Written by Noah Carl.
In a recent article, I argued that British Muslims don’t commit a lot of crime – unlike their European counterparts. There were two main criticisms. The first was along the lines of “but Muslims are massively overrepresented in prison”. This was a rather weak criticism given that I spent the first part of the article addressing precisely that point. Indeed, it could only have come from someone who hadn’t read the article.
The second main criticism was along the lines of “there must be some kind of pro-Muslim bias in the criminal justice system that explains why Muslims don’t commit a lot of crime”. According to this line of argument, Muslims do commit a lot of crime but it simply goes unrecorded. Authorities either look the other way or let the perpetrators off with a slap on the wrist.
