Right after I wrote about how the British Prison Service is treating Muslims and how Islam is becoming part of the institutional framework just like Christianity, this comes up.
It might be worthwhile to consider couple of things, Mr. Bunglawala. 3 instances do not make a rule, so you might want to consider what is the proportion of these 3 incidents to the overall number of muslim prisoners. But that will still not tell you whether or not this ratio is good bad or ugly.
Then you have to factor in the relative ranking of prisoners. For example, child molesters are considered to be the lowest of the low and are frequently attacked by other prisoners. So you need to take that ratio. You will also find that other categories of prisoners such as rapists, women beaters are considered as vermin and are put upon quite frequently. This is anecdotal evidence. I do not have any firm evidence nor could I find anything but surely Mr. Bunglawala can ask for a FOI request to the PS. That will allow him to figure out whether these 3 instances are statistically significant.
Because if he is going to go solely by absolute numbers, then I suggest he complains more about the child molesters and rapists who unfortunately get treated badly in far worse numbers. Presumably since he is so upset with the mistreatment of just 3 imprisoned terrorists, he would go incandescent with rage with the hundreds of other instances :)
PS: the above is obviously tongue in cheek, but there was a reason for it. Now if he had talked about prison violence and prisoner reform from the perspective of ALL prisoners and perhaps mentioned the mistreatment of the 3 muslim terrorists in passing, it would have made sense. But right now? he is coming across more as a person who is solely interested in prisoner violence simply because 3 terrorists got bashed about. Now that's not really the way to go about making friends and influencing people, is it?
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