Oh, ... BTW ... 70% of Jailed Convicts are Muslims

Shocking: 70% of Prisoners are Muslims Despite Being only 5 to 10% of French Population
Muslims Blame High Rate on Poverty and Discrimination

As the number of French prisoners is expected to break a new record this month, Muslims account for 70 percent of inmates despite making only 5-10 percent of the population, Press TV reports.

Press TV

Widespread poverty and discrimination against French Muslims have been regularly mentioned as the main cause of their incarceration, but the phenomenon has not yet been closely probed, largely due to political consequences. 

In addition to overcrowding, poor sanitation and increased frequency of jailhouse attacks and suicides are other features of French prisons. 

The country has been repeatedly censured by the European Court of Human Rights for denial of basic rights and alarming suicide rate among prisoners. 

According to Arnaud Gaillard, a prison sociologist, most French prisons are not in good shape. 

“We need to comply with the European rules and we need to get some quality of imprisonment here in France,” he added. 

During his tenure as the French interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, insisted on austerity on crime and pushed for harsher sentences for minor crimes such as theft, assault and illegal immigration to France.

Researchers maintain that people convicted of these crimes currently account for two-thirds of those in short-term jails. 

Gaillard maintains that although crime rate is not very high in France, the government only relies on imprisonment and toughness on crime as the sole solution. 

Belgium: 25 Percent Of Brussels Population Is Muslim

Eurasia Review

November 18, 2011

More than 250,000 residents out of a total population of one million in Brussels have Muslim roots, according to a study carried out by the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and published in the Belgian media Friday.

The study was carried out by Felice Dasetto, a sociologist and a professor at the university who is considered to be an expert in issues relating to Muslims in Belgium.

Brussels the political capital of the European Union accounts for half of the total number of Muslims in Belgium.

The figure puts Belgium among other European cities with a big Muslim presence like Birmingham in the UK, says the study.

It claims that the Islamic presence is becoming more and more visible in Brussels with more mosques and minarets, more women wearing a veil and more Muslim organisations.

The study argues that the Islamic faith has the power to mobilise people to a a very big extent, more than for example the Catholic church or political parties.

How America Can Deal with a Changing Muslim World

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by David P. Goldman to discuss demographic changes in the Muslim world, their impact on policies, and how the US can best deal with evolving Islamic societies.

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'How Civilizations Die'
 Forget About Exploding Populations: The Worldwide Decline in Birthrates Leads to the Decline of Nations

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Most people have read something somewhere -- or more likely heard it on TV --  about the declining populations of European countries, with each year seeing fewer young people in the workforce to sustain the welfare state safety net of health care and pensions that keep the retirees of Germany, France, Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries so prosperous.

Thanks to continuing declining birthrates, much of Europe is on a path of willed self-extinction, says David P. Goldman in "How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)" (Regnery, 331 pages, notes, index $27.95). Not only that, but Muslim countries -- contrary to popular belief -- are experiencing similar declines in birthrates, he says, with educated Iranian women, for instance, who grew up with five or six siblings giving birth to one or two children. 

Goldman, author of the widely read "Spengler" column in Asia Times Online and a contributor to other sites, writes that the story the mainstream media isn't covering is that birthrates in Muslim nations are declining faster than anywhere else — at a rate never before documented. He says that Europe, even in its decline, may have the resources to support an aging population, if at a terrible economic and cultural cost. But in the impoverished Islamic world, an aging population means a civilization on the brink of total collapse— something Islamic terrorists know and fear.

David P. Goldman

Muslim decline poses new threats to America, he writes, "challenges we cannot even understand, much less face effectively, without a wholly new kind of political analysis that explains how desperate peoples and nations behave."

Goldman borrowed his pseudonym from Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), a German historian and philosopher who is best known for his 1918 book "The Decline of the West" (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), which posits a cyclical theory on the rise and decline of civilizations. The Nazis initially approved of Spengler's German hegemony in Europe, but he was ostracized after Hitler came to power in 1933 for his pessimism about Germany and Europe's future and his refusal to support Nazi ideas of racial superiority. More Here