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UK: RAF vet, convert to Islam, arrested on suspicion of terror offenses

Dec 2, 2014 8:42 am By Robert Spencer

Stephen-GrayHe fought with the RAF. Then he converted to Islam. Now he has been arrested on suspicion of jihad terror activity. Mustafa Gray “converted to Islam after becoming disillusioned with Britain’s conduct during the Iraq War….He claims he saw British and American forces abuse Iraqi prisoners.” So he saw his conversion as a way to switch sides and register his anger with Britain. Yet as far as the British officials he meant to indict are concerned, there is no difference between Islamic values and British ones. For them, Gray’s action is completely incoherent and incomprehensible. No wonder they have no comment.

“RAF Iraq veteran arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences,” by Ben Farmer, the Telegraph, November 28, 2014:

A former RAF Iraq veteran who converted to Islam has been arrested on suspicion of overseas terrorism offences in dawn raids by police officers on Friday morning.

Stephen Gray was detained by counter terrorism officers “on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism”.

Mr Gray, who also uses the name Mustafa, was held with two other men in Manchester as part of an investigation police said “centres on activity overseas”, rather than a domestic terror plot.

The 31-year-old, who served in the RAF Regiment a decade ago, had his passport confiscated earlier this year after officials judged he was “involved in Islamist extremist activity”. Officials warned he was “likely to travel overseas in the future in order to engage in terrorism related activity”.

Mr Gray confirmed to the Telegraph that he had been arrested from his home in Old Trafford at 7.30am.

Mr Gray said he served as a senior aircraftman in No 2 Squadron of the RAF Regiment, but left the Armed Forces in 2004 and converted to Islam after becoming disillusioned with Britain’s conduct during the Iraq War. He was stationed at Baghdad Airport soon after the 2003 invasion. He claims he saw British and American forces abuse Iraqi prisoners at the airport, which was used as a base by allied special forces hunting insurgents and the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The MoD declined to comment on him or his accusations.

He has since worked in a variety of jobs including as a bricklayer and call centre worker and says he has travelled widely as a tourist in the Middle East. He was questioned at Manchester Airport and had his passport seized this summer after returning from Bulgaria. Police also confiscated £1,000 he was carrying, he said.

At the time he said he was not involved in any terrorism and was being persecuted because he was a Muslim. He said he was travelling to make a series of internet videos to illustrate the difficulties Muslims had being stopped at international borders.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said the arrest had been made following an investigation by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit. He said officers had arrested a 31-year-old, a 50-year-old and a 21-year-old.

The men were “arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism” and remain in police custody….

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  1. KrazyKafir says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 8:59 am

    “He claims he saw British and American forces abuse Iraqi prisoners”

    So, in this moron’s mind, or what passes for a mind, he figured switching sides to an infinitely more cruel and violent culture would be an appropriate response. A born loser.

    • Jay Boo says

      Dec 2, 2014 at 9:20 am

      ISIS is as nasty as they come even to children.
      If he were telling the truth that he was concerned about immoral behavior of some British and American troops then the last thing he would wish to do is join ISIS.
      You are correct that he is a born loser.
      I might add, he is also a born liar.

    • T says

      Dec 7, 2014 at 6:58 pm

      Just for your information don’t believe everything you read. He didn’t convert to Islam for the reasons quoted above. He researched it at length and then converted. The reason why the papers have chosen to quote that is beyond me. But please don’t believe everything you read.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 9:12 am

    He is a Muslim liar
    He has a dubious excuse for rationalizing becoming a Muslim just like his BS excuse that he was merely travelling to make a series of internet videos to illustrate the difficulties Muslims had being stopped at international borders.

    The Ingratitude of a Vanity Fantasy turns Muslim converts into parasites
    When the prayer mat lust and the ostentatious MO beard are no longer quite enough, the creeping emptiness of Allah appeasement eats at their souls and even leaves them resenting the gift of life and filling their void instead with self-loathing that boasts in order to hide its inner disgust.

  3. gravenimage says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 10:05 am

    He had to have been reasonably intelligent to have flown with the RAF—but now he has the same dead-eyed, slack-jawed look of any pious Mohammedan.

    And I don’t buy the bit about Brits supposedly “abusing prisoners” as his motive for conversion to Islam, either—were it true that there was any roughness or verbal abuse, then the idea that one in response would instead ally himself with the kind of people who *rape and behead* prisoners would simply make no sense.

    I think this excuse for embracing evil just sounds plausibly sympathetic to ignorant dhimmi Infidels.

  4. jr says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 10:19 am

    i wonder when britian is going to become an islamic country

  5. Zebo says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 10:42 am

    he saw “…forces abusing irqi prisoners”!

    Well,why haven”t he seen all the human beings being systematically killed by islam .
    Seems his TV always didin”t work when this happened.

    I”d understand him if he changed sides for the attorcities commited by the industrial military complex of USA/UK(while Bush willingfully turned attention away fromthis fact by calling it a crusade)
    But that what happened in Abu Grahib is something that non muslims in muslim countries are suffering from day after day after day.

    At least his 1st name isn”t Moham-MAD.

  6. Don McKellar says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 11:06 am

    You can do better than a pig blood bath. The easiest, most humane way to “damn their souls to hell” is to ties them down, screw open their mouth, then liquify some pickled pigs feet making sure they get a good eye’s view with a careful explination of what’s happening, then tube feed it to them. That way their body is “corrupted” forever and they’ll sink into deep despair and it will always torture them. That’s the level of self-induced lunacy we’re dealing with. We should be using it.

  7. Don McKellar says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 11:07 am

    Oh, look, another Islamic jihadi with dead shark-eyes. They always look the same no matter their ethnic background. Why is that?

    • Myxlplik says

      Dec 2, 2014 at 11:42 am

      Don,

      I’ve noticed the same thing, I’m not sure what is happening neurochemically to induce such a thing, but I know Nicholai Sennels has written several articles about mental illness and Islam. My opinion is sometimes Islam inculates it’s own mix of depression, megalomania, and bloodlust which neurochemically is its own brand & reflects in the dead shark-eye look.

      I know I’ve seen a similar look in the crowds listening to Hitler on old WW2 documentaries, but it’s different… Less depression, more megalomania I think, so it’s a different mix based upon how the doctrine produces a mental frame of mind.

      Perhaps Dr. Sennels has a more educated opinion?

    • St. Croix says

      Dec 2, 2014 at 1:05 pm

      He looks like someone whose mind has gone on vacation. Or a portrayal of one demon-possessed. He is certainly possessed in one form or another.

  8. Jay Boo says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    Off topic in the news

    Nazi war criminal, Alois Brunner, likely died in Syria four years ago, says man who hunted him.
    He sent thousands of European Jews to their deaths: 47,000 from Austria, 44,000 from Greece, 23,500 from France and 14,000 from Slovakia.

    The Simon Wiesenthal Center says he lived in Syria for decades after the atrocities.

    Brunner was convicted of war crimes in absentia in France but the Syrian government’s refusal to cooperate undermined prosecution efforts, according to the international Jewish human rights organization.

    at Yahoo News

  9. Salah says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    “He said he was travelling to make a series of internet videos to illustrate the difficulties Muslims had being stopped at international borders.”

    PROFILING is a must; it’s a small price to pay for being a Muslim. Non-Muslims have to pay a much heavier price.

  10. Joginder Singh says

    Dec 2, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    So the latest convert to muhammads cult was upset about the treatment by UK/US forces of Iraqi prisoners eh………………So what are his views about the estimated 270 million people killed by his new faith of islam then one wonders? Or havent the mullahs programed their latest recruit with those facts yet

  11. pumbar says

    Dec 3, 2014 at 12:39 am

    I don’t think I’d want this guy doing some pointing on my back wall or sitting near me in a call centre. The bloke’s a nutter.

  12. Rob Porter says

    Dec 3, 2014 at 9:17 am

    This is simply further proof that Islam causes mental illness and drives individuals to hatred and murderous violence,

  13. gp says

    Dec 3, 2014 at 10:46 am

    Look at those wild eyes-he has surely become a muslim and looks like a man possessed by Satan. His father the devil, the God of the Satanic verses he now follows.

  14. gp says

    Dec 3, 2014 at 11:30 am

    In the eyes of the British Broadcasting Crescent he is just another disenfranchised “Asian youth”

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