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January 13, 2006
France: Radical Muslim Jail Jihad
Ynet News states that a report by the French General Intelligence Office, or RG, claims that 175 militant inmates of French prisons are preaching to others. The report is treated in detail in Le Figaro today, in French.
There are 80 jails in France, and sixty nine of these are touched by Islam. The conclusions come in the report by RG, which is the first of its kind, released last month. There is an over-representation of Islamist-influenced prisons in the region around Paris, where terrorist prisoners are housed.
70% of the extremist Muslims are French nationals, while the others came from North African nations, Turkey, ex-Yugoslavia or Pakistan. For the most part they are young (20 to 30 years) and there are only about 15 from the age bracket 40 to 60 years. Almost 90% come from poor backgrounds, with many having had no job at the time of arrest. A quarter were blue-collar workers and less than 10% were students, or members of the "liberal professions".
The Tablighi Jamaat, which we have discussed before as a proselytising international group, has been active in France since 1972. The majority of the Islamists proselytising in prisons now are from this group, who have Deobandi influence, and the rest hold extreme Salafist ideals.
Among the convicted terrorists, of which 99 are incarcerated, there are about thirty who try to spread radical Islam. Using force and intimidation to proselytise with Islam accounts for only 1% of the cases detailed.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 13, 2006 12:39 PM
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