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Two part series by CBS 11 in Dallas/Ft Worth. Part one, EFL: Itâs Ramadan, the holiest Islamic month, and the call to prayer rings out daily to the Texas prison systemâs more than 7,500 Muslim inmates. Their burgeoning numbers are a testament to the fast pace of Islamic converts sweeping through the nationâs 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 âA Message to the Oppressedâ 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. âAre 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.âThe Imamâs 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, isnât 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. âWe donât condone that and we donât 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,â he said.
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.
"I know nothing, nothing!"
"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 heâs 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. âWell, 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,â Rakeeb said. Usually, I just treat it as news, whether it is true or not, I have no way of knowning.â Either heâs 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 peaceâ¢. Yeah, weâve 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. âHe loves the Army. He loves serving. He reenlisted.â Does he know what youâre doing, Omar? Bet he wouldnât be too proud of you. | ||||
Posted by:Steve |
#2 Sounds like this mutt needs to be sharing a cell down at Beto with the other scum. I certainly hope the 82nd has a few CIC guys taking a long, hard look at his spawn. |
Posted by: Anonymous 2003-12-4 1:32:42 PM |
#1 "He boasts proudly that his son is on the front line in the war against terrorism, serving as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne." Now that's scary! |
Posted by: B 2003-12-4 10:55:56 AM |