Posted on 04/29/2008 3:24:04 PM PDT by nuconvert
French Prisons: Up to 70% of Inmates Are Muslims
April 29, 2008
Muslims make up only about 12 percent of France’s population — but account for from 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in the country’s prisons.
French prison officials blame that remarkable statistic on the poverty of people who have moved to France from North Africa and other Muslim nations in recent decades.
French Muslim leaders further hold racism and discrimination as the root cause of unemployment and crime rates among the Muslim minority, according to the Islam Online Web site.
In Britain, Muslims reportedly make up 3 percent of the population, but 11 percent of prisoners.
In the Netherlands, 20 percent of adult prisoners and 26 percent of juvenile offenders are Muslims, while the nation on the whole is about 5.5 percent Muslim, according to research by the Open Society Institute, an advocacy organization.
In Belgium, Muslims from Turkey and Morocco account for at least 16 percent of inmates; they make up 2 percent of the general population.
“Sociologists and Muslim leaders say the French prison system reflects the deep social and ethnic divides roiling France and its European neighbors as immigrants and a new generation of their children alter the demographic and cultural landscape of the continent,” the Washington Post observed.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Poverty of character is more like it.
What? And the French chapter of the ACLU is not suing for racial profiling and religous discrimination??
If ever a time they needed to bring back their “National Razor”...
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HAHA, that’s great!
Obviously, they don’t have the same illegal immigrant problem we have.
No kidding. They need to call up some Muslim race whiners. Mabye Jihad Jesse Al-Jackson or Mohammed Al-Sharpton!
27% of prisoners in US federal prison system are illegals.
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