[wvns] Imam Jamil Moved to Federal Custody

THE PEACE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION
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Silver Spring, MD. 20902

19 Rajab 1428 AH
(August 3, 2007)

Assalaamu Alaikum
(Greetings of Peace):

By now many of you receiving this have heard about the transfer of
Imam Jamil Abullah Al-Amin, from the state run maximum security
prison in Reidsville, Georgia, to federal custody. When Br. Issa
Smith, a long time member of the National Ummah, the jama'at
formerly led by Imam Jamil - and a long time friend and brother-in-
Islam of this writer - called to inform me of the transfer, we both
opined that it was probably for the better.

Georgia officials capriciously labled Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
a "security threat to the institution," while admitting there had
never been any incidents involving the Imam that would justify such
a designation.

This label, nevertheless, was used to justify keeping the Imam in a
custodial state of 23 HOUR LOCKDOWN since his trial and conviction
several years ago. In this custodial state he has not only been
denied normal access to other huma beings, he has even been denied
his right to the obligatory (for a Muslim male) congregational jumah
salat (the Friday prayer service). In the opinion of many, these and
other unnecessary impediments constituted both "cruel and unusual
punishment" (even for a "convicted felon"); an unwarranted violation
of Imam Jamil's constitutional rights!

While Georgia State officials are loathe to admit this, Imam Jamil's
transfer into federal custody comes as a result of the increasing
public pressure that officials in Atlanta and Reidsville have been
under. And this is why we believe the Imam's transfer may be a good
thing. While he very well may end up being transfered much farther
away from his family and lawyers, the onerous custodial conditions
that he's been under may cease.

Imam Jamil was reportedly transfered into federal custody on
Wednesday morning. While his exact whereabouts are not known with
certainty, he is believed to be somewhere in Oklahoma - probably at
a federal diagnostic center, being put through a battery of tests
and examinations, before being assigned to a federal prison. May
ALLAH (swt) make it easy for him. Insha'Allah, we will keep our
readers posted on any major developments, insha'Allah.

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