Daveed Gartenstein-Ross' Testimony on Prison Radicalization (updated)

By Andrew Cochran

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross testified today at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on prison radicalization; his testimony is posted there. Daveed discussed his experience with the Al Haramain Foundation and its prison program:

Nor was the Wahhabi/Salafi translation of the Qur’an the only piece of radical literature that Al Haramain distributed to prisons. Another widely-distributed volume was Muhammad bin Jamil Zino’s Islamic Guidelines for Individual and Social Reform. Like the translation of the Qur’an that Al Haramain distributed, one of the themes in Zino’s book was jihad... Zino instructs his readers that children should be indoctrinated in the glories of jihad from an early age: Teach your children the love of justice and revenge from the unjust like the Jews and the tyrants...On a page headed “Act upon these Ahadith,” the hadith being sayings and traditions attributed to Muhammad, Zino’s very first injunction reads: “The Last Hour will not appear unless the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.”

Daveed will discuss this issue on Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto" today and on the morning "Fox and Friends" on Wednesday.

A MSNBC story discusses a new study on this issue quotes him and discusses a new study which will be released at the hearing - an excerpt:

U.S. prisons are becoming major breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists, but state and local authorities are too cash-strapped to prevent or track recruiting, a new report concludes. The report, to be released Tuesday, found there aren’t enough legitimately trained Muslim religious leaders to counsel an estimated 9,000 U.S. prison inmates who want Islamic services. That allows Islamist extremists to target their vulnerable prison-mates with distorted versions of the Quran and other Muslim readings that urge radicalization and violence.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counterterrorism consultant, said “chilling” interpretations of the Quran were given to prison inmates when he worked for the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, an international charity that served as a major al-Qaida financier. The readings urged Muslims “to wage war against non-Muslims who have not submitted to Islamic rule,” Gartenstein-Ross said in prepared testimony to the Senate panel, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

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