[ April 27, 2024 ]
Prisons are hotbeds for jihad recruitment. Who better to groom than the violent and the broken? So why are jihadis housed together? Why are they given free run of the prisons? Worse still, they get preferential treatment – halal food, Muslim prayer times, etc
‘Devout’ Muslims in Britain’s prisons makeshift Sharia trials, circulating banned books and openly grooming young Muslim inmates, The Times has been told. A former prisoner who claims that he took part in Sharia courts and punishment beatings has given a detailed account of how he came to join a group of prisoners at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes, who pledged allegiance to Isis.
The revelations have prompted security experts to call for a fundamental review of terrorist radicalisation in jails across Britain.
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The issue came under scrutiny last month when Usman Khan, 28, a Category A terrorist prisoner freed on licence, murdered two people at London Bridge before being killed by police.
‘Queen is the enemy of Islam and must die’: Ex-inmate reveals Islamist extremists preside over Sharia trials, ISIS pledges of allegiance and punishment beatings inside UK jails
- Ex-con claimed there were Sharia courts and pro-Isis inmates at HMP Woodhill
- The former prisoner said he was recruited at the Milton Keynes prison by a group
- Man in his 20s, known as Jack, said former inmates offered to help him to Syria
- Security experts are now calling for an urgent review into radicalisation in jails
By Susie Coen For The Daily Mail and Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline, 23 December 2019
Islamist extremists are presiding over Sharia trials, pledges of allegiance to ISIS and dishing out punishment beatings in UK jails, an ex-inmate has revealed.
Security experts are demanding an urgent review into radicalisation in British prisons after an ex-prisoner known as Jack told how he helped enforce Sharia in prison after meeting an extremist.
Jack told The Times how he befriended terrorist Brusthom Ziamani at HMP Woodhill and oversaw beatings with him and another inmate who was serving time for murder.
Ziamani (pictured) plotted to murder a soldier after falling under the spell of Anjem ChoudaryThe killer, who the paper refers to as M in its investigation, lectured Jack, telling him the Queen is an enemy of Islam who should be fought to the death.
Jack and the other two Muslim converts brought two men before their ‘court’ for ‘disgracing the month of Ramadan’.
M told them: ‘You were caught drinking alcohol yesterday evening by the brothers. Due to the overwhelming evidence against you, we find you guilty despite your pleas of innocence.’
The trio then agreed to punish the ‘guilty’ men by beating them. Jack says that after the attack ‘the smaller one couldn’t open his eye, it was swollen completely shut, so we made him tell the screws he had fallen down the stairs’.
The former prisoner in his 20s claims he was recruited at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes (file photo)
+5The former prisoner in his 20s claims he was recruited at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes (file photo)
Jack says that he went along with the other two partly because he believed what they said and also because he was terrified of what would happen to him if he didn’t comply.
His claims come after police watchdogs revealed they are to probe whether London Bridge killer Usman Khan should have been watched more closely after his release from jail.
Khan – who stabbed two people to death on a knife rampage – was freed halfway through his 16-year sentence for terrorism without the necessary Parole Board assessment of his threat to the public.
Jack said Ziamani, who was a follower of the hate preacher Anjem Choudary, and his group had recordings of talks by al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki.
The ex-prisoner said his former inmates have contacted him offering to help him travel to Syria.
He said it was by a group which included a follower of the hate preacher Anjem Choudary (pictured) and claimed that he had access to recordings of talks by the al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-AwlakiIn one account, he said a punishment beating was given to an inmate accused of disrespecting Islam by drinking alcohol.
The prisoner said he ‘chose to leave that life’ following his release. He sought spiritual help and remains a practising and peaceful Muslim.
Justice secretary Robert Buckland said the account was ‘very concerning’ but insisted that in the past four years ‘a great deal of time, effort and investment has gone into bearing down on the malign effects of extremism behind bars’.
Prof Acheson said the prisoner’s description of his experiences show prison and probation service ‘is still not capable of managing a serious threat to our national security’.
He added: ‘I’m disappointed that many of the recommendations I made in 2016 to robustly respond to this threat do not seem to have been adopted.
This implies a continuing serious failure of leadership and will to confront terrorism that I identified.
‘I urge the government to return to these recommendations as a starting point to check on the reality of counter extremism capability. If the Prison Service is not equal to the task of managing this lethal and destructive risk it should be divested of that responsibility.’
It comes after police watchdogs revealed they are to probe whether London Bridge killer Usman Khan (pictured) should have been watched more closely after his release from jail
This year there were reportedly 13,000 Muslim inmates in England and Wales, making up 16 per cent of the prison population – doubling from 8 per cent of prisoners in 2002.
Richard Walton, former head of Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command, said that Michael Gove’s departure from the Ministry of Justice in 2016 had been ‘extremely untimely’.
Mr Walton, a senior fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank, added: ‘[Mr Gove] was intent on fully implementing the Acheson review and addressing the problem of radicalisation in jails across the country.
‘His successor [Liz Truss] did not treat this issue with the same urgency and appeared less keen on fully implementing the Acheson recommendations.
‘The Ministry of Justice should now revisit the problem of prison radicalisation in light of the recent attack. A full, transparent review of prison radicalisation and the measures in place to address it is now needed.’
Mr Walton added: ‘It is unsurprising that radicalisation continues to be a significant challenge, owing to the success in recent years of convicting high numbers of Islamist terrorists for plotting attacks in the UK and overseas.
‘Regrettably, it is not uncommon for covert counterterrorism investigations to start within prisons – they provide a conducive environment for the most hardline convicted Islamists to plot and conspire.’
The Ministry of Justice was last night approached for comment.
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24 Comments
4 years ago
There MAY be “good” Muslims not in prison.
But in prison ALL muslims, if they aren’t nasty and rotten to the core is the first place, they become that way.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dano50
If “good” muslums then why not “good” Nazis? After all islum has more in common w/nazism than differences.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dano50
Plus they radicalize non Muslim prisoners with threats and beatings if they do not convert.
4 years ago
only good muslim is a dead muslim
4 years ago
The ratbastard jihads need to be sent to Devils Island.
4 years ago
Segregate — Separate — No halal food — Do not allow the practice of the Muslim faith while incarcerated — England is a theocracy — The Church of England is paramount — If they want religion, give the swine the C of E…
4 years ago
Reply to
Oldone
You know this will never happen while you have rotten PC police and left wing police commissioners, Labour with many Muslin members, councils and politicians who are too terrified to even discuss the Muslim filth that runs rampant over all the UK laws plus pandered to by the pathetic judges and the non existent justice system. The fact is that Muslims are determined to dominate the UK as well as other western countries and they are being allowed to do so.
4 years ago
Wow! Who could possibly have expected that? Who could even be slightly surprised by that? Who goes out of their way to kiss the islamic nether end and then wonders why they laugh? When the leftist fools actually realize that this is and has been (for 1400 tears) an ongoing war then perhaps we have a chance. But in the meantime it will NOT be the noisy, stupid left who die in this war , but us.
4 years ago
Why was this repugnant ideology allowed in to the UK in the first place. Did tony blair and all the other government mp’s think there would be peace and harmony by mixing people from an ideology that hates the western white man but oddly enough, is very closely linked to naziism. Our government you notice will not tollerate nazis.
4 years ago
Reply to
Clem Jackson
It is all part of the New World Order and Blair and his ugly human rights lawyer wife were co sponsors and still are. It has made both of them richer than they could imagine.
4 years ago
Prisons have been used for decades in USA to recruit converts to Islam.
4 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Chuck Colson warned us about Islam in prisons. He discovered that through his prion ministry,
“The Christian West is under assault by the twin challenges of secularism and radical Islam,” he writes in The Faith. “Only through Christianity, I believe, can Western Europe and America meet these desperate challenges.”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/chuck-colson-muslims-are-better-theologians-than-american-christians.html
4 years ago
All Muslims of the extremist persuasion should be in the same prisons and no Muslim convict with no Islamist connections should be put with them. Just like people with a serious disease are kept separate from the healthy people. Thus they would only be able to talk to each other. I refuse to believe that all Muslim are the same as some say here, but community pressure is very powerful and the more so in situations of confinement.
4 years ago
Reply to
william carr
If you refuse to believe that all Muslims are the same, then you are in denial. They all read the evil Koran, so they are all the same and none of them should be in non Muslim countries.
4 years ago
All US prisons have the same problem and its far worse in Canada. They are breeding grounds for terror.In fact, they have become near havens for terrorists who teach how to make bombs, loot the elderly and all sorts of schemes to advance jihad. First The Muslims must be segregated,and Second, they should not be released until they have denounced the use of violence and the Koranic exhortations to violence.
4 years ago
Now that Britain has pulled out of the E.U. they should deport all of the Muslim prisoners and any Muslims who cause trouble in the country !
4 years ago
Reply to
Defence Man
You are right, but it will never happen in Britain today, while the elites are terrified of being called racists and islamophobic. None of them have any balls to even address the problem that is slowly destroying the country. They could not even clamp down on the grooming and mass rapes of non Muslim girls and young women, so there is no possibility that they would ever deport this evil filth.
4 years ago
NOTHING illustrates the vacillating drifting moral vacuum at the heart of the UK elites approach to islamic terrorism in our society and prisons than this report in The Times.
The whole problem revolves around ignorance and a PC culture of staying silent so you can keep your job.
4 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Don’t worry the police watch dogs are going to look into this and do nothing as usual.
4 years ago
The UK must become uncivilized to Muslims, because they are not civilize.
4 years ago
I have been saying this for ages..WHY are Muslims housed together? WHY are they permitted prayer times, halal food, makeshift mosques and allowed the very book of warfare that is the Quoran? WHY?
It is quite simple to target and extinguish the threat by separating the army and stopping the spread. You cannot give the enemy the tools it needs to end your race. It’s logic and leadership to control and conquer them.
