| State prison officials have put a Muslim chaplain at the Albion Correctional Facility on paid administrative leave after she told inmates that Osama bin Laden "is a hero to all Muslims." She also is said to have told a gathering of inmates that the United States was making a scapegoat of bin Laden, and that the Taliban government in Afghanistan is right in not turning him over to the United States. Corrections authorities say Sister Aminah Akbar of Rochester was locked out of the women's prison. She was put on leave while prison authorities investigate more than a half-dozen complaints about the speech, made before corrections officers as well as inmates. (The Buffalo News, by MICHAEL BEEBE) |