Ramzi Yousef: ex-Muslim

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That’s what Drudge is reporting right now.
In a show that is supposed to air soon, it is revealed that the
mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing has converted to Christianity. Even
if this is just a show by the crafty Islamic terrorist shouldn’t he
still be executed for apostasy?

MASTERMIND OF FIRST TWIN TOWERS ATTACK CLAIMS HE HAS CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY

Thu Oct 11 2007 13:19:11 ET

Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the
World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity,
Scott Pelley reports in a story that brings viewers inside the
secretive “Supermax” prison where he is being held. Pelley also reports
that some 900 force feedings were performed on other al-Qaeda
terrorists who went on repeated hunger strikes to protest conditions at
the Colorado top-security federal prison. The 60 MINUTES segment will
be broadcast Sunday Oct. 14 (7:30-9:00 PM, ET/7:00-9:00 PM, PT) on the
CBS Television Network.

The prison in Florence, Colo., which the government calls
ADX-Florence for Administrative Maximum, houses the nation’s toughest
and most infamous criminals, such as Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph,
would-be 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, Oklahoma City bomber Terry
Nichols and shoe bomber Richard Reid. 60 MINUTES obtained exclusive
footage of prisoners inside the facility, where special-case prisoners
are allowed only a phone call a month, spend 23 hours a day in their
12-by-7 cells and can get mail only from people approved by the prison.

Robert Hood, its warden from 2002 to 2005, says Yousef was a special
case. He never left his cell because he did not want to face the
indignity of a strip search required for recreation. “He has that
Charlie Manson look,” says Hood of Yousef. “He has some charisma about
him. He’s in [prison] uniform, but you know that there’s a powerful
person you’re looking at,” Hood says. Told that Yousef has begun
leaving his cell and now claims to be a Christian, Hood says, “He’s
playing a game with someone. If he’s doing that, he’s doing it for the
reaction….He is the real deal,” he tells Pelley. As a Muslim, Yousef
prayed almost every hour, remembers Hood.

Other Qaeda terrorists protested the special conditions with hunger
strikes that Hood had to end with force feedings. “I
probably…authorized, conducted 350, maybe 400 involuntary feedings,”
recalls Hood. “You could have one person, three meals a day for…two
months.”

Pelley also speaks with a corrections officer inside ADX-Florence,
who tells him what she heard on 9/11 after terrorist prisoners saw the
destruction on their televisions. “We had a lot of them jump up and
down. …scream and yell and clap and they were very excited,” says
Barbara Batulis, who heads the prison’s staff union. She also
characterizes the Muslim extremists as needy. “They want more than what
they have coming,” she says. “They want extra toilet paper…writing
paper…extra envelopes and if you can’t give them, they want to see a
supervisor right then and there.”

Batulis would rather work among the other prisoners because she is
female. “It’s very obvious, [Muslim extremists] just look at you with
sheer disdain.” Hate can turn into threats. “A terrorist inmate
threatened to kill my family, because I was doing my job,” Batulis
tells Pelley. Batulis says the prison needs more officers. “…We are
very short staffed. I firmly believe that staff lives are at stake,”
she says.

Developing…

I’m sure that the left is going to decry the treatment of these
prisoners. Forcing them to eat so they won’t die? Torture! It will
definitely be an interesting show to watch but I doubt there’s that
much to be learned from it.

Islamofascists hate women? No way that could be possible.
Islamofascists trying to make their jailers time as difficult as
possible? No way that could be possible either.

But if Yousef really has converted, why? I do not see how this could
serve any propaganda ends. It’s not like bin Laden is going to grab
onto this piece of news and use it as a rallying cry for his extremist
brethren: “Brother Yousef has been forced to convert to Christianity,
the religion of the infidels! We must avenge this sacrilege!” On second
thought, this might be a great rallying cry.

The terrorists could use this to show prospective terrorists how the
Great Satan is treating their brother’s in arms. There’s always a
reason for their madness. They have no problem hiding among other Muslims to create as much collateral damage as possible so as to win a propaganda war. BigT