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UK prisons: Staff afraid to stand up to jihadis for fear of being labeled “racist”

Aug 22, 2016 7:43 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Wardens in prisons in the UK (and throughout the West) are failing “to stop jihadi poison spreading in jails: Staff face being labelled racist if they stand up to hate preachers.”

Calling out jihadist doctrine renders one a so-called “islamophobe,” and this label — intended to browbeat the infidel — must be fully resisted. UK prisons today show why: this label is enabling jihad activity.

In America, it’s no different, as federal prisons are described by experts as “breeding grounds” for terrorists. The implications are severe….

“Prisons have long been criticized for a culture that can make some inmates more dangerous than when they entered, but the possibility that typical felons could become lone wolf terrorists upon earning parole is a disturbing new wrinkle.”

It’s no different in Canada, either, as radicalization is reportedly growing in prisons, and public experts have issued an alarming warning that “federal prisons are potential breeding grounds for Islamist radicalization and the government and correctional system are doing little to confront the public safety risk.”

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“Warders are too PC to stop jihadi poison spreading in jails: Staff face being labelled racist if they stand up to hate preachers”, by Jason Groves and Ian Drury, Daily Mail, August 22, 2016:

Political correctness in Britain’s jails has allowed Islamic extremism to flourish behind bars, a report warns today.

Terrorists and extremists have been able to spread their poison in prison because staff are too frightened of breaching human rights or being branded racists to intervene, the study for the Ministry of Justice reveals.

Author Ian Acheson, a former prison governor, says Britain has fallen behind countries such as the Netherlands, Spain and France in dealing with radicalisation in jail – with ordinary Muslims facing ‘aggressive encouragement’ to become jihadis.

In a withering verdict, he says: ‘The review recorded a lack of confidence and consistency in challenging unacceptable extremist behaviour and views.

‘It concluded that cultural sensitivity among staff towards Muslim prisoners has extended beyond the basic requirements of faith observance and could inhibit the effective confrontation of extremist views.’

The six-month study found:

Muslim inmates can be left unsupervised at Friday prayers amid ‘pressure on supervising staff to leave the prayer room’;
Extremists sometimes avoid body searches by claiming they are wearing ‘religious dress’;
Books promoting extremism were made available in prison libraries and allowed in cells;
Some inmates ‘exploit staff fear of being labelled racist’;
Charismatic Islamist extremists act as ‘self-styled emirs … a controlling and radicalising influence on the wider Muslim prison population’ – and fanatics have tried to ‘engineer segregation’ in prisons so they can radicalise fellow inmates.
Tory MP Philip Hollobone said: ‘This timely report has hit the nail on the head. It is imperative prisons do not serve as a breeding ground for more Islamic extremism. Too many of our public institutions have fallen under the spell of political correctness … the public will be shocked that extremist elements are able to exploit traditional British tolerance … to promote violent extremism.’ Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss will today announce measures designed to toughen the approach to extremism in jail.

Islamist fanatics will be given their own security category, with the worst offenders locked up in so-called ‘jihadi wings’.

The Ministry of Justice said a crackdown on extremist literature had begun, with five titles removed from prison libraries and more likely to follow.

Warders and governors will be given ‘training, skills and authority’ to tackle the lack of confidence identified in the report.

Prison imams will face new vetting procedures and governors will be given powers to remove extremists from Friday prayers if they are ‘promoting anti-British beliefs or other dangerous views’.

But ministers stopped short of forcing Muslim prisoners to take Friday prayers by video-link from their cells, as some European countries do.

Miss Truss said: ‘Islamist extremism is a danger to society and a threat to public safety … I am committed to confronting and countering the spread of this poisonous ideology behind bars.’

Bob Neill, chairman of the justice select committee, welcomed the crackdown, adding: ‘It is very clear we should not allow any question of political correctness … to get in the way of the fact these people are deliberately targeting vulnerable individuals with their extremism.’

Figures show there are 12,633 Muslims in English and Welsh jails. There are 147 terrorist inmates – of whom 137 identify as Muslim.

Fanatics to be kept in own prison wing

Hate preachers and Islamic terrorists are to be locked up in dedicated ‘jihadi wings’ in British jails to prevent them radicalising moderate Muslim prisoners.

Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss will today announce plans for ‘specialist units’ in some maximum security prisons for extremists who try to convert other inmates to their views.

Until now Islamist terrorists have been dispersed around the prison system in the same way as IRA terrorists convicted on the mainland were in the past.

But a review by former prison governor Ian Acheson has called for the most dangerous and charismatic offenders to be isolated from the general prison population to prevent them spreading their poison.

Government sources were tight-lipped about how many extremists could be segregated in this way, but it is thought the regime will initially apply to a modest number….

Bob Neill, chairman of the Commons justice committee, backed the measure, adding: ‘It is important that we keep these evil people out of circulation so they cannot influence or radicalise others who we are trying to rehabilitate…”

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  1. gravenimage says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    UK prisons: Staff afraid to stand up to jihadis for fear of being labeled “racist”
    …………………..

    Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this? sarc/off

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 7:52 pm

    Wardens in prisons in the UK (and throughout the West) are failing “to stop jihadi poison spreading in jails: Staff face being labelled racist if they stand up to hate preachers.”

    A situation sees no signs of getting the treatment it deserves (laughing off the room anyone calling islam and/or muslims a “race”) thanks to the race-baiting of movements like “Black Lives Matter” (which has been expanding beyond the borders of the US, having stages protests in Canada and the UK) and moronic virtue-signallers/useful idiots – none of those were created by stealth jihadis per se, but they have no qualms about shaving the waters even more and riding the ensuing waves.

  3. Dan says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    Doesn’t anybody remember the lesson the sheep paid from “The Boy who cried wolf?”

    When wolves really came, nobody believed the boy anymore, so the “innocent” sheep were eaten.

    Well we don’t believe anymore.

    So now “innocent Muslims” are going to pay.

    If there are such.

    Which just goes to prove my point.

    • jayell says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 5:08 am

      Define ‘innocent muslims’. ‘Innocent’ of what? You mean they haven’t committed some Qu’ran-inspired atrocity….yet?

    • kikorikid says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 8:21 pm

      Obama appointed a “High” Imam from the Muslim Brotherhood to
      a position where he “Vets” ALL “Chaplain-Imams” for the entire US Military
      as well as the Federal Prison System. The Imams are recruiting furiously.

  4. citycat says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    Prisons are a sign of a very sick state of humanity.
    People should be educated about the underlying morality or needs etc that allowed or caused to take place the crime against the not so perfect law.
    There is more filth in humanity than in known existance.

  5. David says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    You wussies! Islam is not a race!

  6. davej says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 11:59 pm

    Islam is the natural home and safe harbor for all kinds of criminals – murderers, thieves and rapists. All literature and proselytizing should be illegal, inside or outside of prisons.

  7. Peggy says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 12:40 am

    So if non Muslims go around preaching hate and forcing Muslims to convert to Christianity there would be no problem in violating their human rights and swiftly putting a stop to that.
    It’s their job to keep everyone under control and it’s their job to make sure that prisoners are also safe. If they neglect that job they can be sued and families of non Muslim prisoners should start suing the government for any harm that comes to their loved ones.
    Maybe massive law suits might be the only thing which will make people stop with this stupidity.

  8. Shmued B Dovid says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 5:41 am

    Please please please put me in charge!

  9. common sense says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 11:17 am

    Convicted felons have no rights that’s why they are locked in a box and controlled by us.
    Use the billy club, take the Koran away, disallow hate speech and use solitary confinement for those who disobey.
    No one can have their civil liberties violated because they don’t have any, convicted felons are literally sub-human until time is served. They only get what we allow, what a bunch of crap.
    Get the young bucks to enforce obedience if the vets fear for their pensions and lively hood.

  10. Norwegian says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 4:20 pm

    Racism is a meaningless thoughtblocking word…

    Pointless. It is natural to have a “in group prefrence” and there are actual variations between races both physical and mental. Proven fact!

    People better start dealing with it, with reality! Having a immoral degenerated “elite” trying to force people not to be “racist” is cruel, pure evil. It is like…if I removed the claws from my cats…cruel.

  11. reyol says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    I say, separate them from the general population and put them in a special Sharia ward. Let them slaughter their own goats and do their own Sharia stuff in there. Anyone who proves to be Mohammedan should get thrown in the Sharia unit.

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