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Jihadi from Scotland: “Read the Koran…Find out what is jihad”

Dec 11, 2014 1:33 pm By Robert Spencer

Abdul Raqib AminJohn Kerry and the rest would have us believe that Abdul Raqib Amin read the Qur’an and thoroughly misunderstood it — and in exactly the same way as thousands of other Muslims who have, like him, gone to fight for the Islamic State.

It strains credulity well beyond the breaking point. But it is official dogma, and the basis of numerous American foreign and domestic policies.

“Scots jihadi tells family: ‘I love Allah more,’” by Jon Hebditch, The Scotsman, December 10, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A SCOTS jihadi has said he is alive and well in an online message to family, telling them his heart “is not made of stone”.

IS militant Abdul Raqib Amin, 26, told his family on social media that he misses them, but that he loves Allah more.

He left Britain earlier this year to join Islamic jihadists, who have killed thousands of Syrians, publicly beheaded British and American journalists and brutally murdered an aid worker….

After leaving the UK, Amin, from Aberdeen, said he had no intention of returning home and would continue to fight until he was killed.

His friends spoke of their shock and disbelief that a man who they thought was just “one of the guys” had become so radicalised.

In a recent message to his family, Amin insists he is not completely heartless, despite having warned people in Britain that IS “are not going to attack them …yet”.

He said: “Oh my family, do not think my heart has become a stone.

“I do miss you, I love you, but I love Allah more.”

The message was revealed on his sister’s social media account, attached to a now-notorious picture Amin in which he grins at the camera, holding an assault rifle.

He signs the message off from “Abu Baraa”, a name Amin has been fighting under.

The bearded militant in the picture is unrecognisable from the smiling young man photographed when he was living in Aberdeen.

Amin moved with his family from Bangladesh to the city’s Froghall area when he was 10.

He spent two years at Sunnybank Primary School then moved to St Machar Academy.

After Amin completed his second year at the academy, his father moved him back to Bangladesh because – according to a friend – he was becoming “too westernised”.

When he returned to the Scotland after two years, his friends noticed there had been a change in him, and that he had become more religious.

A friend spoke of how he had played football with Amin just 18 months before he was exposed as an extremist.

The next time he saw him was in the 13-minute IS propaganda film, There Is No Life Without Jihad, in which Amin was encouraging would-be fighters to join him to wage Holy War.

He said in the video: “Forget everyone. Read the Koran, read the instruction of life. Find out what is jihad.

“Are you willing to sacrifice the fat job you’ve got, the big car, the family you have?

“Are you willing to sacrifice this, for the sake of Allah? If you do Allah will give you back 700 times more.

“All my brothers living in the West, I know how you feel. When I used to live there, in the heart you feel depressed. The cure for the depression is jihad.

“Fight them! Allah will chastise them at your hands, and He will lay them low and give you victory over them, and He will heal the breasts of folk who are believers. And He will remove the anger of their hearts.” (Qur’an 9:14-15)

“All my brothers, come to jihad. Feel the honour we are feeling. Feel the happiness we are feeling.”…

He said: “I left the UK to fight for the sake of Allah – to give everything I have for the sake of Allah to establish the seat of Allah in the land.”

Amin said he first became aware of IS through Twitter and that he had in no way been radicalised in Aberdeen.

He said: “In the Aberdeen mosque there is not one person with the same mentality as me. They don’t agree with jihad. We are not scared of anyone. People in the UK are scared we are going to attack them – we are not going to attack them… yet.”

Mosque leaders previously confirmed that Amin had attended but condemned his actions in the Middle East.

Why weren’t they able to convince him that his understanding of jihad was wrong?

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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 1:41 pm

    As with all ideologies, “people”, in this case “the family”, come a poor second to the ideology itself. This man is not an “extremist”, he is merely acting out instructions from the Quran:

    “O you who have believed, do not take your fathers or your brothers as allies if they have preferred disbelief over belief. And whoever does so among you – then it is those who are the wrongdoers” (Quran 9:23).

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    The Scotsman newspaper has yet to learn how to describe a muslim who has spent more years in his native Bangladesh than in Scotland. “Scots Jihadi” is inappropriate. All Credit to Robert Spencer for his “Jihadi from Scotland”.

  3. Buraq says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    ‘… Amin, from Aberdeen, said he had no intention of returning home and would continue to fight until he was killed.’

    Excellent news! Let’s hope Santa grants him his wish for Christmas.

    Clown!

  4. Champ says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    He said: “Oh my family, do not think my heart has become a stone.

    “I do miss you, I love you, but I love Allah more.”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    He loves allah more, eh? Fool! He loves *satan* more; since allah is NOT the God of the Bible …

    Excerpt:

    Muslims believe that there is no other God besides Allah and that he is the God of the universe. They claim that not only is he their God, but that he is the God of the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. When examining the profile of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and comparing it with Allah’s profile, there are a number of distinct differences between them that can only result in one conclusion: These profiles simply do not match! Allah is NOT the God of the Bible!

    The Islamic faith, through the teachings of Muhammad, asserts that Allah is God and attempt to place him within the confines of the Holy Scriptures. When the Bible contradicts their teachings, they allege that it is flawed, has been tampered with, and has many errors. They further claim that the Koran, through the teachings of their prophet Muhammad, corrects them. However, it has already been established that Muhammad was both a false prophet and teacher. Therefore, Islam’s allegations are unsupported, baseless and without merit.

    There are a number of major differences between the God of the Bible and Allah. This chapter will focus upon five reasons why they are not the same. According to the Holy Scriptures, the God of the Bible is the one true God while Allah is a false god.

    More here: http://kingmessiahproject.com/is_allah_not_God.html

  5. Salah says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    “A friend spoke of how he had played football with Amin just 18 months before he was exposed as an extremist.”

    He doesn’t play foot-ball anymore, he plays foot-head!!!

    (graphic)
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2013/12/soccer-la-taliban.html

  6. DRHazard says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    Disconnection from family and friends is one of the hallmarks that define a cult.
    Islam has many of these characteristics Below is the complete list. With just a few minor substitutions it’s almost uncanny how groups like ISIS (and even mainstream Islam) mirrors pretty much every single item:

    1, The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
    ‪
    2. Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader. (Praying 5 times a day).

    ‪3, The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry—or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).

    ‪ 4. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
    ‪ The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
    ‪
    5.The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).

    ‪ 6. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members’ participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).

    ‪ 7. The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt iin order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.

    ‪ 8. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.

    ‪ 9. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.

    ‪ 10. The group is preoccupied with making money.

    ‪ 11. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
    ‪
    12. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.

    ‪ 13, The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.

    With just a few minor substitutions it’s almost uncanny how groups like ISIS (and even mainstream Islam) mirrors this list.

    • Arthur says

      Dec 11, 2014 at 9:58 pm

      Nice post.

  7. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    I’ve been saying this for years: read the damned Ko-Ran and you know what the deal is. I say it in hope that Infidels reading it would help us save ourselves. But a chilling thought: what if Moslems weren’t so subliterate and such lazy mooches, what if they as a group suddenly sprouted intellectual energy and curiosity… and the read the Holy Ko-Ran? What if all the Moslems read it? Would we be somehow even worse off than we already are?

  8. Crixus says

    Dec 12, 2014 at 4:35 am

    As a Scot myself I pray that his flea infested syphalitic goat shagging idol mohammed (piss be upon him) grants his wishes preferably on the end of a bayonet, the other end of which is being held by lesbian apostate member of the Kurdish women’s militia!

  9. ecosse1314 says

    Dec 12, 2014 at 6:11 am

    As a proud Scotsman I can only say that if this heap of piss is Scottish then I am English.. can’t say fairer than that.

    • Mirren10 says

      Dec 12, 2014 at 5:12 pm

      🙂

      I concur.

  10. Sanchez says

    Dec 13, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    I used to buy weed from this guy. No joke.

  11. Jerry says

    Dec 13, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    Islam – A strain of evil deadlier than Ebola, spread through contaminated paper
    and being repeated orally to gullible listeners.

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