This article is followed by a condemnation of the Islamic State by a Muslim group in the UK (not reproduced here), which like other Muslim condemnations of the Islamic State is non-specific, without any challenge to the interpretation of Islamic texts and teachings that the Islamic state uses to recruit people like al-Britani. That is in turn followed by a statement (also not reproduced here) by the execrable Nick Lowles of the Orwellian-named Hope Not Hate, the hate group that led the campaign to get Pamela Geller and me banned from entering the country. Lowles has never backtracked despite his inability when challenged directly on the BBC to quote even one “hateful” statement of mine. Lowles writes: “Support for violent jihad is in stark opposition to our belief in equality, fairness and tolerance. Unwillingness to confront this leaves a vacuum for Islamophobes and racists to spread poison about ordinary Muslims, who are coming out in their droves to condemn IS.”
This is Nick Lowles in a hard place, as the Islamic supremacism he has now aided and abetted is in full bloom in the Islamic State, and he can see vividly what he has been enabling. Others can as well; hence his furious denunciation of the Islamic State and call for it to be confronted — for otherwise “Islamophobes” will take advantage of the situation by spreading “poison about ordinary Muslims.” For some clarity in his befogged mind, Lowles should ask this “ordinary Muslim” friends where he can find a program in any mosque or Islamic school in the UK that teaches young Muslims and converts to Islam why they should reject on Islamic grounds the Islamic State’s understanding of Islam. And then when he find that there is no such program anywhere, Nick Lowles, or at least a more honest and intelligent man in his position, might actually be on the brink of having an idea.
“‘I’m ready to behead next enemy’: Chilling message from Briton willing to kill for jihad,” by Patrick Hill, Mirror, August 23, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A British jihadist feared to be one of The Beatles militants behind US journalist James Foley’s killing has claimed Allah makes beheading victims “easy”.
Abu Abduallah al-Britani, who fled the UK for Syria earlier this year, made the horrific claim while admitting he was ready to die fighting for the Islamic State.
He told of his terror training and revealed his fitness regime to keep fit for battle. Chillingly, he even bragged that “wrist exercises” made it easier to cut off enemies’ heads.
Until now his only contact with the outside world has been warped comments online, where he has posted pictures of life as an insurgent.
But now he has stepped out of the shadows to speak to one of our men acting on a tip-off that al-Britani, 23, was communicating through an obscure messaging app.
Speaking a day after the sickening video emerged of American James, 40, being beheaded, al-Britani said he had no fears about carrying out similar atrocities in Syria.
Repeatedly calling our man “akhi” – or brother – al-Britani started the disturbing conversation by laughing at James’ horrific death.
Our investigator then asked what he had to do to join the IS terrorists’ vile cause…
Investigator: Hi bro, u ok? Got your contact from a friend… want to come join up and help over there if poss?
Al-Britani: May Allah reward you for your intentions but right now ain’t the best time to come. I think it’s very risky ATM akhi. Just get your imaan and fitness up meanwhile.
Investigator: Thanks akhi. I respect your words and advice. Staying fully disciplined both in body and mind. It more dangerous than usual there ATM? Or just harder to get thru?
Al-Britani: Harder to get through akhi. JzkAllah khair my brother.
Our investigator then raised the subject of James’ brutal beheading, wondering how the jihadists could carry out such acts. But al-Britani was insistent…
Al-Britani: Allah make it easy.
He also insisted he was willing to die for IS.
He said: “Life is the biggest blessing You having given us. Here we are ready to hand it back to You ya Allah.”
Abu Abdullah al-Britani puts on his Kick Messenger Page Sinister: an image on al-Britani’s app profile
The fanatic then advised our man he could safely fly from the UK to Turkey before illegally crossing the border into Syria.
Asked if he had experienced any problems or been quizzed while entering Turkey, he told him: “Na akhi, its pretty easy”.
al-Britani is now one of the most wanted men on the planet and is being hunted over links to photo journalist James’ executioner, who is known as John.
Security services fear he is one of the three Brits behind the killing who are hiding in the Syrian city of Raqqa, where James was held hostage.
A former captive said the jihadists were dubbed The Beatles by prisoners because of their British accents.
Spooks believe the other two could be Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, from Maida Vale, West London, and Abu Hussain al-Britani, 20, from Birmingham.
Abu-Hussain-al-Britani also known as Junaid Hussain Jihadi: Abu hussain Al-Britani from Birmingham taking aim
Al-Britani’s comments came days after he tried to justify James’ murder.
In badly-spelled English he tweeted: “A brother severed one body part and the world went nuts. A drone severes a body into a hundred peices but no one says nothing. #cheapblood”.
In further comments that will cause concern to the security services al-Britani told our man how he left in the dead of night from his home in Portsmouth as he first travelled to Syria to wage jihad in the war-torn country.
He went from Gatwick to Turkish capital Ankara. Once there he got a bus to a spot close to the border with Syria, which he jumped.
He said the distance between the Turkey and Syria borders was a run of 500 metres, during which you had to avoid patrols by border control officers.
He wrote: “You’ve got to be quick because they will arrest you. So get your fitness up. We want all muslims to return to their way of religion not just britians.”
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary Jihadi: Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary from Maida Vale in London
Detailing the extent IS fighters go to in order to keep fit for their bloody warfare, he said terror training involved “a lot of push ups, sit ups, squats, carrying, army crawls, running long distances. Dont let being unfit put you off or delay you becaise you can better yourself once your here.”
Hoping our investigator was keen to follow in his path, al-Britani passed on the name of a contact, believed to be in Britain, he said could help.
Our reporter later contacted this man, who has posted a number of messages and pictures on Twitter, including one of a seven-year-old boy firing what appears to be a military artillery weapon.
He asked our man where he was from. When he told him London, the contact asked: “Where in London?” He had last night not replied to our text telling him “North London”.
From his hideout in Syria, al-Britani admitted he wanted to see the Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, killed.
He also said he wanted to “establish Allah’s empire”. But he told how he was “a revert” to the religion – meaning he was previously not a Muslim.
He also revealed he used to disagree with jihad. It is unclear what changed his mind, but he hinted he was angered by years of American drone attacks on Muslims.
He is understood to come from a good family back in Hampshire and admitted online that his parents did not agree with him travelling to Syria for jihad.
He said he did not contact them from the country as “there would be no point” because they don’t understand his cause.
He added that contacting them would be a security risk for him.
Charli Main says
Notice how all these spineless, cowardly ” warriors” of Allah always wrap their faces up in rags to hide their identity.
If they are so brave why are these spineless, cowards always hiding their faces—-
because they are only brave when they are raping defenceless women and chopping off the heads of unarmed men and mutilating children.
These ” brave warriors of Allah” wouldn’t last 10 minutes in a real fight against the SAS or Green Berets. These vermin would be running for the nearest rat hole, when faced with a REAL army.
Beagle says
The IS just overran another Syrian airbase defending itself with Soviet/Russian MiG-21 fighters and Mi-8 gunships. While I agree the IS is beatable, let’s not talk too much trash about the “jayvee team.”
Descendantofacrusader says
I agree: it is never a good idea to underestimate one’s adversary. Obama’s original asinine “JV” proved this maxim beyond question.
Jay Boo says
All Muslims should have a covering over their faces.
Just being Muslim is excuse enough to be ashamed.
Salah says
“Notice how all these spineless, cowardly ” warriors” of Allah always wrap their faces up in rags to hide their identity.”
That’s because they are just that: COWARDS.
Remember when their “prophet” was surrounded by his enemies…he played DEAD!!!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/muhammad-coward.html
Charli Main says
Exactly so Salah.
Its risible to the point of absurdity, the amount of kudos that some posters credit the rag, tag and bobtail IS “fighters” with, based on their performance against Syrian, Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
They will be suggesting next ,that IS ” fighters” can play in the same ball park as British and American special forces.!!!!!
A couple US air strikes and these “warriors” were running for the hills.
Elizabeth says
Another wasted life. There is no Allah. There are no virgins. For these people there is only death, judgment and fire.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: ‘Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” KJV
Matthew 13:41-42 “The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” KJV
Jay Boo says
72 virgins or 72 raisins
David Wood sets ABC straight on Islam
Descendantofacrusader says
And why not? It may offer the clearest explanation on the dark spiritual forces at work here unless, of course one does not what to be confronted with such possibilities.
Jay Boo says
To … Freedom fighter
chill out everything is going to level out just fine.
To … Elizabeth
There is no need to add and repeat (KJV) … It does add a little thump.
Most readers understand that different versions of the bible phrase things somewhat differently. In the unlikely event of someone wishing to nit-pick a difference from another version let them state their case.
Jay Boo says
Drop wanted posters of Muhammad with his pathetic Qur’an jinn fetish satanic verses all over Northern Iraq and stand back.
The Muzzies will all turn on one another with each one trying to claim they hate the infidels more than their neighbor.
It will be a frenzy of Sunni Muhammad butt kissers pounding their heads on the floor ever more forcefully than the Muzzie nearby and they will be flogging themselves silly just like the Shia.
SpiritOf1683 says
And the West still doesn’t get it after all these years that peace in Islam comes with a knife slicing through the neck.
Jay Boo says
Islam attracts the lowest of slime,
just as dog poop attracts flies.
My apologies to dog poop
voegelinian says
Perhaps the more important part of this story is not al-Britani and IS, but a front-line soldier on our side — unfortunately fighting on the wrong side of our war of ideas — Nick Lowles, the PC MC from the UK on the forefront of helping “moderate Muslims” in their propaganda war and, as Spencer says, who had a leading hand in having the UK forbid Spencer and Geller from entering the UK.
As Spencer describes Lowles’ psychology, consequent upon Lowles thumping his chest to condemn the TMOE (the Tiny Minority of Extremists who are the only problem) and to try to sound strongly anti-“jihadist”:
This is Nick Lowles in a hard place, as the Islamic supremacism he has now aided and abetted is in full bloom in the Islamic State, and he can see vividly what he has been enabling. Others can as well; hence his furious denunciation of the Islamic State and call for it to be confronted — for otherwise “Islamophobes” will take advantage of the situation by spreading “poison about ordinary Muslims.” For some clarity in his befogged mind, Lowles should ask this “ordinary Muslim” friends where he can find a program in any mosque or Islamic school in the UK that teaches young Muslims and converts to Islam why they should reject on Islamic grounds the Islamic State’s understanding of Islam…
While Spencer is correct that the mind of such a PC MC is “befogged”, there is a logic to it: it is the logic caused by the enormous pressure which the unavoidable data of pernicious Islam causes as it increasingly impinges on the PC MC paradigm defending the false peaceful Islam it has constructed. And because that false Islam is logically joined at the hip with a feeling of (self-)righteous tolerance for the majority of Muslims deemed to be ever threatened by our evil white Western bigotry, it becomes in such a befogged mind a major human rights issue, making him feel he is standing on the right side with the angels, helping to stem the “backlash” tide of evil white Western bigotry, hate and racism. The mental and emotional energy he should be directing at the actual human rights catastrophe of a global revival of Islam is thus redirected perversely to protect Islam and its vast majority of “decent” Muslims; but — and here is the key point — the enormous pressure caused by the actual data of pernicious Islam (the real Islam, which doesn’t go away — and is actually metastasizing and getting horribly worse daily — when someone, like a Lowles, fantasizes about a pseudo-Islam) creates a cognitive-emotional dissonance in his mind, where his conscience (you know, that area of the human being that actually loves the truth and the good) is increasingly in tension against his politically correct Internal Censor which he has assimilated from his surrounding culture that governs his conscious thoughts. And so he lashes out against ISIS and against the evil white “bigots” who would extend the problem beyond ISIS to Islam, and to Muslims in general.
We see pretty much the same psychological dynamic operative in some of the Counter Jihad Softies as well — with perhaps an even more intense pressure of cognitive dissonance, as I explained in my blog essay Ethical Narcissism:
… for the garden-variety PC MC, this presents less of a problem, since they don’t set up the enormous cognitive dissonance which the asymptote creates in his own heart and mind. I.e., the PC MC is already predisposed to try to feel good about Muslims, to embrace and respect them and their Culture, and so he has ordinarily little tension between that and his logical extension of this, when he proceeds in one or more of a variety of ways to do just that, in word and/or in deed — to embrace and respect Muslims and their Culture.
[Note, the contrast I am drawing is relative to the differences; it doesn’t mean that a PC MC like Lowles isn’t feeling a good deal of cognitive dissonance — it only means that the asymptotic Counter-Jihad individual feels that much more, for the reasons I am arguing here. To continue:]
The asymptotic Counter-Jihadist (or “asymptote”), on the other hand, can often generate a good deal of internal tension and dissonance, because he is otherwise familiarizing himself with an inordinate amount of ugly data about Muslims and their Islam, and he likely is supplementing this autodidactic learning curve with an activity of participating, more or less, in a self-reinforcing subculture of discussion about how evil Islam is — whether in discussion forums, chat rooms, book clubs, town meetings, informal gatherings, and so on. In this ongoing context, which is not static, but must be growing apace with the continuing escalating metastasis of Islamic jihad around the world, the asymptote will increasingly feel a deep discomfort, because his own self-worth is joined at the hip with how good he feels about himself as an ethical person, and his ethics in turn are dependent — in part — on the PC MC still resident in his heart and mind through his asymptotic tendency.
To put it simply, the residue of PC MC in his heart and mind tells him to be nice to Muslims, while his growing knowledge of Muslims and their Islam tells him this will be very difficult, if not impossible to do, if he wants to protect his society and if he wants to stand up for human rights. Indeed, what often occurs is the development of a tension between two competing ethical concerns: the ethical concern to be nice (or “humane”) to Muslims, and the opposite ethical concern to stand up for the rights of the various victims of Islamic violence and oppression. Of course, this wouldn’t be much of a tension, nor much of a problem, if one is convinced (as the mainstream PC MCs are) that Muslims by and large (other than a “Tiny Minority of Extremists”) aren’t doing that much violence or oppression. But the tension can become enormous, the more that a person has opened his mind to learn the horrifying mountain of data out there about the grotesquely ghoulish and gruesome atrocities Muslims are perpetrating around the world, in a context furthermore of a concerted desideratum to conquer the world and try to destroy our free world using a combination of terrorism and stealth jihad.
http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2014/07/ethical-narcissism.html
Uncle Vladdi says
Since evil leftist masochists are always hell-bent on becoming victims of worst-case scenarios, they “project” onto and slander-blame their victims, because their first emotion is fear of getting caught for their crimes.
And of course all liberals are racists: they always assume that ONLY White Western people (including, of course, the Jews in Israel,) are INTELLIGENT enough to be guilty of being truly evil, while all their pet “People Of Colour” (including the “swarthy palestinians”) being mentally inferior and all, just can’t help being enslaved by their instincts and emotions into acting as violent animals, the poor oppressed little dears, so the liberals will always indulge their crimes, much as one ignores the new puppy as it pees on the rugs.
More here:
http://unclevladdi.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/diverse-and-conquer-leftardation-explained/
Njoi!
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gravenimage says
“I’m ready to behead next enemy”: UK jihadist says “Allah make it easy” to behead; he is working to “establish Allah’s empire”
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*This* is the kind of thing the “slaves of Allah” give thanks for—that it is easy to behead human beings. *Ugh*.
More:
Repeatedly calling our man “akhi” – or brother – al-Britani started the disturbing conversation by laughing at James’ horrific death.
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This isn’t indicative of any sort of “brotherhood”, of course—instead, it is *taunting*. He would be as quick to behead journalist Patrick Hill as he was James Foley if he could get his hands on him.
More:
He told of his terror training and revealed his fitness regime to keep fit for battle. Chillingly, he even bragged that “wrist exercises” made it easier to cut off enemies’ heads.
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I also do wrist exercises on a regular basis, ever since I had carpal tunnel surgery. They make it easier for me to type, draw, paint, cook, build furniture, take care of home improvements, carry my cats to the vet, and all the other myriad tasks of my day.
Need I mention that *beheading innocent people* is not part of that?
Compare and contrast…
gravenimage says
Here’s Nick Lowles, claiming in an interview with Press TV—you know, the propaganda arm of the Islamic Republic of Iran—that it is the EDL that is breeding terrorists.
This is, of course, an utter lie—he links them to Anders Breivik, who was inspired by Al-Qaida’s tactics.
In reality, of course, the EDL has *no* links to terrorism—and has, in fact, stood against Jihad terrorism, something Nick Lowles hasn’t even acknowledged as existing until the horror of ISIS made it impossible for even tools like him to ignore it completely.
He has claimed just earlier this year that the EDL was the “biggest threat to community cohesion”—I suppose more of one than those “Britons” who beheaded Lee Rigby and James Foley…
“Nick Lowles is NOT against all terrorism”
http://paulaustinmurphy2000.blogspot.com/2014/02/nick-lowles-is-not-against-all-terrorism.html
Uncle Vladdi says
Muslims, meeeeet the muslims! A modern stone-age family!
From the, town of Mecca, they’re a page right out of history!
And let’s not forget James Foley’s own folly at supporting these vile koranimals!
http://unclevladdi.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/foleys-folly/
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