Profile of a Religious Terrorist Preaching Hate for over
20 Years and paid $70,000 per year by the NY Prison System
Warith Deen Umar once known as Wallace Gene Marks and Wallace 10X native of Illinois who
spent his 15th and 16th birthdays in jails there on purse-snatching and drug crimes.
He is a Louis Farrakhan/Nation of Islam acolyte.
He now resides in Glenmont, an Albany suburb in two-story ranch home serves as
headquarters of the National Association of Muslim Chaplains. Wallace/Warith was the most
influential Muslim prison chaplain in New York. He teaches a Radical form of Islam called
Wahhabism. He preaches that The 9/11 hijackers were martyrs. He took four
trips to Saudi Arabia paid by Saudi's to link up with Wahhabis
State prison officials banned Warith Deen Umar
from serving as a chaplain at any New York facility - just 24 hours after the U.S. Bureau
of Prisons declared him persona non grata at all federal penitentiaries. Not until a
front-page story appeared in the Wall Street Journal, apparently, was either agency aware
that Umar had spent decades spreading Islamic extremism among the nation's
convicts, while recruiting a cadre of Muslim chaplains who preach support of
terrorism.
That's particularly ominous news for New York - where for 20 years, until his retirement
in 2000, Imam Umar was the most influential Muslim chaplain in the state. He ran the
prison system's Islamic program, earning $70,000 a year. (Until February 2003, he
continued to serve as a volunteer chaplain.)
Only now are officials learning what it is he's been preaching all these years.
The 9/11 hijackers were martyrs, he told the Journal, adding that America
faces "warfare" unless it stops oppressing Muslims. Warfare, he maintains, that
will be carried out by prison inmates who've converted to radical Islam.
Umar isn't bashful about any of this: Prison "is the perfect
recruitment and training ground for radicalism and the Islamic religion," he told the
paper. A former black radical who served time for weapons possession, the Louis
Farrakhan/Nation of Islam acolyte adds: "Prisons are a powder keg - the question is
the ignition."
Muslim chaplains hired and trained by Umar began preaching to inmates, post-9/11, that
Osama bin Laden "is a soldier of Allah, a hero of Allah." Officials,
fearing riots, refused to intervene.
Umar and his colleagues are radical Sunni Muslims, reportedly preaching hatred not just of
America but also of rival Shiite Muslims - and received training and funding from the
Saudi Arabian government, which regularly brings prison chaplains to Saudi Arabia for
weeks of "study" and training. Umar himself made at least four such
"pilgrimages."
Amazingly, state Prison Commissioner Glenn Goord told the Journal that not only was he
unaware of Umar's political diatribes, he didn't even know that he was still serving as a
chaplain. "It sounds like he shouldn't," added Goord - a classic understatement
if we ever heard one.
The feds, to their credit, moved swiftly after learning of Umar's preaching, saying that
the Bureau of Prisons "does not tolerate chaplains, or other staff, condoning or
endorsing violence in their communities with inmates."
Now, Umar is out - though he vows to fight the state-federal decisions. Even if his ouster
is upheld, he's left a cadre of like-minded extremists behind who'll continue to preach
their brand of hatred. If that's the case, what will Goord & Co. do about it
Gov. Pataki, who said he learned of Umar's
comments from a newspaper and promised to investigate. "We'll look into it,"
Pataki said at an event in The Bronx.
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