Texas Prison Jihad
Wed, Dec 3, 2003 at 9:54:23 pm PST
Muslim prison inmates in Texas have been shown a disturbing video recruiting them for jihad, featuring a Californian imam expressing open support for terrorist organizations: Jail House Jihad - Part 1.
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.
The Muslim chaplain responsible for procuring this jihad videotape offered an incredibly weak series of excuses when confronted—and even though he tried to deny a connection to the video, he still couldn’t bring himself to repudiate it: Jail House Jihad - Part 2.
[Omar] 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.
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.”
On the tape, California Imam Muhammad Abdullah blames the 9-11 terrorist attacks on Israel and the Jews.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.”
(Hat tip: TS.)
