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UK: Would-be jihad murderer’s mother says recruiters promised him Paradise, virgins

May 12, 2014 1:01 am By Robert Spencer

Saeed-Alim“They were telling him he would be in paradise with 44 virgins, and he believed it.” Why wouldn’t he have believed it? The Qur’an doesn’t specify a number, but does several times promise that the blessed in Paradise will enjoy the houris — “companions pure, most beautiful of eye” (44:54; see also 52:20, 55:72). And it promises Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). So all Mohammad Abdulaziz Rashid Saeed-Alim had to do to get “radicalized” in this way was read the Qur’an.

“Exeter Giraffe Restaurant bomber regrets attempted terrorist attack, says mother,” Exeter Express and Echo, May 9, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):

The mother of Exeter bomber Nicky Reilly says her son regrets his attempt to blow up an Exeter restaurant packed with diners with a home-made device in 2008.

Kim Reilly was speaking to BBC Radio 4 in an episode of The Report looking at why British converts to Islam are more likely to be attracted to radical branches of the faith.

The mother of the would-be Princesshay suicide bomber says she believes her son was turned into “a loaded gun” by extremists.

The 22-year-old, who changed his name to Mohammad Abdulaziz Rashid Saeed-Alim in 2004 in tribute to the 9/11 New York attackers, was given a life sentence for his failed attack on the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter on May 22 2008.

Investigating officers said it was believed Reilly, who has a history of mental illness, had adopted the Islamic faith and was “preyed upon, radicalised and taken advantage of”.

He pleaded guilty to the attack in which he accidentally set off a home-made nail bomb in a toilet cubicle as he prepared to target dozens of innocent people.

The explosion sent dozens of restaurant customers fleeing in panic, and caused the mass evacuation of Princesshay, while the bomber staggered out of the restaurant suffering serious facial injuries.

Asked by BBC presenter Zubeida Malik what Nicky thinks about his actions today she said: “He has told me that he regrets it.”

The program details how he felt accepted by the local Muslim community.

But Mrs Reilly says that in 2008 Nicky was radicalised in a matter of weeks by two men in Pakistan via the internet.

She said: “They were telling him how to make the bomb step my step.”

She says they told him who to target, and how to target them.

In the three days before they attack she says they went ‘on and on’ at Nicky with details ensuring he would get it right – but he still did not.

Mrs Reilly said: “They were telling him he would be in paradise with 44 virgins, and he believed it.”

Mrs Reilly said: “I had a phone call from Exeter Hospital saying that my son had been in an explosion.”

She said she only found out details and updates of what had happened through the media, and was unable to talk to Nicky for weeks after the explosion as police told her Nicky was undergoing operations.

She said: “My mind was in turmoil, it was like a bomb went off in our lives.”

Mrs Reilly describes the following months as ‘absolutely horrific’ as her life was turned upside down.

She says when she first got to see Nicky she was unable to speak. She said: “When I first saw him I just broke down, I couldn’t even speak at first.”

She added: “I’ve got a child who had never committed a crime…he had gone from no trouble at all to the top of the scale – from one extreme to the other.”

She says her head was ‘pickled’ and added: “It is just so hard to get your head round it, it still is now.”

On January 30, 2009, Reilly was jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years having admitted attempting to launch a suicide bomb attack.

Information released after his guilty plea revealed that Reilly was obsessed with martyrdom and wanted to cause as much death and injury as possible.

This week, asked by Zubeida Malik “does he regret what happened?” Kim Reilly replies: “Yes he does. He’s told me he regrets it.

Nicky occasionally writes letters and cards to his mother, and even recently embarked upon a creative writing course which saw his poem published in a small book which Kim keeps at home.

Bomber Nicky Reilly wrote a suicide note before the attack, you can read the note in full below

In the name of God most gracious, most merciful: why I did it.

Everywhere Muslims are suffering at the hands of Britain, Israel and America. We are sick of taking all the brutality from you.

You have imprisoned over 1,000 Muslims in Britain alone in your war on Islam.

You torture and destroy Muslim lives by taking a father or a son or a brother, even you torture Muslim women.

In Britain it’s OK for a girl to have sex without marriage and if she gets pregnant she can get an abortion so easily.

When you are getting drunk on Friday and Saturday night your behaviour is worse than animals.

You have sex in nightclub toilets. You urinate in shop doorways. You shout your foul and disgusting mouth off in the street.

It is unacceptable to Allah and the true religion Islam. Britain and USA and Israel have no real rules.

All us Muslims have seen the pictures of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and you all know what you do to our brothers in Guantanamo Bay.

Sheikh Usama has told you the solution on how to end this war between us and many others have as well but you ignore us.

Our words are dead until we give them life with our blood. Leave our lands and stop your support for Israel.

I have not been brainwashed or indoctrinated. I am not insane.

I am not doing it to escape a life of problems or hardships. I am doing what God wants from his mujahideen. We love death as you love life.

Muslims welcome death because we will get jennah, inshallah, for defending the weak and oppressed Muslims.

You kill one of my people, I kill one of yours.

I have simply seen for myself the brutality and corruption of America, Britain and Israel for myself and my common sense told me it is unacceptable and wrong.

The word is the word of the sword until the wrongs have been righted.

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  1. Philip says

    May 12, 2014 at 2:06 am

    Only 44 virgins? I think they took the remaining 28 virgins for themselves, and passed only the rest. That is one hefty commission for a brokerage.

    • bill says

      May 12, 2014 at 10:33 am

      Maybe the tariff has been reduced due to excess demand

  2. the Oracle says

    May 12, 2014 at 2:46 am

    It’s Virginians, not virgins.

    • bill says

      May 12, 2014 at 10:35 am

      That interpretation has been firmly scotched and in any case common sense dictates that nobody is going to end his life for dried fruit.

  3. No Fear says

    May 12, 2014 at 3:03 am

    “When you are getting drunk on Friday and Saturday night your behaviour is worse than animals.”

    The Quran also tells us that those who do not believe Mohammed (I don’t believe a word of the Quran so that means me) are the “vilest of animals”. (Quran 8:55 etc)

    But apparently killing all of us “animals” will result in an eternal reward. (Quran 9:111)

    What a vile despicable book is the Quran.

  4. mortimer says

    May 12, 2014 at 3:20 am

    Jihadist will get long jail sentences or they will die a horrible death at the hands of other jihadists.

  5. Joseph says

    May 12, 2014 at 3:38 am

    Why are they calling him “bomber Nicky Reiley”? Sounds like Nicky Reiley was peaceful with no criminal record.

    That person died to Islam.

    I love how he changed his name to Mohammed abdulaziz etc etc to honor the 9/11 attackers in 2004 and he was “radicalized” in 2008. I get it now! A radical muslim is someone who actively pursues jihad, as opposed to a moderate who just supports it.

  6. Salah says

    May 12, 2014 at 3:40 am

    Mrs Reilly said: “They were telling him he would be in paradise with 44 virgins, and he believed it.”

    He believed it because he is a pervert himself.

  7. duh_swami says

    May 12, 2014 at 4:31 am

    attracted to radical branches of the faith.

    I keep hearing about those from kuffar talking heads on cable, but I have never seen one. Can anyone give me an example of a non radical branch?

  8. Jeff says

    May 12, 2014 at 4:32 am

    Just shows you how dishonest Muslims can be – they were trying to short change the guy by 28 virgins.

  9. Coastliner says

    May 12, 2014 at 4:55 am

    ‘had a history of mental illness’ – that says it all really – you have to be disturbed in some way to ‘convert’ to that warped cult.

  10. Angemon says

    May 12, 2014 at 5:14 am

    “In Britain it’s OK for a girl to have sex without marriage and if she gets pregnant she can get an abortion so easily.”

    The horror! THE HORROR!!!

    “When you are getting drunk on Friday and Saturday night your behaviour is worse than animals.”

    As opposed to what, going out of a mosque after Friday prayers and attacking non-muslims?

  11. ECAW says

    May 12, 2014 at 5:20 am

    So Jihad is something like a dating agency.

    • Rob Crawford says

      May 12, 2014 at 11:49 am

      This guy was so nervous over his first date he went off early in the men’s room.

  12. Charli Main says

    May 12, 2014 at 5:26 am

    Slightly off topic.
    Richard and Judy, two ” influential” columnists writing in the Daily Express 10/5/14.
    ” as inquiries continue about the so called Trojan Horse activities in Birmingham schools, we must remain vigilant in the UK.
    ISLAM IS OF COURSE A FINE RELIGION” ( my emphasis )
    These two, while pontificating on the beauty of Islam, have probably never even opened a Koran. Bog standard ignorance of the British MSM.

    • bill says

      May 12, 2014 at 10:39 am

      ‘Fine religion’ is surely an oxymoron. All religions are built on sand, in the case of the Judaic/Islamic ones quite literally.

    • JIMJFOX says

      May 12, 2014 at 10:43 am

      Richard and Judy- a pair of simpering imbeciles pandering to the simpletons of Britain. Just HOW imbecilic was illustrated by Richard’s bewilderment when a guest used the term ‘duckface’. After he’d made several “what does he mean, duckface?”
      Judy wispered in his ear and he curled up with horrified embarrassment.

      Duckface, indeed

  13. tpellow says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:05 am

    “From jail to jihad? The threat of prison radicalisation”

    BBC Panorama.

    (TV programme tonight in UK.)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27357208

    • tpellow says

      May 12, 2014 at 8:19 am

      “Prison officers ‘powerless against Islamic converts’”

      http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/53950

      • kikorikid says

        May 12, 2014 at 4:54 pm

        Here in the US, Obama has appointed a “Head Imam” to
        vet all Chaplins for the Military and the Federal prison
        system. All of the Muslim Chaplins are Muslim Brotherhood
        adherents so we get brand new converts to Jihad right
        out of our prisons. Just Ducky.

  14. tpellow says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:20 am

    “Prison officers ‘powerless against Islamic converts’”

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/53950

  15. Tradewinds says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:25 am

    “I have not been brainwashed or indoctrinated. I am not insane.”

    Oh yes – you’re all three actually ya loser. Only losers convert to Islam – did you know that? You are the epitome of a loser, Reilly. You deserve every bit of your life sentence.

  16. miriam rove says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:41 am

    this is too bad. looks like he is going to have to wait a life time to meet with the 44 virgins!!! M

  17. Mohammed's pink swastika says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:48 am

    The idea of deflowering virgins is not appealing to me in any way. Am I in a minority here?
    I like my women to be, shall we say… Experienced.
    Mohammed’s idea of paradise: Raping children for all eternity.
    This makes sense if you take into consideration his “lifestyle choices,” (Don’t hate, he was born that way.) he raped and molested both boys and girls.
    If I were a Muslim I would proselytize this way. “Do you enjoy having sex with minors in this life? join Islam and you can enjoy 44 virgins for all eternity!”
    I would probably leave out the part about the 44 virgins being angry demons who enjoy using a large pineapple to deflower child molester bunghole.

    • JIMJFOX says

      May 12, 2014 at 10:46 am

      Or, as Billy Connolly said

      “72 virgins- that’s not a reward, that’s PUNISHMENT! Give me two fire-breathing whores any day!”

      Look up the video- it’s a riot. ALL muslims should be forced to watch.

  18. mortimer says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:54 am

    Islam is criminality.

    “I’ve got a child who had never committed a crime…he had gone from no trouble at all to the top of the scale – from one extreme to the other.”

  19. Paleologos says

    May 12, 2014 at 9:26 am

    “Everywhere Muslims are suffering at the hands of Britain, Israel and America. We are sick of taking all the brutality from you.

    You have imprisoned over 1,000 Muslims in Britain alone in your war on Islam.”

    Correction: islam declared war on the west a long time ago.

    My message to islam:

    Get your sorry asses out of the U.S., and take your shit-for-brains-muslim-manchurian-candidate-leader …

    http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/pikedagger1868/Obama.jpg

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqFBpk_1Eo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

    … with you.

    … and thank your bogus moon god, allah, we don’t kill all of you in self defense.

    … and if we ever meet in the streets, and want to discuss the matter, I will discuss the matter by beating the living shit out of you …

    Because with all you muslim scum, and that’s all you ever are, I NEVER turn the other cheek. You assholes don’t deserve that deference.

    … the old “virgin story” … just another point of proof that muslims are morons

    … except in non-nuclear bomb making.

    I guess you muslims are getting pretty good at that. I have to admit, though, the only bomb stories I really enjoying reading occurs when one of you turd muslim bomb makers blows themselves up before you get close enough to the intended victims.

    “PREMATURE DETONATION” 🙂

    R/

    Paleologos

  20. yaniv says

    May 12, 2014 at 9:42 am

    “Are you my virgins??
    I sure hope not, there are some ugly ass guys out there…”

    “Well, did they you’ll get only female vigrins?”

    “holly crap! I’m screwed!!!”

  21. Stephen David says

    May 12, 2014 at 10:45 am

    > This week, asked by Zubeida Malik “does he regret what happened?” Kim Reilly replies: “Yes he does. He’s told me he regrets it.

    Well, of course he regrets it. He regrets that the attack failed. He regrets that he did not kill infidels. He regrets that he did not enter paradise. He regrets that he did not receive his virgin houris. He regrets that he was jailed for life (or at least 18 years)….

    But, is he still a Muslim? If he wasn’t arrested and thrown in jail, what would stop him from doing it all over again, in keeping with Qur’an? Who cares if he has “regrets”? Having “regrets” means nothing if one does not truly repent of his sins and turn away from evil to good.

    Let justice be served.

  22. Walter Sieruk says

    May 12, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    These jihadists who commit the suicide/homocide bombing ans attack are so deluded that they actually think of their murderous actions as “martyrdom operataions.” They are also so very much deluded by believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Quran of a paradise with many virgins in it for the Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. This Quranic myth/fiction the imams and mullahs thoroughly brainwash into the hearts and minds of others. The Bible explains about such false teachers as the Islamic clerics . For the Bible reads ” For the time is comng when [people] will not tolerate{endure} sound and wholesome instruction, but having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satify their own liking and to foster the erors they hold, and will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off intotmyth and man made fictions.” Second Timothy 4:3,4.
    Furthermore, the man Muhammad who started this all, was, in reality, just one of the “many false prophets [who] have gone forth in the world.” First John 4:1. Moreover, the imams and mullahs who are the false teaches of Islam are accursed by God, Galatians 1:6-9.

    THE AMPLIFED BIBLE

  23. EYESOPEN says

    May 12, 2014 at 4:52 pm

    “The mother of the would-be Princesshay suicide bomber says she believes her son was turned into “a loaded gun” by extremists.”

    If she cared about her son, she would have researched izlam and made damn sure he did not join. She should have given him an ultimatum: “Join izlam and I will disown you completely.” But she obviously did not care enough. It’s not like izlam has become a threat to the West only in the last few years.

    And yes, it would take either a seriously perverted and evil SOB, or someone who is, let us say, “mentally challenged” to convert to izlam as an adult. Those born into it and indoctrinated from the cradle have at least some excuse as to why they are muzlim. Adult converts have no such excuse.

  24. pongidae rex says

    May 13, 2014 at 8:26 am

    Quoting the bomber, and paraphrasing countless other Islamic terrorists:

    “I have not been brainwashed or indoctrinated. I am not insane.
    I am not doing it to escape a life of problems or hardships. I am doing what God wants from his mujahideen. We love death as you love life.”

    So are there any lingering doubts that Islam is a Death Cult?

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