Fjordman gives a book review to a Danish book written 2008
but now available in English about Radical Islam and forced conversions to
Islam in European prisons.
JRH 3/21/18
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Book Review: “Holy Wrath: Among Criminal Muslims”
Posted by Baron Bodissey
Posted on March 3, 2018
BY Fjordman
The book Holy Wrath: Among
Criminal Muslims was written by the Danish psychologist
Nicolai Sennels. This is an English translation of a book called Blandt
kriminelle muslimer, which was written in 2008. It is based on personal
experiences Sennels had with young Muslim criminals while working as a
psychologist for three years at a juvenile facility in Copenhagen.
Since 2008, problems with criminal gangs from an immigrant
background have grown worse in Western Europe. The terror threat from militant
Muslims and Jihadist groups has increased as well.
On 14-15 February 2015, two victims plus the perpetrator
were killed and several others wounded during terror attacks in Copenhagen. The
first attack targeted a debate about blasphemy attended by the Swedish artist
Lars Vilks, who has drawn Muhammad as a dog. The second attack targeted Jews in
a synagogue.
The terrorist was Omar
El-Hussein. He was born in Copenhagen to Palestinian parents who
fled to Denmark via a refugee camp in Jordan. He had recently been released
from prison for a stabbing offense. Omar became radicalized as a militant
Muslim in prison. During his deadly attacks, he was carrying a copy of the
Koran with a bookmark at Surah 21. This chapter contains verses about punishing
disbelievers of Islam.[1]
In cities across Europe, natives are being harassed, robbed,
raped, stabbed and even killed by Muslim immigrants. This violence is usually
labelled as “crime,” but it could sometimes also be labelled as Jihad. The line
that separates crime from Jihad is blurred at best. Sometimes, there is no
dividing line between the two at all.
Those familiar with early Islamic history know that looting
and stealing the property of non-Muslims has been part and parcel of Islam from
the very beginning. In fact, so much of the behavior of Muhammad and the early
Muslims could be deemed criminal that it is difficult to know exactly where
crime ends and Jihad begins.
Muslims are over-represented in jails all over the Western
world. Some violent criminals also convert to Islam while behind bars. As a
devout Muslim, you can continue doing criminal things, yet at the same time
claim to be morally superior to your victims. If you rob and mug non-Muslims
you are not a thief or a thug. You are in fact a brave Jihadist doing Allah’s
noble work in spreading the supremacy of Muslims over others.
Some militant Muslims continue their Jihad inside Western
jails. In Britain, a prison chaplain revealed in February 2018 that inmates are
being forced to convert to Islam for protection behind bars. Paul Song said
he had been hit by Muslim inmates at HMP Brixton. He believes that the
“Christian faith is not equal” in prison: “Some people have been forced to
convert with violence. How do I know? Because three or four people come up to
me to tell me. This is a very sensitive issue.” One prisoner has come forward
and made a signed statement that prisoners in the UK were forced to convert to
Islam after serving time in 2015. Mr. Song says he was removed from his job in
south London amid accusations that his Christian teachings were “too radical.”[2]
It is not known exactly how many Muslims there are in French
prisons because the French state does not publish such statistics. However,
virtually everyone seems to agree that Muslims make up a majority of convicted
criminals in France, even though they constitute a minority of the overall
population.
Already in 2008, 60
to 70 percent of all inmates in France’s prison system were Muslims.[3] In 2015, it was
estimated that of the people behind bars in France, at least 70 per cent were
Muslims. The percentage could be even higher than this in cities such as
Marseilles, or in some of the most notorious suburbs of Paris.[4]
French prison guards launched public protests against the
government in January 2018.
French prisons have developed a reputation for being hotbeds of radical Islam
that have turned out some of the Jihadists behind a series of bloody terrorist
attacks in recent years. The protests began after a convicted Al-Qaeda militant
attacked guards in a high-security facility on January 11 with a razor blade
and scissors, injuring three of them. A series of other assaults occurred
shortly afterwards, often by radicalized Muslim inmates. “These people go to
work every day, civil servants, fearing for their security or their lives. We
need solutions which respond to this concern for working in safety,” Laurent
Berger, head of the national CFDT union, said.[5]
In Copenhagen, it was a shock for Nicolai Sennels when he
realized that most of the inmates in a Danish prison were young Muslim men.
This is a common pattern today from Scandinavia to Spain. Moreover, the Muslims
routinely blamed their victims for their problems. They have been raised within
a culture where respect equals instilling fear in others. This is how
aggressive emotions are perceived in Muslim culture: It is other people’s fault
if you feel emotionally distraught. If what happens is always someone else’s
fault, then you are without responsibility for your own situation. You are a
victim who has been belittled, oppressed or persecuted. This perceived
victimhood leads to a sense of entitlement to retribution and revenge.
Regardless of whether the Muslim youths are religious or
not, they think and react in similar ways when it comes to the cultural view of
honor and shame, revenge and limitless loyalty to the group. Even Muslims who
sold drugs, drank alcohol and did not fast during Ramadan were greatly offended
by the Danish Muhammad cartoons. They harbored a deeply-rooted perception that
Islam and Muhammad should always be defended.
Sennels notes that among Muslim inmates, being religious
gives one a higher status. Those who read the Koran and prayed every day had a
certain amount of power over the minds of other Muslim men. Moreover, those who
held religious Islamic views also tended to be more ideologically hostile to
Western society.
Muslim criminals generally felt that external factors were
the causes of their problems, not their own actions. They always viewed
themselves as victims of outside forces: Provocations by the police, racism from
Europeans, harassment from Christians, Jews or others. This became the moral
justification for aggression. Since their honor had been violated, they had the
right, perhaps even the duty, to respond with anger and force.
Sennels comments that for Muslims, anger and violence
generate respect. A lack of anger and violence is viewed as weakness and
generates contempt. In the Middle East, if you are perceived as weak, you will
be preyed upon by rival clans. Western liberals do not understand this
mentality. The more “dialogue” and kindness they show to Muslims, the more
Muslims will despise them for being weak. They respect only force.
In Western and East Asian culture, to display anger publicly
is often viewed negatively as a loss of self-control:
“Muslim culture, on the other hand,
has the complete opposite view. Here, lack of inclination or ability to deliver
the expected aggressive reaction when provoked is the fastest way to lose face.
If you believe that it is always other people’s fault when you feel hurt or
frustrated, you have a tendency to see yourself as a victim: ‘It’s the other
guy’s fault!’ This will generate a feeling of being insulted and offended, and
the resulting reaction is often to lash out with accusations like ‘you make me
feel this way, so of course I’m reacting.’ By this logic, even very destructive
reactions can be justified. The victimhood becomes a blank check that can be
used as an excuse for all kinds of ‘legitimate’ responses and revenge. In plain
English: If you are in a nightclub, and you accidentally bump into a person who
has grown up with this kind of thinking, odds are you are in for a beating.
Like a young man said in group therapy, trying to explain why he stabbed
another young man outside a convenience store several times: ‘It was his own
fault. He shouldn’t have made me mad.’”[6]
The book by Nicolai Sennels was written about the
experiences of a psychologist in one Scandinavian prison. However, some of the
insights he presents about Muslim culture have wider significance. It is a big
problem for Muslims if they cannot properly address shortcomings in themselves
and their own societies because they blame others for their failures and
misfortunes. Unfortunately, it is also a big problem for the world if Muslims
continue lashing out with violence against other people because of imaginary or
grossly inflated wrongdoings.
Notes:
1.
http://www.thelocal.dk/20160208/copenhagen-terror-gunman-had-quran-when-he-was-shot-dead
Copenhagen terrorist had Quran during attacks. 8 February 2016.
www.b.dk/globalt/hemmeligholdt-omar-el-hussein-havde-koran-paa-sig
Hemmeligholdt: Omar el-Hussein havde koran på sig. Feb 8, 2016.
2.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5377709/Ex-prison-chaplain-says-inmates-forced-convert-Islam.html
Brixton prison’s Christian chaplain ‘forced out of his role after an Imam at
the jail accused him of extremism’ claims inmates are forced to convert to
Islam for protection behind bars. 11 February 2018.
3.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802560.html
In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims. April 29, 2008.
4.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11352268/What-is-going-wrong-in-Frances-prisons.html
What is going wrong in France’s prisons? “France’s prison population is
estimated to be 70 per cent Muslim” 17 Jan 2015
5.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20180126/french-prison-guards-reject-governments-offer-to-end-protest
French prison guards reject government’s latest offer to end protest. 26
January 2018.
6.
Holy Wrath: Among Criminal
Muslims, by Nicolai Sennels, English translation published in 2018, quote from
page 46-47.
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