There are an awful lot of Muslims in British prisons. For various reasons, theological, cultural and economic, Muslims commit a disproportionate number of crimes, the severity of which require some form of custodial sentence to be imposed onto the offender.
The figures relating to Muslims in prison are pretty staggering. As of 2015, 12,800 prisoners in Britain’s gaols are Muslims. This represents 15.4% of the prison population and is exceedingly high for a minority population group. In comparison, the percentage figures for prisoners who are classified as Hindus, Sikhs or Jews are 0.5%, 0.9% and 0.5% respectively.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that such a large number of prisoners from one particular confessional group is going to have influence, maybe malign influence on the life of a prison and on other prisoners. This is even more a worry when those incarcerated follow a violent and aggressive belief system like Islam. Having a significant number of criminals, who follow a violent ideology in a prison with non Muslim prisoners is almost guaranteed to end up badly for prison discipline, prison staff and for other prisoners, especially those classified as ‘vulnerable’.
As anyone could have predicted, shoving thousands of criminal Muslims into general prisons has caused a nightmare of Islamic gang activity and jihad promotion in Britain’s prisons. It is causing prisons to be less safe for those who are working or are detained in them, especially non-Muslims.
The video below from Sargon of Akkad is an exposition of some of the problems with Islamic gang activity in Britain’s prisons today. It shows how in prison, Islamic terrorists are recruiting ordinary Muslim criminals and also contains allegations that some Imams in prisons are not moderate and are doing little or nothing to stop the spread of Islamic extremism in prison. Sargon pulls together data from the UK and from the United States to show that Islamic gang activity is becoming a serious issue for the prison systems of Western countries. As a side note, I would advise people to pay particular interest in the intro and outro of this video as it contains information that relates to a current cause celebre and illustrates just how much Britain has strayed from being truly described as ‘a free country’.
The Sargon video brought to mind a conversation I had recently on Gab with others about the need for separate prisons for Muslim prisoners. Some individuals, quite rightly pointed out the problems that holding Muslim prisoners in Muslim only camps or prisons would bring as regards radicalisation. To counter this at first reasonable seeming argument, I pointed out that we already have prison radicalisation problems in British prisons at the moment, problems that are likely to get worse and not better.
Although it would be a radical move, I do believe that separating out all Muslim prisoners would be a positive thing to do and I shall try to give some of the reasons for my belief.
1. Keeping Muslim gangs away from other prisoners.
The presence of Muslim prisoners and some Imams with radical views on Islam and jihad in the general prison population may well lead to a religion / culture based gangs forming. It’s highly likely that these gangs will intimidate other prisoners, damage the prison fabric or put in harms way prison officers. The prison staff in mixed prisons have to deal with the normal and stressful day to day work of managing normal prisoners and in addition have to deal with gangs made up of the followers of a hostile and violent ideology. These Islamic religious gangs are from what I can see responsible for some of the prison conversions, possibly forcible conversions, to Islam that have occurred. As Sargon points out in his video, some of Britain’s worst serial killers, such as Levi Belfield, the murderer of schoolgirl Milly Dowler, have converted to Islam in prison, presumably in order to be part of the biggest and most violent gang in the prison. Removing all Muslims from general prisons into separate prisons would remove jihad and Islam promotion aimed at vulnerable sometimes mentally ill prisoners, and would stop the problem of Islamic radicalism from spreading in the general prison population.
2. Containment.
It’s important to remember that when we are dealing with Islam, we are not dealing with a peaceful faith such as Christianity or Judaism or Hinduism, we are instead dealing with a very violent and thuggish ideology that promotes violence and attracts violent people. Islam cannot be treated as ‘just another religion’ whether in prisons or in any other environment. Whilst I concede that there are many peaceful Muslims, I have come to the conclusion that these decent peaceful Muslims are decent in spite of the ideology of Islam, rather than because of it and the prison service should recognise that fact as well.
It is almost inevitable that Muslim prisoners, who may be violent individuals and who are following an equally violent ideology, will kick off violently against prison staff or other prisoners. It may be easier to contain this Islam inspired violence from Muslim prisoners if, please forgive the phrase, they were concentrated in one prison. Now I’m not suggesting for a moment that we put Muslim prisoners in concentration camps, although this would appear be a publicly popular thing to do at the moment, but it would be foolish to not recognise that Islam is different and it is sensible that this ideology and its followers, are kept from other prisoners and under specially trained and equipped guards.
3. Radicalisation
The anti-radicalisation policies that have been undertaken by the government in our prisons for prisoners who are becoming radically Islamic, have failed. People are already being radicalised in general prisons and attracted or forced into Islam because of the way that Islam behaves, which is often like a criminal gang.
The Imams, as Sargon intimates using accounts from those who have been previously incarcerated, are also doing little or nothing to stop the radicalisation that is going on inside. We have to admit to ourselves that de-radicalisation policies or programmes in prison are not working and to give up on the idea that Muslim prisoners can be tempted away from Islamic violence using the theology of Islam itself with which to do this. Unfortunately the siren song of the jihadis seems to be more attractive to those in prison than those other Islamic paths that are promoted by government, as they may be seen by Muslim prisoners to be less ‘authentic’ types of Islam than the version promoted by the jihadists.
The de radicalisation argument has been lost, well and truly lost when it comes to Muslims in general prisons. It’s time to admit this failure and move all Muslims to a separate prison or prisons where they cannot influence vulnerable prisoners in the general population.
4. Monitoring
Having all your savages in one basket so to speak could mean that the activities of these Muslims, including those who are religiously extremist, are better monitored. A theoretical ‘HMP Mohammed’ isolation prison for Muslims may well be able to more have more detailed surveillance of what these Muslims say, do and who they interact with. In this way prisoners could be monitored to see who their in prison peer groups were. This may provide valuable intelligence to prevent future terror attacks by Muslims who have been radicalised inside, when these inmates are eventually released from prison.
There can be little doubt that Britain’s prisons have a serious Islam problem. This problem encompasses bent pretend moderate Imams who have taken advantage of political correctness to get jobs in prisons as chaplains, Islamic extremist prisoners promoting jihad in gaol, and Islamic extremists influencing other Muslim prisoners. We must also include the problem posed by Islam ‘spreading out’ among previously non Muslim prisoners who become Muslim in prison for reasons of kudos or out of fear.
Because of the reasons that I have given above, I do not think that any of the Islam-related problems that are occurring in our prisons can be solved or alleviated by keeping Muslims in the general prison population. It would be better for security, safety, prison discipline and for the protection of vulnerable prisoners, if this problematic group was held in humane but separate prisons, where this infection of Islam can be quarantined. There would of course be difficulties in setting up the theoretical ‘HMP Mohammed’, but facing these difficulties by moving to separate prisons for Muslims may well solve many of the problems that our prison service currently has.
