In less than a decade, there has been a radical shift in France's prison population, a shift that officials and experts say poses a monumental challenge.
Despite making up only 10 percent of France's population, Muslims account for 70% of the country's inmates and a growing percentage of the prison populations in many other European countries...
Abdullah (prison rules prevented him from giving his last name) said that while he was at Fleury-Merogis, militants were active in the prison yard, preaching that Christians and Jews are enemy infidels.
"Islam is becoming in Europe, especially France, the religion of the repressed, what Marxism was in Europe at one time," said Farhad Khosrokhavar, an Iranian-French scholar who has written a book on Islam in prisons. He says the growing Muslim prison population is evidence of an Islamic underclass that is developing across Europe and, at its margins, is increasingly sympathetic to the coalescing ideologies of political Islam. Source : Islam in Jail: Europe's Neglect Breeds Angry Radicals The New York Times
Muslims comprise 70% of the French prison population
Most people of good understand the need for targeted assassinations against terrorists like this man.
Why, then, is capital punishment off-limits?
He will now spend the rest of his life propagating Islamism to those most willing to murder when released.
Jail is not a deterrent for Islamists. They avoid it because it is less ideal than having unrestricted operational flexibility.
But it has its advantages. Most people, particularly in poor countries, do not have the luxury of taking time off from earning a living to focus on ideological pursuits. Prison is like a college campus in that Islamists no longer have to waste time earning a living and can focus exclusively on spreading jihad by recruiting, networking, ideological development and training in an environment filled with their colleagues and most desirable prospects.
It often requires time and severance of family ties to develop someone ideologically to the point where he is willing to be a suicide bomber.
Prison is currently a nearly ideal catalyst for jihad, whereas we believe it to be a constraint.
Jail 'hardening' terror convicts United Kingdom
Al-Qaeda prisoners in UK jails are being hardened instead of reformed, top Whitehall sources have told the BBC.
A major programme of radicalisation is underway in prisons, targeting vulnerable young men and preaching violent jihad, it has been claimed.
" Goulburn's Super Mosque " Australia By Stephen Gibbs November 19, 2005
About a third of the three dozen inmates in Super Max are Muslim
In the Southern Tablelands, in the country's most secure jail, violent men with little to do and nothing to lose are turning to the Koran. Muhammad has come to monsters who may never go to a mosque.
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