“I will not be engaged in any form of violence or any form of criminality.”
Yet a recent photo shows Jalil Abdul Muntaqim clearly making the sign of allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) in this photo: the upraised index finger. The signal of the index finger held up is, of course, used in myriad contexts, and Muslims in general have used it as a sign of allegiance to tawhid, Islam’s absolute monotheism. However, in recent years it has become very much associated with allegiance to jihad groups, particularly the Islamic State. This signal has been known to be a sign of allegiance to the Islamic State for almost as long as there has been an Islamic State. It has been described as the group’s “ubiquitous hand signal.” Does Jalil Abdul Muntaqim not know how closely this signal has come to be associated with the Islamic State? How could he not know?
“Man imprisoned 42 years for notorious murder of two Harlem cops to be paroled,” by Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, September 23, 2020 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
The state Parole Board has voted to release Anthony Bottom, convicted of killing two police officers in 1971, drawing blistering criticism from relatives of the victims and police union officials.
Bottom, now 68 and known as Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, has been in state prison nearly 43 years for the murders of Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones in Harlem. The board voted Sept. 11 to release him by Oct. 20.
Along with fellow Black Liberation Army members Herman Bell and Albert Washington, Bottom was convicted of ambushing Piagentini and Jones outside a NYCHA development, after luring the cops there with a phony 911 call.
“We are heartbroken to see another of Joe’s killers set free by politics. But more than anything else, we are angry,” Piagentini’s widow Diane said in a statement released by the Police Benevolent Association, the NYPD’s largest union.
Patrick Lynch, head of the PBA, blamed Gov. Cuomo and the state Legislature for changing parole guidelines to make it easier for people to be freed.
“They knew that changing the parole guidelines would unleash more vicious killers like Anthony Bottom back onto our streets,” Lynch said in a statement. “They have chosen to stand with the murderers, cold-blooded assassins and radicals bent on overthrowing our society.”
Under Cuomo, the parole guidelines were changed to place greater emphasis on an offender’s current risk to the community.
Bottom, who was 20 at the time of the murders, told The New Yorker in a January 2019 story that he insisted on his innocence in prior parole hearings, but then at the urging of loved ones said he was sad for their deaths.
“Whether I am innocent or guilty of this crime, I have served the time, and I have served the time well,” he told the New Yorker. “I will not be engaged in any form of violence or any form of criminality.”…