source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802560_pf.html
....This prison is majority Muslim -- as is virtually every house of
incarceration in France. About 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in the
country's prison system are Muslim, according to Muslim leaders,
sociologists and researchers, though Muslims make up only about 12
percent of the country's population.
In Britain, 11 percent of prisoners are Muslim in contrast to about 3
percent of all inhabitants, according to the Justice Ministry.
Research by the Open Society Institute, an advocacy organization,
shows that in the Netherlands 20 percent of adult prisoners and 26
percent of all juvenile offenders are Muslim; the country is about 5.5
percent Muslim. In Belgium, Muslims from Morocco and Turkey make up at
least 16 percent of the prison population, compared with 2 percent of
the general populace, the research found.
|
