Saturday, December 27, 2003
This story is as much about a lawless jail-system as it is about the fact that a Muslim group, too radical for its original home in Egypt, has taken root in the DC jail system.
Dangerous 'Brotherhood' at the D.C. Jail? (washingtonpost.com)
At the time, Jones was in jail on charges of shooting and killing two others in an unrelated case. According to a police affidavit in support of the arrest warrant in Pendleton's case, Jones admitted stabbing him multiple times but said it was in self-defense.
A sentence in the police affidavit caught my eye: "The investigation also revealed that the defendant [Jones] is a member of a group called the 'Muslim Brotherhood.' "
Now that rang a bell.
The Muslim Brotherhood movement, known officially as Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, has been around since 1928, when it got started in Egypt. Best known for its opposition to secular influences on Islamic societies, the Muslim Brotherhood has spread throughout the world, including the United States. By thought, word and deed, it doesn't exactly represent the peace-loving side of Islam. Its motto: "Allah is our objective; The Prophet is our leader; Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."[...]
Thanks for posting this. I was just discussing this very subject - the Nation of Islam's (NOI) influence on American prisoners and how the NOI is seducing our U.S. prisoners and turning them into war machines who can't wait to join Al-Qaeda.
muslim brotherhood movement is the most popular movement in the Arab and Muslim world