Paedophile prisoners are converting to Islam to receive protection from Islamist gangs, a new report into the state of Britain’s prisons has revealed.
In Western Europe, Muslims are greatly overrepresented in the prison population. In France, for example, 10% of the general population is Muslim, but Muslims make up nearly 70% of the prison population. In the UK, Muslims are 6.7% of the population, but 18% of the prison population. In Germany, Muslims are 6% of the population, but 30-40% of the prison population.
Giving rise to fears of Islamist radicalisation taking place in Britain’s jails, former prison governor Ian Acheson has found evidence inmates serving time for sex crimes against children are avoiding isolation from their peers by converting to Islam.
He said: “We’re now seeing evidence that convicted sex offenders, who in the traditional prison hierarchy were at the bottom of the pile and had to be segregated from the rest of the population for fear that they would be killed by them.