Shockingly, the four people arrested while planting bombs in front of two Bronx synagogues and are alleged to have plotted to shoot a National Guard airplane were not your run-of-the-mill terrorists. They are African Americans who had converted to Islam in prison and had decided to act on their hatred of Jews ad America. Concern about jail-house conversions to Islam, radicalization and recruitment by terrorist organizations has intensified since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and, for that reason, the Federal Bureau of Prisons received a seat on the National Joint Terrorism Task Force which includes some 40 government agencies.
Mitchell Silber, director of intelligence analysis for the New York Police Department estimates about 10 inmates that are paroled in New York give authorities “some level of concern”; and “The State of new York has allowed Muslim imams to be prison chaplains since 1972 and some of them preach the fundamentalist Wahabi version of Islam”.
I think it’s time for our government to reconsider its policy concerning Muslim prison chaplains. Naturally, people in prison are already disenfranchised and are ripe for anti-American and anti-freedom preaching. I suggest that we provide Muslim imams on a limited basis for Muslim inmates but we should disallow conversion to Islam in our prisons.
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