We all know, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” that what Aseel Muthana is doing has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. Why, however, does no one ever bother to explain why he thinks it does? Why is Islam clearly central to this young man’s motives and goals? How did he come to misunderstand it so? No mainstream analyst ever bothers to explain this yawning cognitive dissonance between his self-description and explanations of his motives and the generally accepted analysis of what he is doing.
“Cardiff Jihadist ‘willing to die’ for Isis fight in Syria,” BBC, July 2, 2014 (thanks to Thomas Pellow):
A man believed to be one of three people from Cardiff who have joined a jihadist group in Syria has said he is willing to die for the cause.
Aseel Muthana, 17, left Britain in February to join his older brother Nasser in the country and says he has no plans to return.
In an online conversation with BBC Wales he described seeing “martyrs” to militant group Isis’s cause.
He told the Week in Week Out programme: “Jihad is obligatory.”
A video, thought to be filmed in Syria, showing Aseel’s brother Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan, both 20 and from Cardiff, appeared online two weeks ago.
The pair, who appeared along with a man from Aberdeen, urge others to join the Isis (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) fight in the country.
Nasser’s brother Aseel Muthana, has also joined jihadists abroad, and a man, believed to be him, has told Week in Week Out about life on the front line.
Asked if he had any regrets about leaving the UK and about how far he was prepared to go for his cause, he replied: “Nope, I can say I am willing to die but Allah knows the truth behind the words.”
He described making new friends with other British jihadists who had travelled to Syria to join Isis fighters.
Aseel said there were “loads” of other men from Britain who have also joined up.
Asked how he could defend the brutality of Isis killings in Syria, he said he stood by Sharia law and was glad to be out there.
And when asked if he was concerned about what people in the UK might think of him, he replied: “Not really.”
He was then asked whether he realised he would be arrested if he returned to the UK, and he replied: “Yes, most probably.”
Aseel told the BBC that when his brother, Naseer, left his family was devastated.
The teenager initially thought it was enough for one to go for Jihad, but eventually he decided to go “to serve Allah”….
sidney penny says
“Why is Islam clearly central to this young man’s motives and goals? How did he come to misunderstand it so? ”
misunderstand “it”
You mean misunderstand the Religion of Peace.
Angemon says
17, eh? I bet the sex fiend is hoping to die sooner rather than later so he can go to the heavenly brothel ASAP.
Chrisleo says
I think its time time to let these people go to the middle east if they wish, it’s Allah’s will don’t forget. Let them go, leave the safety net of sponging up the UK’s welfare benefits that most of them live off and fend for themselves in the Islamic State. We keep hearing that its 500+ volunteers that have gone from the UK, let them fight it out amongst the other Muslim fanatics, behead each other, crucify each other. They can do what they like. Then let them come back here and start their Jihad in Europe, and we’ll finally start to see the complacency in Europe disappear when Europeans start a fight back against these buffoons.
London Jim says
I’m glad he’s gone to fulfil his destiny elsewhere. Here’s hoping he never comes back to these shores.
duh_swami says
He’ about the right age to wear out a lot of virgins, and keep Allah busy looking for spare parts. He seems like a good candidate for Paradise.
All he has to do to get there, is throw down the grapes, take off his armor and expose himself to enemy fire until he is killed. That’s not too complicated, ‘ A little work, but a great reward’… I wish him luck.
Charli Main says
” willing to die for Islam”???
I, for one, hope his wish comes true. Even better, I hope he has plenty of company from all his ” British” Jihadist friends.
Charlie Griffith says
At least, this “Cardiff Jihadist”, and also, “A man believed to be one of three people from Cardiff” were not referred to as being “British”.
I’ve got a big “thing” about these Muslims resident in, and holding passports issued by the countries where they happen to be living being referred to as “British” or “American” or “citizens of…” or whatever.
Obviously the country issuing their passports can call them anything they want, it’s none of my business; but it still seems all very politically correct and avoiding the fact that these Muslims resident anywhere owe no allegiance to any nation at all which is not Muslim controlled.
Now, their self-proclaimed new “caliph” is asking all Muslims to report in to him. This can seem a bit theatrical to us, but impressionable adolescent male Muslims may take this new “caliph” seriously.
Being Muslims first and foremost, they’re literally trans-national, but we refuse to accept that fact of life today. The passports they happen to be carrying at any given time are merely traveling papers of convenience which also give them entree to whatever government “free stuff” goes along with holding those paper booklets.
redjupiter says
Meanwhile his family are living on tax payers money in the UK.
tpellow says
This is all part of the intensification of the Islamic supremacist threat in British society.
John Hartley says
Let’s all hope that he dies over there – it saves the waste of space burying him over here.
Montedoro44 says
Is the BBC letting itself be used to shill for jihad?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Is the BBC letting itself be used to shill for jihad?
Haa. This is one of the funniest one liners I’ve heard this year. Your comment crossed over from dripping with sarcasm to dripping with sardonicism.
Bravo to this cut at the pompous twerps in their House of No Shame on Portland Place in London.
Wellington says
The only good jihadist is a dead jihadist.
mariam rove says
Amen. M
Mirren10 says
Hear, Hear !!
Arjay says
Sadly, way too many British subjects were “willing to die” and did so in order to give this “British” Jihadi the life he had in the UK. I place quotation marks with the word British because even if he is a citizen of the UK with a British passport- this traitorous muzz-maggot vermin will NEVER be British.
Yes, British subjects died. They died throughout the Empire during World Wars One and Two; in Korea… in various conflicts during the transition to the Commonwealth… in The Falklands… and the tremendous amount of sacrifice and resources the British gave to end the Cold War.
The British had a society with a modern first world infrastructure in public services, medical care, grocers & shops & department stores filled with the best products from around the world and those made in Britain itself, freedoms to do and live as one pleased; to speak one’s mind and follow one’s own conscience in matters of faith if you chose to do so.
These sacrifices created a changing Britain where persons could achieve and prosper and live comfortably regardless of ethnicity, accent, class status, faith, disability, sexual orientation, gender and other factors.
The British Empire ended slavery in 1820 (the USA would follow in 1865 with the “last hold out” in the Western World for slavery was Brazil in 1880). The women’s suffrage movement in Britain was a big inspiration to other nations… such as the USA (and early on New Zealand which granted women the right to vote).
There are people- whether Christian or Hindu, Jewish or Atheist, Druid or Sikh who come in all shades who are loyal to the United Kingdom.
One group has way too many members who are not loyal. The muzz maggot scum like this “Jihadi.”
I am sorry that the British people- whether Gentile or Jew, from the Scottish Highlands to the English Midlands, whether Welsh or Irish, Chinese from Hong Kong or Black Christian from the British Virgin Islands, Anglo White from Rhodesia or Indian Hindu from Uganda…
I am so sorry that those people suffered and sacrificed so that this sleaze and korHAM quoting garbage could have free education, health care, live in a decent and open society, have free housing and spending money and never go hungry.
While British WWII and Korean War veterans now elderly do without… while British soldiers who served overseas are pelted with garbage… and those KIA face muzz protesters when their bodies are brought home… and soldiers who go about their day are beheaded in the streets and the non-Muslim woman who came to Rigby’s aid are harassed by Muslims for her heroic act.
Well, I hope this puke gets his dream of being a Jihadi. I hope a bomb he has goes off prematurely and blows off parts of his body… and he slowly bleeds out in utter agony before he dies.
That way he know the suffering his muzz-puke kind have inflicted on people and of course on animals slaughtered by Halal practices in the UK.
But that’s another post entirely.
Mirren10 says
Excellent post, Arjay.
Thank you.
mariam rove says
said he is willing to die for the cause…..
Good. Great news. M
Jay Boo says
The expression showing him posing with one eyebrow raised with a slight lip smirk will soon change to a supremacist zombie stare while holding one finger in the air.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I don’t see what all the hubub is about. Of *course* Jihad is mandatory, it sez so rat there in the Holy Ko-Ran. Allah even went into detail about exceptions from Jihad obligation based on infirmity, illness, and old age.
el-cid says
Given the accepted political view in England about the Iraqi war, in particular the characterization that the Western powers were invaders and meddlers, this boy’s confusion is entirely understandable. He must believe that he is standing up for British values!
This confusion did not come about in a vacuum. The English leadership, the English Press, and English educators are all responsible for this result.
Tony Blair speaks some truth sometimes, but I understand from English people that he is persona non grata and no one is listening.
tpellow says
“British jihadist: UK should be afraid of terror skills I’ve learnt.
“Man believed to be Nasser Muthana shows images of homemade bombs and says UK should be afraid.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10940573/British-jihadist-UK-should-be-afraid-of-terror-skills-Ive-learnt.html
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “Aseel Muthana, 17, left Britain in February to join his older brother Nasser in the country and says he has no plans to return.”
To repeat “says he has no plans to return”.
GOOD. Hold that thought, mate.
Every single Infidel in this forum thinks it an *excellent* notion and we are more than happy if other mohammedans – who have also gone to Syria from Western lands – think the same.
Off you go, boys!
Jumma says
I do hope the UK government will not bury his dead body with great honour.