Newburgh, NY – The imam of the Newburgh mosque where the Bronx-plot terror cell was organized has worked for more than 20 years in the New York state prison system converting inmates to Islam — and was hired by the radical Muslim chaplain banned for praising the 9/11 hijackers.
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Imam Salahuddin Muhammad is the spiritual leader of the Masjid Al-Ikhlas, the Newburgh mosque where the four terrorist wannabes met.
Muhammad also has worked as a prison chaplain at Fishkill Correctional Facility since 1985 — where alleged Bronx terrorist James Cromitie was imprisoned in 1991.
Muhammad was recruited to work in the prison system by the controversial Warith Deen Umar, who was booted after he reportedly said Muslims “secretly admire” the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Muhammad converted to Islam when he was in prison, said Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem, who has known Muhammad for 20 years. Muhammad served 12 years for robbery, according to a 2003 report in The Wall Street Journal.
Muhammad, who also serves as a chaplain at Bard College, yesterday dismissed his connection to Umar, who was regarded as one of the most influential Muslim clerics in the vast state prison system.
“This brother has his own mind,” Muhammad said. “We’re not teaching hatred. I love this country.”
He said he only knew one of the four plotters, Cromitie, by sight. He said he never met the other three accused.
“I don’t teach that stuff,” said Muhammad.
But Muhammad is not without controversy.
During a stint as chaplain at the prison in Beacon, Muhammad, a Sunni, sowed division within Islam by referring to Shia convicts who adhered to another branch of the Islamic faith as “infiltrators and snitches” during his Friday sermons, according to prisoner complaints reported in the Journal in 2003.
Umar worked for 25 years in the prison system as a chaplain and boasted that they were the “perfect recruitment and training ground for radicalism and the Islamic religion.”
let’s not sterotype…just because they are all together, just because it is only them, just because only they do this stuff doesnt mean its just them….we must focus on 85 year old women with white hair…they may be the brains of it all
The video reveals the rishus of this “Imam” – instead of condemning these evil men he simply sought to defend their honor by saying that they were poor, weak individuals who had been lured into the plot by the govt ….
The best way to rid this fellow of his radicalism is to marry him off to our black reform rebbetzin. She’ll have him washing dirty plates and changing all those pampers so fast (ahh equality for all), he won’t even have the time to spell ‘bomb’.
And by the time she’ll have exhausted him by dancing hip hop to loi saivoishi, he’ll wish he was incarcerated in a nice quiet jail cell
Since Islam does not proselytize, in fact it is forbidden just as in Judaism, the religion that this group is preaching is something else.
As Jews we are not responsible for Messianics who blow up abortion clinics. And Muslims are not responsible for criminals who try to blow up shuls.
i hapen to think that he is right that these peopole were no terorist they were luird in by that infomant these were a bunch of crackheads they dont know if they are coming or going the goverment wants to show that they are on top of things so they took some weak individules they worked out of a rooming house thats known for a crack house and prostitution these peopole cant plan one day never mind coordinating teror attacks
These guys are failures in life…what is it about Islam that get sthem? How does Islam make anyone life better? Jihad-oh please
These guys are failures in life…what is it about Islam that gets them? How does Islam make anyone life better? Jihad-oh please
this is the greatest argument to be made as to why GITMO must be kept open…if we transport the islamonazis into the prison population stateside, stories of these converted future terrorists will only increase tenfold.
Look what they have to pick up from the prisons to get fools to do their dirty work for them.
The Imam himself and his true followers are not brave enough to do the evil actsw themselves. So, look what they have to resort to… They send this “Imam” into a prison to get a bunch of fools to “convert” and then they leave the prison and go out to do thisd huge terror thing!
What a joke! This big important intelligent Imam and his recruits! What fools!