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Prisons: jihadi training camps

Sep 4, 2016 3:52 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

British prisons are being dubbed “jihadi training camps,” as“the UK has learned the hard way, after a number of terror attacks were carried out by people radicalized in prison.” It’s no different in the U.S., France, or anywhere else, for that matter, since “anti-establishment” types are all too ready to become “heroic” mujahideen, which gives them a false sense of purpose, with promises of rewards in paradise and a legacy of martyrdom.

This is a troubling notion, especially given the persistent minimizing of the jihadist threat by those who explain away jihad by ascribing it to insanity, poverty, disenfranchisement and even attention-seeking (such as the misguided Kings College professor, Andrew MacLeod, who thinks that jihadists yell “Allahu akbar” before they kill people because they want some attention).

There are myriads of possible risk factors, but the key issue – and markedly dangerous one — is a zealously-held Islamic religious doctrine of hatred and death that motivates its followers, from any strata, to murder innocents whom they consider to be infidels or apostates. Recruiting grounds – once fertile — can be any and everywhere.

“The U.S. prison system is also facing the problem – with Muslim groups acting like gangs, recruiting people and protecting their own, according to former Al Qaeda recruiter and convict Jesse Morton, who is now working at a think tank at George Washington University.”

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“UK to fight prison radicalization by isolating known jihadists”, by Benjamin Hall, Fox News, September 3, 2016:

British prisons have become alarmingly fertile breeding grounds for terrorism, according to new government research that supports the long and widely held beliefs that UK lockups too often double as jihadi training camps.

Many of the terror attacks that have plagued Europe in recent years bear a common, chilling hallmark: They were carried out by attackers who went into prison as petty criminals and emerged as hardened terrorists. Officials armed with sobering new research now want to take steps to isolate known jihadists from the general prison population in a bid to stop recruitment.

“We cannot have a situation where we have extremist prisoners influencing others who are vulnerable to those messages,” said Justice Minister Liz Truss.

The case of radical firebrand Anjem Choudary, who was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison for supporting ISIS after years of openly espousing Islamist hate, has brought increased attention to the issue. Charismatic and committed jihadists like Choudary have a ripe and captive audience behind bars, say those in a position to know.

“What makes a good recruit is somebody who is already disenfranchised, someone who is anti-establishment, who holds some kind of resentment,” said former jihadist Adam Deen.

One former prisoner told Fox News of the time in 2014 when word made its way through the cellblock that Mosul had fallen to ISIS. The high-security prison erupted with chants of “Allahu Akbar. “

“It was like a big party that went on unchecked for several hours,” he said.

Another former prisoner and reformed jihadist, Adam Deen, explained why prisoners are so susceptible to Islamist proselytizing.

“What makes a good recruit is somebody who is already disenfranchised, someone who is anti-establishment, who holds some kind of resentment,” Deen said.

The U.S. prison system is also facing the problem – with Muslim groups acting like gangs, recruiting people and protecting their own, according to former Al Qaeda recruiter and convict Jesse Morton, who is now working at a think tank at George Washington University.

“The individual charismatic preacher who radicalized me while I was incarcerated, became like a father,” he said.

Morton also says he saw dozens of prisoners radicalized around him in the three years he was imprisoned, and said that many radical preachers had not been identified by the authorities.

“Even later in life, when I was incarcerated for terrorist-related crimes, it went on very frequently in general, mainstream or medium or high-security prisons as well,” he said.

The issue could loom even larger, say experts, should the remaining Guantanamo detainees be transferred to U.S. prisons, where they could get prison’s equivalent of rock star treatment.

The UK has learned the hard way, after a number of terror attacks were carried out by people radicalized in prison…

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  1. overman says

    Sep 4, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    Today in the Daily Mail it’s revealed that the Yorkshire ripper is converting to lslam. So after spending 32 years in a Top UK Psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, they now put him in a normal prison. So, apparently, a serial killer [who has killed a dozen women or more] is now completely sane, whilst a Jihadi killing and shouting ‘Alua Akbar’ is mentally ill. The psychiatric fraternity seriously needs to re-evaluate it’s diagnostic procedure.
    And it turns out that most of the inmates in his new prison want to kill him, but the muslim gangs are protecting him – he should fit right in there.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3773308/Yorkshire-Ripper-convert-Islam-jail-Muslim-prison-gang-offers-protection-access-special-diet.html

    “The Yorkshire Ripper is said to be planning to convert to Islam after he was promised protection in prison from Muslims.

    Peter Sutcliffe served 32 years at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital before he was moved back to prison, at HMP Frankland, in August.

    According to the Daily Star the murderer is keen to convert to Islam after he was told he could access a special diet and be taken under the wing of Muslim gang members.”.

    • Musalmaanmasala says

      Sep 5, 2016 at 5:26 am

      Could someone tell me what is this “convert to Islam” all about,
      Did the Yorkshire Ripper have any religion in the first place.
      Moreover getting “converted to Islam” for self preservation in a hostile environment. Does this make you a “muslim”. And how long will this so called “conversion” last?
      I am an apostate where Islam is concerned and know first hand that there are many so called “converts to Islam”who have left the cult the moment they had a chance.
      If just by uttering the “shahada” makes one a muslim then I am Mohammed the “Prophet:.

      • duh swami says

        Sep 5, 2016 at 5:56 am

        The word ”convert’ is a bit over-used…You can do the shahada tango and sign up without converting from anything…

    • J-pal says

      Sep 5, 2016 at 5:53 am

      Well, this story we are told is much like “…if a blind leads a blind, they will both fall into the pit…”, unfortunately “the pit” means the horrible side of our eternal life…

      Demagogy is blindness. What “conversion” means among blind I don’t know…so, I can understand you’re confused… I guess they mean that just anybody is good enough to become a part of “umma” – since umma is itself demagogy…they must outnumber by any means – and finding people among criminals to fill up the number, it’s OK…since nothing matters anyway. Islam is in this way fulfilled nihilism – what is left after “nothing lef”?

  2. J-A palmaer says

    Sep 4, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    From an old book, downloaded from the Internet: Fredrick Davis Green – Armenian Massacre… (Gutenberg)

    ”An Infaraous Prayer.

    The statement is frequently made, and on high authority, that *^the present Sultan is scrupulously faithful to the requirements of his religion…and zeal are to his credit, as a follower of the Prophet, they absolutely disqualify him as a just and humane ruler of millions of Christians. Let us see what his religion requires of him. An official prayer of Islam which is used throughout Turkey, and daily repeated in the Cairo ” Azhar Universit by ten thousand Mohammedan students from all lands, is as follows:

    *’ I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the accursed. In the name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful! O Lord of all Creatures ! O Allah I Destroy the infidels and poly-theists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion! O Allah I Make their children orphans, and defile their abodes I Cause their feet to slip; give them and their families, their households and their women, their children and their relations by marriage, their brothers and their friends, their possessions and their race, their wealth and their lands, as booty to the Moslems, O Lord of all Creatures!”

    According to this prayer, which is translated directly from[…]”

    Source: Greene, Frederick Davis. ”Armenian massacres, or The sword of Mohammed containing a complete and thrilling account of the terrible atrocities and wholesale murders committed in Armenia by Mohammedan fanatics, including a full account of the Turkish people, their history, government, manners, customs and strange religious belief.” Philadelphia ; Chicago : National Pub. Co., 1896. iBooks.
    The material can be protected by copyright…

    Well, as a quotation from old times, now some 100 years ago – pointing out that not only “prisons in Britain…” are “training centers for jihad”…it looks to me that all places, mosques and universities, also should be included in this, a bit scary scenario of “training centers for jihad…”…

    I oppose the concept of “radicalizing” people. A “radical” in itself the concept of extreme opposition of something existing. There cannot be any “radical” without something already existing… A “radical” is actually there “on behalf of” an existing “order”… The indoctrination performed at every moment of “prayer” (five times a day in this ‘great religion’) is more accurate. And indoctrinated person has been bereaved of common sense.

    • overman says

      Sep 4, 2016 at 4:53 pm

      “A “radical” is actually there “on behalf of” an existing “order”… The indoctrination performed at every moment of “prayer” (five times a day in this ‘great religion’) is more accurate. And indoctrinated person has been bereaved of common sense”

      That about sums it up.

  3. Angemon says

    Sep 4, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    The UK has learned the hard way, after a number of terror attacks were carried out by people radicalized in prison

    What went wrong (and where) so that the people who were supposed to account for that possibility (“radical” preachers recruiting in jail) failed to do so? And what was done about it?

  4. Elisheva says

    Sep 4, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    They are building a strong army quickly to advance Sharia in the West with little opposition. An Imam is free to preach hate and incite terror against the West. We are committing suicide slowly.

  5. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Sep 5, 2016 at 2:37 am

    Well, NO DUH!

    Religion of crime and all that.

    The unholy Qur’ap is basically a giant list of god-blaming excuses for holy-mobster “muslim” gangsters’ own criminal desires and actions, and has been ever since the bandit-king and arch-crime-lord Muhammad wrote it for that very purpose!

    “GOD TOLD US TO COMMIT THESE CRIMES – CAPISCE?”!

    😉

    • mortimer says

      Sep 5, 2016 at 9:48 am

      I believe the Koran was never intended to be a ‘book’, because it is no more than sermon notes from the fiery sermons and diatribes of Mohammed intended to motivate his troops. The notes were scribbled by his followers and that is the reason that there are so many repetitions in the Koran of the same stories and why there is no context and the text frequently is incoherent…just like someone speaking spontaneously and jumping from topic to topic and then back again in the heat of anger. The main topic of the Koran is that Allah hates the kafirs and wishes the Muslim (troops) to hurt them.

    • Andrew Bell says

      Sep 7, 2016 at 6:37 pm

      ??too right dude?

  6. J-A palmaer says

    Sep 5, 2016 at 4:58 am

    Actually, every mosque, every university, every school, every prayer in this so called “religion” is itself a training centre… Why is not “indoctrination” included in this debate – indoctrination IS training…no matter “where” the centre in geography is… The “centre” is the mind of people…

  7. mortimer says

    Sep 5, 2016 at 9:42 am

    Islam is a ‘political religion’. This much is indisputable. There was no separation for Mohammed between the state and the mosque. The Islamic year is dated from the foundation of the political, Islamic state founded in Medina. The word ‘Medina’ means ‘a place of government’ or ‘capital’.

    Muslims all aspire to a one-world dictatorship under a caliph who imposes strict Sharia law.

    Politically Islam is pure fascism. In fascism, no dirty deed is too low. For all fascists, the ends justify the means.

    Political Islam cannot be taught in jails.

    • Andrew Bell says

      Sep 7, 2016 at 6:33 pm

      Your comparison of Islam and the NAZI’S is so right. Yet our government’s don’t seem to realise war is coming!

  8. Andrew Bell says

    Sep 7, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    I’ve been in several high security prisons in the UK and Islamic radicalisation. Even in 2003 it was going on in Lowdham Grange prison. I know I was there and witnessed it.

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