Civil Service Islamic Society Daru-Al-Moameneen Islamic Forum of Europe Islamic Party of Britain Islamic Society of Britain Minhaj-ul-Quran UK Mosques & Imams National Advisory Board Muslim Association of Britain Muslim Council of Britain Muslim Educational Trust Muslim Parliament of Great Britain Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK Muslim Safety Forum Sufi Muslim Council The Young Muslims UK UK Islamic Mission World Islamic Mission Young Muslim Organisation Practice Proselytization It is estimated that 5,200 Britons convert to Islam annually, with a total of about 100,000 converts in 2013. For men, prisons have proven a fertile ground for conversions. About 13% of the prison population, or over 11,000 prisoners, are Muslims, disproportionately higher than the general population. The proportion of Muslims in the UK prison population rose from 8% in 2002 to 15% in 2016. A 2010 report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons stated that 30% of the Muslim prisoners interviewed had converted to Islam while in prison, some of whom were "convenience Muslims" who adopted the religion in order to get benefits available only to Muslims. Mosques in the country are sometimes seen as ethnic clubs which are not welcoming of new converts but there have also been recent convert led mosques. Extremist ideology In June 2017, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, said that difficult conversations are needed, starting with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states that have funded and fuelled extremist ideology. Tom Brake, Liberal Democrat, foreign affairs spokesman has said that Saudi Arabia provides funding to hundreds of mosques in the UK, espousing a very hardline Wahhabist interpretation of Islam. Islamophobic French Political scientist Olivier Roy argues that the majority of Islamic terrorists are radicals first and are drawn to fundamentalist Islam as a result, whereas fellow political scientist Gilles Kepel argues that terrorists are radicalized by Salafi ideology before choosing violence. Roy has also argued that the burkini bans and secularist policies of France provoked religious violence in France, to which Kepel responded that Britain has no such policies and still suffered several jihadist attacks in 2017 while there were no major attacks in France. Some preachers in London's mosques look for Muslim boys who lack clear direction, and set them on the path to radicalisation and terror. According to Gilles de Kerchove in 2017, the UK had the highest number of Islamist radicals in the EU numbering between 20 and 25,000. Of those, 3000 were