Robert Hood, [Supermax] 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.If you cease acting and behaving as a Muslim, you'd be considered apostate. That's a crime punishable by death under Islamic law.
Has Yousef, who was one of the key individuals involved in the 1993 WTC bombing that killed six and wounded more than 1,000 people, renounced the very religious precepts that led to attacking the United States? I don't think anyone other than Yousef knows for sure.
If it is true, it would indeed be a major defeat for the Islamists, who believe that they are truly superior and just in their jihad against the infidel West.
However, I can't totally buy into the argument knowing that there is another Islamic concept known as taqiya, which enables Muslims to lie to the infidel to further their agendas. Is that what is happening here? I don't know, but I do remain skeptical of the piece.
The larger CBS 60 Minutes piece revolves around the treatment of inmates at the Colorado Supermax where Yousef and other high profile convicts are held, including forced feeding of convicted terrorists who engage in hunger strikes as though I'm supposed to feel sympathy for their actions.
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