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UK: School of jihadis — six former students of one of nation’s top schools linked to jihad terror

Oct 12, 2014 5:35 pm By Robert Spencer

holland-park-school-620x412Here are more of those extraordinary contributions by Muslims to British society that David Cameron is so enthused about.

More of the endless stream of bad news from the Subjugated Isle about its abject surrender to Islamic supremacists: “School of Jihadis: Why have six former pupils of the ‘Eton of comprehensives’ been linked to terror?,” by Paul Bracchi and Tim Stewart, Daily Mail, October 11, 2014 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

Holland Park School, in the heart of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea — a catchment area that includes some of the wealthiest addresses in the capital — is known as ‘the Eton of comprehensives’.

Indeed, the building itself resembles a plush hotel or advertising agency with minimalist sofas and bespoke chairs for both teachers and pupils, created by one of Britain’s leading furniture designers, not to mention a sweeping glass atrium, stylish walkways, a roof terrace with panoramic views over the city and a swimming pool in the basement.

Even before the Grand Designs-style refurbishment two years ago (funded by selling part of the campus to housing developers), it was regarded as one of the top state schools in the country.

‘Outstanding’ was the verdict of a 2011 Ofsted report that praised the ‘exceptional’ leadership of inspirational and dynamic headmaster Colin Hall, who was appointed in 2001.

Currently, 96 per cent of students sitting GCSEs achieve five or more A* to C grades. Five have won places at Oxbridge in the past two academic years.

Bear this in mind when you consider the next ‘statistic’. In the same two-year period, up to six former Holland Park pupils left Britain to became Islamic jihadists in the Middle East or were linked to Islamic terrorism.

Today, following a Mail investigation, many of these individuals — the youngest is 21, the oldest 27 — can be identified. Three of them are now dead.

One appeared on a video in the summer appealing for more recruits from the UK to join Islamic State’s ‘golden era of jihad’. He is still in the Middle East, where Islamic State (IS) is engaged in a bloody and barbaric struggle to establish a caliphate, or Islamic empire, ruled by Sharia law. A second died in battle after joining up with IS in Syria. A third was killed while waging ‘holy war’ for an Al Qaeda-linked group in Syria. The fourth on our list also died in the Syrian conflict.

A fifth, a woman, was found guilty in August of fundraising for terrorism (the money was destined for IS) and is awaiting sentence; her female co-defendant, who was in the same year as her at Holland Park, was cleared of the same offence.

Until now, the ‘Holland Park link’ between these home-grown jihadists has gone unreported.

There is no evidence, it should be stressed, to suggest radicalisation took place directly inside the school, which attained academy status in 2013 and is alma mater to the likes of Hollywood actress Anjelica Huston and the late Tony Benn’s children.

Nevertheless, we now know that of the reported 24 jihadists from London who have joined IS or taken up arms with other Islamic fanatics, around a quarter of them went to the same school….

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  1. nacazo says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 6:00 pm

    puah!!! just an isolated case of highly contagious misunderstanding. Keep walking, nothing to see here!

    • Centurion_Cornelius says

      Oct 13, 2014 at 6:55 am

      POVERTY! Yep–that’s the real cause of all these “troubles.”

      Yep–poverty. Start throwing boatloads of British pounds, Euros, and USD at it.

      We all need to throw much more money at these radical Islamists and all hold hands and sing Kumbaya. Then they will “like” us more when they return back from Syria fighting the infidel and other non-agreeable Muslims.

      …er…what’s that you say…the school and the students there are wealthy?

      WHY, WHY…THAT is “Islamophobia!”

      • bc says

        Oct 14, 2014 at 2:34 am

        Maybe Cameron can invite them around to No 10 for tea and crumpets,
        and show how much ‘we’ admire their contribution to the UK, and how much ‘we’ appreciate and love their romantic life style. We must make them understand that we infidels know the ‘ true’ meaning of Islam.

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    These six Holland Park School alums follow in the footsteps of the great Osama bin-Laden, a Harvard Man. Further proof that liberal education, make that a Liberal Education, is always harmful in the intended ways, but has absolutely no good effect when it comes to the toughest ideology of all: Islam.

    • nacazo says

      Oct 12, 2014 at 6:22 pm

      woa! osama the terrorist bin laden never went to harvard. the binladen family funds something there and maybe some relatives have attended but not the fishbait himself.

      • bc says

        Oct 14, 2014 at 2:38 am

        Did you know that an Somali fisherman has dragged up his body from the deep and is keeping it hid in a secret place. Both the CIA and the Saudis are desperately trying to locate its whereabouts.

        Just kidding of course!

        • Kepha says

          Oct 14, 2014 at 5:46 am

          Well, they say the reason Qaida admitted its fearless leader dead was because some of them used a small boat to approach the US Navy ship on which OBL was being autopsied, noticed a white-shrouded object being tipped off the bow, followed by an enormous fish kill a few minutes after the body sank.

    • Don McKellar says

      Oct 12, 2014 at 11:08 pm

      A liberal education is always a good thing. A leftist education is the harmful one. Big difference.

  3. salamander says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    Wot? radicals with a stiff upper lip, I despair, I really do.

  4. Ayatrollah says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    Is this just a rich private school or some sort of madrasah ?

    • KrazyKafir says

      Oct 12, 2014 at 6:28 pm

      It’s a lefty establishment, if that helps.

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 12, 2014 at 7:50 pm

      It’s a state school, not private.

  5. Paleologos says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 7:33 pm

    I have to agree with Mark Steyn in his brilliant work, “America Alone,” where he surmises that the U.K. is probably lost.

    muslims have, for so long, imbedded themselves in the British culture, that the only thing that might save Queen and Country now would be to deport every last muslim.

    The British poison pill was swallowed here:

    http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/uk-sharia-law.html

    Sharia law in UK is now in Spread of Islam Phase 4. Muslim imams in the UK now outnumber the UK’s Christian pastors, and converting empty church buildings into mosques has become a cottage industry.

    In 2008, UK’s government formally recognized the first Sharia Law court and the Archbishop of Canterbury – the head of Church of England – stated that adopting elements of the Sharia law into the UK’s court system was “unavoidable.”

    Since then, about 100 Sharia law courts have been established across the UK. Although they technically lie within the UK’s Tribunal Court system, these Sharia courts have been issuing rulings that contradict Britain’s common law, as well as European Union laws.

    In 2011, Britain’s Muslims began demanding that Sharia replace British common law and become the only law in towns with large Muslim populations, including Birmingham, Bradford, Derby, Dewsbury, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Sheffield, Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets, an East London Muslim enclave whose streets are already plastered with posters declaring, “You are entering a Sharia controlled zone: Islamic rules enforced” (below) and where Muslim imams now issue death threats to women who refuse to wear the Muslim veil.

    Muslim controlled zoneOne-third of Britain’s high security prison inmates are Muslims.

    To woo more upscale Muslims, most of London’s financial institutions have become Sharia-compliant, which requires donating a portion of their profits to Muslim organizations designated by their Sharia-compliance advisors. When he was Prime Minister, Gordon Brown loftily declared that he wanted London to become the Islamic finance capital of the world.

    His successor, David Cameron more soberly stated in 2011 that European “multiculturalism has been a failure” that has promoted Islamic extremism. He admitted that the West has been “cautious, frankly even fearful” of standing up to it, and concluded:

    “We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run completely counter to our values. This hands-off tolerance has only served to reinforce the sense that not enough is shared… What we see – and what we see in so many European countries – is a process of radicalization.”

    Two years later in 2013, however, David Cameron bowed to pressure from the banking sector and announced that Britain will become the first non-Muslim nation to issue Shariah-compliant, Islamic bonds, proudly declaring at the World Economic Islamic Forum:

    “I don’t just want London to be a great capital of Islamic finance in the Western world, I want London to stand alongside Dubai as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world.”

    And bowing to pressure from groups linked with the Muslim Brotherhood, the British government will, starting in the fall of 2014, also require all British school children to complete a unit on the history of Islam, which still bills itself as a Religion of Peace (click for undermining evidences).

    ***************************************************************

    Churchill must be rolling over in his grave. 🙁

    R/

    Paleologos

    • Jaladhi says

      Oct 12, 2014 at 8:32 pm

      Cameron asks, Churchill who???

      • Mirren10 says

        Oct 12, 2014 at 10:49 pm

        ”Cameron asks, Churchill who???”

        camoron probably thinks Churchill is an insurance company.

  6. London Jim says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    Didn’t ‘Tommy Robinson’ of the EDL go to that school ? No wonder he got clued-up.

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 12, 2014 at 7:51 pm

      Tommy Robinson went to Putteridge High School, in Luton.

  7. jewdog says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    I’m sure there is no smoking gun between the internal curriculum of the school and jihad, but the predictable homage to multiculturalism and lame moral equivalence at elite schools helps pave the way to a warped world view. Thus, the survey of Harvard students who view the US as more dangerous than ISIS and the allure of jihadi cool for the adventurous in the UK. Flush twice kids, it’s a long way to Syria.

    • el-cid says

      Oct 13, 2014 at 7:47 am

      Mr. Dog,

      Evidence of the phenomenon you speculate about was recently seen at Brandeis and now at Yale when leftists and “peaceful” Muslims went on attack to prevent the Hirsi Ali from speaking on campus.

      At Yale, the Aethiest Society members attacked Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Seeing that Hirsi Ali presents herself as an African, feminist, aethiest, it is hard to understand how Yale students justified their attack. This looks like old supremacist ideology to me, and they are dupes to take part in it.

      In the meantime, CAIR slandered Ali in the press, and the press obliged by printing the slanders as news (e.g. “Islamophobe Hirsi Ali”).

      • jewdog says

        Oct 13, 2014 at 9:49 am

        Right, el cid. That’s a lot of college debt just to get a brainwashing.

  8. Jaladhi says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    As I have said umpteen times, education does not make any difference on Muslims as to how they think about their religion. Islam is at top of the list and they will do anything that Quran teaches them to do( in this case what their imam tells them what Quran and Mo/allah are telling). The present of these six students goes to prove this again!!

    One can never trust a Muslim!!Never ever!!

  9. UneasyOne says

    Oct 12, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    Mohammed was not simply the Arab Jesus. He was a conqueror who chopped off heads, demanded first pick and 20%% of all loot gained in bandit raids and war. Since the heads of males old enough to grow pubic hair were often chopped off, these were largely women and childrenl Since he married a six year old who he immediately began molesting (using her thighs to masturbate, and had full intercourse when she turned 9, it’s obvious what he desired. He had enemies assassinated and tortured a man to death to force him to reveal the location of the tribes treasure. He was a slaver who permitted captive women and children to be raped in front of their fathers, husbands and other relatives.

    HE was a dictator, who taught that submission to authority not to democracy was the only permissible form of government.

    Unless muslims are driven out of democratic countries, democracy is at an end. Unless they reject mohammed and acknowledge he was one of the most evil men in history, publicly, they are not to be trusted.

    • T. Snorrason says

      Oct 12, 2014 at 10:13 pm

      ….and now for the good news – sweet Aisha poisoned and murdered the prophet and was not punished for it.
      Instead, she has since been highly revered.

      • Salah says

        Oct 13, 2014 at 1:26 am

        “..sweet Aisha poisoned and murdered the prophet ..”

        In some hadith stories we read that he was poisoned by…a jewish woman!.
        http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/muhammads-death.html

        In other hadith stories we read that his death was the result of typhus fever caused by…lice!!!
        http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/09/muhammad-s-lice.html

    • Jay Boo says

      Oct 13, 2014 at 1:46 am

      Your description is very good but to call Muhammad am evil dictator in conclusion is much too kind.
      I would add that this Sharia Sorcerer Serpent of Satan was also a sexually weak-willed gluttonous sociopathic satanic verse quoting false prophet liar and suicidal buffoon.

      Muhammad’s Five Pillars of Islam

      SHAHADAH
      There is no god in Allah and Muhammad was the inventor.
      SALAH
      Song and Dance display with a pack of psycho killers.
      Desert spirits spoke in twisted verse, (a dance of words to recite, to recite).
      Medina’s false prophet this rehearsed in a cave near Mecca veiled by night.
      But the angel Gabriel saw his descent, and said “Pawn of Satan turn, repent, repent.”
      Bloodied hands are washed before the prayers that incite.
      Muhammad’s hate speech is masked as devotion to recite, to recite.

      ZAKAT
      Financing of terrorism
      SAWM
      The excuse Muslims use to spy on and rat out their own Muslim neighbors.
      HAJJ
      Muslims bow and parade not to God but to Islam’s unholy weapon as their false humility makes its pilgrimage to Satan’s deception.

      • Jay Boo says

        Oct 13, 2014 at 1:48 am

        in reply to
        UneasyOne

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 4:11 am

    I *refuse* to declare that the Island of the Mighty is dead, dead and done for.

    Gavin Boby of the Law and Freedom Foundation is still soldiering on, patiently helping ordinary citizens to *oppose* mosques: and they are chalking *wins* up on the board.

    Paul Weston is still on deck, with Liberty GB.

    The UKIP won a seat in Parliament.

    There *are*, here and there, in Parliament and in the House of Lords, MPs and Peers who *do* understand, or are on the way to fully understanding, what Islam is all about; they need, from Islamosavvy Britons, *all* the help and encouragement they can get…and then the tide may turn, and when it does, it may turn quite suddenly.

    For English readers – and Scots, and Welsh – who come to this forum: sursum corda!

    I advise, for strengthening the soul, G K Chesterton’s “The Flying Inn” and “The Ballad of the White Horse”.

    And here’s his great hymn “O God of Earth and Altar”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFG-CqYXyOo

    Note well the second stanza:

    “From all that terror teaches
    from lies of tongue and pen
    from all the easy speeches
    that comfort cruel men
    from sale and profanation
    of honour and the sword:
    from sleep, and from damnation,
    deliver us, good Lord!”

    He wrote that in 1915; but it rings like steel on steel, in 2014.

  11. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 4:48 am

    “We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run completely counter to our values.”
    David Cameron
    No, not we, the people: we have neither been consulted nor listened to.
    “We, the Government, whose job it is NOT to tolerate these segregated communities” have failed in our responsibilities.”
    We, the people, have had these segregated communities inflicted on us without our consent, and we watch our officials, whose job it is not to tolerate them, and who are paid salaries for doing so, fail in their responsibilities. This is Dereliction of Duty.

  12. Always On Watch says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 7:26 am

    Who are the teachers at these schools?

    What curricula are these schools using?

  13. Semeru says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 7:36 am

    And for the minor leaguers such as mirren 10, this is hardly surprising, this explains it all

    alma mater to the likes of Hollywood actress Anjelica Huston and the late Tony Benn’s children.

    That is the Jew hating pro-pali Tony Benn

    • Judi says

      Oct 13, 2014 at 11:42 am

      Yes Semeru, you are correct. Tony Benn was a virulent anti-Semite. Good riddance to him.

  14. dodo says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 10:39 am

    Maybe it’s time to start using the term “Sharia law” instead of “Jihad”. They are going to the school of Sharia Law. Much more powerful wording since Sharia Law is the law of all terrorism

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