Jeremy Harding in the London Review of Books:
Islamisation in the US prison system is largely a response by non-whites to the threat of white supremacist gangs. According to the NYPD the radical impulse seldom lasts beyond a prisoner’s release, which is why the police refer to it as ‘Prislam’.
Anthony Shadid from Darmah, Libya, in The New York Times a week or so back:
Next to him was a cleric, Shukri Abdel-Hamid, who had spent 10 years in prison.
“We want a civil state, pluralism, with freedom enshrined by law,” he said, before echoing a sentiment heard often in Egypt and Tunisia. “Extremism was a reaction to oppression and the violence of the state. Give us freedom and see what happens.”
