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Mother of UK convert to Islam slain in jihad says he had “warped ideas of Islam”

Jun 15, 2015 8:41 pm By Robert Spencer

Thomas Evans Abdul HakimSally Evans, like all good non-Muslims who aren’t greasy Islamophobes, knows that the view of Islam held by jihad terror groups such as al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. The only people not convinced of this, aside from those wicked Islamophobes, are the Muslims who convinced young Thomas Evans/Abdul Hakim that their view of Islam was the correct one. It is noteworthy that no Muslim groups in Britain or anywhere else have any programs designed to prevent people like Abdul Hakim from being convinced by these Muslims with their “twisted, warped” views.

“Mother of al-Shabab’s Thomas Evans says ‘world has fallen apart,'” BBC, June 15, 2015:

The mother of a British man killed while fighting for Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Kenya has told the BBC her “whole world has fallen apart”.

Sally Evans, from Buckinghamshire, said a journalist had phoned to tell them Muslim convert Thomas, 25, had died.

Her other son Michael said that when he looked on Twitter, the first thing he found was a picture of Thomas’s body.

“We remember him as being my brother, your son,” he told the BBC. “But to everyone else he’s just a terrorist.”

Kenyan officials have confirmed that Thomas Evans was killed on Sunday when al-Shabab fighters attacked a military base in the north of the country.

Militants armed with AK47s and grenades raided the base in Lamu County, close to the Somali border, and then stormed a nearby village.

Eleven gunmen were killed in total and two Kenyan soldiers also died.
‘Twisted views’

Evans, who had changed his name to Abdul Hakim, contacted his family in 2012 to say he had travelled to Somalia to join the militant group.

At least 50 British citizens are believed to have joined al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia, which has been behind a series of high-profile attacks in Kenya and Somalia.

Ms Evans, from Wooburn Green, said she would remember her son as “the little boy who had a bright future before he went down the path he went down”.

She said he had met “some people with some very twisted, warped ideas of Islam” in the local area to begin with, and was later influenced by online material.

“I’m very angry that they were prepared to put my son on the line but they are still here,” she said. “They are not brave enough to go out there themselves.”

Jahan Mahmood is a former counter-terrorism adviser to the Home Office who knows the Evans family.

He said Thomas had been suffering from depression and “stressed out” with personal issues when he was approached by a group of “young Muslims”, who did not belong to a particular mosque and had a “very poisonous interpretation”.

Whence come all these lone wolves with their “poisonous” view of Islam?

“These men found him at a vulnerable time in his life, which is often the case,” he said.

“This is a cycle that seems to be repeated again and again.”

Michael Evans said his brother had changed from the “fun and loving” person he had grown up with.
Lost track

At the age of 21, Evans announced he was moving to Kenya and bought a single plane ticket.

He was turned back at the airport by police, but later sold his CDs and other possessions and told his family he was travelling to Egypt.

In August 2011, police told the family they had lost track of him. The following January he called and said he had joined al-Shabab.

Ms Evans repeated her claim that the British authorities had not done enough to stop her son from travelling to Egypt.

“If they had suspicions, why didn’t they involve me?

“We could have worked together to save him and I wouldn’t be in this situation now,” she said.

“They should have taken his passport. If I’d have known, I would have taken his passport but when they let him fly to Egypt, I thought there was nothing to worry about.”

She said she did not know who to turn to for advice and help.

“He would never tell me what he was doing,” Ms Evans said.

“He did say if the worst thing happened, I wasn’t to cry because he would be going to paradise, but somehow I cannot celebrate that.”

Somehow.

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  1. Angemon says

    Jun 15, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    She said he had met “some people with some very twisted, warped ideas of Islam” in the local area to begin with, and was later influenced by online material.

    I feel sorry for the poor woman who lost her son (not for her son who died in jihad though), but I need to ask this: what qualifies her to say what’s a “twisted, warped” version of islam and what’s the proper reading of islam?

    • Annak says

      Jun 15, 2015 at 9:47 pm

      She has most likely never read the Quran but believed the ” moderate” ( lying) muslims she meets. As well as they lying media and traitorous islamophiles.

      Hmmm strange huh ? I mean if there are seemingly, so many subversive mosques teaching ” false Islam” that they are not investigated and shut down ?
      Well, it couldn’t possibly be because the authorities know VERY WELL that this is mainstream Islam and they would if they even started, end up having to close most mosques all over GB ? This would be the end of their multi-cultural dream which they have “worked hard ” to achieve to reach the heights of their Utopian New world. Even persuading the public to believe that the naked Emperor wears beautiful clothes !

      Realising they are now being exposed as their poster-boy Islam was starting to behave too Islamic for comfort, ( that was supposed to come later more according to plan, hey our Muslims messed up..this was not the deal !!) and the general public started to ask questions,which they had hoped would be blind enough to not see….yet ….until too late , they decided to invade GB ( and all of Europe ) with tens of thousands of Muslim mostly African ” refugees” nudging people smugglers a little in the right direction, helping facilitate the greatest movement of peoples in human history. ( which was happening anyway for years just slightly less noticeable. ) “change of plans sir, we have to speed them up now, ready for take-over..SIR !!”

      Well for the ” masters” of the NWO desperate times takes desperate measures of course, and well, when utopia is around the corner ( the end of ” oppressive” Judeo-Christianity, their feared enemy as these religions produce independent minds) who could blame them? ( sarc off)
      Endgame ?

  2. Arthur says

    Jun 15, 2015 at 9:24 pm

    Disconcertingly sad that someone can lose their own son to Islam and remain so completely unaware of what Islam (the Koran) teaches. What, if anything, would move this woman to seek greater understanding? The Muslims won’t explain it to her, the mainstream media won’t explain it to her, the social services won’t explain it to her, the police won’t explain it to her, her pastor won’t explain it to her, her neighbors won’t explain it to her…but a few hours on JihadWatch.org would bring an epiphany.

    • Annak says

      Jun 15, 2015 at 9:58 pm

      Which she would never ( come to this site or similar ones, far too scared to !
      Because ” I have been told that is racist and Islamophobic”
      I know this because I know people like that , sorry I meant MOST , the majority of people think the same.
      They are too far gone, brainwashed, allowed themselves to be. Made a choice to be.
      In this age of ” information” that our ancestors would be jealous of, people have never been so uneducated. And no, indeed nobody at all is helpful, least all of the weedy churches of today.
      One of the greatest communist successes in the West was infiltration of the WcofC.

    • underbed cat says

      Jun 15, 2015 at 11:02 pm

      Perfect….

    • underbed cat says

      Jun 15, 2015 at 11:05 pm

      Arthur..perfect !

    • Lia Wissing says

      Jun 17, 2015 at 6:32 am

      Sh’s right about one thing, though: the inciters and propagandists for jihad, do not endanger themselves. An example is Mr Mashaal, living in luxury in Qatar.

  3. Peggy says

    Jun 15, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    “If they had suspicions, why didn’t they involve me?

    “We could have worked together to save him and I wouldn’t be in this situation now,” she said.
    ———————————————-
    Oh give me a break. He was YOUR SON and you were in his life for the first 21 years. If you could make a difference in his life I think you would’ve by now. When he became depressed what did you and your husband do to help him?
    So now it’s the police who are at fault for not keeping an eye on him. So fed up with parents blaming the police or the government but never taking a look at themselves.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 15, 2015 at 10:55 pm

      Sally Evans thinks what? That Islam is like the Salvation Army?

      Did she think there is no JIHAD in Islam? Did she believe that JIHAD has been left in the 7th century or the time of the Crusades?

      Sally, we are living in the time of the Third Great Jihad.

      • Peggy says

        Jun 16, 2015 at 12:56 am

        She certainly doesn’t live in the same universe as the rest of us do. Jihad is all around us but somehow she missed all the terrorist attacks. She probably doesn’t watch TV or listen to the radio. Maybe she thinks that it’s the Amish who are killing everyone because they have beards and dress differently and the Muslims are some wonderful newage religion.
        I wish I could debate this with her.

        • Know Thy Enemy says

          Jun 16, 2015 at 3:35 am

          Maybe she does watch TV and has been in the impression that the anchors all report on things correctly, and that the government spokespeople, the experts invited by MSM to talk, etc, all presented their analyses honestly!

          The fact is that majority of the public blindly consumes whatever it is that the people of influence churn out. The common man simply does not have the time, resources, or the suspicions to investigate whether he is being deceived or being kept in the dark.

          I do not blame the poor woman. It is the job of anchorpersons, government, and experts, etc, to research/analyze things correctly, and present them without bias! They are the ones who are criminally complicit in the sufferings of gullibles like Sally Evans who only trusted them for good advice!

  4. Indian says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 5:00 am

    Before converting to Islam he is a good guy but after becoming a Muslim he become terrorist. Islam is the reason. we didn’t hate Muslims we hate Islam. Islam is an cruel ideology dated back to 6th century. There is nothing like moderate Islam, Islam itself is radical. These Muslims hate every one every thing that is non Islamic.the only places where they live peacefully is non Islamic countries. There is no connection between God and Islam. God didn’t support Islam. Allah is Satan. The victims of Islam through out the history is one billion people.billion not million. 80 million deaths of Hindus in India alone. Two devils communism and Islam support each other. Stop Islam and save world.

  5. Baucent says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 6:12 am

    Yes, very curious all these Jihadi recruiters never seem to be associated with “any particular mosque”. Convenient that, as it shields the mosques from any criticism.
    And how do these mysterious recruiters find “troubled youth” in the first place, and what part do local mosques play in the process? Could it be that casual enquirers about Islam down at the local are referred to these recruiters ?

  6. jayell says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 8:16 am

    It must be clear to all but the most deluded or ignorant that Islam is a pretty obnoxious parasitical social virus in UK society, and when it comes to ‘infecting’ members of its host population in this kind of way, it’s well beyond a joke, if it ever was one. How do we deal with a virus of this kind in living material or in computers? We DON’T pretend that it’s a ‘nice’, ‘helpful’ thing that’s been ‘ ‘misunderstood’, because all the evidence points the other way. We destroy it, or remove it, or otherwise disable it permanently. Either that your society/computer goes down the swanee. Not much choice, is there? If you’ve got any sense or self-respect.

  7. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 8:18 am

    Perhaps some kind person who knows the bereaved mother can steer her to Jihad Watch.

    Islam is not ‘moderate’, and neither is it ‘Peace’. It is political: it concerns land and involves fighting. It commands Jihad, warfare to establish the rule of Islam, until Islamic law is the only law, so that, as the placards proclaim, Islam will dominate.
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5739-moderate-islam-hijacked-a-mistake-and-a-deception

  8. PRCS says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 8:57 am

    “Jahan Mahmood is a former counter-terrorism adviser to the Home Office who knows the Evans family.

    He said Thomas had been suffering from depression and “stressed out” with personal issues when he was approached by a group of “young Muslims”, who did not belong to a particular mosque and had a “very poisonous interpretation”.”

    Why did he tell her that?

    And why didn’t the author ask what that “poisonous interpretation” consists of; and how it differs from Sally Evans’ understanding of Islam?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 12:00 pm

      Perhaps Jahan Mahmood can explain the “non-poisonous” interpretation of:
      “Kill unbelievers wherever you find them” (Koran 9:5, part of Islamic law).

      • Paul says

        Jun 16, 2015 at 12:07 pm

        He’d probably talk about “context” and it being purely
        “defensive”. A bit like the “context” in which ISIS have
        been “defensively” butchering Christians and driving
        them out of their ancestral homelands in places such
        as Mosul.

    • Paul says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 12:14 pm

      Thank goodness for people like Mahmood and the work that
      they do, or something bad could have happened.

  9. Paul says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 11:54 am

    She’d better wisen up very quickly for the sake of her other
    son. I’d have thought that one brainwashed and dead son
    would have done that for her by now, but apparently not.
    I can’t believe she’s speaking of “warped ideas of Islam” when
    she ought to have said “Islam IS warped ideas”.

  10. Bosch Fawstin says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    His mother may like to say that he had “warped ideas of Islam”, but in truth, he allowed himself to be warped by the warped ideas of Islam.

  11. Oliver says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    My 3rd attempt to post this.

    Chris, I agree with your first post–one less terrorist. I would like to see thousands more terrorists killed, and the sooner the better. And the more the better.

    Just my views

    • Carlos Danger says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 6:28 pm

      Oliver is correct.

      One less.

  12. Oliver says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    The terrorists’ mother complains that the government did not do enough for her son –to stop him, whatever.

    DID SHE EVER HEAR OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY?

    (I realize, as an American, that our politicians, starting at the top, do not; and celebrities also do not). However, normal people are responsible for their choices- good or bad; and all people should be-over a certain age (like 12 or 13 or so).

  13. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    Command after command in the Koran instructs, “Kill unbelievers wherever you find them” (9:5) until the religion, all of it, is Islam (8:39).
    They mandate warfare to establish Islam. No warping or twisting is needed: they say it straight. The Koran, further, is not optional: it forms part of Islamic law, and is promoted as “true from eternity to eternity” (Sam Solomon, former professor of Sharia law). Denying any verse is a capital offence (Manual of Islamic Law o8.7(7)).
    The hunt for triggers and radicalisers warping and twisting Nice Peaceful Islam is a wild goose chase away from the mosque. The ideology itself is the source. The jihadi killer has not twisted anything. He is doing exactly what it says in the book.
    “Let’s Twist Again – Radicalisation” at LibertyGB
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5751-let-s-twist-again-radicalisation
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5751-let-s-twist-again-radicalisation

    • PRCS says

      Jun 16, 2015 at 8:01 pm

      “The ideology itself is the source. The jihadi killer has not twisted anything. He is doing exactly what it says in the book.”

      I agree with you–mostly

      That “radicalization” and “radical Islam” crap is just that. The amputation of thieves’ hands is what the Qur’an commands.

      But, I pity the poor, illiterate Muslim woman whose husband cites a book she–and perhaps him, too– cannot read to justify beating her.

  14. R Cole says

    Jun 16, 2015 at 7:28 pm

    Our problem is ~ this ‘fake’ Islam seems to be closing in fast ~ on the ‘real’ Islam!!

  15. pongidae rex says

    Jun 17, 2015 at 12:18 am

    No other religion on earth tells horny, lovesick young men that they can kill their way into an eternal brothel.

  16. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 17, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    “We have heard it by now ad nauseam: it is the increasingly worn and threadbare narrative that “Islam is peace” … but has been hijacked, radicalised, politicised, warped, twisted, distorted, perverted, misunderstood, wrongly interpreted, and so on and so on. On this basis, it has to be pointed out, the devout advisers make it appear that Islam must be just about the world’s worst-taught subject, with appalling teachers and hopeless students; not very flattering, and not very convincing, either.”
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6418-tony-blair-we-seem-blind

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