Virginia gives $25k to Muslim prison ministerial group

Richmond Times - Dispatch (Virginia) newspaper ^ | 4 January 2010 | Frank Green, Richmond Times Dispatch

[mbarker12474]

Fledgling group ministers to Muslims behind bars

By Frank Green

A seven-year-old prison chaplain group recently was awarded a one-of-its-kind, $25,000 state subcontract to minister to a rapidly growing faith behind bars: Islam.

But the all-volunteer Muslim Chaplain Services wants more state funding...

The Chaplain Service of the Churches of Virginia, a Protestant group established in 1920, has the full, $780,000 contract...

Relations between the two chaplain groups are cordial...

So, too, do some secular experts...

Mark Hamm ... said that "Islam, by all accounts, is the fastest-growing religion among prisoners in the Western world, including the United States."

And a key finding... "the inadequate number of Muslim religious service providers increases the risk of radicalization."

... up to 40,000 of the 2.4 million prisoners in the U.S. convert to Islam each year... . . .

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...Islam has a beneficial effect on inmates. Most of these inmates come to prison with little or no . . . spiritual grounding whatsoever." Islam offers order to their lives and a sense of identity and belonging, he said.

The "radicalization" that occurs often is the result of "prison or jailhouse Islam," twisted versions of the faith spread by those who are not necessarily well-informed about the tenets of Islam and some of whom have gang-related or other nonreligious agendas, Hamm said.

Asghar Goraya...says Islam is a religion of moderation and tolerance...

etc...

[mbarker12474]

My wife participates in a Christian ministry for incarcerated youth. I don't recall this group getting state aid to do their work.

[ronnie raygun]

Bottom line... Christian = America, Muslim = death to... any question?

[West Texas Chuck]

Yeah, so much for the separation of church and state.

>>Mark Hamm ... said that “Islam, by all accounts, is the fastest-growing religion among prisoners in the Western world, including the United States.”<<

So let’s bring a few more of the Islamonutballs into the American justice system, eh Obamalamadingdong?

[bwc2221]

... up to 40,000 of the 2.4 million prisoners in the U.S. convert to Islam each year... . . .

That’s the really scary part. American Muslims truly were the beneficiary of 9-11.

[Cicero]

"Islam, by all accounts, is the fastest-growing religion among prisoners in the Western world, including the United States."

Well, that's certainly something to be proud of!

Would it be altogether too politically incorrect to send in Christian chaplains to work with these imprisoned Muslims, instead of using taxpayer funds to support gangs of Mohammedan mullahs?

[dragnet2]

up to 40,000 of the 2.4 million prisoners in the U.S. convert to Islam each year.

We'll, this means Virginia will need to increase their donations to these Muslim groups.

[Eternal_Bear]

criminals and Islam seem to attract

[Siberian-psycho]

“...Islam has a beneficial effect on inmates. Most of these inmates come to prison with little or no . . . spiritual grounding whatsoever.” Islam offers order to their lives and a sense of identity and belonging, he said.”

“Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem” (Koran 9:5). And “Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth among the people of the Scripture until they pay tax with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Koran 9:29).

Just the message inmates need to hear.

The “radicalization” that occurs often is the result of “prison or jailhouse Islam,” twisted versions of the faith spread by those who are not necessarily well-informed about the tenets of Islam and some of whom have gang-related or other nonreligious agendas, Hamm said.

Asghar Goraya...says Islam is a religion of moderation and tolerance... Bull Crap!
Islam is death and degradation!

[Red in Blue PA]

This nation seems hell bent on suicide.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“Islam, by all accounts, is the fastest-growing religion among prisoners in the Western world, including the United States.”

That is because Islam gives religious sanction to murder, rape, robbery, extortion, sadism and any other crime you can possibly think of. If killed they believe they will get 72 virgins or young boys to dally with forever in paradise.

No wonder it grows among prison population!