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Dangerous prison conversions? (Scan).(converts to Islam)(Brief Article)
Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Chuck Colson is concerned about outreach to prisoners by radical Muslims. "Alienated, disenfranchised people are prime targets for radical Islamists who preach a religion of violence," Colson wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "Al Qaeda training manuals specifically identify America's prisoners as candidates for conversion" because they may harbor hostility toward their government.
Colson has caught some flak from groups like the National Islamic Prison Foundation, which works to convert prisoners to Islam. Madhi Bray, the leader of the group, claimed that to his knowledge no recruiting of terrorists was going on in prisons. While Muslim groups in American prisons have, so far, had a strong black-nationalist (not Wahabi) bent, shoe bomber Richard Reid did convert to Islam in a ...
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- News wire article from: Interpress Service October 23, 2006 700+ words
...former inmates who have converted to Islam while in U.S. jails. Deeply...and currently the head of Prison Fellowship Ministries, has seized upon the findings...Hidden in the Shadows: Radical Islam and U.S. Prisons," Colson...
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...prisoner's conversion to Islam while still in prison, as...the development of American Islam itself as it struggles for...Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries and a Nixon administration...will use prisons" to avenge Islam. Prison chaplains and others...
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