Falah liked to tell us about his success recruiting Muslim converts in jail. This is the next step. It's a microcosm of Islam's history.

Muslim prisoners threaten others: Convert or be bashed

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/muslim-prisoners-threaten-others-convert-or-be-bashed/news-story/cb7eb48ecf60fc78d34b444b0b146c34

NON-Muslim jail inmates are being forced to convert to Islam by fellow prisoners using threats and violence against those who refuse.

A Muslim chaplain at Kariong jail on the Central Coast has been inundated with requests for extra prayer mats and copies of the Koran from more than a dozen non-Arab ­inmates, according to prison sources.

They also asked to be put on halal diets, which means eating meat slaughtered by a Muslim in the traditional manner.

The situation was exposed after several prisoners approached guards after a number of inmates were ­beaten up for refusing to convert. Three Muslim inmates believed to have been responsible for the forced conversions were then moved to separate jails.

Sources said the inmates had ­requested an imam visit the jail to ­officially endorse the conversions but one was unable to attend before the offending prisoners were moved.

Recruitment of non-Muslims into the religion is also rife at Lithgow jail, with dozens of inmates making the switch, another source said.

However, the consequences of ­reverting can be brutal, with one ­inmate being stabbed by fellow Muslims after shaving off his traditional beard for a parole hearing.

A department of Corrective Services spokesman confirmed at least six inmates had converted to Islam at Lithgow in the past six months.

He also confirmed that Goulburn jail now had a dedicated yard for Middle Eastern prisoners, but denied claims by prison sources that it had been introduced for the safety of non-Muslim prisoners.

So we now have our jails as breeding grounds for terrorists.

I blame weak Govts.

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COMMUNITY UNDER SIEGE Muslim jailhouse converts on the rise     Dan Box, Chip Le Grand     The Australian     12:00AM June 20, 2015   Muslims are over-represented in Australian prisons, with increasing numbers of inmates under­going jailhouse conversions to gain the protection of Islamic groups behind bars. In Victoria and NSW, 8 per cent and 9 per cent of the respective prison populations identify as Muslim, compared with 2.2 per cent and 3 per cent of the general populations. The percentage of Muslim inmates in Queensland is far lower, at 1.5 per cent. Prison employees, who spoke confidentially to The Weekend Australian, say they are seeing ­increasing numbers of white and Aboriginal prisoners converting to Islam in jail. Muslim groups have become increasingly influential in NSW prisons and — like other prison gangs — are often involved in the drug trade, extortion and gambling, these sources said. “I think the conversion (to Islam) is not really a religious conversion. It’s to cover what you’re doing and to get a network behind you,” one prison worker said. “It’s to be part of something. You think that you’re important.” Obtaining accurate figures for the number of conversions is impossible, although prison sources suggest a single NSW jail may see three or four a month. Academics say previous public attention on the conversion of ­Aboriginal prisoners to Islam and the prospect this may be linked to radicalisation has been overblown. Kuranda Seyit, a spokesman for the Islamic Council of Victoria, said survival in jail often required affiliation with a group, whether “white, Aboriginal, Vietnamese, Pacific Islander or Muslim”. “A lot of the leaders of these groups put on the skull cap and grow a beard and create this sense that they are very important from their religious identity,” he said. Identifying specific groups in the system is difficult. Authorities regularly move inmates between jails to prevent gangs becoming established, and gangs inside do not simply reflect the identities of those on the outside. One of the few academics to study Islam in Australian jails, University of Western Sydney’s Michael Kennedy, said the fact Muslims were over-represented reflected recent immigration “If you go back over the last 50 years, every new group of immigrants is over-represented in the prison population,” he said. Each wave of immigrants had become involved in organised crime, often forming gangs ­defined by family and ethnic ties. “They’re prepared to do anything to prevent them going back to where they came from,” Professor Kennedy said. “They get caught and they end up in jail. Most recently, you are seeing ­arrivals from Muslim countries which are currently conflict zones, meaning their social dislocation and disadvantage is even more stark.” Criminologists say there are about 10 dominant Middle Eastern crime families in Sydney, controlling tens of millions of dollars in drug revenue annually. In the past decade, members have been increasingly likely to co-operate with other families, bikies or East Asian crime gangs.