Australians are reverting to Islam.
Academics, imams and prison workers widely agree that conversions to Islam are now commonplace in Australia’s prisons.https://islamicnafahat.wordpress.com...ting-to-islam/
Robbie Maestracci, a community outreach worker with the Islamic Council of Queensland, pays weekly visits to Muslim inmates in the greater Brisbane area. He believes there is a prominent trend of conversions to Islam among detainees.
“Without a doubt there is … We’re constantly being made aware of new names of people who have embraced Islam or names of people who are wanting to embrace Islam. At least every two weeks, there’s another name or two being added to our list,” Maestracci says.
“You’re isolated from all the people that you know in your life, whether good people or bad. You need to connect with someone about something.”
In this reading, the discovery of religion is essentially a coping mechanism, and a way to forge a shared identity in the dog-eat-dog world of prison.
The best publicly available information comes from a 2013 census of NSW prisoners, which suggests Muslims remain a minority, although one that is overrepresented. The census showed Muslims accounted for about 9.3% of the state’s prison population compared with 3.2% of the NSW population.
This news together with the fact that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world make it just a matter of time that the earth will eventually be populated by faithful sincere God-worshippers who follow the five pillars that all wise people agree upon.
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