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Jihad terror groupies from UK lining up to marry jihad fighters in Syria

Feb 17, 2014 2:01 pm By Robert Spencer

NawalMsaadThis is no surprise. These women are taught that jihad fighters deserve respect and gratitude, as they are engaged in a noble and praiseworthy endeavor. They see the British government bending over backwards to appease Islamic supremacist groups, which only reinforces impressions of British society’s weakness and the strength of Islam. They certainly don’t see any non-Muslims in Britain embodying any courage or fortitude, or any commitment to any great cause. Why shouldn’t they find these men admirable?

“The British female terror groupies queuing up to marry jihad fighters in Syria,” by Ted Thornhill and Rebecca Camber for the Daily Mail, February 17:

An increasing number of British women are travelling to war-torn Syria to marry jihadists from the UK, with some seeing them as leading a ‘perfect life’.

Many are thought to be marrying jihadists on the internet, as strict Islamic code forbids unmarried women to travel alone, according to researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College, London.

Exact numbers are difficult to pinpoint, but the research centre believes that dozens of British women have married English-speaking jihadists – or are trying to – according to chatter that it monitors on forums.

It knows of two women from Portsmouth, one from London and one from Surrey who definitely have married English-speaking men fighting for opposition forces.

It said that one is a convert and that two were married prior to departure, with the other two marrying on arrival in Syria.

Women from other countries have also gone to Syria to be with jihadists – two from France, who both married jihadists before they left for the war, one from Sweden, one from Serbia, one from the Philippines and one from Germany.

What gives away the women’s intentions are the questions they pose to the fighters….

One woman asked British jihadist Abu Abdullah al-Britani: ‘How can a sister ask you for marriage? What are your standards? Are you interested after asking Allah, of course.’

Charles Lister, from the Brookings Institute, said that many women view jihadists in Syria as living the ‘perfect life’.

The revelation follows the court appearance in January of Nawal Msaad, 26, a student accused of trying to smuggle £16,000 in her underwear to terrorists fighting in Syria.

Nawal Msaad, 26, and her alleged co-conspirator Amal Elwahabi, 27, are the first British women charged with terror offences over the conflict.

Msaad, an undergraduate from Holloway, North London, was arrested at Heathrow as she prepared to board a flight to Istanbul with 20,000 euros wrapped in cling film in her knickers.

Hours later, police swooped on Elwahabi, who stands jointly accused of being part of an arrangement in which money was made available for the purposes of terrorism.

The court heard that the two Britons attempted to send the bundle of rolled-up notes to a suspected British jihadist fighting in Syria’s civil war.

The head of the Counter Terrorism Command, Richard Walton, said several teenagers had been enticed to join jihadists fighting in the war-torn country, as he warned that the conflict posed a growing threat to national security.

Earlier in January, two 17-year-old girls from London and West Yorkshire were held at Heathrow as they were boarding a flight to Istanbul. Officers spent five days quizzing the girls before releasing them without charge. But Mr Walton said that other ‘boys and girls’ were being lured to join rebel forces fighting in Syria.

He said the numbers of Syria-related terror arrests had soared, with 14 in the first three weeks of this year – more than half the total for the whole of 2013.

He said: ‘We’ve had a number of teenagers both from London and nationally who’ve been attempting to go to Syria. That’s boys and girls, unfortunately.

‘It’s not just the odd one. It’s shocking that they are such young people.’

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  1. Christian A. Beltram says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    The marriages between these groupies and the Jihadists not not marriages made in Heaven. Instead, they are marriages made in Hell and the groupies will only realize it when it is too late for them to escape from their so-called marriages.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 17, 2014 at 3:02 pm

      They will escape by being honor-killed.

  2. Salah says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    “..many women view jihadists in Syria as living the ‘perfect life’.”

    Of course they’re living the “perfect life”, they’re following the “perfect teachings” and the “perfect examples” of Muhammad, The Perfect Man of Islam, aren’t they? sarc/off

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    While the happy couple is in Syria, cancel both passports and metaphorically ‘kill two birds with one stone’…exiling both and preventing them from returning to terrorize UK.

    All free countries MUST do this…or there will soon be NO free countries.

    • JamesonRocks says

      Feb 17, 2014 at 4:21 pm

      Absolutely! Treat it as reverse-migration. Go and never be allowed to come back.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Feb 17, 2014 at 7:34 pm

        My view exactly. When they’re falling over themselves to deport themselves, we should be doing nothing to stop it. All we have to do is rescind their Infidel-country passports or residency papers, once we have made sure that they *are* out of the country and on their way to their chosen jihad hotspot.

        If we and a whole lot of other non-Muslim countries played this right, we’d possibly be rid of *thousands* of the most immediately-dangerous mohammedans currently in our midst, in very short order.

        Of course, what we’d need to do at the same time is slap a ban on all further entry of Muslims into our countries.

  4. RonaldB says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 4:34 pm

    This is so blasted weird.

    The government of Syria, autocratic, corrupt as it is, and allied with Iran, is the great hope of the West. The more jihadis the government troops can kill, the better.

    Weirder still is the fact that the US government sends supplies and training to the jihadi rebels. The Obama government was actually planning a decisive airstrike against the Syrian forces on the chemical weapons pretext, but enough opposition boiled up in the US Congress, that the strike was never carried out.

    As far as allowing jihadi fighters back into the UK, it’s pretty obvious that the security forces are fighting a losing battle as long as there is no formal policy on allowing experienced, motivated jihadi fighters back into the country. It becomes crazier and crazier to allow more trained Muslim fighters into any country. How many security and police does it take to track a single potential terrorist, according to legal standards? Also, when a trained fighter slips through the security, the best strategy is to quietly train other fighters. Britain can look forward to a large corps of domestically-trained terrorists who consider it their religious duty to kill their non-Musim countrymen. And it won’t be so easy to dig these domestic terrorists out of their cover.

  5. Joeb says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    “How many security and police does it take to track a single potential terrorist, according to legal standards?”

    When the IRA was at its height in the 70s, British security forces were probably trying to track no more than 30 men. And those were the good old bad old days as far as the law and the ‘human rights’ of the targets were concerned.

    Now they are confronted with thousands of men and women to track in the UK. Thousands of them.

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    Every Gang has its ‘gang molls’. Every army has its “camp followers”.

    These are the gang molls and camp followers of the Ummah, or mohammedan mob.

  7. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 17, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    The UK, dying from the inside out. It’s only a matter of time before this sickness spreads to the US, then again it already has.

  8. Robin Blick says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 6:12 am

    There is nothing new or unusual about this. The UK ‘Yorkshire Ripper’, serial murder Peter Sutfclife, has received thousands of postal proposals of marriage during his 30 plus years in jail. There are currently around 100 UK women either engaged or married to men on death row in the USA. As long as the victims are female, the more gruesome and obscene the crime, and the more depraved the criminal, the more a certain kind of women will crave him as her hunter-gatherer-warrior- protector. The jihadist fits this fill as no one else can.

  9. Lonelyguy says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 8:55 am

    I read so many self help dating books and never could get a date because not one of them suggested to be a Jihadi. What’s wrong with those books.

  10. Joel says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 12:50 pm

    What I do not understand, why re the governments STOPPING THESE PEOPLE FROM LEAVING? This has been noted before, and above.

    My thought–get hundreds of these (in my view) (being PC) wackos together, put them in one plane, and enough fuel for the plane to get to the middle of the ocean. Even fish and other sea creatures should have an occasional change of diet. Might ease the glut of old gas guzzling planes that are unsold.

  11. gravenimage says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    Jihad terror groupies from UK lining up to marry jihad fighters in Syria
    ……………………………….

    Taqiyya artists keep insisting sexual Jihad is not happening among women from places like Tunisia—a bit harder to keep things under wraps when it is happening in the West, though.

    More:

    An increasing number of British women are travelling to war-torn Syria to marry jihadists from the UK, with some seeing them as leading a ‘perfect life’.
    ……………………………….

    These are *not* “British women”—these are pious Muslimahs who have inveigled British residency or citizenship.

    And what do they consider the “perfect life”? In Islamic terms, this is some thug slaughtering Infidels or the “insufficiently Islamic”. *Ugh*.

    Also, what does this say about the vaunted “Islamic modesty”, which even a lot of Infidels believe to exist? It means that pious Muslimahs can randomly “marry”, sleep with, divorce, and “marry” other Jihadists, sometimes in a matter of hours.

    This is sacralized prostitution.

    More:

    Many are thought to be marrying jihadists on the internet, as strict Islamic code forbids unmarried women to travel alone…
    ……………………………….

    More “Muslim values”. What real kind of “marriage” is it if someone marries over the internet? In most cases likely all these women know about their “husbands” is that they are violent Jihadists.

    More:

    Women from other countries have also gone to Syria to be with jihadists – two from France, who both married jihadists before they left for the war, one from Sweden, one from Serbia, one from the Philippines and one from Germany.
    ……………………………….

    Again, these are not really French women, Swedes, Serbians, Filipinas, or Germans—they are all Muslimahs, or Muslim converts.

    More:

    What gives away the women’s intentions are the questions they pose to the fighters….

    One woman asked British jihadist Abu Abdullah al-Britani: ‘How can a sister ask you for marriage? What are your standards? Are you interested after asking Allah, of course.’
    ……………………………….

    These are their “standards”…*Ugh*.

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