Chuck Colson warns of impending threat from US Prisons

From BreakPoint....

I am hardly going out on a limb here. I said this first in 2001. The spread of an especially virulent form of Islam within American prisons is obvious to those of us who have spent time in these prisons. It’s the rest of American society that is in denial. Now, thanks to a new study, ignorance is no longer an option.

The study, titled “Out of the Shadows,” concluded that “the U.S. . . . is at risk of facing the sort of homegrown terrorism currently plaguing other countries.” The source of that risk, according to researchers from George Washington University and the University of Virginia, is “[America’s] large prison population.”

“Radicalized prisoners” within this population “are a potential pool of recruits by terrorist groups,” the study says. The sources of radicalization are incarcerated Islamic extremists and outside organizations that support them. The report notes that the absence of “monitoring by authoritative Islamic chaplains” permits “materials that advocate violence [to infiltrate] the prison system undetected.”

Some of this material is provided by known al-Qaeda affiliates. It “[urges Muslim prisoners] to wage war against non-Muslims who have not submitted to Islamic rule.” As a former employee of a radical Islamist group who is now a Christian told a Senate committee, “I know of only a few instances in which prisons rejected the literature we attempted to distribute—and it was never because of the literature’s radicalism.”...

Still, I can’t help but note an irony here: The largely unimpeded spread of radical Islam through our prisons coincides with increased opposition to the one really successful antidote—that is, the presence of Christianity.

An obvious example is the lawsuit against our prison program in Iowa. Programs like ours are working. We have studies to prove it. And they are the best solution to the alienation and rage that fuels conversions to radical Islam, as well as gangs and other hate groups inside the prisons. Making it harder for organizations like Prison Fellowship to operate within prison walls leaves jihadists and other radical groups as the only game in town.

We've seen the beginnings of this in government schools where Islamic indoctrination is treated as "cultural studies" while even the mention of the word "Christmas" is banned. 

Those who allow our prisons and schools to ban Christianity while welcoming radical Islam, people like Rosie O'Donnell who claim that Christians and radical Moslems are equally dangerous, are the wild-eyed lunatic straining to destroy the very freedoms that allow them to be such morons.

Think of it this way: what's the correct response to an idiot who insists on opening the door to an airplane in mid-flight? Patient acceptance, or immediate reaction. It's not like "toleration" is even a factor, because the Left has demonstrated they are intolerant of any and all who oppose their primary goals. The reason they are so willing to "tolerate" radical Islam is precisely because it's such an immediate tool for destroying America. On the other hand Christianity has shown to be the primary factor in America's strength.

Posted by Danny Carlton at October 11, 2006 6:07 AM