REVEALED: Imams giving out Islamic extremist texts calling for jihad in BRITISH prisons

EXTREMIST Islamic books promoting hatred towards non-Muslims have been given out by imams in British prisons despite being banned.

A book dubbed the ‘Mein Kampf of Islamic terrorism’ is among one of the titles distributed to volatile prisons, urging Muslims to turn to turn to violence against all non-believers.

Another text, by extremist preacher Sayyid Qutb, blames Jewish people for "materialism, animal sexuality, the destruction of the family and the dissolution of society”.

One of the books, which also takes aim at homosexuality, states: "The spread of this depraved practice in a society disrupts its natural life pattern and makes those who practice it slaves to their lusts, depriving them of decent taste, decent morals and a decent manner of living."

Copies of the texts were found in nine of the 11 prisons which were inspected during a radicalisation review.

One of the prisons where the illicit texts were found was in a category A jail, where the most dangerous inmates who commit murder and rape are kept.

One of the books, which also takes aim at homosexuality, states: "The spread of this depraved practice in a society disrupts its natural life pattern and makes those who practice it slaves to their lusts, depriving them of decent taste, decent morals and a decent manner of living."

Copies of the texts were found in nine of the 11 prisons which were inspected during a radicalisation review.

One of the prisons where the illicit texts were found was in a category A jail, where the most dangerous inmates who commit murder and rape are kept.

The executive body which oversees jails for the Ministry of Justice ruled extremist literature should be removed from prisons with immediate effect.

Former Home Office official and ex-prison officer Ian Acheson, who led a review into prison radicalisation, said that the growth of extremism "may soon pose a lethal threat to national security".

He told the Times: "The evidence is clear. Young men in our prisons are at risk of being indoctrinated by a warped ideology that mobilises their capacity for violence and, at the most extreme, provides them with theological permission to kill the unbeliever."

The books have since been removed from the prisons where they were found.