Thursday, August 25, 2005


Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, writing at the Counterterrorism Blog has the goods on some of the anti-Semitic Muslim literature distributed widely in American prisons. Further, exhortations to Jihad are not exactly something we should be thrilled to have felons spending their time consuming.

The disturbing goods are here: Radical Indoctrination in the U.S. Prisons

...First, the al-Haramain Foundation distributed The Noble Qur'an, translated by Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan, to an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 prisoners. (Download NQ_Title.pdf) This translation uniquely advances a radical interpretation of the Muslim holy book through the use of footnotes and bracketed material that does not appear in the Arabic text, but rather serves an entirely "explanatory" function. An early footnote in this translation lays out, at length, the importance of jihad: "Al-Jihad (holy fighting) in Allah's Cause (with full force of numbers and weaponry) is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars (on which it stands). By Jihad Islam is established, Allah's Word is made superior, . . . and His Religion (Islam) is propagated. By abandoning Jihad (may Allah protect us from that) Islam is destroyed and the Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honour is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim, and he who tries to escape from this duty, or does not in his innermost heart wish to fulfil this duty, dies with one of the qualities of a hypocrite." (Download NQ_71.pdf) Thus, this translation both rules out non-military interpretations of jihad by specifying that it involves "full force of numbers and weaponry) and also states that it is "an obligatory duty on every Muslim."...

Not to worry, though. Gartenstein-Ross informs us that MPAC says there's nothing to worry about.

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Nothing unexpected. For decades the "hip" people have been palming this garbage on us about how great Islam is for prisoners, especially black ones.

#1 Jake at: August 28, 2005 10:44 PM

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