Russia: Muslim prisoners bemoan ‘struggle to practice their faith’

Jihad recruitment and training in prison is a serious problem, and it’s a worldwide problem:

• Austria: Muslim migrant prisoner threatens to behead fellow inmate and forms jihad terror cell in prison
• UK: Muslim prisoners chant “Queen is the enemy of Islam and must die”
• UK: jihadists are ruling prisons, “vulnerable” infidel prisoners paying jizya
• UK: Muslim prison gangs beating prisoners who won’t convert to Islam
• Belgian taxpayers forced to compensate jihadi prisoners who were isolated
• British prisons are being dubbed “jihadi training camps

As Islam grows in Russia, a pattern has emerged that is similar to what has been observed in Western societies. This pattern is consistent with the frequently used Islamic supremacist modus operandi:

1. Play the victim card, even when you’ve victimized innocent people (and that’s why you’re in jail, not at a holiday resort).
2. Make demands, presenting them as if they were a human right.
3. Demand special treatment for your faith and special accommodations for yourself, as if the prison staff were dhimmis (as they would be under the hegemony of Islamic law)
4. Make a loud outcry in the media and with anyone who will listen about why you’re upset when you’re not given the special treatment you demand.
5. Begin a process of dawah, intimidation, and jihad recruitment of other inmates. Turn your incarceration into an Islamic mission.

It’s a process which has happened in the West, and Russia isn’t immune. But it doesn’t look as if jihadi prisoners have it quite as easy in Russia as they do in the West under leftist leaders. Not yet, anyway. Last June, Islamic State prisoners were “liquidated” as Russian authorities ended their jail siege: “Jihadists had taken guards hostage and demanded to be released with getaway car.” But Islamic supremacists and their sympathetic leftist water carriers don’t want you to think about the unspeakable suffering of the victims of jihads, and that of their families.

Also, Russia is no different from Western countries when it comes to the demographic jihad: “About 15 percent of Russia’s population of 143 million is Muslim. They represent the fastest-growing demographic amid a population decline.” This will eventually give Muslims in Russia and in other countries that are being demographically overwhelmed a larger voice, as they continue to work toward the Sharia goal of global dominion.

“As Islam grows in Russia, Muslim prisoners struggle to practise their faith,” by Mansur Mirovalev, Al Jazeera, March 17, 2025:

After arriving in a frigid Siberian jail in November 2023, Nariman Dzhelyal ate nothing but bread and gruel.

The bespectacled, bearded Crimean Tatar community leader is a devout Muslim. He said most of the meals he was served contained pork, the consumption of which is forbidden in Islam.

“I just took bread, it wasn’t of good quality, and ate it with tea,” Dzhelyal, who had been sentenced to 17 years in jail for “blowing up a natural gas pipeline” and “smuggling explosives” in a trial Ukraine called Kremlin-orchestrated, told Al Jazeera.

He denied all the allegations against him.

Within days after arriving in the drab town of Minusinsk, his diet got marginally better.

Breakfasts were tasteless, unsweetened gruel, suppers contained fish, and only one of the lunch dishes was with pork.

But diet is by far not the biggest problem tens of thousands of Muslims face in Russia’s notoriously cruel penitentiary system.

For almost a century, Soviet and Russian jails have been described as a dark underworld governed by unwritten laws.

Hardened criminals known as “crowned thieves” or “the black caste” still sport elaborate tattoos, speak a sophisticated slang, and maintain a strict, ruthless hierarchy with themselves on top.

The jails they control are known as “black prisons”, where wardens collude with “crowned thieves” and turn a blind eye to drug smuggling, card games and extreme violence.

“Red prisons” are the ones where wardens hold sway. Here, career criminals have accused prison officials of inhumane conditions including torture, solitary confinement, malnutrition and rape.

But in the past two decades, a third force has begun affecting Russia’s prison population as tens of thousands of Muslims have been convicted of “terrorism”, “extremism”, or other crimes…..