proudly that his son is on the front line in the war against terrorism, serving as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne. “He loves the Army. He loves serving. He reenlisted.”
Does he know what you’re doing, Omar? Bet he wouldn’t be too proud of you.
Posted by: Steve 2003-12-04
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=22214