The crackdown on da'wah is both from inside and outside the prison, as it aims to "stop money being sent by sympathisers on the outside to influence inmates to convert to Islam." "Mastermind recruiting Islamic gang inside super jail," by Alex Mitchell for the Sydney Morning Herald:
THE NSW Government has launched a prison crackdown on a group of the state's most dangerous criminals who have converted to Islam.
The targets are held in the highest security jail in Australia, the Super Max facility inside the walls of Goulburn jail, where one in three of the inmates is a Muslim fundamentalist or a convert.
Two prison converts, one a convicted murderer and the other a rapist, have married Muslim women in marriage ceremonies conducted over the telephone on party lines.
Attorney-General John Hatzistergos is introducing sweeping changes to the prison regulations so the Super Max Muslims are monitored 24/7 because of safety and security fears.
"We have to be able to control every movement and every utterance because of the threat they pose," Mr Hatzistergos told The Sun-Herald. "We don't want to see any risk to people either inside or outside the system. We simply can't take our eye off them."
Called the "Super Max Jihadists", they are easily identifiable, with shaven heads, long beards, carrying prayer beads and conducting prayers at least three times a day in their cells.
Their ringleader and powerbroker is Bassam Hamzy, jailed for 21 years for the cold-blooded shooting murder of an 18-year-old man outside the Mr Goodbar nightclub in Oxford Street in 1998.
Prison officers have confiscated pictures of Osama bin Laden from the walls of Hamzy's cell. Prisoners have been captured on surveillance tapes kneeling in front of Hamzy and kissing his hands.
The 37 Super Max inmates, including backpacker serial killer Ivan Milat, have committed 48 murders and are serving combined sentences of 550 years.
Now 12 of them claim adherence to Islam and form a close-knit culture in the purpose-built jail within a jail. Under Mr Hatzistergos's new measures, Hamzy and his apostles will be deemed "extreme high security" and be subject to controls that can be ordered at any time by NSW Corrective Services commissioner Ron Woodham.
The crackdown will stop money being sent by sympathisers on the outside to influence inmates to convert to Islam.
In future, Mr Woodham will have to approve in advance any sums of money sent to inmates' accounts in the "extreme high security" category.
"We don't have a difficulty with people taking up a religion per se in jail," Mr Hatzistergos said.
"A lot of people do and that can be beneficial.
"Where we do draw the line is where religion is really a camouflage for other activities.
"If any person thinks that by taking up religion, that somehow it is going to lead to them being treated differently on a day-to-day basis, they will be sadly mistaken."
He was supported by Mr Woodham, who said: "We're concerned about real heavy criminals who have had no interest in religion at all during their lives but, on coming to jail, then convert to Islam.
"A number of Aboriginal prisoners, unfortunately, doing impossible sentences, have converted to Islam. They denounce their Aboriginality for Islam."
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Mr Hatzistergos, who is also Justice Minister, said the Department of Corrective Services would face justifiable criticism if it didn't act in response to the safety and security of the prison system being compromised. "We make no apologies for it," he said. "We are dealing here with, religion or no religion, some of the worst of the worst offenders who have no respect for authority.
No apologies needed. After all, it's a prison.
A friend of mine who was released recently told me that the Islamic gangs in the US prisons are the best in terms of getting inside privileges. I'll have to ask him exactly why that is - it may be because they're well funded. My friend wouldn't join one, however, because he didn't want to give up eating pork!
Now, why can't our prisons adopt that measure. A rule that recognizes Islam, not as a religion, but as a threat.
Hmmmm. Men with testicles. What a concept. Perhaps they could come and lecture here.
The death penalty stops most of the above problems.
What kind of a "religion" would attract so many converts in prisons - among rapists, thieves and murderers.
And not the apostates of those vices either, but active and enthusiastic practitioners, if they had the chance.
What a surprise that the scum of the earth are attracted to an ideology founded by probably the most depraved man ever to walk the earth - Mohammed.
Islam actually condones and approves of every vile thing man is capable of.
Islam is an assault on humanity.
Why the hell are we letting this vile ideology into our communities?
Insanity.
Strip Islam of its bogus "religion" cloak and outlaw the death cult Islam.
Mike_W writes:
"What kind of a "religion" would attract so many converts in prisons - among rapists, thieves and murderers."
Well, considering that Mohammad himself was a
murderer, thief, and rapist, and stands to reason
that he'd find fans in that crowd, right?
You are absolutely right, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
"Where we do draw the line is where religion is really a camouflage for other activities.
Islam is not really a camouflage for criminal activities but provides 'divine' moral cover and justification, and that is why it is the religion of choice for criminals.
Another reason convicts are drawn to Islam (besides identifying with its raping, murderous founder), is the dogma of supremacism over non-believers. But while Muslims claim they are superior, they also claim victimhood from the non-believers.
Solitary for all if the noose is not allowed.
Let them meditate for life on their crimes, alone.
In groups they become dangerous jihadis.
But execution makes more sense (and costs less cents).
Australia:
Gang Rapist aquitted due to 'prosecutors bias'
with an update on 'moonbats in high places'
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/04/21/australia-gang-rapist-aquitted-after-objecting-to-prosecuters-bias/
Let the battle of ideas begin. Are you little cry babies scared of islamic ideas? you know islam has a powerful message for humanity, but you refuse to admit it. So the whiners in aussie use legal maneuver to curb free excercise of religion, that's nice.
These thugs are as described, murderers, rapists and generally the worst of society. So they 'find' Islam? Ironic how the absence of 'Love one another' is attractive to these people. The picture on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph says it all. I reckon they should remain in prison...for life since we don't have the death penalty here.
"...the whiners in aussie use legal maneuver to curb free excercise of religion..."
The question is: What's more important -the welfare of Islam or the welfare of Australia? The "whiners" in Australia have likely seen a connection between the previous activities of convicts and their likelihood to repeat offend, depending upon their present associations. Limiting their access to Islamic indoctrination is a very sensible precaution and one that should be copied elsewhere, given Islam's propensity for putting itself above Western law.
Now, why don't we start a little discussion about religious freedom in Islamic countries...