UK: Inmates are converting

Tue, 8 Jun 2010

Prisoners are converting to Islam to gain better food and the protection of fellow Muslims, according to an official report released today.

The document, entitled Muslim Prisoners’ Experiences: A thematic review, follows a poll earlier this week which indicated that many Britons are suspicious of Islam.

Muslim Prisoners’ Experiences, which is written by Dame Ann Owers the Chief Inspector of Prisons, reveals that 30 per cent of the nation’s 10,300 Muslim inmates have taken up the faith whilst in prison. the rest