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Originally Posted by Jimturner
Our prisons all filled with more Christians than any other faith. Love good people and hate bad people, but don't hate the good ones due to their religious preference.
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I found this Pew research...fascinating...regarding prison Chaplain's perceptions of extremism among inmates. Note that Muslim chaplains perceive the least percentage of extremism, yet a common perception among chaplains in general is that extremism is especially common in muslim inmates. Quoting...
Religion in Prisons
At the same time, a sizable minority of chaplains say that religious extremism is either very common (12%) or somewhat common (29%) among inmates. Religious extremism is reported by the chaplains as especially common among Muslim inmates (including followers of the Nation of Islam and the Moorish Science Temple of America) and, to a substantial but lesser degree, among followers of pagan or earth-based religions such as Odinism and various forms of Wicca. (See Glossary.) An overwhelming majority of chaplains, however, report that religious extremism seldom poses a threat to the security of the facility in which they work, with only 4% of chaplains saying religious extremism among inmates “almost always” poses a threat to prison security and an additional 19% saying it “sometimes” poses a threat.