Muslim fanatic prisoners to be 'de-programmed' using controversial techniques to 'cure' them of beliefs

by David Rose
Evening Standard
October 18, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1063/muslim-fanatic-prisoners-to-be-de-programmed

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Psychologists in the Prison Service will try to ‘cure' extremist Muslim inmates of their political beliefs with controversial therapies similar to those used to ‘de-programme' members of religious cults.

The experimental treatments are being developed by a special Extremism Unit set up by the Ministry of Justice in January last year, The Mail on Sunday has discovered.

Sources say the therapy forms part of a wide-ranging strategy to combat Islamic extremism in Britain's jails.

There are 90 Muslim prisoners serving time for terrorist offences, and the Ministry fears that, if left unchallenged, their violent, jihadist interpretation of Islam will spread.

About 11 per cent of prisoners are Muslim - three-and-a-half times the proportion in the UK population.

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