1. Islam offers a Total Regulation of Life. You get special Arabic words to learn You get to make up a special name, in Arabic, for yourself and a new identity, and an instant Community of Bruvvers, fellow Believers, one for all and all for one (that can be especially important in prison).
2. Islam offers a Compleat Explanation of the Universe. Life is so confusing, so overwhelming. But to the True Believer, life suddenly beomes simple. See Eric Hoffer. There is the Enemy -- in Islam,it's the non-Muslims, the Unbelievers, the Kuffars, the Ungrateful Ones. .There is the Cause for which one subsumes one's own personality (not that such people ever had much of one to begin with), ready to do everything, ideally, for that Cause. And Islam is all about a Cause -- the Cause of Islam itself.
3. In prisons in the Western world Islam is attractive as a Gang, the biggest and most dangerous Gang, and the one you want to belong to, for your own protection against others, and of course, against that Muslim Gang.
4. Islam legitimizes criminal behavior. It makes the convert feel good about his behavior, not ashamed or guilty. Have you raped, or stolen from, or killed people, peope who are not Muslims? That's not only not a crime, but you are merely helping yourself to the Jizyah that the Infidel nation-state, for now, prevents you from claiming. For a certain kind of convert to Islam, his life now becomes justifiable; he's been a warrior for Islam all along.
5. Islam provides a permanent source of enmity -- the Infidel -- whom you can blame for all of your woes. That's very relaxing. In the Western world, we find so many different things to blame if things go wrong -- and things always go wrong. But in Islam, you can always blame the Infidel for everything.
Hugh Fitzgerald Why Is Islam So Attractive To Criminals And Homicidal Maniacs?
2. Islam offers a Compleat Explanation of the Universe. Life is so confusing, so overwhelming. But to the True Believer, life suddenly beomes simple. See Eric Hoffer. There is the Enemy -- in Islam,it's the non-Muslims, the Unbelievers, the Kuffars, the Ungrateful Ones. .There is the Cause for which one subsumes one's own personality (not that such people ever had much of one to begin with), ready to do everything, ideally, for that Cause. And Islam is all about a Cause -- the Cause of Islam itself.
3. In prisons in the Western world Islam is attractive as a Gang, the biggest and most dangerous Gang, and the one you want to belong to, for your own protection against others, and of course, against that Muslim Gang.
4. Islam legitimizes criminal behavior. It makes the convert feel good about his behavior, not ashamed or guilty. Have you raped, or stolen from, or killed people, peope who are not Muslims? That's not only not a crime, but you are merely helping yourself to the Jizyah that the Infidel nation-state, for now, prevents you from claiming. For a certain kind of convert to Islam, his life now becomes justifiable; he's been a warrior for Islam all along.
5. Islam provides a permanent source of enmity -- the Infidel -- whom you can blame for all of your woes. That's very relaxing. In the Western world, we find so many different things to blame if things go wrong -- and things always go wrong. But in Islam, you can always blame the Infidel for everything.
Hugh Fitzgerald Why Is Islam So Attractive To Criminals And Homicidal Maniacs?