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UK: Jihad murderer’s brother says his brother’s life sentence is Islamophobic

Mar 26, 2014 10:17 am By Robert Spencer

AdebolajoAll he did was murder a British soldier in cold blood on a London street. Why should that warrant a life sentence? Clearly he is a victim of “Islamophobia”! He no doubt has sympathy for the son of the man he murdered! He would pose no danger to the public and would lead a very productive life if he were released! Yes, I am sure that last claim is true: if Mujaahid Abu Hamza, formerly known as Michael Adebolajo, were released, he would be quite productive, producing the disembodied heads of as many Infidels as he could get to.

“Outrage as brother of one of Lee Rigby’s killers condemns judge for handing down full-life sentence after ‘trial by public,'” by Martin Robinson for the Daily Mail, March 26 (thanks to Inexion):

The brother of one of Lee Rigby’s murderers said today that the decision to give his sibling a whole life prison sentence was Islamophobic.

Jeremiah Adebolajo believes Michael Adebolajo should not be forced to die behind bars and claims the judge in his Old Bailey trial caved in to ‘pressure’ after ‘gave the public what they wanted’.

Last month Adebolajo, 29, was given a whole-life term, while Michael Adebowale, 22, was jailed for life with a minimum of 45 years.

Adebolajo was given the longest possible sentence because the judge believed he had no hope of rehabilitation, but his brother said today if released he would ‘pose no danger to the public’ and ‘lead a very productive life were he to be released’.

The British-born extremists mowed down Fusilier Rigby in a car before hacking him to death in the street in front of horrified onlookers near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London in May last year.

They both claimed that they were ‘soldiers of Allah’ and were motivated by the plight of Muslims abroad to carry out the killing, and have shown no remorse.

Today Jeremiah Adebolajo, who like his brother is a Muslim convert, told the BBC Radio 5 Live today that his sibling was unfairly treated.

He pointed to the sentencing of Pavlo Lapshyn, who was jailed for 40 years for killing a man and planning to bomb three mosques to start a ‘race war’ in Britain.

‘It seems strange to me that a man can be sentence to (whole) life for the death of one man and another can be sentenced to 40 years for the death of one and the attempted murder of many others,’ he told Victoria Derbyshire.

‘I wonder what the difference is here, aside from the guilty plea, aside from that I see that someone has died in both cases.

‘It seems strange that Justice Sweeney can suggest there is no prospect of rehabilitation for my brother but there is for the Ukrainian man who openly stated he wanted to start a race war

‘Yes (it is Islamophobic). Not only that I think it was trial by the public. There was a lot of public outrage, as could be understood. The death of a soldier in any country would provoke that, but I would suggest that Justice Sweeney was giving in to that pressure’.

During their sentencing last month violence broke out in the Old Bailey dock and the killers began hurling abuse at the judge and fighting with prison guards.

In extraordinary scenes, the two Muslim extremists yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘You (Britain) and America will never be safe’ during their sentencing at the court in Central London.

Justice Sweeney was forced to jail them while they banged on the ceilings of their cells below the courtroom.

The judge said the pair’s behaviour was ‘sickening and pitiless’, and that Adebolajo had no hope of rehabilitation.

‘Your sickening and pitiless conduct was in stark contrast to the compassion and bravery shown by the various women at the scene who tended to Lee Rigby’s body and challenged what you had done and said.’

Jeremiah Adebolajo also said his brother should not have been tried for murder.

‘Lee Rigby was performing a public service. It would have been more fitting, I think, that my brother, a British citizen, be charged with treason for killing a soldier. It is the first time that a man has killed another man and been sentenced to a whole life tariff,’ he said.

Really?

When asked if he should one day be released he said: ‘I believe my brother would lead a very productive life were he to be released. Were he to be rehabilitated I think he would lead a productive life – I think it’s important not to forget that he has young children himself.’

Victoria Derbyshire also asked him if he had sympathy for Lee Rigby’s family, but would only be drawn on his son Jack.

‘I have a tremendous amount of sympathy towards the son of Lee Rigby who will grow up without a father, and I think my brother does too’.

Yes, Mujaahid Abu Hamza has so much sympathy for young Jack that he murdered his father in cold blood.

Adebolajo is already appealing his conviction on technical legal grounds, using public funds to pay his legal fees.

His QC told the court that sentencing his client to life without parole would make him a ‘martyr’, while Adebowale’s legal team said a whole-life term would be ‘inhuman’ for a man that age.

During their trial, Rigby’s bereft family were forced to watch footage and hear gruesome accounts of the soldier being run down at 40mph and hacked to death in the street.

The jury, who were all offered counselling, took just 90 minutes to find the killers guilty of the fusilier’s murder, but not guilty of the attempted murder of police.

Jeremiah Adebolajo concentrated on the case of Ukrainian white supremacist Pavlo Lapshyn, 25, who murdered a Muslim pensioner and bombed three mosques as he waged a one-man race war in Britain….

Ah, the familiar tu quoque.

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  1. tpellow says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 10:44 am

    The BBC lead the sympathy interviews today in U.K for the Islamic jihadist’s lobby, re-murder of Lee Rigby.

  2. pdxnag says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 11:18 am

    Isn’t this a perfect, intellectually honest application of the label Islamophobic?

    So, Michael Adebowale is beyond “hope of rehabilitation[.]” I have to always ask, is any Muslim assimilable into civil society, including a vigorous loyalty to protect the same for future generations? A predicate is rejection of Islam. The difference is like the comparing the pace of oxidation of iron, by fire or by rust; both are the opposite of smelting.

    • kikorikid says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 10:05 pm

      The Ummah does not “assimilate”.
      The Ummah conquers, submits, converts, or kills.
      Muslims assimilate Nowhere. UK, EU, Neatherlands,
      AU,NZ. NO assimilation. Followed by “Demand” for
      Shariah Compliance Patrols, Shariah Courts, Hallal Labeling,
      and, literally, anything else they they can verbalize
      offense from. Then an increase of unprovoked attacks
      on non-believers and a statistically huge increase in the
      occurrence of Peadophilic Rape. Obama wants to bring
      over several thousand that have only “slight” affiliation
      with “Terrorist Groups.”

  3. RG says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 11:21 am

    Pray tell, how in God’s holy and righteous Name, do we in a 21st century democratic society, tolerate such outrageous cannibalistic neanderthals???

    It goes w/o saying that this putrid sickening excuse of a human being will now, for the rest of his life, make demands of his jailers, i.e., ‘serve me only halal foods’, ‘provide me with a koran and “prayer” rug’, ‘provide me with all that pertains to islamic culture and teachings’, gimme, gimme, gimme!!!

    I say give these vile miscreants exactly what they deserve–NOT LIFE BUT DEATH!!!! They don’t deserve the right to breathe the same air as the rest of us!!!!!

    • CornHolio says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 4:50 pm

      I disagree. Sure it would feel good to punch this guy’s ticket, but it sends the wrong message IMO. Executing him would literally make this guy a martyr, and probably get him a bubble-gum card traded by little boys in the streets of Gaza.

      Better to have him sit in a tiny cell and be given crappy food by his more “humanitarian” jailers, while he thinks about what he’s done for a few decades.

      Ideally, I’d like to see him (and any other lifer) be put to HARD work for the rest of his life, or else forced to live in isolation eating nothing buy bread and water and vitamins all his life (just about everyone will eventually decide to get to work after a few months of that alternative). I’d really like to see him digging in a mine somewhere, or clearing brush, or planting trees, something that would help to repay his debt to society.

      Why give this idiot what he wants, an epic “martyrdom”? It would just inspire the next generation to copy him. But let this next generation see a graying man pushing a broom or swinging a pick in a worn prison jumpsuit? I think that might make them think twice about a “religious” vocation.

      • RG says

        Mar 27, 2014 at 6:40 pm

        To ‘CornHolio’ – You talk like big burly he-man! Sorry to disappoint you, but none of what you are suggesting is ever going to happen in a million years! These guys will CALL THE SHOTS! Take one look at Gitmo and tell me that we are in charge of these slimeballs! Our government is scared “s-itless” of them and they get everything that they demand. Obummer is committed to turning them all lose!!!

        And just in case you want to bring up waterboarding–that never even happened except to one or two extremely dangerous jihadists.

        Time to take out the trash and light it on fire! We already tried your way–IT DOESN’T WORK!!!!

      • Petey says

        Mar 27, 2014 at 6:47 pm

        dont forget a steady diet of porn in jail…slowly drive him insane

  4. john spielman says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 11:26 am

    I agree, these two murderers don’t deserve life imprisonment, they deserve to be HANGED!!!!!

    • thomas_h says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 12:08 pm

      “They deserve to be HANGED!”

      There! Was it so hard to say?

      I believe reintroduction of death penalty would be a sure sign we are serious about saving our civilization – and not only from Islam, but from falling apart by itself. Abolishment of the death penalty was not, as so many believe, proof of our becoming more civilized, but our confusion about what civilization is.

      • Salah says

        Mar 26, 2014 at 3:14 pm

        “I believe reintroduction of death penalty would be a sure sign we are serious about saving our civilization”

        Agree 100%

        • Carolyne says

          Mar 27, 2014 at 5:19 pm

          I don’t think that at this point, English civilzation can be saved. Your leaders have abdicated the responsibility of preserving your country and the barbarians have won.

          In years past, I visited Great Britain for several weeks in autumn. I no longer go there since Londonistan has been given over to these seventh century cretans. They are everywhere with their dirty little shops and shroud wearing females. (I guess they are females, it’s hard to tell when you see a creature who looks like a walking bottle coming down the street. Could be a man, could be two midgets, one standing on the other’s shoulders, could be anything.

          But whatever it is, I no longer wish to be in it’s presence.

          And that is not to say our government is doing any better. It’s just that they got a later start at submission to the Muslim invaders. Our president is likely one of them and he has installed members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the highest levels of our government, so it’s just a matter of time–a short time–until we are at the same stage of surrender as you in England are.

        • RG says

          Mar 27, 2014 at 6:23 pm

          To Carolyne – How utterly tragic that your comment is so true. I wish I could somehow shout it from the housetops to our American leaders that islam (islime) is the beginning of the end for this country, just like in England! I don’t see any alternative because people absolutely will not wake up. We need to riot in the streets every time these muslimes demand “equal rights”. Their demands only serve to bring destruction to our way of life. They absolutely do not want equality–their very name (islam) means SUBMISSION. Submission, that is, to whoever runs the local mosque and whoever has the most AK-47s! As for submission, per se, to a higher power, namely God, they haven’t got the first clue!!!!

          WE NEED TO STOP GIVING THESE PEOPLE A FRIENDLY PASS, AND LEARN TO GIVE THEM A BOOT UP THEIR ROYAL A–!!!!

        • veggiedog says

          Mar 28, 2014 at 12:02 am

          @Carolyne, this is why i will not go to Europe at all anymore, i feel as though it is lost.

        • thomas_h says

          Mar 27, 2014 at 8:08 pm

          @Carolyne

          I’m not saying reintroduction of the death punishment is the sufficient condition for saving the Western (not English -there isn’t such thing) Civilization.
          Rather, that this would be an indication we’re getting serious about saving it. Which doesn’t mean we must necessarily succeed.

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 1:18 pm

      Yes they do

  5. classicus says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 11:43 am

    The judge ought to read a bit more about Islam. If he did, he would find that Islam is a “sickening and pitiless” faith with “no hope for rehabilitation.”

    Instead of denying Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller entry into Great Britain, the Home Office should deport Jeremiah Adebolajo before he kills someone.

    Let this little moral reprobate think about the Islamophobia of that.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 3:10 pm

      Classicus, so good to see you posting again.

  6. Buraq says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 11:58 am

    Let’s suppose for a nano-second that this murdering clown would actually lead a productive, peaceful life if released from his comfortable British ‘hotel’.

    What about the horrific crime Mujaahid Abu Hamza, committed in the name of Islam? Should he not be punished for that?

    His brother’s a clown!

  7. let them have what they want says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    I agree,it is definitely islamophobic and fully support nonislamophobic halal butchery of Mujaahid Abu Hamza and everyone related to him.It’s a win win for everyone.They get to suck the aidscock of allah as martyrs and the rest of the world is just better off without them.

  8. mortimer says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    Under Sharia law, only a financial fine is placed on the murderer of a kafir. Since Lee Rigby was a kafir harbi (a kafir fighting Islam), there would be no fine, since the killer was ‘helping Islam’ (which needs a lot of help because Allah can’t clean it up himself).

    Adebolajo (Mujaahid Abu Hamza) is ‘innocent’ and a hero in the minds of Muslims in the UK. That is their logic. How long will it be before UK has a Westgate-style slaughter of its own? I’m guessing UK’s Muslims are planning something like that soon.

    Politicians like Ca-moron try to lull Britons into a comatose unawareness of the problem that is all around them: sleeper jihadists like Adebolajo’s brother.

    • RG says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 12:57 pm

      But, but, but allah luvs to see the blood of the infidels. Why, in god’s name should he want to “clean anything up”???

  9. Charli Main says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    All the mass hysteria generated about whole life sentences, by the “human rights brigade”, could be avoided by using the American system.
    Sentence this kind of filth to 90 years in prison before being eligible for parole. Well, they do have the hope of parole, so their “human rights” haven´t been violated.

  10. Sam says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    Put that satanist to death.

  11. veggiedog says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 1:21 pm

    I read these things and just scratch my head. The brother is an idiot, I wonder if he is Islamic as well, probably. Let’s release the guy, he has done nothing against Sharia.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 3:15 pm

      Yes, veggiedog—the brother is a “revert” himself.

  12. tpellow says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 2:36 pm

    More arrests relating to murder of Lee Rigby in London-

    “Ibrahim Abdullah-Hassan, of Carr Road in Walthamstow, and Shah Jalal Hussain, of Cannon Street Road in Whitechapel allegedly breached the Terrorism Act”

    http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/11097141._/?

  13. DVult says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    A life sentence is a travesty, he should have been burned at the stake. As for the brother, throw him or in jail too or throw him out of the country.

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 2:55 pm

      How does “whole life” differ from life?

      • thomas_h says

        Mar 27, 2014 at 6:01 pm

        testing

        • thomas_h says

          Mar 27, 2014 at 6:02 pm

          testing/testing

  14. Veracious_one says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    “He would pose no danger to the public and would lead a very productive life if he were released!”

    he had the opportunity to do just that before he decided to slaughter Mr Rugby…

    • Veracious_one says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 3:17 pm

      s/b Rigby…..

  15. bobm says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    deport this man; maybe a few years in the desert in meditation and reflection will help him understand why others find his statement threatening .

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 6:38 pm

      How do you deport a citizen (I think he is a UK citizen)? I would like to see all Muslims sent back to where they came from, and if they are converts just send them to any old Muslim country, maybe a part of Russia would be a good place, let Puttin deal with them, or China (I hear there are Muslims in China, that I find interesting, 1-2% of the total population).

  16. enwhitenment says

    Mar 26, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    Chain him to the dungeon wall without food or water so he has a month of regret before he perishes ?
    These jihadis want to live like days of old so let them die like days of old.
    The UK seem intent on sending in a small cat to scare off a savage dog.
    It does not work.
    Fight fire with fire or spend your life cleaning up the mess.

  17. voegelinian says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    Fixating on the exploding or stabbing Muslim du jour whilst ignoring the demographic tidal wave of immigration (which perforce includes the stagnant waters of Muslim residents and so-called “citizens” already abounding in the West) is way to ensure that this not only happens again, but that it happens over and over, and escalates, with no pretty end to this Mohammedan metastasis in our midst.

    • voegelinian says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 3:05 pm

      I swear on a stack of hadiths that I typed “…is a way to ensure that…”, but the cookie monster on this site apparently gobbled up my a — a mere caramel chip to feed its insatiably ad-driven app-etite.

    • kikorikid says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 10:30 pm

      Do you think you can ignore “Current Events” as
      well as history? What’s the Dif?
      Right, not a good ending in sight.
      Demographics are important and it
      is pretty much as you allude too.
      With Islam, there is ,literally, a population bomb
      that notifies everyone the critical muslim population density
      has been reached, when the Muslim population is 5%.
      Expect “Islamist” activity. BOOM !

  18. gravenimage says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    Jihad murderer’s brother says his brother’s life sentence is Islamophobic

    All he did was murder a British soldier in cold blood on a London street. Why should that warrant a life sentence? Clearly he is a victim of “Islamophobia”!
    ……………………………..

    Well, yes—under Shari’ah murdering an Infidel soldier would not be a crime at all, and this pious butcher would be hailed as a hero.

  19. William says

    Mar 30, 2014 at 11:16 am

    Life in prison?
    Burn him at the stake.

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