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Tuesday, 17 June 2008
I missed this last night but if it is shown again soon I will try to catch it.
The Telegraph critic is impressed.
Excellent work, as usual, from the Channel 4 documentary series. “Prison is a great place to make contacts,” announces Colin Moses, chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association, somewhat alarmingly at the top of this programme.
Here, reporter Amil Khan reveals that British Muslim prisoners are being radicalised while in jail. One, Richard [his name has been changed] explains how he was attracted in prison to a version of Islam which advocates committing crimes against non-Muslims as a form of jihad.
Upon leaving jail he was targeted by an extremist who lured him to a countryside training camp.
There he was shown how to create detonators from mobile phones, and how to convert a replica handgun into a real one. He was told, he said, that “a big war was coming” between Muslim and non-Muslim – in Britain.
Khan also talks to gang members who believe Islam justifies drug dealing – if the money they make goes to jihadist causes abroad.
But with the Government spending a staggering £45million on such community projects to counter extremism, are their efforts being focused in the right places?
Indeed.
Posted on 06/17/2008 3:04 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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17 Jun 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald
Here, reporter Amil Khan reveals that British Muslim prisoners are being radicalised while in jail. One, Richard [his name has been changed] explains how he was attracted in prison to a version of Islam which advocates committing crimes against non-Muslims as a form of jihad."
     -- from the article above
The most fertile ground for campaigns of Da'wa in the West is the prison. Muslims conducting missionary work, as all Muslims are supposed to, have a captive audience. And that captive audience, rounded up by the Infidel forces of order and law, consist largely of two groups, that sometimes overlap: the economically marginal, and the psychically marginal. And where those economically and psychically marginal feel not hatred of Muslims, but fear of them, fear of the organization of "brothers" behind bars, that fear can lead to a willingness to convert, so as to have that community of the Umma as protection, rather than as threat. Furthermore, Islam provides, as the excerpt from the article notes, an excuse, a justification, for criminal activity. Helping oneself to the property of Infidels is no longer theft; it is, rather, appropriation, avant la lettre, of the Jizyah that, in a well-regulated society where Muslims ruled, and Shari'a was implemented, would be transferred in any case from non-Muslims to the Muslim-run state, and thus used for the sole benefit of the Umma.
Along with property, the other form of booty with which Muslims are familiar, the one that Muhammad made famous time after time. After killing all her male relatives -- father, brothers, husband --  at Khaybar , he helped himself to a beautiful Jewish girl who became, like the Coptic girl he similiarly enslaved, his concubine. The incidence of Muslim rape of Infidels, all over Western Europe, is high -- not, alas, astoundingly high if you know all about Islam. But in any other sense, the figure -- some 70% of the rapes in Norway and Sweden, for example, are committed by Muslims who still make up 2-3% of the population -- is and will always remain astoundingly high.
That is what the Muslim presence, if not cowed or checked or constrained or halted or even reversed, will lead to in all the countries of Western Europe. That is what those prisoners in British jails find so appealing: an instant community, the Umma, that provides  protection and a vehicle for organized aggression in prison, and outside of prison, and what's more, a justification for  the very acts that got them into prison in the first place, but that now can be viewed, through the prism of Islam, as justified, as admirable, as ennobling.


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