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Muslim prison chaplains: radicalisation threats or convenient scapegoats?

Gehad Quisay Muslim prison chaplains: radicalisation threats or convenient scapegoats? Date of publication: 30 March, 2017 Blog: Reports that the Westminster attacker converted to Islam in prison reopens the question on radicalisation in British prisons. Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Muslim convert originally named Adrian Russell, killed five people and injured 50 […]

Where homegrown terrorism is concerned, there’s something to be said for letting British jihadis go to Syria

Hundreds of Muslims now find themselves trapped in the UK, frustrated that they can’t travel to Islamist and rebel strongholds and perform what they regard as their religious duty. Britain’s zero-tolerance policy on Syria has filled our prisons with young jihadists already marginalised and isolated inside mainstream society Robert Verkaik @robertverkaik1 The […]