tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2229740077588632894.post7655797076746275568..comments2009-10-30T17:34:36.434-07:00Comments on American Jihad 101: Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raidAmerican Jihad 101http://www.blogger.com/profile/17674627935504051582noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2229740077588632894.post-27858695601586347172009-10-30T17:34:36.434-07:002009-10-30T17:34:36.434-07:00"Leone said members of the national group mos..."Leone said members of the national group mostly are black and some converted to Islam while in prisons across the United States."<br /><br />These kind of statements make me mad. People convert to all kinds of religions in prison. Then some of them commit crimes again when released. You don't hear about the ones who became Christians while in prison. Nobody makes insinuations that something sinister is happening in the prisons then. But there is an even more serious point here. If anything is "radicalizing" African American Muslims while they are in prison (and I would argue that such radicalization isn't common), it isn't because of Islam, it is because of the gross injustices they face in our courts, and in egregiously disparate sentencing. Black families are being decimated by poverty, drugs, imprisonment, unemployment, etc. I am tired of people talking the old "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" nonsense, when the problems are so horrific that we as a society can't even look at them head on, and instead have fallen into blaming the victims and now apparently demonizing them as well.Mia'zanahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14290559276123692306noreply@blogger.com