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Fear of Muslims Leads to Prison Conversions to Islam (Report #3298)

Aug 4, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

A report was issued in early June in the U.K., telling us what we already knew: that prisons are being taken over by Muslim gangs, who force non-Muslim inmates to convert by threatening them with violence.

Muslim prison gangs are forcing inmates to convert to Islam and follow religious practices or face violent repercussions, according to a government report.

The report, carried out by the Ministry of Justice, surveyed 83 male prisoners and 73 staff at three of the eight high-security prisons in the country. It found that large gangs of Muslim men were using intimidation tactics to force conversions and rules on other prisoners. The gangs were made up of multiple ranks including leadership, foot soldiers, recruiters, and enforcers.

Those who had committed terrorist activities were said to hold key positions of influence among the gangs, as well as those who can speak Arabic and recite the Quran.

It was said that the gangs were establishing Islamic rules within the prisons such as underwear having to be worn in the showers and banning the cooking of bacon.

The report highlighted the fact that Muslim gangs were the only serious organised gang threat within the prisons surveyed and that as a result, they wielded considerable influence and power over their fellow inmates.

Though Muslims are only 18-20% of the prison population in the U.K., the Muslim gangs are the biggest, best-organized, and most violent of the gangs behind-bars. And they are single-mindedly dedicated to converting as many non-Muslim prisoners as possible and imposing Muslim rule behind bars.

One non-Muslim prisoner said: “There is an underlying pressure for people to convert and join the gang. The tactic they use is to befriend someone when they come in. If they don’t convert they will then start spreading rumors about them, that the person is a snitch so that they will be ostracised. Then the beatings will follow.”

Meanwhile, a Muslim prisoner spoke of the pressure on other inmates to convert, saying that they could not even escape by moving prisons. “They know they’re only going to three other jails and they know there will be brothers waiting there to stab them,” the prisoner said.

There is no escape from the pressure to convert, for Muslim gangs exist in all of the prisons, ready to use violence against any non-Muslim prisoners who refuse to convert. The threat is everywhere. No prison is safe.

The study echoes a report from The Sun from 2016 which alleged that at one prison, HMP Gartree in Leicestershire, Muslim prisoners had turned sections of the prison into ‘no-go zones” for non-Muslim inmates, even imposing sharia law.

One source said at the time: “It is so bad non-Muslim prisoners are refusing to move there as they feel intimidated. There is huge pressure put on them to convert and a threat of violence if they don’t. The Muslim gangs have their own rules and use Sharia law to sort out disagreements. In effect, they are setting up their own prison within a prison. There have been stories about non-Muslim inmates being barred from putting up topless pictures of women in their cells and even showering naked.”

In 2018, the Ministry of Justice reportedly blocked an independent three-year report from being carried out into the impact of Islamic gangs in UK prisons because of fears of the results. One source said: “The corporate culture of the service is defensive and they will have been concerned about what this proposed project will discover.”

The British officials who blocked the earlier report on Islamic gangs in prisons, in order to hide the horrific reality from the public, ought to be discharged. The British public needs to know about the situation in the prisons, which provide an especially dangerous pool of potential converts, for these convicts  were already violent when they entered prison, and after their forced conversion, Islam now provides them with a justification for their violence, which upon their release they can visit upon the Unbelievers.”

Last year, a Christian pastor who worked as a prison chaplain also claimed that prisoners were being coerced into converting to Islam in exchange for protection from gangs. Pastor Paul Song said of the culture in Brixton prison: “If someone is secular and in prison and they want to lead a peaceful life in prison they need to become Muslim. That way they are protected.”

There is no way to prevent Muslims from intimidating non-Muslim prisoners within the  present system. Prisons lack sufficient personnel to monitor every threatening encounter of Muslims with non-Muslims. Non-Muslim prisoners are threatened in two ways. First, they are directly threatened with violence from Muslim gangs if they do not convert. Second, Muslims threaten to circulate false stories about them — as, for example, that they are “snitches” who deserve to be attacked — to put them in danger of violent retribution from other prisoners, including non-Muslims. The fear is palpable; few non-Muslims can resist these threats; the prisons have thus become a main source of converts to Islam.

There is only one way to prevent these forced conversions. That is to make sure that Muslims are confined to Muslim-only prisons. Some Muslim groups will undoubtedly protest that this is unacceptable segregation, an expression of “islamophobia” and “racism,” that it was unfair to single out Muslim prisoners, and that in any case, prisoners should not be denied the opportunity to learn about Islam, which has “nothing to do with violence, as Pope Francis has said,” and which can provide a structure, and bring stability, to their lives.

The objections of these groups should be ignored. The facts about prison conversions cannot be disputed. Muslims in prisons are using whatever weapons they can — the threat of spreading false stories, the threat of violence, the actual infliction of violence — to force non-Muslims to convert. This is not the peaceful “opportunity to learn about Islam” that Muslim apologists describe. The prison personnel are unable to stop the threats from these Muslim gangs. The converts to Islam in prisons pose a special danger, as they are already prone to violence and antisocial behavior. Islam provides them with a religious justification for such behavior, and when they are released, they can renew violence against Unbelievers, this time enjoying the favor of the faith.

As for Muslims claiming that freedom of religion includes the freedom to proselytize, that does not apply when the proselytizing consists not of theological argument but of the threat, and infliction, of violence. It’s a travesty to describe prison conversions to Islam as voluntary acts; non-Muslims in prison have become terrified of the biggest, baddest gang — the Muslims — whom they must join to ensue their own safety.

But how do Muslims manage to attain such power in prisons, if they are still such a small proportion of the general population? In every Western country, it turns out that the percentage of prisoners who are Muslim far exceeds their numbers in the general population. In the United States, 1% of the population is Muslim, but they constitute 15% of the prison population. In France, they are 8% of the general population but 70% of the prison population; int the U.K., they are 5% of the total population, but almost 20% of the prison population. And apparently these percentages are more than enough to give Muslims the power to rule the roost in prisons.

These Muslim-only prisons would prevent forcible conversion of non-Muslims. To the argument that this would deprive non-Muslim prisoners of the opportunity to convert, the answer is clear. Any non-Muslims who wish to read Islamic  texts (Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira), or to meet with Muslim chaplains, would have the freedom to do so. They are only being protected from systematic campaigns of forced conversion through violence, which are an offense to true freedom of religion. Should any of these non-Muslims choose to convert, they could then be moved to Muslim-only facilities. Freedom of religion remains protected; non-Muslims are not prevented from studying Islam, or from converting, but they would no longer be subject to the forcible conversions to Islam that are now, in British prisons, and in many other Western prisons, not the exceptions but the disturbing rule.

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  1. Angemon says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 10:20 am

    In France, they are 8% of the general population but 70% of the prison population;

    Perhaps France should start deporting those with dual citizenship – after, of course, of stripping them of their French citizenship.

  2. John Allan says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 11:21 am

    ‘There is only one way to prevent these forced conversions. That is to make sure that Muslims are confined to Muslim-only prisons. Some Muslim groups will undoubtedly protest that this is … “racism” …’

    Bit difficult to claim racism, given Muslims aren’t a race.

  3. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 11:43 am

    Didn’t Mohammad (peace be upon him) say he was made victorious through terror? Why are we surprised when muslims follow the example of the most perfect person? They are just obeying the tenants of Islam for Pete’s sake!!! The prison is just a microcosm of things to come. John Allan, China has beat you to the punch on that one. Except they don’t feel the need to apologize for protecting their citizens.

  4. Terry Gain says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    Given Islam’s doctrine and history of supremacism and conquest, this is to be expected. The people who allowed Muslims into western countries are morons.

    • revereridesagain says

      Aug 4, 2019 at 3:57 pm

      “Golden Age” Lite.

  5. yiyoya says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    Muslim only prisons and non-Muslim only prisons, what a great idea! It would give us a much better idea as to what percentage of Muslims are ready to leave Islam if and when it becomes safe for them to do so.

    • revereridesagain says

      Aug 4, 2019 at 3:56 pm

      Prisons at least in this country usually segregate groups likely to cause trouble with one another. Unless, of course, to do so would be “phobic”. Forced conversions? Just “freedom of religious expression”!

  6. Linda Rivera says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 2:01 pm

    The percentage of Muslims in Britain, Europe and other Christian countries is far higher than the small percentages stated.

    The Tragic and Horrifying MURDER of the Human Soul is Far Worse than the murder of the human body. Eternity is Forever.

    Jesus Christ said in Matthew 16:26
    What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul.

    The forcible, violent conversion of non Muslims by Muslims in prisons has been known for decades. Ruthless authorities are complicit and GUILTY of the forcible conversion of non Muslims by having wickedly and CRIMINALLY allowed it. Non Muslim prisoners could sue the authorities for violating their civil rights.

    ALL non Muslims must be immediately placed in prisons where there are no Muslims.

  7. End PC says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 2:13 pm

    “Though Muslims are only 18-20% of the prison population in the U.K., the Muslim gangs are the biggest, best-organized, and most violent …”

    Likewise outside the prisons Muslims don’t need to be even near the majority to intimidate enough and thereby control, and they know it. Only non-Muslim fools are content with increasing Muslim immigration & increasing Muslim population, and all the many political leaders that have encouraged it (they knew of the violent nature of Islam) are traitors.

  8. Battle says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 4:02 pm

    Hail Mary, Full of grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. Blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.
    Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

  9. gravenimage says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 4:07 pm

    Fear of Muslims Leads to Prison Conversions to Islam (Report #3298)
    ……………………….

    If authorities in the West had any sense, they would shut this down.

  10. ntesdorf says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 6:20 pm

    For 1,400 years Islam has stood in the way of Muslims becoming civilised and rational people.

  11. OLD GUY says

    Aug 5, 2019 at 10:56 am

    Its a great place for muslims to recruit.

  12. infidel says

    Aug 5, 2019 at 1:08 pm

    Often in the prisons of Jehaadi Pakistan, prisoners who facing the gallows or doing time for grisly murders and rapes and other abominable unconscionable crimes, are given a choice… Either rot in jail/face the gallows OR

    Do jehaad against the Hindus of India by risking their lives by infiltrating across the border with India into India and do ghastly crimes of Jehaad against the Hindus and redeem themselves of their crimes. And many such fiendish prisoners gladly choose the latter option of infiltration even though there is an extreme risk of getting mowed down by the Indian guns.

    They still take that chance because if they somehow succeeded in evading the guns and melting into the many exploding Islamic ghettos of India, it was a great life of being free and becoming the darling of corrupt leftist Indian politicians who give them fake Indian ID and cards and help them settle down in their new lands and indulge in their fav pastime of enticing Hindu women and trapping them in Love jehaad and reproducing a brood of Hindu hating Muslim children and also their all time fav pastime of terror and mass murder.

    And the Pak Govt assures that in the case they do get mowed down by Indian fire during infiltration across the border, all their crime records will be expunged and they would be championed as martyrs.

    For the Paki authorities this is actually akin to killing 2 birds with a single stone… Getting rid of their social garbage and also jehaad against Hindus…

  13. Rose Keeling says

    Aug 25, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    as usual the left refuses to tell the truth and face reality cuz it would mean they’d have to do something about it so the left rather distroy our countries becuz they ARE ALL COWARDS seeing they brought this dysfunction into our countries, uggg. Their denials are distroying our own people and the dreams of peace for our children.

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