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France’s problem: up to half its prisoners are Muslim and the jails are a hotbed for radicalization
National Post [Canada] ^ | Friday, January 9, 2015 | Graeme Hamilton

Posted on 01/09/2015 9:54:50 PM PST by canuck_conservative

The 27-year-old man photographed in 2009 seemed to represent hope springing from Paris’s desperate suburbs. Part of a work-insertion program, he was about to meet then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who was trying to combat high youth unemployment....

The man was Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed Friday after seizing hostages in a Jewish supermarket in Paris, an attack he claimed was in support of the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq & Al-Sham. A close associate of Said and Chérif Kouachi, the two brothers who attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday, Coulibaly is a symbol of the huge challenges lying ahead for France....

Coulibaly befriended Chérif Kouachi around 2005 when they were imprisoned in Fleury-Mérogis, south of Paris. Kouachi had been arrested as he prepared to leave for Iraq to join insurgents battling U.S. forces.

In prison they met Djamel Beghal, who was serving a sentence for a plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Paris. Beghal would become something of a mentor, and in 2010 all three were arrested for a plot to break another jihadi, Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, out of prison....

In 2013, Manuel Valls, French interior minister at the time, spoke of the “enemy within” after it emerged Mohamed Merah, who killed four Jews and three soldiers in Toulouse in 2012 before being shot by police, had become radicalized while jailed for theft.

“They start with petty crime, move on to drug trafficking, sometimes prison, leading to conversion to radical Islam and hatred for the West,” Mr. Valls, now prime minister, told Le Parisien. “There are several dozen Merahs in France today. Not all of them take action, but we have to guard against it.”....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2012; 201501; alsham; beghal; belkacem; coulibaly; crime; djamelbeghal; finsburyparkmosque; france; iraq; isis; kouachy; muslims; prisonbreak; ramadan; tariqramadan; terrorism; toulouse; usembassyparis; usembassyplots
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To: DoughtyOne

The sooner the jihadists start targeting the politicians, the sooner the politicians will start getting serious about the problem they want the little people to live with.


21 posted on 01/09/2015 10:58:40 PM PST by Nacho Bidnith (The Govt's war on drugs was the setup for war on the American People)
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To: canuck_conservative

Solution!!! Bring back the Guillotine!!!! Clear the Jails!!!


22 posted on 01/09/2015 11:00:16 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: canuck_conservative
Oh, boy... maybe this is another reason why the Dems are freaked out :

In prison they met Djamel Beghal, who was serving a sentence for a plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Paris. Beghal would become something of a mentor, and in 2010 all three were arrested for a plot to break another jihadi, Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, out of prison.... -----------------http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433662/posts

Djamel Beghal was Tariq Ramadan's speech writer. Tariq Ramadan is Hillary Clinton's buddy. Denied a US visa since 2006, Tariq was allowed to enter the US by the Obama admin and given the red carpet treatment by Sec of State Hillary Clinton.

23 posted on 01/09/2015 11:03:18 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Exactly.


24 posted on 01/09/2015 11:08:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: piasa

Tariq has ties to Iran.


25 posted on 01/09/2015 11:15:53 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Djamel Beghal & the Paris US Embassy Plot

MARCH 2002 : (ABU ZUBAYDA IS CAPTURED - See US EMBASSY-PARIS PLOT, NIZAR TRABELSI) [Nizar] Trabelsi was allegedly to serve as the suicide bomber in the [US] embassy [-Paris] plot. The prosecution claimed the plot to attack the U.S. Embassy was concocted in Afghanistan with leading al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in March 2002. ————— “France Convicts 6 In Terror Plot,” AP via CBSNews.com, PARIS, March 15, 2005, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/15/world/main680273.shtml

Isn’t Zubaydah one of those prisoners the liberals said we were too mean to?


26 posted on 01/09/2015 11:23:55 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: DoughtyOne
They can kid themselves all they want, when our elected officials start being the targets of these people, and they undoubtedly will, perhaps they’ll wake up and admit who is causing all the trouble, and do something about it.

The knuckleheads in DC will probably wage war on....the TEA party.

27 posted on 01/09/2015 11:28:32 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: piasa

Beghal’s also one who claimed he was tortured. He was captured in July 2001 in the UAE...


28 posted on 01/09/2015 11:41:10 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Oh I don’t doubt it. They’re so convinced they’re a threat. John McCain practically bursts a blood vessel every time he addresses the issue.

Still sticks in my craw every time I remember a certain someone telling the Tea Party McCain was one with them.


29 posted on 01/10/2015 12:05:18 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: canuck_conservative

Best solution... Solitary confinement in 3x8x6 underground cells.


30 posted on 01/10/2015 3:02:19 AM PST by Recompennation
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To: canuck_conservative

DEPORT!


31 posted on 01/10/2015 3:05:43 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: canuck_conservative

Interesting. Half the prisoners are towelheads. Towelheads rape, burn cars, maim and murder people. They are never happy. They blame all their problems on non-towelheads.


32 posted on 01/10/2015 4:06:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: LongWayHome

The birth rate death spiral has them in a bind. The liberal elites believe importing terror is far better than pruning the welfare state.


33 posted on 01/10/2015 4:16:25 AM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: doc1019

Solutions for Fance: 1. Open up Devil’s Island again for prisoners. 2. Bring back the old head chopper machine for murders. 3. Ship as many Muslims back to North Africa. 4. start to convert them into Christians as much as you can. 5. Stop any use of Shria Law. 6. No more islamic neighborhoods. 7. French only laws—you don’t speak French—your out of here. 8. Labor camps to have islamic prisoners dig new canals by hand! 9. Only Christian Religion permitted in Prison. 10. Ban all veils, burkas, turbans, and traditional dress.


34 posted on 01/10/2015 4:24:00 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: dfwgator

Simpler Solution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9GJPoMs30E


35 posted on 01/10/2015 4:45:48 AM PST by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Bring back the guillotine!


36 posted on 01/10/2015 4:54:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dfwgator

If they are anything like our Left, they will ‘solve” the problem by only imprisoning regular criminals and allowing the muslim terrorists more free passes.


37 posted on 01/10/2015 5:01:12 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: DoughtyOne
The radical ones have to go. It’s that simple.

The problem is who are you going to get to take them?

38 posted on 01/10/2015 5:06:40 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: canuck_conservative

Perhaps, but there are 740 no-go zones in France where Shiria reins and French law enforcement is non-existent ... where AQ and ISIS recruitment is openly displayed. These zones are the real French problem. Marseille is almost exclusively muslim.

When the musselman prisoners return home, they return to the same environment they left in prison and vise versa.

17% musselman population in France argues that with the recent attacks are nothing more than the next step in making France a fully compliant musselman country.

And in a few years the next mayor of Brussels, Belgium will be a musselman.


39 posted on 01/10/2015 5:42:58 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Regulator

Russia has over 27 million Muslims. They may be further down the road despite the Putin-adulaters. Very tough times.


40 posted on 01/10/2015 6:39:26 AM PST by BeadCounter
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