Muslim Conversions in Prison and the FBI's PC Party Line
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The FBI re****ts to Congress on the growing danger of Islamic
conversions and the embrace of violent Jihad taking place in the
nation's prisons. Primarily the target is the young Black violent
felon population, the largest subset of violent felons in our nation's
prisons.
The question: Is the FBI taking this threat and the threat of Islam
seriously or is it hiding behind PC to find the "extremist" in the
woodpile?
Muslim Prison Conversions Driven by US =93Domestic=94 Jihadists
Madam Chairman, Ranking Member and members of the committee, thank you
for the op****tunity to speak to you on the issue of prison
radicalization in the United States.
[Mapping Shari=92a in America Staff: This is the party line by the FBI
which has special =93Multi-Cultural Advisory Committees=94 to teach
special agents =93cultural sensitivity=94: =93All new FBI Special Agents
receive cultural sensitivity education, including that of the Muslim
religion, during their new agent training at Quantico.=94 See our
Commentary below.]
Additionally, the FBI does not investigate individuals for their
religious beliefs. Rather, we investigate the activities of
individuals who want to do harm to the citizens and interests of
United States and those of our allies abroad. The FBI fully recognizes
and is committed to protecting prisoners' civil liberties, including
religious rights. These activities have led us to believe that prisons
continue to present op****tunities for the proselytizing of both Sunni
and ****a forms of radical Islam. Moreover, domestic groups such as
white supremacists recruit in prisons as well.
There are two groups of concern involved in prison radicalization and
recruitment.
The first group consists of inmates, the majority of whom are minority
group members [Staff: this is code for Blacks and Latinos, although
mostly Blacks].
Although most are converts to Islam, there is a smaller number who
were born into the Muslim faith. These radicalized inmates either feel
discriminated against in the United States or feel that the United
States oppresses minorities and Muslims overseas. The feeling of
perceived oppression, combined with their limited knowledge of Islam,
especially for the converts, makes this a vulnerable population for
extremists looking to radicalize and recruit.
The second group consists of contract, volunteer, and staff personnel,
the majority of which are imams, who enter correctional facilities
with the intent to radicalize and recruit.
Particularly for Muslim converts, but also for those born into Islam,
an extremist imam can strongly influence individual belief systems by
speaking from a position of authority on religious issues. Extremist
imams have the potential to influence vulnerable followers at various
locations of op****tunity; can spot and *****s individuals who respond
to their messages; and can potentially guide them into increasingly
extremist circles.
Aside from individuals providing radical messages there is also
extremist media in the form of literature and videos being circulated
within the prison population that appears to be a significant factor
in prison radicalization.
In some cases, these radicalization efforts expand beyond prison walls
resulting in potential threats to society at large.
The Threat
The majority of cases involving prison radicalization and recruitment
have not manifested themselves as a threat to national security. There
have been, however, instances where charismatic elements within prison
have used the call of Global Jihad as a source of inspiration to
recruit others for the purpose of conducting terrorist attacks in the
United States.
In July 2005, the FBI became aware of a Sunni Islamic extremist group
in California operating primarily in state prisons, without apparent
connections or direction from outside the United States and with no
identifiable foreign power nexus. Members of this group, the Jam=92iyyat
Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS), or the =93Authentic Assembly of Islam,=94 were
involved in almost a dozen armed gas station robberies in Los Angeles
with the goal of financing terrorist operations in furtherance of JIS
goals.
JIS founder Kevin Lamar James, an inmate in the California prison
system, was the principal recruiter for the group. Recruitment of
participants to the Los Angeles JIS cell began in prison with the
recruitment of Levar Wa****ngton by James in December 2004. James
allegedly instructed Wa****ngton to recruit five people to train in
covert operations, acquire firearms with silencers, and find contacts
with explosives expertise or who could learn to make bombs that could
be activated from a distance. Upon release from prison, Wa****ngton
recruited other co-conspirators, Gregory Patterson and Hamad Samana,
to begin fulfilling James=92 wishes.
The JIS case provides valuable insight into an increasing phenomenon
in many of our terrorism cases here in the United States, as well as
those around the world, and highlights the im****tance of cooperation
at all levels of the law enforcement community in order to effe
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