UK Report Says Alienation of Muslim Prisoners Feeds Radicalization
The following article is just more tripe and whining from imprisoned Muslims. However, this one has the evil hand-print of a Liberal Multiculturalist all over it.
That one would think that alienation by prison officials and inmates fuels religious extremism is laughable at best. More proof that Liberal Multiculturalists are vectors for the Islamic germ…
Note to Islamists in prison – if you don’t like the way you’re treated in prison, then don’t come back!
Alienated inmates ripe for radicalism
By Matthew Jenkin – News Shopper UK
ALIENATION of Muslim inmates at a high security prison may be fuelling religious extremism, according to the Chief Inspector of prisons.
A report by Anne Owers revealed a high degree of alienation among the 198 Muslims among the 913 inmates at Belmarsh prison, in Western Way, Thamesmead, and a general mistrust between them and staff.
Despite many Muslim prisoners being held on terrorism charges, the report, published last Tuesday, revealed staff were “insufficiently trained and supported” to counter the spread of extremist views to other Muslim inmates.
It said: “There was a real danger the alienation of Muslim prisoners in general, and the suspicion with which they perceived they were treated, would in fact feed radicalisation.”
In a survey on September 10 last year, distributed to all 878 prisoners, one Muslim inmate said: “I’ve had a racist joke made about my prayer mat. An officer called it a magic carpet and even the other officers were not happy.
“The staff perception of Muslims is quite negative.
“They tar all Muslims with the same brush.”
Nearly two-thirds of the 116 Muslims who responded to the survey said they felt unsafe and less than half believed staff treated them with respect.
And, I suppose the other inmates are treated to cake and ice-cream every other day…
Muslim imams – the faith’s prayer leaders – were introduced at Belmarsh in 1991, but Ms Owers said their roles needed to be strengthened in order to help improve relations between staff and inmates.
A Prison Service spokesman said: “A training programme has been developed with the Prison Service chaplaincy department and race equality action groups to raise staff awareness of the issues surrounding extremism and radicalisation.”
Dr Tariq Abbasi, director of the Greenwich Islamic Centre, said: “We need to weed out the extremist elements from our communities and the government must work closely with the vulnerable communities.”
In evidence given to a Home Office select committee last November, Belmarsh governor Claudia Sturt warned against demonising Muslims as a group.
She said: “The great majority of my Muslim prisoners have nothing whatsoever to do with Islamist extremism or terrorism, they are just people on criminal charges who happen to be Muslim.”
[...just following the lifestyle of their criminal false prophet...]
Ms Owers remained positive about the latest report, however, and said: “In spite of its complexities and pressures, Belmarsh is now visibly moving in the right direction, and we hope to report on further progress at the next inspection.”
22 April, 2008 at 11:50 am
The stupidity of all this is breathtaking. Why these idiots aren’t simply dumped somewhere to fend for themselves astounds me. These people supposedly have so much faith in their god-let’s see then how great he really is. Exile these losers on some island and we’ll see how well their god provides for them. If they happen to perish then we can chalk it up as the will of Illah-he’s supposed to know best anyway.
23 April, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Brilliant work, hijacking the race card for islam. Islam is not a race, particularly considering that the white girls always got better prices in the Constantinople slave markets.