Islam and prisoners *UPDATED*

Every few years, I find it useful to drag out into daylight what my cousin, a Christian prison chaplain, said about Islam and prisoners:

It is not a contradiction to be a Muslim and a murderer, even a mass murderer. That is one reason why criminals “convert” to Islam in prison. They don’t convert at all; they similarly remain the angry judgmental vicious beings they always have been. They simply add “religious” diatribes to their personal invective. Islam does not inspire a crisis of conscience, just inspirations to outrage.

The inspiration for the above recycling is, of course, the unearthed bombing plot:

Several of the suspects have previously been arrested on drug charges and may have converted to Islam in prison, authorities said.

UPDATE: Both Michelle Malkin and the New York Post have more information about the prison/radical Islam connection.