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Scotland: “Moderate Muslim” schoolgirl joins Islamic State, tells Muslims to “follow the examples of your brothers from Woolwich, Texas and Boston”

Sep 2, 2014 6:21 pm By Robert Spencer

AqsaMahmood2Woolwich: the site of the jihadist beheading of British soldier Lee Rigby. Texas: the site of the Fort Hood jihad massacre in 2009. Boston: the site of the Boston Marathon jihad bombing in 2013. Aqsa Mahmood added: “If you cannot make it to the battlefield, then bring the battlefield to yourself.” And indeed, it’s coming, thanks to the denial and willful ignorance of British authorities.

“The private school jihadist: As PM unveils new terror crackdown, a Scots girl incites bloody massacre on British streets,” by Khaleda Rahman and Victoria Allen, Daily Mail, September 1, 2014 (thanks to Will):

This is the Scottish private schoolgirl who travelled to Syria to join Islamic fighters – and is calling on Muslims to carry out a bloody atrocity on British streets.

Glasgow-born Aqsa Mahmood, 20, is the daughter of a successful businessman and was educated at a top private school in the city.

Last year she abandoned a university course to join fanatical Islamic State jihadists fighting in Syria.

Since then she has tweeted a series of radical messages, including a call for others to copy the shocking murder of soldier Lee Rigby, the Boston Marathon bombing and the massacre at the Fort Hood US Army base in Texas.

As fears grow over British jihadis returning home to carry out terror attacks, the Prime Minister yesterday announced new powers to seize extremists’ passports.

Since travelling to Syria, Mahmood has got married and has been tweeting descriptions of her humdrum life of cooking, cleaning and looking after children.

However, on Twitter she uses the name Umm Layth and her profile carries a picture of the black flag of brutal terrorist group Islamic State.

Shockingly, she has also posted jihadist propaganda, including one message in June this year saying: ‘Follow the examples of your brothers from Woolwich, Texas and Boston.

‘If you cannot make it to the battlefield, then bring the battlefield to yourself.’

Last night, Police Scotland and the security services confirmed they were aware of Mahmood.

Her involvement with radical Islam and her decision to travel to Syria stunned her family and friends.

Her father built up thriving businesses after coming to Scotland from Pakistan and Mahmood was sent to exclusive Craigholme School. At that time friends remember a Westernised girl, who loved make-up and clothes and liked to gossip with fellow pupils.

One ex-school friend said: ‘She wasn’t different. She got on with everybody. As soon as she decided to do something she would never change her mind. I guess that was something that was amazing about her, but also one of her downfalls.’

In her fifth year, Mahmood became more interested in Islam and began wearing the hijab. She began buying religious books, taking classes and chatting to people about Muslim ideology over the internet.

Mahmood left Craigholme after failing to get into university and went to study at the nearby Shawlands Academy, a mixed state school.

A schoolfriend there said Aqsa was a ‘usual, typical girl’. He added: ‘At school she had a lot of friends. She was a really confident person, she could talk to anyone she wanted, clever as well. Just the usual Asian Muslim girl.

‘I would say she was a moderate Muslim. I find it really bizarre, knowing her from school and then her suddenly being part of Islamic State.’

After Shawlands, Mahmood began a course in diagnostic radiography at Glasgow Caledonian University but dropped out in order to travel to Syria.

Friends did not know she had travelled to the Middle East, although Mahmood, who was very interested in politics, had spoken about wanting to go there to ‘help’ in the fight against Bashar Assad’s regime.

A security source said the Glasgow girl was one of an increasing number of western women travelling to Syria in order to provide a support network for organisations such as Islamic State.

The source said there was no indication such individuals took part in any of Islamic State’s frontline activities – but that this might change in future.

Last night, Mahmood’s father answered the door at the family’s sandstone villa, but refused to comment.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: ‘A 19-year-old female from Scotland was reported missing to us by her family in November 2013. Inquiries are ongoing in relation to her whereabouts and we are supporting her family.’…

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  1. Fia says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 6:31 pm

    I DOUBT I need to reiterate this. However, lets set the record straight. She is NOT Scottish, merely an immigrant’s child born in the west, marinated in aforementioned ignorant immigrant beliefs. This does not make her British, it sure as hell doesn’t make her Scottish.

    Her normal scottish friends WILL be shocked. BUT Her family is NOT shocked. Who do you think laid the foundation of her beliefs leadin,g like magic, to her shock ‘marriage’. Yeah Right.

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 2, 2014 at 7:01 pm

      Yes.

      It can’t be said often enough. **None** of them are English, Scots, Welsh, or anything other than mohammedans. They have **no** allegiance to anything other than islam and the ummah.

      That is one ugly baby she’s holding !

      • Charli Main says

        Sep 3, 2014 at 4:42 am

        Islam specifically forbids Muslims to integrate or assimilate. Regardless of where these people are born they are Muslims, first, last and everything in between.
        The prime directive of Muslims living in Britain (and elsewhere) is to force the host society to integrate into and assimilate THEIR culture and mores.
        I have never been able to understand just what part of ” until all the world is Islam” bone heads like Cameron, Miliband and Clegg can´t understand.

      • Rezali Mehil says

        Sep 3, 2014 at 8:38 am

        Mirren- That is one ugly baby she’s holding !…

        Stop being racist to Allah’s gift…the baby is innocent and is being looked at very dotingly by her mother….

        At any rate …I am sure that (the childless) Graven and her hubby would take that bay on in a heartbeat!

        More Later…

        Rezali

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Sep 4, 2014 at 9:53 pm

        “that’s one ugly baby”.

        Just looks like a baby to me. Lots of babies aren’t very pretty when first born. Nobody’s born with all the doctrines and practices of Islam already encoded into their dna. Would this baby, if per miraculum it were flipped (at this age, which from the looks of it might be no older than eight weeks) from its Muslim family into a Jewish family, know that it was supposed to hate Jews?

        Poor little thing, it barely stands a chance, born into the Mohammedan Mob; pickled in hatred, in suspicion and aggression, before it even says its first word or takes its first step.

        That’s the awful thing about the Mohammedan Mob: it takes the born-neurologically-normal and works hard to turn them into murderous Orcs, nurturing and unloosing and sacralising all their worst instincts whilst damaging or destroying the capacity for empathy and independent thought.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Sep 2, 2014 at 7:08 pm

      Why should anyone be “shocked” when a moo-slime decides to take up, act on, and carry out their ‘religious’ obligations!

    • Gail Griffin says

      Sep 2, 2014 at 8:30 pm

      Cancel her Scottish citizenship and deport her family.

    • cliffface says

      Sep 2, 2014 at 9:01 pm

      At least it is one less jihadi in Scotland.
      Now the authorities need to seize all electronic devices and data records from the family and hunt down anyone else that may have influenced her that may be still in Scotland.
      When the isis vermin is subdued in Syria do not expect to see the Syrian people show any mercy to their supporters.
      She will get what she deserves.

  2. gravenimage says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 6:37 pm

    One ex-school friend said: ‘She wasn’t different. She got on with everybody. As soon as she decided to do something she would never change her mind. I guess that was something that was amazing about her, but also one of her downfalls.’
    ……………………………

    Uh-huh….as though every decisive girl is apt to wind up urging her fellows to mass-murder innocent civilians in the countries that have taken them in…

    After all, she might have become suddenly adamant about any number of things; good, bad, and indifferent: a questionable boy friend, joining the Peace Corps (or its British equivalent), climbing Mt. Everest, going on the road with a rock band, dropping out for a year to practice meditation, taking up creative writing, pursuing a career in medicine…

    More:

    In her fifth year, Mahmood became more interested in Islam and began wearing the hijab. She began buying religious books, taking classes and chatting to people about Muslim ideology over the internet…
    ……………………………

    How often have we *heard this*?

    As this shows—and as is so common—this has nothing to do with a personality type per se, and *everything* to do with Islam.

  3. Peter Buckley says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    “Mahmood became more interested in Islam …”

    That explains everything that followed. How many times must we repeat that the more “devout” a muslim becomes, the more likely he/she will become violent:

    http://www.dw.de/study-finds-young-devout-muslims-in-germany-more-prone-to-violence/a-5655554

  4. Myxlplik says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    Awww, poor little Muslima we better send some journalists over to IS so we can chronicle her suffering. The quality of food and water, due to western imperialism, is probably very poor too, so we better send in idealistic aid workers to make sure she is fed, clothed, and has proper pre-natal care for that little jihadi bun in the oven. Wouldn’t want to run out of fresh infidel necks over in the new Caliphate!

  5. Angemon says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 7:03 pm

    ‘If you cannot make it to the battlefield, then bring the battlefield to yourself.’

    She’s telling muslims that if they can’t die in Syria or Iraq they might as well kill themselves…

    • Budvarakbar says

      Sep 2, 2014 at 7:12 pm

      Wake up there — “…might as well kill themselves …” you forgot the “and as many infidels as possible”

  6. duh_swami says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    Mahmood became more interested in Islam

    Actually she became interested in ‘Radical Islam’, that magical religion that kuffar keep talking about, but no one has ever seen. And no one has ever explained what’s radical about it.
    I looked in the phone book for ‘The Church of Radical Islam’, but there was none listed…

    • Charli Main says

      Sep 3, 2014 at 4:48 am

      I looked in the phone book for the “Church of Radical Islam”
      Love it !!! 10/10

    • Charli Main says

      Sep 3, 2014 at 4:48 am

      I looked in the phone book for the “Church of Radical Islam”
      Love it !!! 10/10

  7. Rebecca says

    Sep 2, 2014 at 9:13 pm

    I always wondered who were the wives of the Jihad terrorist out there murdering, raping and beheading.
    guess a girl like her would be proud of her husband?

  8. Aardvark says

    Sep 3, 2014 at 5:15 am

    “A schoolfriend there said … ‘I would say she was a moderate Muslim. I find it really bizarre, knowing her from school and then her suddenly being part of Islamic State.’”

    Not really bizarre, since there are so many other examples of ‘moderate’ mohammedans that suddenly start to take their koran seriously. Search this site for ‘sudden jihad syndrome’ .

    The only safe course for the civilised West is to deport ALL mohammedans, NOW.

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