French plan to de-radicalize Muslims not working
By Mark Ellis, Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
FRANCE (ANS -- September 28, 2016)
-- A French program to de-radicalize Muslims within the prison system
has gone awry after one in the program attacked authorities and several
others had to be transferred because they posed immediate threats.
The
de-radicalization initiative was announced with enthusiasm by Prime
Minister Manuel Valls following the January 2015 Islamic terrorist
attacks in Paris.
The
program, designed by French sociologists, focuses on the background of
each Islamist inmate and features discussion groups where various
opinions are “respected” and the attempt is made for greater
understanding of their alienation, according to a report by The Clarion
Project.
Eighteen
inmates at Osny prison were undergoing the program. But on September 4,
Bilal Taghi, 24, who was part of the program, attacked two wardens with
a 6-inch, home-made spike, wounding one of them in the neck, face and
arms.
Taghi then made a heart shape on the wall with his victim’s blood and began to pray to Allah, according to The Clarion Project.
When a security team arrived he lunged at them with the spike before he was stopped by a plastic bullet.
An
investigation revealed that the attack on the warden was planned with
four other inmates as an Islamic State-style execution. On September 16,
the other four were evacuated from the Osny prison and transferred to
other prisons to be placed in solitary confinement, according to The
Clarion Project.
Before
these episodes, Ouisa Kies, the sociologist in charge of the
de-radicalization program, made the following statement about Islamic
radicals in an interview with the Communist Party newspaper L’Humanité: “We
have to understand why they are alienated and use violence against the
society they grew up in. We tend to view them as monsters. They are
dangerous because they take action, but they are not crazy."
“Jihadists
have deeply-held political and religious convictions. We need to listen
to those convictions in order to counter them."
Photo captions: 1) Jihadist in Paris. 2) Ouisa Kies, sociologist. 3) Mark Ellis.
About the writer: Mark Ellis is Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net), and also founder of www.GodReports.com,
a website that shares stories, testimonies and videos from the church
around the world. He is also co-host for “Windows on the World” with ANS
Founder, Dan Wooding, which is aired weekly on the Holy Spirit
Broadcasting Network (http://hsbn.tv).
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