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Conversion to Islam in U.S. prisons refers to the contemporary high rate of conversion to Islam in American prisons, for which there are a number of factors.It is the fastest growing religion in U.S. prisons, where the population is 18 percent Muslim (compared to 1 percent for the general population); 80 percent of all prison religious conversions are to Islam.
In the 19th century Quaker ideas, [4] [5] were co-opted by Pennsylvania prisons which had inmates meditate upon their crimes as a key component of rehabilitation. [6] [7] In the 1970s organizations such as the Prison-Ashram Project [8] and SYDA Foundation began programs to offer meditation or yoga instruction to inmates.
International condemnation [6] followed the burning of copies of the Quran, on 22 February 2012, from the library that is used by inmates at the base's detention facility. The protests included domestic riots which caused at least 41 deaths and at least 270 injuries.
American counterintelligence experts said that with no images of Quran burnings televised during the September 11 anniversary, that violent anti-American protests in Muslim countries would soon fizzle. [142] A Quran was found shot and burned in the driveway of the Annoor Mosque in Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville police and the FBI began ...
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Most of these ten recitations are known by the scholars and people who have received them, and their number is due to their spreading in the Islamic world. [5] [6]However, the general population of Muslims dispersed in most countries of the Islamic world, their number estimated in the millions, read Hafs's narration on the authority of Aasim.
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