http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26077518
http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/Aunt-of-violin-theft-suspect-claims-her-home-raided-by-police-FBI-243862921.html
The Lipinski Stradivarius is once again safe after Milwaukie police, acting on a tip, arrested Universal Allah and Salah Jones for stealing the instrument on the evening of January 27th.
According to police records, the owner of the instrument, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond, was the victim of a stun gun assault as he went to his car. The thieves stole the violin after giving Almond a good shock.
A couple of questions:
A. Who converted to Islam and what prison were they in when they converted?
B. What percentage of converts to Islam are violent thugs?
Scholarly articles below:
http://ijo.sagepub.com/content/48/4/414.short
http://cjp.sagepub.com/content/24/6/735.abstract
http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/5/667.short
Prison Islam in the Age of Sacred Terror
Mark S. Hamm*+ Author Affiliations
*Criminology Department, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, United States; Mhamm@indstate.edu
Abstract
Research indicates that Islam is the fastest growing religion among prisoners in Western nations. In the United States, roughly 240,000 inmates have converted to the faith since the 9/11 attacks.
According to federal law enforcement, Saudi-backed Wahhabi clerics have targeted these prisoners for terrorist recruitment.
The present research examines this claim from several different perspectives. First, it reviews the literature on prisoner conversions to Islam and concludes that there are opposing viewpoints on the matter. One side of the debate takes an alarmist stance, arguing that prisons have become incubators for Islamic terrorism; the other side asserts that Islam plays a vital role in prisoner rehabilitation. Second, results of a two-year study of prisoner radicalization and terrorist recruitment in US prisons are reported. The motives for prisoner conversions to Islam are discussed along with the effects of conversion on inmate behaviour; the role played by gangs and charismatic leaders in radicalizing prisoners; and the social processes by which inmates move from radicalization to operational terrorism. Third, two case studies are presented. One involves a terrorist plot waged by a gang of Sunni prisoners at California's New Folsom Prison; the other looks at the inmate-led Islamic Studies Program at Old Folsom Prison, which has adopted a de-radicalization agenda. It is argued that inmate self-help programmes may do more than the state to prevent radicalization and terrorist recruitment behind bars.
Famous Islamic converts with criminal background:
Malcolm X
Mike Tyson
Mohammed Ali - refused the draft just in case you don't remember
2Pac
That's as far as I got when I got bored/distracted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Islam
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/06/rising-recruitment-of-young-westerners-means-a-new-chapter-in-the-history-of-global-jihadism-report-finds/
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