Arkansas's discombobulated argument against Muslim inmates' beards should make that easy.

Hours later, dozens of Muslim inmates in Athens' main prison set mattresses and bed sheets on fire in protest.

There are also reports of Muslim inmates forced to eat pork and drink alcohol, which are forbidden in their religion.

I had also heard that Muslim inmates were separated from the rest of the detainees due to the ongoing sectarian violence.

Lacking trained chaplains to discuss their religious questions, some young Muslim inmates are easy prey for recruiters preaching radical politics with their Islam.

Last year it was held in a juvenile prison where the pope and washed and kissed the feet of women and Muslim inmates.

In 2010, the Bosnian-Serb general Radislav Krstic, who was serving a 35-year sentence in Wakefield prison, was stabbed in his cell by three Muslim inmates.