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UK government blocks study of prison conversions to Islam and prison jihad recruitment

Oct 16, 2018 8:40 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The UK government has blocked a wide-ranging study into the process of prison-based religious conversion despite concerns over the impact of charismatic preachers on radicalising inmates….Researchers wanted to interview inmates and staff at eight jails to understand the reasons behind conversion to Islam

Why? Because authorities are fearful of “what researchers might find.”

The UK government is already infamous for its cover-up of Muslim rape gangs; its outrageously unjust incarceration of Tommy Robinson; its admittance of Islamic hate preachers such as Muslim cleric Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri, who was actually banned in Pakistan for celebrating hatred and murder but went on a mosque tour in the UK; Theresa May’s hailing of the benefits of Sharia; its over 100 Sharia courts; etc.

The UK government does not want people to know the truth about the spread of the jihad doctrine and the consequent risks to national security, public safety and individual freedoms. The inmates could tell the truth about their conversions and goals, and why would the globalist British government want to educate a sitting-duck public? Why tell people that an army (of unknown size) of potential jihadists is awaiting release from jail?

The research project has been given the go-ahead in Switzerland and France, but UK prison officials were understood to be concerned about the resources required for the three-year study that sought in-depth interviews with dozens of inmates.

The UK government would much rather spend untold millions and thousands of hours of police resources to crack down on so-called “hate speech” and exaggerated “hate crimes.”

“UK blocks prison conversion study,” The National, October 15, 2018:

The UK government has blocked a wide-ranging study into the process of prison-based religious conversion despite concerns over the impact of charismatic preachers on radicalising inmates.

Researchers wanted to interview inmates and staff at eight jails to understand the reasons behind conversion to Islam and how the process could be harnessed to reduce offending when they were released.

The study has the backing of experts including Max Hill, a lawyer who independently reviews the UK’s anti-terror laws, and the governors of the jails identified for the study, which included a top-security prison, youth and women’s jails.

Prof Matthew Wilkinson, the lead researcher based at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, insisted the planned study was not about radicalisation but believed that authorities were concerned about what researchers might find.

“Just because we are studying Muslims and convert Muslims does not mean that we are studying radicalisation,” he said. “We think that the choice to follow Islam can be rational, positive decision and we want to discover how it can be managed appropriately to help prison governors in their duty to prevent reoffending.”

The research project has been given the go-ahead in Switzerland and France, but UK prison officials were understood to be concerned about the resources required for the three-year study that sought in-depth interviews with dozens of inmates….

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Filed Under: converts to Islam, Featured, Jihad in prisons, United Kingdom Tagged With: London, Matthew Wilkinson, Max Hill, School of Oriental and African Studies


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  1. Tom says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 8:45 am

    You do not need a study.

    Just talk to Tommy Robinson.

    You have to convert or they will kill you

    • jayell says

      Oct 16, 2018 at 10:17 am

      And, of course, they would get all the special concessions and considerations in jail that the muslim fraternity have managed to con out of the UK establishment. It does, however, seem most fitting that islam should get its converts courtesy of a load of criminals, but I’m not sure how long the contagion stays after release back inot sanity.

  2. Abu_Lahab says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 8:46 am

    “We think that the choice to follow Islam can be rational…..” in what alternate universe is superstition a rational choice?

    End the pandering to superstitious nonsense, now. Keep religion in the privacy of your own home or cell.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 16, 2018 at 2:15 pm

      Other faiths are not a threat–Islam certainly is, though.

  3. Michael O’Neill says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 8:47 am

    The most common reason for conversion to Islam in U.K. prisons is intimidation. Muslims are the biggest gang in many prisons and most converts do it for their own safety.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 16, 2018 at 2:41 pm

      Yes, Michael–this is very common.

      And many violent felons are also drawn to Islam–except for drinking and drug use, it validates just about every criminal urge so long as the victims are Infidels, including robbery, rape, assault, and murder.

    • Baucent says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 6:27 am

      THat’s exactly right. It’s conversion by coercion in many cases. That looks bad for the Religion of Peace and the reason the UK Government caned the study. What would be interesting is what percentage quietly abandon Islam after leaving prison.

  4. J D S says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 9:16 am

    Why would a (any western) government want to stymie any effort to stop a study into prison conversion to islam or for that matter anywhere not just in prisons..what about schools and colleges and even in the government’s themselves….Does anyone think that this isn’t happening??????

  5. Jay says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 9:18 am

    England is lost!! I am quite surprised these studies will actually take place in France and Switzerland!
    Their invasion/immigration problems are enormous. They should start there. The people destroying their soverignity , murdering their citizens, destroying their property, raping innocent children , setting up no-go zones are already Muslims – what part of that do they NOT understand? Prisons are breeding grounds for more troops.
    The NWO supporters are to blame for this genocide !!
    God save the world!

  6. Manny says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 9:25 am

    Who knew that one day the United Kingdom meant untied with the Kingdom of Suadi Arabia.

    • Manny says

      Oct 16, 2018 at 9:26 am

      Opps, I meant “united” with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Excuse the typo.

      • Jayell says

        Oct 16, 2018 at 3:35 pm

        Two interesting things:- 1. The reputation of Saudi Arabia is beginning to stink in the UK after it has become common knowledge thruogh the UK media that the Saudi regime was invloved in the muder of the journalist Kashoggi (have I spelt his name right?); 2. It is also common knowledge that the Saudi regime is about to acquire a controlling interest – if not outright ownership – of one of the UK’s most prestigious and respected soccer clubs, and this for some reason has NOT provoked any sense of outrage. Could someone explain, please?

        • jayell says

          Oct 16, 2018 at 3:42 pm

          (Sorry about the typos)

        • IanB says

          Oct 17, 2018 at 4:25 am

          Most people here in the UK just do not care about it. As long as they can watch X Factor and soaps on TV (the real “opium of the people”) and get hopelessly drunk on weekends they are happy.
          I doubt whether many Manchester United fans give tuppence about who owns the club. Some will be delighted at the prospect of ridiculous amounts of money being available to buy “star” (spoilt, narcissistic) players. The club is struggling in the Premiership League. Who gives a toss where the money comes from?

  7. mortimer says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 10:30 am

    Covering up or denying a big problem like the use of jails for JIHAD TRAINING will only allow the problem to grow.

    Studying the problem is the first step to curing the problem.

    The UK jails are in fact SCHOOLS OF RADICALIZATION. When violent and lawless Muslims get power of numbers, they behave like JIHAD TERRORISTS.

    Muslims should be DEPROGRAMMED RIGHT OUT OF ISLAM, by GOVERNMENT-DEVELOPED deprogramming protocols which teach Muslims the latest university research on the PRIMARY ISLAMIC TEXTS. Upon learning that their PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS are very late fabrications, Muslims will be unable to put their faith in them.

  8. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 10:50 am

    Professor Matthew Wilkinson
    Do not be misled by the name. Prof. Wilkinson is a muslim.
    It is by no means clear that an investigation by him would be impartial.

    Consider what Tim Burton, sent to prison for “aggravated racial harassment”of dishonest Fyaz Mughal of Tell MAMA, has to say concerning Matthew Wilkinson. He is applying for a Contempt of Court hearing against Dr. Wilkinson.

    “Concerning the Contempt of Court application – we have undertaken due diligence on several cases that are similar to mine where Dr Matthew Wilkinson was called as an expert witness for the Crown, and where he repeated the same falsehoods to the Court concerning his independence as a witness when in actual fact he was enjoying material and moral support from the highest levels of the Crown Prosecution Service.
    We are in the process of writing to the Defence Counsel in every one of these cases, to formally advise them of Dr Matthew Wilkinson’s false declaration to the Court, and to invite them to join us in order to add weight to the Contempt of Court application.”

    (e-mail circulated by Tim Burton 24 April 2018)

    Tim Burton still awaits a date for his application to be heard.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 16, 2018 at 12:06 pm

      biography of Dr. W. at:
      https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff104976.php

      • Jayell says

        Oct 16, 2018 at 3:40 pm

        This is truly appalling. It looks like this despicable fifth-column has actually infiltrated everywhere! No wonder the whole place has gone rotten!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 16, 2018 at 3:17 pm

      Right you are, Michael.

      His biography reads in part: “After embracing Islam in 1991, Matthew studied the Qur’an and Islamic law in traditional settings..”

      You are right that we would never know from his name.

      • David says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 7:00 am

        One wonders while studying the Koran, that Matthew did not come across the 109 verses of hatred against Jews and Christians in particular, and all other non-Muslim religions. Perhaps he was carefully guided in his studies by an imam.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 17, 2018 at 9:00 pm

          Ha ha

    • Cicero says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 5:13 am

      Yes the Muslims have cottoned on to the fact that it is to the benefit of Islamic Advancement in non Muslim societies for converts to Islam to retain their Non Muslim monikers

    • David says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 7:03 am

      I hope Tim is not holding his breath waiting for a reply.

  9. FYI says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 12:18 pm

    Conversion to islam is not conversion to GOD.

    It is to “allah the best of deceivers” koran 3:54

    allah is NOT the Judeo-Christian Biblical God .
    allah does not even subscribe to God’s 2 Chief Commandments of Love!
    allah the god of hate and violence,in fact,tells muslims they can BREAK God’s {Exodus 20}commandments
    in his ‘holy’ koran,and says, contrary to the 2nd chief Commandment:-
    “Oh ye who believe!Take not the Jews and Christians for friends”
    koran 5 v 51

    The stupid,the ignorant ,the easily deceived,the evil-minded,the falsely pious and the theologically-challenged cannot figure out the difference between God and its counterfeit allah{or..baal}

    So of course they convert to the cult of the false prophet with its false god and its false scripture..

    • IanB says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 5:04 am

      FYI it’s ALL poppycock whichever imaginary sky fairy chosen. The important point is that belief in “Allah”, a vile bastard sky fairy, is the most dangerous.

  10. duh swami says

    Oct 16, 2018 at 12:56 pm

    The UK is more and more Islamic every day…Isn’t that just too peachy swell?

    • IanB says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 4:33 am

      Not from where I’m standing (middle of England) it fucking well isn’t. (Profanity justified).

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 17, 2018 at 9:11 pm

        Swami is being sarcastic.

    • Cicero says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 5:20 am

      Yes the Islaization of the U.K. is no longer creeping but galloping along.

      Ordinary British people who have not been taught the true history of Colonial Britain resent and are frightened by the alien black and brown citizens in their midst.

      They are most frightened by the followers of the Religion of Peace and such peoples playful antics at peace harmony and integration. How’re that fright has turned to hatred against ALL black and brown British citizens. They are too unaware and too Eurocentric to care to enquire and therefore differentiate

  11. IanB says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 4:52 am

    This so-called academic study was destined to be a whitewashing of Islamic conversions in prisons. We know NOW what’s going on. There’s no need for detailed interviews. Waste of time. Dr. Wilkinson as a moslem convert is not likely to produce a true and controversial report that would rock the dhimmi boat. In fact, no academic in the UK would dare do so whichever particular sky fairy they believe in (or none). I suspect Dr. W. is just one of many closet moslems in the insane world of British academia.

    • David says

      Oct 17, 2018 at 7:06 am

      This is a bit like having Common Purpose or Freemasons infiltrating. Maybe these people are closet Muslims as well.
      A good Muslim name for Dr Wilkinson could be Muhammad Taqiyya.

  12. alex Reid says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 7:35 am

    This wouldn’t happen in a country with a Leadership with some balls!

  13. Vicky says

    Oct 17, 2018 at 7:41 am

    Same thing is happening in U.S prisons. Imam cultists are allowed to enter prisons where they brainwash the population to embrace the brutally disciplined savagery of islam.

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    Oct 17, 2018 at 2:35 pm

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    OUR TARGET IS 20,000 SIGNATURES.

    The link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/226446

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