A little monetary jihad (jihad al-mal) while hubby Fritz is on trial. "Mr and Mrs Jihad: Wife of Homegrown Terrorist Arrested over Fundraising Activities," from Spiegel Online, February 23 (thanks to Twostellas):
The wife of a well-known German Islamist has been arrested in connection with fundraising activities on behalf of the Islamic Jihad Union. Police have also held two other suspected terrorism supporters.
The members of the German homegrown terrorist group known as the Sauerland Cell are currently on trial in Düsseldorf, accused of plotting to bomb American targets in Germany. Now it has been revealed that the wife of the alleged ringleader has been arrested on suspicion of supporting a foreign terrorist group.
The woman, who has not been named, was one of three suspected terrorism supporters who were arrested in Germany on Saturday. The 28-year-old woman and the two men, aged 20 and 31, are accused of having assisted the foreign terrorist group called the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe announced on Monday.
The woman is believed to be the wife of Fritz Gelowicz, the alleged leader of the Sauerland Cell group which plotted to carry out terror attacks against American targets in Germany on behalf of the IJU. Three of the cell's members were arrested in September 2007 as they were preparing to carry out bombing attacks. The verdict in the trial is expected on March 4.
The authorities refused to confirm or deny the woman's relation to Gelowicz, citing the defendant's privacy rights. Gelowicz had earlier told the court that he had abandoned violent jihad. There had been no previous indication that his wife, who has refused to testify in the trial, was involved with the militant Islamist group.
The woman is reported to have collected money on behalf of the IJU, together with the 20-year-old suspect arrested, who was identified as Alican T. According to federal prosecutors, the pair had collected a total of €2,450 ($3,339) since October 2009 -- when Gelowicz was already on trial -- and transferred it to a presumed IJU go-between in Turkey. All the three suspected terrorism supporters have German passports but come from immigrant families.
Alican T. has been under observation for several months. SPIEGEL reported Monday that just over a week ago, police had halted a train traveling to Vienna and had removed the man in order to prevent him leaving the country. He allegedly wanted to travel to the Afghan-Pakistani border region to join Islamist groups based there.
In many ways I find this woman—if she is a native German, like her husband Fritz—to be even more repulsive than their immigrant Muslim co-conspirators.
These people grew up in the heart of the civilized West, with all its advantages-and yet still were drawn to the murderous and nihilistic creed of Islam, and willingly embraced its ugliest aspects—violent Jihad.
"the pair had collected a total of €2,450 ($3,339) since October 2009 -"
OK she was collecting money, why not go after those gave money?
There are various possibilities. Lacking the woman's name, we can't work out which is most likely.
This woman *could* be a native German convert to Islam; if so, we don't know whether she converted independently of her dangerous-convert husband, or whether she was a very silly girl who initially converted to Islam for 'lerve' as a *result* of meeting dear Fritz-the-Muslim.
But she might just as easily be a Muslim born-and-bred; which allows for two further possibilities - that Foolish-and-Bad Fritz converted, in the beginning, in order to be able to marry her (since non-Muslim men are not allowed to marry Muslim women *without* converting to Islam), or that she met him, or was matched to him, *after* his conversion to the Death Cult.
One does wonder how many Muslim women are deliberately used as 'bait', in the West and in other majority-nonMuslim lands, to lure male Infidel losers into joining the Cult and then to further encourage said losers to become Jihadis.
Fascinating debate, what is the religion of peace? Islam or Christianity? Jay Smith takes on the muslims on Hyde Park, Speaker’s Corner in London, every Sunday.
http://www.avraidire.eu/2010/02/jay-smith-on-speakers-corner-hyde-park-debating-with-muslims/
Albert Speer is on record as stating that Hitler, on several occassions, had a high regard for Islam and that he had wished that the Muslims had won at Tours and had conquered Europe. Speer related that Hitler had said "Islam would have been more conducive to our goals."
It's a HUGE myth that Hitler was a Christian.
Dumbledore's Army wrote:
There are various possibilities. Lacking the woman's name, we can't work out which is most likely.
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You are of course right, DDA—there is no way of knowing whether the woman above is an ethnic German like her Jihadist husband or not.
Still, some of the most hapless "reverts" seem to be Western women. It's difficult to know all the details from this spotty account, but here is a sad story about a lonely, clueless Welsh woman killed in Pakistan's Swat Valley (courtesy of Mark Steyn's site):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253192/British-woman-converted-Islam-killed-suicide-bomber-Pakistan.html
The woman is "of Turkish extraction" according to this article.
Sounds like she is the one who converted her husband...