Europe, Muslims and Crime: some detailed views

 

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The fact is that in 2016, The Muslim News noted, “The number of Muslim prisoners in British jails has doubled over the past ten years.” In the US, a Muslim group called Muslim Advocates published research establishing “that Muslims are overrepresented in state prisons by a factor of eight relative to the general population. In some state systems, Muslims are overrepresented by a factor of closer to 18, with more than 20% of prisoners identifying as Muslim. The absolute number of Muslim prisoners has also increased over time, even as prison populations in many states have tended to decrease in the last few years.”

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  National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse referred to a 2015 study which recommended “researching the possible reasons for the disproportionate involvement of perpetrators from a Pakistani and/or Muslim ethnic or cultural background in group-based child sexual exploitation.” It stated that “with a significant proportion of those found guilty nationally of group Child Sexual Exploitation being from a Pakistani and/or Muslim heritage, relevant government departments should research why this is the case, in order to guide prevention strategies.” 

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The fact is a report from the Brookings Institution stated, “Muslims are greatly overrepresented in prisons and within the 18 to 24-year-old age group in particular: they make up only 8.5% of that age cohort in France, yet 39.9% of all prisoners in the cohort.”

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In Germany, the fact is that the BBC reported that research commissioned by the government found migrants “may have fueled violent crime rise.” In the Lower Saxony region of Germany, 17% of crimes attributed to migrants were suspected of being committed by North Africans, whose majority religion is Islam, even though this group makes up less than 1% of the state’s migrant population.  

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The fact is independent analysis and figures from Danmarks Statistik show “there were 5,921 violent crime convictions in 2021, of which 71% (4,193) were committed by people of Danish origin and 29% (1,728) by immigrants and their descendants. In 2021, immigrants and their descendants represented 14% (817,438) and people of Danish origin 86% (5,022,607) of the total population of 5,840,045. 

Thus, immigrants and descendants are overrepresented in violent crime convictions, being 14% of the population and constituting 29% of the violent crime convictions. This translates into immigrants and descendants having 2.5 times higher conviction rates than natives.” Furthermore, this analysis also established the fact that persons who had the highest violent crime conviction rates expressed in multiples of the Danish conviction rate were from Kuwait, Tunisia, Lebanon, Somalia and Jordan, and they were seven to nine times greater than the Danish conviction rates. 

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