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09/06  March 11, 2006



    CAIR:  Defending Islamic Hate in New York Prison System?

     On March 9, Eyewitness News (New York) carried a story about Islamic Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil who has been placed on administrative leave for comments made in a secretly recorded speech.

     Abdul-Jalil, head of Islamic Chaplains for the City of New York corrections department, was reportedly overheard saying,

“We know that the greatest terrorists in the world
occupy the White House without a doubt”. 

     Regarding Muslims being tortured in New York following the attacks of 9-11, he had this to say:

“They are not charged with anything, they are not entitled to any rights, they are interrogated. 
Some of them are literally tortured and we found this in our facility in the
metropolitan correctional facility which is the federal facility in Manhattan. 
But they are literally torturing people”.

     While there are reports of Muslims being harshly treated in the New York correctional system immediately following 9-11, there is absolutely no proof that this harsh treatment was approved by the local, state, or federal governments.  In short, the abusive treatment was not policy and Abdul-Jalil, as head of Islamic Chaplains knows it.  His comments, if true, are inflammatory, inappropriate, and hateful.

     Proving, once again, where it stands on the issue of radical Islam, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), represented by Wassim Nasr, had this to say:

“There are other things that are the truth in his statements. For example,
harsh treatment of Muslim prisoners at the Metropolitan Detention Center
and the jails in New York, so I think we can't mix the two together.
and even if it was his opinion, this is America and we are allowed
to express our opinions publicly.”

     Considering CAIR’s policy of using the courts to silence critics, Anti-CAIR (ACAIR) finds it laughable that CAIR is suddenly calling for free expression…but only for Islamic radicals?

     In yet another example of CAIR's support for radical Islam; we see what CAIR thinks of America. 


     How many times must CAIR tell us what they think of Americans before we begin to take them at their word?




Andrew Whitehead
Director
Anti-CAIR (ACAIR)
ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.org
www.anti-cair-net.org


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