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#REDIRECT [[Conversion to Islam in prisons]] |
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[[Radicalization]] is the persuasion into and recruitment of young people to [[Islamism]] and violent [[jihad]]. Young men serving time in European prisons are especially vulnerable to Islamism. |
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==Prison social order== |
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Famous terrorists such as [[Salah Abdeslam]] are at the top of the "social pecking order" in prisons in western Europe.<ref name=BisserbeRadicalization>{{cite news|last1=Bisserbe|first1=Noemie|title=European Prisons Fueling Spread of Islamic Radicalism|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-prisons-fueling-spread-of-islamic-radicalism-1470001491|accessdate=23 August 2016|publisher=[[Wall Street Journal]]|date=31 July 2016}}</ref> Lesser known Islamists use their prison terms as opportunities for recruiting young men, particularly young Muslims, to commit to Islamism and the violent jihad of [[terrorism|terror attacks]].<ref name=BisserbeRadicalization/> The Islamist recruiters offer young petty criminals a "sense of purpose."<ref name=MufsonExtremism>{{cite news|last1=Mufson|first1=Steven|title=How Belgian prisons became a breeding ground for Islamic extremism|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/how-belgian-prisons-became-a-breeding-ground-for-islamic-extremism/2016/03/27/ac437fd8-f39b-11e5-a2a3-d4e9697917d1_story.html|accessdate=23 August 2016|publisher=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref> |
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==By country== |
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===Belgium=== |
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Islamists recruited young prisoners by talking to them through cell windows and in exercise yards about the unjust treatment of immigrants in Europe and the Muslim killed in the Western invasion of Iraq.<ref name=MufsonExtremism/> |
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===France=== |
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A French government audit of the prison system described radical Islamists as constituting a sort of prison "aristocracy," governing fellow inmates by forbidding them to listen to music, shower, or watch a women's sports event on television.<ref name=BisserbeRadicalization/> They possess cell phones and are in regular contact with fellow Islamists both in Europe and in the Middle East.<ref name=BisserbeRadicalization/> |
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50% to 60% of the ~67,000 convicted criminals serving time in French prisons are Muslim (Muslims make up 7.5% of the population of France.)<ref name=BisserbeRadicalization/> |
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The terrorist who [[Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting|shot up a Museum in Brussels]] was radicalized in a French prison,<ref name=BisserbeRadicalization/> as was mass murderer [[Amedy Coulibaly]].<ref name=DailyNewsTerrorist>{{cite web|work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|location=New York|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/terrorist-amedy-coulibaly-met-french-prez-nicolas-sarkozy-article-1.2072074|title=Terrorist Amedy Coulibaly met former French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009, years before Paris murder spree|date=9 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=BisserbeRadicalization/> Coulibaly planned his crime with [[Chérif Kouachi]], the two met while imprisoned in [[Fleury-Mérogis Prison]].<ref name=BisserbeRadicalization/> |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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[[Category:Islamism]] |
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[[Category:Prisons]] |
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