Indianapolis – American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh says the government is forcing him to sin by denying him the right to pray with other Muslims in the highly restricted Indiana prison unit where he is held.
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
Lindh testified in federal court in Indianapolis Monday as a trial began in his religious-rights lawsuit against the government.
The 31-year-old Lindh says the school of Islam to which he adheres requires Muslims to pray together five times a day, if possible, and stipulates that not praying in a group is a sin.
Lindh says inmates are allowed to do other things in groups outside their cells, but not pray.
Lindh is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Terre Haute for aiding Afghanistan’s now-defunct Taliban government.
The society that lacks the will to put to death those who fight against it is not likely to survive for long. This shred of human debris was captured on the battlefield fighting against his own country. Why is he still alive?
This guy is in a prison, an impure facility. How come he wants to pray there? Who knows also, he may even have killed people in Afghanistan and therefore his prayers would be null and voided.
Ahm haoretz.
Doesn’t he know oines rachmonah patraih?
oh & I thought killing is a sin…