UK Prisons Are an Urgent Warning About the Threat of Islamic Radicalization
In October 2020, the New York Times ran an op-ed glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failing to provide... The problem, as the report found, was that the “efforts at fighting terrorism and stamping out the sources of extremism” seemed to stop once the terrorists were incarcerated. No real reason was given for that. Counter-terrorism officials and prison administrators have long known that prison walls cannot prevent a terrorist from acting or influencing others. Convicted terrorists make up .03 percent of the UK prison population — roughly more than 220 inmates — yet ...