Creeping Sharia: As more foreign fighters return from the ISIS battlefields to their home countries and face possible prosecution and imprisonment, the European Union continues to wrestle with how to deal with Islamic radicalization within its prisons.
American policymakers need to pay attention because it’s a challenge we face, too.
“We found a lot of people that maybe weren’t convicted on terror-related charges were radicalizing in the prison systems,” U.S. Rep. Mike McCaul said last month. “I think the Bureau of Prisons needs a program to ensure that radicalization is not taking place because it is.”
A recent investigation by Spanish counter terrorism officials uncovered a jihadi recruitment network operating inside 17 of its prisons. The group recruited and radicalized new inmate converts and planned to carry out several attacks when some of its members were released.
Group leader Mohammed Achraf is a 44-year-old Moroccan serving time for plotting terror attacks. The Gatestone Institute closely examined Achraf’s history, finding that he had organized a terror cell during a previous prison stint. He formed the “Martyrs of Morocco” in 1999, a radical Islamic network operating in five prisons. Achraf was released in 2002, but arrested just two years later in the wake of the 2004 Madrid train bombing which killed 191 people and injured nearly 2,000. Resulting investigations uncovered a Martyrs of Morocco plot to blow up Spain’s National Court with a truck loaded with more than 1,000 lbs. of explosives. The terrorists wanted to destroy evidence that was being relied upon to prosecute the Madrid terror cell.
Ironically, prior to the planned attack Achraf was in contact with an Islamic terrorist in the United States. more here
weak character, unstable minded and morally reprobate men and woman are easily radicalized, and this is why they always end up incarcerated. they become the useless slag that’s chipped away from the cast that have now become accepted and sought after by the legions of liberal political sociopaths currently in need of votes trying to hold onto their illusion of power.
I’m more concerned about getting another radical Islamist slipped into the White House.
Some of those old Soviet Gulags could be put to good use again, life sentence, problem solved
Isn’t this how islam spread the first time!? It was created by a homeless thief and continued by a proto-mob.
Christians sent monks to spread the word, islam sent thieves to prison.
Just hand the SOB’s and be done with it.
When you have a belief system that tells prisoners what they did is OK, as long as their victims were non-Muslims, that’s what you get. So much easier than that dadgum “repent and turn your life around” message they hear from the other guys.