Every year, tens of thousands of Ireanti in the United States are converted to Islam while incarcerated. The last distance of the “CB Morning” series. “The state of spirituality with Lisa Ling” Exploring Faith is connected with so many backfighters.
The conversion to Islam in prison
Most days, rami nsour to their postage to find their mailbox with the letters from the loose people from the country that is looking for their islamic education resource. Nsour is the Director of Tayba Foundation Tayba, the first organization in us to offer a distance learning program in the Islamic Education for Inmatics.
“When we start 15 years ago, that was the next we heard of Muslim prisoners:” Nsour said. “So we developed this organization to fill that lla and that need.”
Islam is the faster growth religion in the prisoners of the United States. Nsour said that his organization has served 13,000 individuals and estimate that about 90% of them converted to islam and most bars. Nsour believes a lot in conversion because there is a lot of physical and spiritual confinal in prison and people find spiritual freedom in the faith.
“Because you have the undervelim level, therefore benefn a certain five dear prayers, there is a method is explained.” Keep that Water cannot be convinced more. “
The story of Amin
Muhammad Amin Anderson was attracted to Islam for several reasons, including spiritual freedom that provides us. Converted to Islam about two years in a 30-year-old sentence for a gang murderer.
‘When I came to think about it I don’t have my haste my unit, I r refunded my homangen, “he said, credating to help receptor.
Naturishly gatherson in Philadelphia, was the plan of a worst, but as the teen, Anderson replies to the streets.
“Actually fell in the drug addictions for about a year and a half,” he said. “I’ve been involved in a group of guys and sell drugs in our city.”
In their 20s, Anderson ended by taking part in a gang murder. Once: It has been responded to the priests, Anderson began reflected on his life, faith and personal spiritualities.
“I spent my years in prisoner learning on other faith”, he said. “Islam was the only thing that made sense to me.”
As Anderson’s Spitnesses rises more deeply, it has become connected with Tayba Foundation and NSOUR, who started teaching telephone foul.
“There is only so much you can do with self-learning”, nsour explained. “So I began to take his phone, started sending the material send, that answer, and she has learned it then, could teach it in prison.”
Misleading the conversion
There are also wrongly misunderstood because people converting it to Islam in prison. For some, there is a perception that the donutions became rédicies from faith, which nsour said could not be more than the truth.
“Numbers don’t show”, said. “Exist? Yes. But it’s a rare, there are the people who are the extstimists, who are royalized in prison, who could go to make a trio ter? Yes.” ‘
According to the National Institute of Correction (NIC), violation for the jail by the muslims in the USA is a rare event and there is no occurred. Indeed, Nsour Say, many convertings are attracted to the inmate beauties fence.
“Notice that the person is different. Do not fall in the same rrtutes of what other people can behave in prison”, nsour said. “So they ask and then say, ‘bea,’ Islam and my’stil my teaching me my fee.”
Have a second chance
Anderson has been released by july prison after serving its full sentence. At his amany word, said the breadpled the one’s first exceptional competary. Anderson credits Islam for him to be picking like that and to be able to go around his life. Now out of prigs of pryers, Anderson feels his job is right in the beginning and he is grayed he is given to a second chance.
“I believe that God gave you a second chance to go out here to serve humanity,” he said. “Because the lives of the person I took, it’s not a second chance. So I think of him. I must have his kids to do something with my life.”
Anderson now now has a job with Tayba foundation and genuine a life ricaffed and prayer. Nicours said CBS News in his 15 years of doing this, it is denon to denounce the Islam views once, who says is the evidence is not only a phase a bars.
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