Some Defense Department chaplain services have been directing military personnel to a Web site that promotes material from radical Muslim jihadists, including two Saudis who have been identified as Osama bin Laden’s spiritual advisers. The chaplains’ service Web sites for the Navy and the Air Force refer sailors and airmen interested in learning more about Islam to Islamworld.net, a Web site that provides links to the lectures of fundamentalist clerics, some of whom advocate jihad against the United States and Israel. Islamworld.net includes links to lectures that denigrate Christianity and Judaism as “forms of disbelief,” and to material that praises the imprisoned blind Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, contending that “he was framed for the [1993] World Trade Center bombing and sentenced by a Jewish judge for life in solitary confinement.” Full Story
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