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UK: Muslima takes 8-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter to Islamic State

Mar 24, 2015 10:00 am By Robert Spencer

Rehana IslamRehana Islam’s husband Azizul is scratching his head and wondering how his wife got “radicalized” — because, you know, the Qur’an forbids all this. Azizul appears to have a bright future as a used car salesman.

“Boy, eight, on his way to join ISIS with his mother and sister had scrawled ‘Jihad’ on his garden shed before leaving,” by Amanda Williams, MailOnline, March 24, 2015:

An eight-year-old boy believed to have been taken to Syria by his radicalised mother had scrawled the word ‘jihad’ across the walls of his play room.

Rehana Begum Islam abandoned her husband of 14 years, vanishing overnight with her eight-year-old son and three-year-old daughter. The 33-year-old travelled from Heathrow to Istanbul where she is believed to have entered Syria with her young children.

But before the boy was taken, a neighbour has revealed that the walls of his play room in the family shed were daubed with the word ‘jihad’ by the child, who was taught how to pray by his mother.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, a friend of the mother-of-two took reporters around the house and garden of the family, in Enfield, north London, where she showed them the shed where the children would play.

She said: ‘She tried as much as possible to raise her child this right way.

‘He is a very special boy, at the age of eight he prays, she taught him how to pray, he said she made him go to special school. He goes to an Islamic school. They are nice kids you know.’

She said that Mrs Islam was a ‘nice person’ but that she had seemed ‘depressed and moody’ before she fled her home, claiming that was going on a two-week break in Wales.

The woman said: ‘She has got kids and she was like every mother, you know when your kids are misbehaving, you are shouting “stop this, stop that”.

‘(She was) moody and depressed. She would keep saying to me, ‘this is not me, I wasn’t this person before. I am having this pressure’, I think because she was having problems with her marriage.

‘Always shouting shouting, shouting, shouting.’

When asked if the Mrs Islam had mentioned her plans to go to Syria, the neighbour said: ‘No she said she was going to Wales, she needed a two week break.

‘Every time the conversation was leading to religion, I would kill it. She was too on the other side. Too extreme.

‘She would say the Muslims are being killed as a protest. I said to her “stop”.’

She is believed to have been helped by Syrian Mohammed al-Rashed, who was arrested last week on suspicion of getting the three east London schoolgirls across the border.

Her passport details were found on his laptop – showing she and her children have been with Islamic State fanatics for five weeks.

Mrs Islam’s devastated husband Azizul has previously told reporters he has not stopped crying since police revealed she had travelled to Gaziantep, a popular gateway to Syria for foreign fighters and jihadi brides.

‘It’s really hard for me,’ said the 36-year-old minicab driver. ‘I haven’t seen my kids for more than one month. I can’t even sleep without my kids.

‘My question is why did she go there? She has two kids, she has a family, and this house is in her name. Why has she left everything? This is really unbelievable.

‘When the police told me she travelled to Gaziantep – I’ve seen it in the news, so many British people are trying to travel there – it came into my mind that maybe she’s gone to Syria but still I can’t believe it.’

Turkish intelligence sources revealed her ID documents were found on the laptop of Mohammed al-Rashed.

He was arrested on suspicion of helping Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, become jihadi brides in Syria.

All three attended Bethnal Green academy in Tower Hamlets.

Al-Rashed, 28, is said to have told detectives he has mainly helped British fighters but also South Africans and Australians. The details of two other Britons, aged 19 and 29, were on his laptop.

Mr Islam said: ‘He must’ve also helped her to get there.

‘I’m worried about my kids, I hope she comes back with my kids. Please. She’s going to destroy my two kids’ lives.

‘IS is killing Muslim people as well. My religion doesn’t say anything about killing people.

‘If you’re Muslim you should know that the Koran doesn’t say this. These people are dangerous.’…

That is for Western consumption. He almost certainly knows better.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 10:06 am

    Help! Stop that thief.

    She is a very bad Muslima for taking her children along.
    Has she forgotten that the Muslim husband is the one with property rights of children?

    • The Doctor says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 11:05 am

      I’m sure there is a clause somewhere that allows a lesser sin, e.g. disobeying husband and taking the kids, to prevent a greater sin, e.g. not emigrating to the caliphate and participating in jihad. I’m also sure that there is a clause in there somewhere that will allow her to divorce her “apostate” husband and marry a “real” Muslim.

      • Jay Boo says

        Mar 24, 2015 at 12:23 pm

        Good point. Doc
        Rehana Islam’s husband Azizul will have to have some beheadings added to his Islamic resume if he wishes to compete with his wife’s sex jihad for the Islamic State.

        • terry says

          Mar 25, 2015 at 12:30 am

          “That is for Western consumption. He almost certainly knows better.”

          Just before I arrived at the above sentence, by Robert, I was telling myself that the denial of this Muslim man and hundreds of millions of fellow Muslims, around the world, should clearly show to the whole world, how Islam’s belief system makes people delirious and hyper confused, like someone with a total split personality syndrome.

          In other words, they become mentally ill, albeit in many cases, with a very normal appearance.

  2. Caroline says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 10:14 am

    Oh well, one less for us to worry about.

    • PRCS says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 12:22 pm

      Three less!

      I do wonder, though. Surely the husband knew this was a possibility.

      Had he made his concerns known to appropriate authorities prior to the event?

      And, when my wife and our daughter took the grandkids overseas, they had to have written permission from our son-in-law granting permission to do so.

      Not the case anymore, or no longer rigidly enforced?

      • PJG says

        Mar 24, 2015 at 10:01 pm

        Perhas at some stage she has become a “single mother”, with sole rights over the children? Perhaps there is a cluster of wives? The house is in her name. There is more to be revealed about this marriage.

        • Mike says

          Mar 26, 2015 at 12:33 am

          Scenario: she wanted to run away “where nobody would find her” and made it LOOK like she was joining IS. Then she resettled, say, elsewhere in the EU, leaving everyone scratching their head while trying to find her kids. It wouldn’t be bad cover, in a way. A nice way to go if you want to be sure that your spouse won’t look for you.

  3. William F. Giuliano says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 10:15 am

    They shall not be missed.

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 10:31 am

    This person has joined a group, the self-announced Islamic State, which has declared war on the West and has openly killed British citizens. Britain and Western allies are bombing Islamic State.
    The woman has declared herself an enemy of the State. The UK should uphold the law of treason.

    • Michael Warden says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 11:19 am

      Pretty sure Tony Blair abolished the Treason Law in about 2001.

      • sencit says

        Mar 24, 2015 at 12:29 pm

        You are correct, Michael, he did and we all know why!

  5. Mirren10 says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 10:54 am

    Hang on, aren’t the children the property of her husband ?

    Still, I expect she justifies it by declaring hubby to be a bad muslim. 🙂

    God knows what those poor children will be trained to do.

    • Charli Main says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 12:46 pm

      When the girl reaches 6 years, a good devout Jihadi Muslim will be found to ” thigh ” her. There is never any shortage of Muslims who consider it their duty to model themselves on the most perfect pervert that has ever lived.

      • JamesonRocks says

        Mar 24, 2015 at 3:11 pm

        Well, she is three now so it is certainly a good time for mommy to start husband shopping for her.

  6. Steffen Larsen says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 10:56 am

    “My religion doesn’t say anything about killing people ..”

    Huh? I thought he’s a Muslim too??

  7. JamesonRocks says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    “My question is why did she go there? She has two kids, she has a family, and this house is in her name. Why has she left everything?”

    I guess maybe her husband wasn’t a very good moozie – he probably didn’t beat her enough. Poor sick thing, she probably felt so unloved…

  8. Westman says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    ‘IS is killing Muslim people as well. My religion doesn’t say anything about killing people.”

    It certainly does and it also says it is an obligation. There is no other major religion that PRESCRIBES warfare independent of a governing state; placing itself above governments.

    The Islamic scholars may argue about what constitutes a justification for Jihad warfare but none reject Islam’s right to conduct war independently of national ties. All it needs is justification, real or imagined, to create the “Cause of Allah”. Takfir, unbelievers, Sunni vs Shia, ad infinitum

    Quran (4:74-75)
    “Let those (believers) who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the Cause of Allah, and whoso fights in the Cause of Allah, and is killed or gets victory, We shall bestow on him a great reward. And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allah….”

  9. thomas pellow says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 1:20 pm

    Also, another Muslima using Britain as an Islamic jihad staging post for Isklamofascist, islamic State-

    British medic helping treat Isis killers praised Charlie Hebdo attacks on Twitter and also called for Sharia law

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3008623/British-medic-helping-treat-Isis-killers-praised-Charlie-Hebdo-attacks-Twitter-called-Sharia-law.html#ixzz3VK0dxH6j

    • Caroline says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 1:41 pm

      These people are self-selecting and it is a start. The more that leave of their own accord means there will be fewer to deport. May many, many more of them go, never to return.

    • Westman says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 1:43 pm

      Thanks for reference, Thomas. I hope you sent this reference to the Contact JidadWatch.

  10. Krishan Bhattacharya says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    JW and the anti-jihad movement in general really needs to stop using the word ‘muslima’. It is too close to ‘jewess’.

    Yes, its true that many Muslims use this word as a religion reference gender pronoun, but that doesn’t mean that we should.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 24, 2015 at 4:50 pm

      Really?

      Another Muslim decamps from the free West to wage violent Jihad in the sanguinary Islamic State—and takes their little children with them—and your only issue is with a couple of posters using the term “Muslima”?

      By the way, there is nothing intrinsically pejorative about the term, as you appear to think.

      • Krishan Bhattacharya says

        Mar 24, 2015 at 5:13 pm

        “Another Muslim decamps from the free West to wage violent Jihad in the sanguinary Islamic State—and takes their little children with them—and your only issue is with a couple of posters using the term “Muslima”?”

        Quit distorting my position. It’s dishonest. At no point have I said that my “only issue is with a couple of posters using the term “Muslima””

        I am as anti-jihad as you are. “Muslima” is a politically problematic term, and it’s not just “posters” using it, it’s Jihad Watch. Read the title above, M8.

        We are in a situation where the political Left is using anything it can to hurl charges of anti-Muslim bigotry. This is generally false, as JW has gone out of its way to keep its criticism directed at the IDEAS in Islam, and not going against Muslims as people. Maintaining this critical stance toward the Islamic doctrine is absolutely vital.

        The problem with “Muslima” is similar to the use of the word “Jewess”. Whenever you hear the word “Jewess” today, you can be %100 sure you are talking to an anti-Semite. Now, if you see this word printed in an old book, you can’t be sure the person who wrote it was anti-Semitic, because such terms, and the moral thinking that went with them, were common in the 19th century. So the word “Jewess” was used by people who didn’t like Jews, and by people who did, AND by some Jewish thinkers who were very reactionary – right-wing rabbis. Today, however, “Jewess” is a word used exclusively by anti-Semites.

        “Muslima” is in a similar place as “jewess” was 100 years ago. Today, it is a religious-gender pronoun used in the Muslim world to indicate a Muslim woman. It’s use is an indication of Islam’s horrible view of women, of how it attempts to obliterate all individuality among women (by covering their faces, their bodies). “Muslima” is a linguistic burkha that the mullahs have placed over the names of Muslim women. Just as the burkha coers the face, “Muslima” covers the name, so that the Muslim woman’s individuality is obliterated by language. Sometimes the word “Begum” (Urdu: wife) is used, among Muslims of South Asia. So you ask a married woman in Karachi, “What’s your name?”, and the answer comes back “Begum” – wife.

        Jihad Watch is flirting with dangerous territory by using it, and meanwhile potentially arming its Left wing critics, who can point to the use of this word as a sign of bigotry on it’s part. JW should drop the term, and use “Muslim woman”, or the gender-neutral “Muslim” instead.

        • Caroline says

          Mar 24, 2015 at 5:31 pm

          A Muslim woman was posting here a couple of days ago (rather fixated on white man’s penises s I recall). She referred to herself as a Muslima. I don’t care what they call themselves, frankly.

        • PJG says

          Mar 24, 2015 at 10:24 pm

          I prefer to not use ANY of their words, Krishan, so I know what you mean, I think. We have perfectly good English words to cover all of the Islamic Arabic words and concepts, even if it sometimes requires two or three words. Having noticed how new converts to Islam love to show off their newly learned Arabic terms, I feel it is a subtly Islamising thing to use their language. Understanding Islam is one thing, but it’s good to keep a distance.

  11. Karen says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    Heartbreaking picture of a sweet little girl….I hope she is safe, by some miracle, along with her poor brother.

  12. Mahendra Singh says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 11:48 pm

    Why is the husband, Azizul, crying “day and night” ? Is it because she left him behind
    because he was not a good Muslim and therefore not thought fit to be a jihadi warrior?
    If he had died doing Jihad, he would immediately get his 72, plus all the wine he could drink.

  13. Mo says

    Mar 24, 2015 at 11:52 pm

    Dear God, this is so unspeakably evil. What sort of mother leaves a life of peace and safety to deliberately take her small children into a war zone? Think about that!

    Why even bother taking the kids? Why not just leave them home with their father? They’re just going to be a hindrance.They are way too young to participate in anything. (Unless she’s planning to have bombs strapped to them.) They certainly can’t understand anything that’s happening to them. Like any other small child, they will be terrified and crying to go home! Who does that to a child?!

    And spare me the sob story from the father. Isn’t he a Muslim? Doesn’t he know what his religion teaches? Come on, already. I was willing to buy that line years ago, but no longer. If your ideology is on the news day after day because your coreligionists have “misunderstood” it so often in committing unspeakable acts of violence, wouldn’t any normal person think,”Hm. Maybe I SHOULD look into my own religion more closely?” I’m sick of Muslims claiming they have no idea what their religion teaches. Why are you following it, then?

    Ugh, this story makes me feel ill. I spent the day with a 19 month old today. His day consisted of being fed breakfast and then kissed goodbye by Daddy, and then us kicking a ball around, him riding his little bike, me holding him to the window to see all the cars/people going by, us listening to a bit of music/dancing and having lunch and snacks. And interspersed in there was a never ending stream of talking to him, reading to him, repeating words and numbers to him, laughing with him, holding him, tickling him and kissing him. And when Mommy came home, she held him and kissed him and loved him some more. When Daddy comes home, he’ll do the same. Then he’s put to bed with love, and in warmth and safety, where he has not a care in the world.

    THAT is what these kids should be experiencing. That’s what NORMAL people do with their own children, or any children who are in their care. They don’t take them into war zones to follow a death cult!

    • Charli Main says

      Mar 25, 2015 at 3:43 am

      I’m sick of Muslims claiming they have no idea what their religion teaches. Why are you following it, then?

      Agree–101% I´m sick of the endless” its not the Muslims bullshit”

      Its not the Muslims —its Islam
      Its not the Muslims—its the Jihadists
      Its not the Muslims—its the “few ” that have mis understood Islam.

      Islam thrives because around a billion Muslims continue to believe in, support or practice the tenets of Islam.

    • Ephesian says

      Mar 25, 2015 at 3:44 am

      Not if your life is dictated to by a 7th century death cult….

  14. katnis says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 1:18 am

    After some time without her freedoms and comfort, and if and when any harm comes to her children, she will regret her misguided decision.

  15. thomas pellow says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    “RADICALIZATION OF EUROPE’S MUSLIMS HITS A CRISIS POINT”

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/23/radicalization-of-europes-muslims-hits-a-crisis-point/

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