*Faith Behind Bars: Inmates Find Islam While Incarcerated* By Zaid Shakur, Staff Writer Darulkautsar.net
excerpt.. "Islam is a serious business for him. Abdullah accepted Islam five years ago while incarcerated in a California penitentiary, and he has practiced with mercurial zeal ever since. He is just one of the estimated 30,000 inmates who embrace Islam every year from behind the bars of federal, state and local prison and jail cells in the United States." "The United States Senate Judiciary Committee has published findings that indicate approximately 350,000 Muslims are currently in federal, state prisons and local jails. This means that about 5 percent of all Muslims in America are locked up in penitentiaries and that more than 10 percent of the more than 2 million U.S. prison population are Muslims. The great majority of these inmates came into prison as non-Muslims but then converted. Da’wah in prisons is so strong that out of all inmates who seek religion while incarcerated, 80 percent of them select Islam. It is an oft-repeated mantra that Islam is the fastest growing religion in America, and these statistics from the correctional industry indicate that prison conversion is the major contributing factor to this phenomenal growth" Robert H. Berrie DDS MscD __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
