Posts Tagged: prison radicalization
Fox in the Hen House: Allowing Terrorists to Re-enter Prisons
Recent articles by the Investigative Project on Terrorism and other news organizations have addressed the growing concerns regarding the upcoming release of more than one hundred inmates who have been...
London Terrorist Followed Familiar Path From Prison to Jihad
Before he drove violently into the crowd on Westminster Bridge, and before plunging his knives into a police officer's body, Khalid Masood's twisted path to terrorism followed an...
Is the Criminal Justice System Prepared for the Deluge of Terrorists in US Jails?
The old adage, "Out of sight, out of mind" does not apply to dealing effectively with radical Islamists, especially in the case of terrorists who have...
How We Allow Terrorist Attacks to Happen
The terrorist attack in Berlin earlier this month by radical Islamist Anis Amri is leading to continued questions about what authorities knew and when they knew it. Amri was...
Paris Jihadist Manages to Grow More Radical in Prison
One year after jihadist commandos massacred 130 people in coordinated attacks across Paris, the country of France remains in a state of emergency. Heavily armed gendarmes patrol the...
France’s Program, Like All Others Aimed at Deradicalizing Jihadists in Prison, Has Failed
The latest attempt by Western democracies to deal with the ever-growing threat of Islamic radicalization in the prison system has been deemed an utter failure. Last...
Europe’s Terror Challenges: The Returnee Threat
Another week has brought another barrage of headlines illustrating the depth of Europe's terror threat. The following examples came during a 24-hour window earlier this month: "Schiphol...
An Absurd Sentence in the UK for a Radical Islamic Cleric Tied to ISIS
Law enforcement and counter-terrorism experts in the United States and around the world are shaking their heads in collective disbelief after convicted Islamic terrorist Anjem...
With Terror Threat Growing, Europe Changes Course
Sixteen years ago, when Dutch commentator Paul Scheffer published his "Multicultural Drama" declaring that multiculturalism in the Netherlands had failed, the response was swift and...
The Choudary Quandary, a Fox-in-the-Hen-House Redux
With the United Kingdom's successful prosecution of noted radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary for providing material support to ISIS, British officials are now faced with the dilemma...
Report: UK Prison Authorities Ignored Alerts of Radical Islamist, Antisemitic Literature Distributed by Imams to Inmates
British prison authorities ignored warnings about the distribution of radical Islamist and antisemitic literature by imams to inmates, the Sunday Times reported on Thursday. According to the report, five...
Who’s Teaching the Prison Class? A Lesson in Islamic Radicalization
Ask any successful individual, "Who was one of the most influential people in your life?" and very often the answer is a teacher. A good...
Belgium Uses ‘Help Wanted’ Ads to Fight Terrorism
The theater of the absurd seems to have found a place to perform in the current atmosphere created by the threat of Islamic terrorism in...
What Are We Doing With Captured Terrorists?
Captured terror suspect Salah Abdeslam now sits in an isolated cell inside a French maximum security prison. Before his extradition from Belgium this week, the individual responsible...
