Yemen 36 Converted to Islam: Americans Converted to Islam in American Prison:

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee reports that 36 Americans converted to Islam while inside American prisons, and have traveled to Yemen in the past year for further enlightenment, and study of the Arabic language. They are officially known as the Yemen 36.

Our American intelligence says they "have lost track" of some of the men, but believe they are in Yemen.

But what's especially outrageous about the Yemen 36 is the very real possibility that they were fed their poison by folks collecting government paychecks as Muslim chaplains.

Our prisons are out-of-control with drugs, alcohol and murders rampant. Remember shoe bomber, Richard Reid? Now held in a maximum security penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, he eventually won the right to "worship" with other Muslims in the prison. There were measures in place to keep this from happening. A "Special Administrative Measure," known as a SAM expired...Eric Holder allowed it to expire, after Reid charged that his First Amendment rights were under assault.

Reid has an exclusive prayer circle. Ramzi Yousef and Zacarias Moussaoui, both convicted of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, both kneel and pray with Reid. Ahmed Ressan, the "Millennium" bomber and Jose Padilla, the Dirty Bomber, also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir and Muhajir Abdullah, shares their prayers with Richard Reid.

Here's some information from the New York Post on Muslim clerics inside our prisons:

 In 2003, Imam Warith Deen Umar, who until 2000 was essentially in charge of hiring Muslim chaplains for New York's state prisons, told The Wall Street Journal that the 9/11 hijackers should be honored as martyrs.

In 2006, Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil, the city's head Muslim prison chaplain, was caught by The Post preaching against "Zionists in the media" and the "terrorist" President Bush -- and kept his job.

 At an al Arabiya website, they talk of "another group" of 10 Americans in Yemen who are Islamic fundamentalists and have married Yemeni women.

Now we have the Yemen 36 who were radicalized inside American prisons. We let Muslim clerics inside our prisons and we pay them to radicalize. Are we nuts, or what? Now we must worry about these American men coming back into the country - but...intelligence has lost track of some of them! Do we know their Muslim names? Are they on a no-fly list?

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