He earlier tried to get into Syria along with his father. So apparently he learned his Islam That Has Nothing to Do with Islam at home — he wasn’t “radicalized on the Internet.”
“Coventry man ‘wanted martyrdom’ in Syria,” BBC, May 18, 2015:
Zakariya Ashiq denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism
A young British Muslim repeatedly tried to join Islamic State in Syria in a bid to achieve his ambition of becoming a martyr, his trial has heard.
Zakariya Ashiq, 20, from Coventry, left the UK in November, but was forced to return after failing to cross the border from Jordan into Syria, the Old Bailey was told.
He was arrested at Heathrow airport as he flew home on 20 November.
Mr Ashiq denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism.
The prosecution said exchanges found on his mobile phone revealed he appealed to two friends, who had allegedly previously travelled to Syria, for help in crossing the border.
‘No life without Jihad’In one post on the WhatsApp messaging service he wrote: “Oh, seriously man, just get me there, man… I don’t know how you gonna get me, but you have to get me across.”
In other messages he wrote “there’s no life, no life without Jihad” and pledged to do “Ishtishadi (martyrdom) against… all these people”, the jury was told.
The trial also heard Mr Ashiq declared his admiration online for Islamic State, as well as searching for phrases such as “IS beheading journalist” and “44 ways to support Jihad”….
Don McKellar says
No need to even have an internet connection to get “radicalized” by Islam. All you have to do is pick up a Koran and start reading it and taking it literally as written and — ta da! — you are a jihad killer following passages like: Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them” And a hundred more peaceful passages on how to deal with those who are not moslems and bow down to the death cult of the moon god.
TediNeo98 says
Indeed Don – the entire family should be prosecuted for their hand in this along with the imam at the mosque.
Ephesian says
“Radiclisation” as the lefties sooooo like to describe this maniacal cult’s effect on it’s victims,starts at the child’s mother’s knee alongside the father,then the imam at the mosque,then friends,and so on.Simples! The media and government like to make out that these poor,poor unfortunate people were captured by some sort of islamic bogey-man on their way home from helping old ladies cross the road or other noble deeds,and well,that was the start of the rot.
Oliver says
I still do not see why the British (and US and Australia, etc) stop these assholes. Let them go, and hope that they get killed quickly-preferably while killing other Muslims seeking to be martyrs,
Michael Copeland says
“Jihad means to war against non-Muslims….
Jihad is a communal obligation.”
(Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0, o9.1).
The Manual is a free download: see net.
Oliver says
In fact, the governments (or the people) should charter planes to take entire plane loads of these to Syria.
Less expensive then individual tickets.
(And hope that the plane follows in the footsteps (air steps?) of Malaysian Airlines FL 380- crashes into the sea.
Ernie says
He should be considered a murderer ; he just didn’t prevail because he was caught before he could act out his evil plans . I hope he’ll get a stiff sentence ( in solitary confinement , to prevent him from prison dawah ) , and will be castrated to prevent him from procreating and passing on his distorted way of thinking to his children . The British surely will treat him very nicely , and any real justice is out of the question .
Champ says
“there’s no life, no life without Jihad”
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Spoken like a completely brainwashed mohammedan slave-of-allah! What a fool …
jayell says
“Coventry man ‘wanted martyrdom’ in Syria (BBC)”….Good. Far be it from the Great British Public to deny him his wish. Or any of his friends. The trouble with muslims, however, is their amazing generosity. Not only do they achieve the accolade of the Supreme Sacrifice for themselves, they usually can’t help but share it with a few others, or a few hundred others (or maybe a few thousand?) who didn’t even ask for the honour! And these would usually even include us unworthy kuffar! On a more serious note, I take great offence at the BBC’s headline, referring to this person as a ‘Coventry man’. The REAL people of Coventry showed incredible bravery and fortitude in WW2 when their city was virtually flattened by the Nazis. Now we have this disgusting proto-Nazi (how else does one describe such a ‘devout muslim’?) sullying their name by being misguidedly associated with them. What an insult.
Shmooviyet says
@jayell: Thank you for your comments on Coventry.
Didn’t Marie Harf tell us these people were just looking for opportunities to start small businesses?
Angemon says
Man, look at those dead, sheep-ish eyes… The lack of will to live… Why would he want to toil from 9 to 5 every day for the best part of his life when he could die in a way that grants him entrance into the islamic afterlife brothel? Well, at least he wanted to go jihadi in Syria rather than pulling a Tsaernev. Look, that kid is gone. There’s no coming back from where he is and, if he longs for the afterlife, let him stand trial for treason.
gravenimage says
UK Muslim who tried to join Islamic State: “there’s no life, no life without Jihad”
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Of course, there isn’t much of a life *with* Jihad, either—but that doesn’t matter, since pious Muslims “love death”
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He earlier tried to get into Syria along with his father. So apparently he learned his Islam That Has Nothing to Do with Islam at home — he wasn’t “radicalized on the Internet.”
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Most Muslims learn Islam at home—and at the Mosque, and from reading the Qur’an, and from their thug buddies, and it they augment this with watching a few beheading videos on-line, all too many Westerners are willing to believe that they were “radicalized on the internet”. I guess this sounds less scary than realizing most Muslims learn their Islam at home, at Mosque, and from the “holy book” of Islam itself. After all, there’s all sorts of scary and weird stuff on the internet—much easier to believe that none of this really has anything to do with Islam itself.
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“Coventry man ‘wanted martyrdom’ in Syria,” BBC, May 18, 2015:
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Other posters have already pointed out the absurdity of this Jihadist being described as a “Coventry man”. He was just a Muslim using Coventry as his temporary base from which to wage violent Jihad.
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Zakariya Ashiq denies two counts of preparing acts of terrorism
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How meaningless is *this*, since he has already admitted that he was there to wage violent Jihad?
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A young British Muslim repeatedly tried to join Islamic State in Syria in a bid to achieve his ambition of becoming a martyr, his trial has heard.
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This is what passes for “ambition” in Islam…
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In other messages he wrote “there’s no life, no life without Jihad” and pledged to do “Ishtishadi (martyrdom) against… all these people”, the jury was told.
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Yet more proof that Islam is nothing like Christianity. In Christianity, martyrdom is not something done against other people.
What Zakariya Ashiq means, of course, is “killing and being killed in the way of Allah”.
Richie says
“there’s no life, no life without Jihad”
Thats because Islam is a death cult. Islam celebrate death, many Muslims regard murder as a form of spiritual baptism.
I wonder sometimes of Muslims secretky worship Kali the goddess of death
abad says
You know – and my husband just pointed this out to me recently – Muslims don’t have the ambition to be grocery baggers, a far more productive not to mention harmless, so they are reduced to murdering non-Muslims in the name of Allah because they have nothing to offer western society and they know it.
Grocery baggers indeed.
Westman says
This sounds like the Islamic Teenager equivalent of, “I’m bored, I need something to kill”.
No culture means no original thought which means HE is boring. There is a wonderful world for anyone who takes the time to turn over a few rocks to see what there is.
I just finished playing, “I Remember Clifford, Blue In Green, and Dolphin Dance”, and I’m not bored. I helped a grandchild yesterday understand some Trigonometry and that was satisfying.
All this kid needed to feel useful was help others with life, not death.
Matthieu Baudin says
Like moths to a flame; these young ones have switched off their brains and opt for ‘no life via Jihad’.
Doug says
i spend a lot of time (way too much, I fear) on Facebook. It would take me a year to accumulate this many well-articulated, intelligent comments there. Well done, everyone.
Richard says
I think the authorities should let these “wanna be jihadis” leave the likes of the UK, so long as they relinquish their passports on the way out. Good riddance.
dumbledoresarmy says
Judging from what I’m seeing around the ridges, wherever reports on people like this creature are open for Comments, you’re not the only person in the Infidel world who is thinking along the same lines.
“Let the b*st*rds go. Never let them back in”.
That dazzlingly simple method whereby one might start to whittle down to size a huge and ever-growing menace is steadily becoming apparent to more and more of the Western public. One hopes that soon the pressure from the sheer number of people figuring it out, will begin to manifest in politicians – probably backbenchers, first, and independents – starting to publicly propose it.
The corollary – “and whatever you do, *don’t* import any *more* of them, that is, Muslims, since so many of them seem to be turning nasty” – seems also to be starting to dawn upon many.