By Raymond Ibrahim ——Bio and Archives--November 11, 2015
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Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued" (Koran 9:29).In other words, Muslim prisoners are not copying ISIS; rather, both they and ISIS are obeying the Koran. Meanwhile, down under, in Australia's highest security prison, "an extremist ISIS gang ... has threatened tobehead correctional officers and inmates unless they convert to radical Islam." At least 30 Muslim gang members residing in Goulburn jail "have engaged in warfare against 'infidel' that oppose their religious ideologies." "They were going to take a hostage -- one of the six Christians in the yard -- and behead them," reported a prison guard. Bullying and threatening non-Muslims into converting to Islam or else demanding money (jizya) from them if they refuse is a regular occurrence around the Muslim world, wherever "infidel" minorities live side by side with Muslim majorities. As Muslims make for disproportionately large numbers in Western prisons--another fact that speaks for itself--it should come as no surprise that coercion, threats, and extortion in the name of Islam are also becoming a regular occurrence. Ironically, one may have supposed that, if anywhere, it would be in prisons that the Muslim sense of supremacism would be broken. Far from it; Western prison policies--whether banning pork for all inmates to appease Muslims (in an Ohio prison), allowing prayer mats where knives are concealed and used, spending thousands of tax payer dollars to rebuild toilets to face away from Mecca, apologizing for serving non-halal food to Muslim criminals, or possibly accommodating the Salafi beard against prison policies--all serve to confirm Muslims in their sense of supremacy. This is to say nothing about the fact that lax and politically correct policies have made prisons prime recruiting grounds for the jihad. One U.S. prison was referred to as a "terrorist university" for the Islamic State and one U.K prison allowed the distribution of a jihadi book calling on the slaughter of non-Muslim "infidels." Thus prisons have become microcosms of Islamic behavior vis-a-vis "infidels"--replete with a sense of violent Islamic supremacism on the one hand and craven political correctness on the other.
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RAYMOND IBRAHIM (RaymondIbrahim.com) is a widely published author, public speaker, and Middle East and Islam expert. His books include Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). His writings, translations, and observations have appeared in a variety of publications, including Fox News, Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Syndicate, United Press International, USA Today, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Weekly Standard; scholarly journals, including the Almanac of Islamism, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst, Middle East Quarterly, and Middle East Review of International Affairs; and popular websites, such as American Thinker, the Blaze, Bloomberg, Christian Post, FrontPage Magazine, Gatestone Institute, the Inquisitr, Jihad Watch, NewsMax, National Review Online, PJ Media, VDH’s Private Papers, and World Magazine. He has contributed chapters to several anthologies and been translated into various languages.