Populasi Muslim di penjara Britain meningkat 200%

Lejen

Britain: Muslim Prison Population Up 200%

by Soeren Kern
August 2, 2013 at 5:00 am
       

"Nowadays jails are run mostly by Muslims ... It hurts as a Muslim to have someone disrespect my religion. If we deal with him one time, with violence, and show him what time it is, he will never disrespect our religion again ... For Muslims, you'd say it's good, but for non-Muslims, it's very, very bad." — Jay, five-time former inmate, quoted by the BBC

The number of Muslim convicts in British prisons has surpassed the 11,000 mark for the first time, according to data included in a new report produced by the British Parliament.

The statistics -- from a July 29 House of Commons research report entitled, "Prison Population Statistics" -- show that the number of Muslim inmates in England and Wales jumped to 11,248 in 2012, up from 3,681 in 1997. Stated another way, over the past 15 years, the number of Muslims in British prisons has jumped by more than 200%.

The rate of increase of Muslim inmates in British prisons is eight times faster than that of the overall prison population, and the numbers show a clear overrepresentation of Muslim convicts: Muslims, who make up roughly 5% of the British population as a whole, now make up 13% of the British prison population (compared to just 6% in 1997).

The growth in the number of Muslim inmates is fueling fears that British prisons are becoming hotbeds for Islamic radicalization.

Although most of the Muslims in British prisons are immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, an increasing number of Muslim inmates are converts to Islam.

According to a research report recently commissioned by the British Ministry of Justice, many non-Muslim inmates in British prisons are being bullied into conversion or are embracing Islam in exchange for promises of protection from physical assault.

The study examines the Islamic "gang culture" inside the Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire, which houses around 500 of the most dangerous prisoners in Britain. Researchers from the Cambridge Institute of Criminology who wrote the report found that more than one third (39%) of the prisoners at Whitemoor are Muslims.

Prisoners told the researchers that they had felt overwhelming pressure to convert. In some instances, they said, Muslim inmates had left Islamic literature in their cells and ordered them to "read this." In other instances, inmates were promised that if they converted to Islam, they would be safe from physical assault.

The report states that if loners, including sex offenders, converted to Islam, fellow Muslims would defend them; they could thereby gain safety from a large and dominant group. Others used their newly acquired faith as a tool for status in establishing influence.

Non-Muslims and prison officers inside Whitemoor described Islam as an "organized gang" and a "protection racket," which "glorified terrorist behavior and exploited the fear related to it."

Prison guards said there were "proper Al-Qaeda" members in the prison who were regarded with "awe" by younger inmates. Some prisoners described Whitemoor as a "recruiting drive for the Taliban" and fertile ground for hatred and a new generation of extremists.

Guards also said they had a policy of "appeasement" towards the powerful and growing Islamic prison population, particularly convicted terrorists who were feared to be recruiting future extremists.

The report states: "The threat of assaults motivated by religious fanaticism or extremist ideology added weight to the atmosphere at Whitemoor," and continues: "The new population mix, including high numbers of Muslim prisoners, was disrupting established hierarchies in the prison. Social relations among prisoners had become complex and less visible. Too much power flowed among some groups of prisoners, with some real risks of serious violence. There were high levels of fear in the prison. In particular, there were tensions and fears relating to 'extremism' and 'radicalization.'"

The report concludes: "More prominent, in practice, were pressures (and temptations) felt by some prisoners to convert to Islam. Conditions in the prison made participation in Islamic practices the most 'available' option for those looking for belonging, meaning, 'brotherhood,' trust and friendship."

Meanwhile, British media recently reported that Dale Cregan, a notorious quadruple murderer who is serving a life sentence at the Manchester Prison, is being targeted by extremist Muslims who want to convert him to Islam.

Cregan, who is of Irish Catholic background, is said to be afraid of rival gang members who have offered a bounty to anyone who attacks him in prison. Muslims have offered to protect Cregan if he converts to Islam. According to prison officials, Cregan is so well known that if he converts to Islam, it would be seen as a way to further increase the influence of Muslim gangs inside the prison.



Watchtower or Minaret? Manchester prison, with it's minaret-like watchtower at right, houses the murderer Dale Cregan. A Muslim gang is reported to be pressuring Cregan to convert to Islam. (Source: Stemonitis)
The growing problem of Muslim gangs taking over British prisons was the topic of a recent BBC investigation. The program includes an interview with a former inmate named Jay, who says, "Muslims run it. Muslims run the prisons and there's nothing the screws [British slang for a prison guard] can do about it. For a Muslim you'd say it's good but for a non-Muslim, it's very, very bad."

Jay, who has been in and out of prison for most of his life, openly admits helping to convert non-Muslim inmates to Islam, and has meted out violence against anyone who dares to "disrespect" his religion.

According to Jay, "It hurts as a Muslim to have someone disrespect my religion. If we deal with him one time, with violence, and show him what time it is, he will never disrespect our religion again."

Jay first went to prison when he was 15 and says there were hardly any Muslims inmates back then. "At the beginning not many knew about Islam. There weren't many converts. The mosque was empty, but nowadays jails are run mostly by the Muslims," he says.

"There are certain brothers that convert purely on the basis that they read Islam and they want to believe in something that does good for them. Then other people because they want to be looked after. I've been in jail five times," he says, "and on my last occasion, I've seen jails being run by Muslim inmates. Muslim prayers on a Friday are very, very busy. In some prisons there's no space. In one jail I was in, they do the prayers in two sessions because there's no space."

The BBC investigation also includes an interview with the national chairman of the Prison Officers Association, Colin Moses, who says: "People are being radicalized, forcibly radicalized by these gangs. We see it as a real danger, now and for the future of prisons."

Moses says that those who are in gangs or have converted to Islam often do it to carry out criminal activities. "As the Muslim population grows, the gangs are becoming more and more prevalent by the week and they fight to take control of the drug trade and the dealing of mobile phones in prison. This will make our prisons even more violent," he says.

Speaking anonymously, a former prison officer who worked at the Long Lartin Prison in Worcestershire talks about cases where non-Muslim prisoners were seriously assaulted and intimidated for refusing to abide by unofficial rules imposed by Muslim gangs, for example about eating pork or listening to Western music.

Writing in the July 2013 issue of the prisoner's magazine, Inside Time, a "long serving prisoner" at Long Lartin has this to say: "We are able to cook our own food here but if we attempt to cook pork in the communal kitchen it is deemed dangerous, even a threat to your life. The kitchen is usually occupied by 90% Muslims and we have been told if we cook pork we will be stabbed. There have been incidents here where people have been targeted and pressured and bullied into converting to Islam."

He adds: "I am writing to inform people of these radical extremists views in this prison where I see no official steps being taken to combat them. Young Muslim men are being radicalized in here and one day they may commit acts of terrorism in this country. There seems to be nothing being done here to stop it and people are scared to speak out. I hope we get some feedback from this; it needs to be sorted out."

Lejen

Ni tanda islam berkembang?

Maideen.

Kat Amrica, Negroes yang masuh jail akan masuk Isle gak. Tapi bukan Isle sebeber lah.....depa masuk Isle ala Nation of Isle.....

Tak tahu lah mereka ini dikategorikan sebagai "orang beriman" dari kacamata JAKIM.

Btw, apasal ramai sangat orang Isle berhijrah ke England?

Lejen

Maideen. posted on 7-8-2013 10:50 AM
Kat Amrica, Negroes yang masuh jail akan masuk Isle gak. Tapi bukan Isle sebeber lah.....depa masu ...

Bila hang cerita Nation of Isle teringat kat arwah Michael Jackson yang digossipkan masuk Isle ala-ala Nation of Isle. Masa tu bertakbir la seluruh umat Isle dengan penuh kegembiraan lalu berkata Isle telah menang.

Kita bukan sahaja perlu fikir dari kacamata JAKIM (Sunni) sahaja tetapi Wahabi, Syiah etc sama ada depa ni Isle sebenar ka bukan..

Orang Isle banyak pergi ke England sebab depa ni spesis nak menumpang kesenangan kaum kafir dan mereka nak jadikan England tu negara Islam tapi rupanya macam susah sikit pasal depa ni banyak gak di penjara.. mungkin lepas keluar penjara depa ni nak negara Islam England ka?

Maideen.

Lejen posted on 7-8-2013 11:05 AM
Bila hang cerita Nation of Isle teringat kat arwah Michael Jackson yang digossipkan masuk Isle ala ...

Ya.. Maideen masih ingat lagi Allahyarham Mika'el Jackson bin Abdullah (itulah kata orang nama Islamnya). Khabarnya dia selamat diIslamkan dan telah disunatkan sekali). Khabarnya juga JAIC (Jabatan Agama Isle California) ada cuba merampas mayatnya untuk ditanam secara Isle...

Wallahualam.

Modngengade

gigih betul dia ni cari bahan yg boleh merendahkan islam...

Maideen.

Semoga thread ini mendapat komen dari pejuang Isle yang mampu memberi hujah hujah bernas....

raxief

ada betulnya gak article ni. kat sweden ke scandinavia mane ntah, pendatang muslim ni contribute kpd peningkatan jenayah.

sama la mcm yindon & sulu caprut dtg ke malaysia buat jenayah. agama islam gak diorg tu. tp xtau la kalo criminals yindon tu semua hindu bali.. kihkihkih

agama islam x salah, tp ada penganutnya yg biol, x ikut ajaran agama sepenuhnya/ x ikut langsung..

Anak_Nogori

Maideen. posted on 7-8-2013 12:04 PM
Semoga thread ini mendapat komen dari pejuang Isle yang mampu memberi hujah hujah bernas....

itu menandakan penduduk isle bertambah Maideen..

Decaffeinated

kalau peningkatan tu aku tak berapa heran sbb ummah islam minoriti haruslah asalnya bilangannya kecil. misal kalau dulu 2 org islam dlm jel britain tambah lagi 2 orang pun dah 100% so agak lojik lah...

cuma aku lebih tertarik percentage ummah islam dlm penjara berbanding di luar penjara. kalau itu 100% baru aku kagum

Lejen

Maideen. posted on 7-8-2013 11:29 AM
Ya.. Maideen masih ingat lagi Allahyarham Mika'el Jackson bin Abdullah (itulah kata orang nama I ...

Untuk pengetahuan hang, khabarnya ada la seorang Imam ni namanya Imam Johari yang berbincang dengan keluarga arwah Michael Jackson ni cara-cara pengebumi isle buat arwah.. sudah semestinya keluarga michael yang kafir ni terpinga-pinga bila imam ni nak ambil mayat arwah Michael Jackson ni..

http://imamjohari.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/imam-visits-michael-jacksons-family-to-discuss-funeral-arrangements/

Dikatakan la CNN la yang report pasal ni sedangkan ini hanya fitnah kat CNN sahaja..

Disebabkan banyak orang fikir arwah ni Isle, maka banyak la orang christian lawan kalu islam apsal pulak keluarga dia beli casket USD 25,000 (yer lah kan isle takda casket-casket mahal macam ni) dan dikuburkan di Forest Lawn Memorial Park di LA.

Kat bawah ni la memorial pengebumian arwah Michael Jackson ni.

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://michaeljacksonfuneral.org/&date=2011-06-14

Lejen

Maideen. posted on 7-8-2013 12:04 PM
Semoga thread ini mendapat komen dari pejuang Isle yang mampu memberi hujah hujah bernas....

Hang ingat pejuang isle nak beri hujah bernas sekarang ka? depa sekarang ni tengah sibuk berbelanja nak beraya sakan supaya dapat pakai baju baru dengan awek-awek atau bini bini. ada yang sedang buat ketupat illuminati. ada yang sedang bergosip di masjid.

Namun begitu, semoga thread ni akan mendapat hujah intelek pejuang isle.

Lejen

Modngengade posted on 7-8-2013 11:31 AM
gigih betul dia ni cari bahan yg boleh merendahkan islam...

Tak kan la ni je hujah pejuang isle?

Decaffeinated

Muslims, who make up roughly 5% of the British population as a whole, now make up 13% of the British prison population (compared to just 6% in 1997).

put another way, the occurence of a muslim going to prison is about 3 times that of an average Briton...

Modngengade

Lejen posted on 7-8-2013 12:41 PM
Tak kan la ni je hujah pejuang isle?

perlu ke berhujah untuk benda mcm ni?
afterall berhujah dgn org mcm u rasanya membuang masa saya jer....
level of intelligence one thing....close-minded is another thing

Lejen

Modngengade posted on 7-8-2013 12:47 PM
perlu ke berhujah untuk benda mcm ni?
afterall berhujah dgn org mcm u rasanya membuang masa saya ...

Cerita pasal level of intelligence ni kita kena la berpaksi kepada kebenaran dan bukan fantasi.

Banyak manusia yang IQnya tinggi sama ada atheist atau agnostik, manusia seperti Bill Gates, Stephen Hawkings, Albert Einstein and so on.

Religious ppl pun ada jugak yang IQ hebat tapi mungkin zaman dulu-dulu.. sekarang ni orang islam nabi kata seperti buih di lautan. artikel ni menguatkan lagi hujah aku.

Close-minded adalah deskripsi kepada orang beragama sebab depa tak berfikir di luar kotak agama.

AnBulisia

Modngengade posted on 7-8-2013 12:47 PM
perlu ke berhujah untuk benda mcm ni?
afterall berhujah dgn org mcm u rasanya membuang masa saya ...

dia ingat dah urban sangat nak ajak orang berhujah la tu...

Modngengade

AnBulisia posted on 7-8-2013 12:59 PM
dia ingat dah urban sangat nak ajak orang berhujah la tu...

tu la....dia yg gigih cari bhn untuk merendah2kan islam  pastu ajak kita berhujah....
bagi i....tk der point berhujah dgn org yg mcm ni....

Modngengade

Lejen posted on 7-8-2013 12:54 PM
Cerita pasal level of intelligence ni kita kena la berpaksi kepada kebenaran dan bukan fantasi.

...

org beragama bukan closed-minded tetapi berpegang pada nas2 agama....
atheist adalah manusia yg paling bodoh dan yg paling rugi....walaupun IQ tinggi...

Babai

Decaffeinated posted on 7-8-2013 12:24 PM
kalau peningkatan tu aku tak berapa heran sbb ummah islam minoriti haruslah asalnya bilangannya keci ...

Lebih 100% actually.

Peratusan orang islam kat sana cuma 5%, tapi peratusan orang islam dalam penjara 13%.