Opponents of faith-based prison programs are enabling terrorists,

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http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=153

Bill Berkowitz
October 12, 2006
Colson's complaint
Opponents of faith-based prison programs are enabling terrorists, says Watergate felon Charles Colson

Those opposed to faith-based prison projects are blind to the threat of terrorism in the "homeland" from former inmates who have converted to Islam while in America's prisons, Charles Colson charged in a recent BreakPoint website commentary published by Prison Fellowship Ministries.

Stung by a federal district court judge's recent decision that his InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a faith-based prison program operating in Iowa's prisons is unconstitutional, Colson, one of President Richard Nixon's key operatives during the Watergate years and currently the head of Prison Fellowship Ministries (website), is using a new report about the growing threat of Islamic terrorists being recruited in U.S. prisons to argue that support for his faith-based prison program is essential if terrorist attacks in this country are to be prevented.

In his BreakPoint commentary titled "What's Hidden in the Shadows: Radical Islam and U.S. Prisons," Colson, who founded Prison Fellowship Ministries after serving time in prison for Watergate-related crimes, warned that a terrorist attack in the homeland could be spearheaded by "home-grown Islamist radicals" who are converting to Islam while in prison.

"I don't usually make predictions," Colson wrote, "but here's oneCharles Colson I'll venture: If, God forbid, an attack by home-grown Islamist radicals occurs on American soil, many, if not most, of the perpetrators will have converted to Islam while in prison."

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. But..but... isn't the Islamic outreach to prisons a faith-based program?

Ooops.

Wrong fucking faith.

He's only interested in turning out RW christian fundie terrorists, not RW islamic fundie terrorists.

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2. How about this?

Our PRISONS are enabling terrorism.

This initial statement is actually suggesting that religious conversion in Prison is ONLY of use if it's a conversion to Christianity.