President Barack Obama is fond of saying that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay helped create more terrorists that it has detained. Of course, he never provides evidence of this claim to the American people who are expected to take his word for it. His reckless and utterly foolish plan to close Gitmo and transfer the world’s most dangerous terrorists into our civilian prisons in the United States may indeed lead to the creation of more terrorists on America soil. President Obama very conveniently failed to note real evidence of inmates converting to radical Moslem Jihadists, and he wants to make the problem worse.
Michelle Malkin writes:
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S speech on homeland security was 6,072 words long. Curiously, he chose not to spare an "a," "and" or "uh" on the New York City terror bust that dominated headlines the morning of his address yesterday.
Did the TelePrompTer run out of room?
After a yearlong investigation launched by the Bush administration, the feds cracked down on a ring of murder-minded black Muslim jailhouse converts preparing to bomb two Bronx synagogues and "eager to bring death to Jews."
Not one word from the president on the jihadists' intended victims, motives or means. No comfort for the reported targets in the Big Apple, still raw from the Scare Force One rattling that so vainly and recklessly simulated 9/11.
No condemnation for the accused plotters. Why? Because doing so would force Obama to abandon his cottony "extremist ideology" euphemisms and confront the concrete truth.
To borrow one of our obtuse president's favorite clichés, "let me be perfectly clear" about the reality Obama won't touch: America faces an ongoing Islamic jihad at home and abroad not merely "man caused" but Koran inspired.
Yet Obama refuses to spell out the centuries-old roots of the war that he claims he'll win faster, better and cleaner than any of his predecessors.
Moreover, his push to transfer violent Muslim warmongers into our civilian prisons -- where they have proselytized and plotted with impunity -- will only make the problem worse.
A brief refresher course for the left's amnesiacs about the festering jihadi virus in our jails and overseas: In 2005, Bush administration officials busted a terrorist plot to attack infidels at military and Jewish sites in Los Angeles on the fourth anniversary of 9/11 or the Jewish holy days. It was devised by militant Muslim converts of Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (Arabic for "Assembly of Authentic Islam") who had sworn allegiance to violent jihad at California's New Folsom State Prison.
Convicted terror conspirator José Padilla converted to Islam during a stint at a Broward County, Fla., jail.
Convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid converted to Islam with the help of an extremist imam in a British prison. Aqil Collins, a self-confessed jihadist turned FBI informant, converted to Islam while doing time in a California juvenile detention center.
In East Texas, inmates were recruited with a half-hour videotape featuring the anti-Semitic rants of California-based Imam Muhammad Abdullah, who claims that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were actually carried out by the Israeli and US governments.
Federal correction officials told congressional investigators during the Bush years "that convicted terrorists from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing were put into their prisons' general population, where they radicalized inmates and told them that terrorism was part of Islam."
Despite the insistence of Obama and the Jihadi Welcome Wagon that our civilian prisons are perfectly secure, convicted terrorist aide Lynne Stewart helped jailed 1993 World Trade Center bombing/NY landmark bombing plot mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers, in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client's court-ordered isolation.
As I've reported previously, US Bureau of Prison reports have warned for years that our civilian detention facilities are major breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists.
There are still not enough legitimately trained and screened Muslim religious leaders to counsel an estimated 9,000 US prison inmates who demand Islamic services.
What's Obama's plan to prevent the jihadi virus from spreading? Washing hands and covering mouths won't work for this disease
Michelle Malkin, NY Post, 5/22/09
