BREAKING...New York prison bans books!!

Prisons Ban Books Over Fear of Radicals
by LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day - hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves.

The removal of the books is occurring nationwide, part of a long-delayed, post-Sept. 11 federal directive intended to prevent radical religious texts, specifically Islamic ones, from falling into the hands of violent inmates.

Three inmates at Otisville filed a lawsuit over the policy, saying their Constitutional rights were violated. They say all religions were affected.

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this really gives me hope that somebody's getting it. as mark steyn put it on page 67 of his magnificent "America Alone":

The jihad's marketing strategists singled out the prison populations of North America, Australia and Western Europe as a ripe target demographic. Granted, a lot of religions seek to convert the fallen, but, to be honest, a wimp church like the Congregational crowd doesn't have that much appeal to the average jailbird (emphasis mine). The salient feature about Islamism is that, if you're a violent thug, embracing this particular religion doesn't mean having to do anything icky like help with the church bazaar or be nice to gay people. As an Islamist, you can pretty much carry on doing all the things you like doing and the only difference is you'll be doing tthem for your new religion: you can lie, cheat, steal, rape, kill women and children, and as long as you're doing it for Allah and his victory over the infidels, it's cool.

a good example of this is Richard Reid, "the shoe bomber"...but, closer to home, here in the good ol' USA we have Mike Tyson, who adopted the Muslim name "Malik Abdul Aziz" after his conversion to Islam while in prison for his rape conviction (from wikipedia). i'm not sure if tyson qualifies as an islamist sleeper cell, but his attack on born-again christian infidel Evander Holyfield sure seems suspicious, when viewed through this lens......

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