New York, USA - In January 1973, Shuaib Raheem, aka Earl Robinson, and three others took over John & Al's Sporting Goods store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in order to steal firearms to wage “a war on injustices against Muslims.”
NYPD Police Officer Stephen Gilroy responded with other officers to the location. Officer Gilroy sustained a gunshot wound to the head; his body remained at the location along with other wounded officers and hostages for the duration of the two-day siege.
The cop killers and Islamic jihadists were identified as:
1. Shuaib A. Raheem (aka Earl Robinson)
2. Dawud Abdullah ar-Rahman
3. Salih-Ali Abdullah
4. Abdulah Almussudug
On June 4, 2010 a New York State Parole Board voted 2-1 to release Shauib Raheem from the Eastern Correctional Facility in Ulster County, on July 08, 2010.
Who were the board members that voted for release?
Thomas Grant and Deborah Loomis voted for release, while Henry Lemon voted against it.
What happened to the other cop killers, Shuaib Raheem’s co-defendants?
In 1998, a parole board quietly released Abdulah Almussudug. In 2003, Abdulah died with little public knowledge of his release. On November 06, 2007 Raheem’s other co-defendants were denied parole.
On July 02, 2010, 6-days early of his scheduled parole, Shauib Raheem was released from the NY Correctional facility and transported to an undisclosed residence in NYC.
In 1973, terms such as terrorism and Islamic Jihad were not part of the normal vernacular, but that did not mean such evil did not exist.
In the early 1960’s in a Brooklyn Mosque, Dar ul-Islam was founded. In the late 60’s, Dar ul-Islam started a prison discipleship program. The released cop killer and the three others were disciples of Dar ul-Islam.
After their 1973 arrests, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Ward acknowledged the four as members of an orthodox Muslim sect whose motive in the armed robbery was not to obtain money but weapons for jihad.
Another motive for the siege was an attempt to arm themselves against their rivals; the Nation of Islam whose members a day before massacred seven other Muslims, including five children, at a Washington, D.C., house owned by basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Once incarcerated, Raheem and the others continued to preach their hateful doctrine with the encouragement of the head Imam of the New York State Department of Corrections, Warith Deen Umar.
Superintendent John Smith, a prison official, testified in front of the NYS Parole Board on behalf of Shauib Raheem. Smith acknowledged the grief and pain of Gilroy's family and the hostages held at the store for 47 hours.
Additional statements from Superintendent Smith provide a glimpse into the asinine mindset that contributed to a cop killer’s release; Smith had this to say, "Someone once said to me that if someone was pretty stable for six months, there's a good chance that person is going to be stable for the next six months."
The prison official added that Raheem worked with other Muslims in the prison system and has the “best interest of the community at heart.”
This isn’t just a New York story, the released cop killer and Muslim jihadist has plans to relocate to the Carolinas once approved by parole officials.