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UK: Jihadi free to roam streets as interpreters are abandoned to Taliban

Aug 20, 2015 8:01 pm By Robert Spencer

sharia-future UKThe UK is dragging out its surrender and capitulation for far too long. It should just install Asghar Bukhari as Prime Minister now and be done with it.

“Afghan ‘terrorist’ is free to roam the streets of Britain as hero interpreters are abandoned to Taliban: Man who has been stripped of British citizenship is embroiled in battle to fight deportation,” by Larisa Brown and David Williams, Daily Mail, August 20, 2015

A suspected Afghan terrorist is living freely in London as former British Army translators are abandoned to face Taliban hitmen, it emerged last night.

The man had been stripped of his British citizenship over alleged links to Al Qaeda but made it back into the country.

At huge cost to the taxpayer, he is now embroiled in a legal battle to fight deportation – a process which could take months or even years.

Known only as M2, he has been put on an electronic tag and partial curfew but is otherwise free to roam the streets despite being declared a security risk.

The extraordinary case comes as the Daily Mail highlights the plight of Afghan translators who served alongside UK troops but have been refused entry into Britain. This is despite what interpreters and their supporters say is a catalogue of compelling evidence that their lives are in danger from the Taliban….

Interpreters desperate to come to the UK said it was a ‘disgrace’ that there is no place for them despite their years of loyal service. Ahmad, a father-of-two who worked for UK forces in Helmand, said: ‘It is a strange world where Britain can allow in twice a man like this who they say supports terrorists but turns its back on Afghan interpreters.

‘This man lives comfortably, safely in the UK while we are left to worry about our families, our safety, with David Cameron telling us we are not wanted.’

Rafi, a former interpreter blown-up in Afghanistan and now living in Britain, described the case as ‘extraordinary’.

The 28-year-old, who is leading the court battle to force the Government to allow interpreters in to the UK, called it a betrayal of Afghan translators and of British soldiers who lost their lives.

Details of the case came to light during a four-day hearing of the special immigration appeals commission (SIAC), where the man is appealing against a decision last month to send him back to Afghanistan.

M2 arrived in the UK as a child and had indefinite leave to remain before being awarded British citizenship in 2011. But in May last year, he was on a trip to Afghanistan when he was told Home Secretary Theresa May had decided to revoke his British citizenship.

According to an investigation by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the Government said M2 was to act as a courier for Al Qaeda. He made what the Home Office described as two suspicious trips to Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014. He claimed there were family reasons for the visits.

On the second trip, the Government claimed he planned to courier an iPhone and laptop to the terror organisation but changed his mind after being searched at Kabul airport. He gave them to his brother and a local doctor instead.

Despite being told his British passport was cancelled, M2 still had ‘indefinite leave to remain’ stamped in his Afghan passport and was able to return to the UK via Pakistan.When he arrived back in Britain he was initially placed in a detention centre but was freed at a bail hearing last December and has been living in London, wearing an electronic tag, since.

SIAC judge Mr Justice Irwin will make a judgment about the case in the coming months. The Home Office said it was inappropriate to comment while legal proceedings were continuing.

An Afghan translator shot by a Taliban sniper while serving on the frontline with UK troops said yesterday he feared he had been left to the enemy.

The 29-year-old has spent nine years working for the British but despite threats to him and his family – and a huge scar on his arm that marks him out – he claims to have been told he does not qualify to be relocated.

Married with a young son, the man – whom the Daily Mail is identifying only as Khan for security reasons – said he and colleagues were so worried about Taliban reprisals they were applying to the US for visas because Britain was threatening to turn its back on them.

The US has introduced a scheme allowing translators working for any of its Coalition partners in Afghanistan to apply for a visa to go there. ‘If the British will not help me after many years in their service then I have to look elsewhere to provide safety to my family,’ he said.

‘I have asked the British many times for relocation because the Taliban want to kill me but they simply tell me to change my telephone number, change where I live, change my routes to work.’

He said he had helped save many UK troops but was now ‘being left to their enemy’.

His family has had to move home several times because of death threats, including those made to his local mosque where a warning letter was posted calling him a ‘slave of the infidels … You will be burnt in hell’.

Khan was shot while on patrol with UK troops in 2009. ‘I felt a hard pain in my left shoulder, I was bleeding badly and my hand was numb … my arm was shattered,’ he said. ‘I have almost died helping the British … I do not understand why they will not help me now.’…

I do. They don’t want to be accused of “Islamophobia.”

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  1. ich says

    Aug 20, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    UK is a ticking time bomb.

    Who to thank for that?
    Who knows who cares !

    But its only going to get worse.

    EDL needs to talk louder

    • rightrightright says

      Aug 21, 2015 at 1:07 am

      Tommy Robinson was arrested on his return from holiday yesterday. He is now out on bail. What they have concocted as a charge nobody yet knows. The police want him quiet. Their game of cat and mouse with him continues.

    • Scott says

      Aug 21, 2015 at 8:50 am

      Who or what is EDL?

      • Michael Copeland says

        Aug 21, 2015 at 1:37 pm

        English Defence League, a group (not a political party) that seeks to raise awareness of the loss of English identity.
        See internet.

  2. abad says

    Aug 20, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    Every non-Muslim majority nation on earth needs to start shutting their borders to Muslims. That is the only solution right now. Deport, and shut the borders. There is no other way.

  3. Angemon says

    Aug 20, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    I’m going to go on a limb and say there are muslim somewhere in the hierarchy of visa request processing..

    • Charli Main says

      Aug 21, 2015 at 3:10 am

      There have been a number of cases, where Pakis working in the Passport Office, have be caught making perfectly genuine British passports for other Pakis at 10,000 pounds a time.
      The Pakistani musrat infiltration of Britain´s Home Office and associated institutions is complete.
      Like cockroaches, Pakistani musrats are into EVERYTHING and working flat out to get as many other Pakistani musrats into Britain as they can.

  4. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 21, 2015 at 1:36 am

    “…It is a strange world where Britain can allow in twice a man like this who they say supports terrorists but turns its back on Afghan interpreters…”

    Much of the cultural and political elite in the U.K. and Sweden now live by a new moral compass which sees the world almost entirely through the lens of cultural struggle. In this case, Afghan interpreters are pigeon holed with the Dominant Culture (ie the enemy) as they have assisted the British. On the other hand the Jihadi man obviously represents the Repressed Culture (in Post Modern Parlance ‘The Other’) and deserves to be treated deferentially. In this mentally skewed appraisal the Afghan Interpreter cannot possibly have Victim Status whereas the Al Qaeda supporter automatically qualifies as he’s opposing the existing order – the Cultural Dominance of the West. It’s the broad brush stuff alone that counts in the minds of the new elite, which explains why a peaceful man like our Afghan Interpreter can be ‘out’ while a promoter of head lopping, walking freely through the streets of London, can be ‘in’; this is also why Jihadi groups that are proud to murder homosexuals are ‘in’ while those who defend universal human rights and speak up against this abomination are ‘out’.

    In the U.K. the Conservative Party at its senior levels has succumbed to this mind numbing habit of interpreting everything through a morally skewed and erroneous cultural lens effectively following the Labour Party in its folly.

    Today, the true progressives, wherever they live around the world, support a Universal Civilisation which puts the rights of individuals to life and limb centre stage. This Modern Civilisation now belongs to people living anywhere on the globe, those who are building civil societies and who value individual freedoms.

    • Paul says

      Aug 21, 2015 at 3:37 am

      Sounds perfectly plausible. I see nothing more than a deliberate
      and vindictive attempt to radically islamise this country by the
      establishment and the ‘intellectual’ left, at the expense not only
      of the native population, but also of secular or nominal muslims.
      Things will come to a head sooner than expected at this rate and
      much innocent blood will flow. I just hope that those responsible for
      encouraging this are brought to justice.

    • Karen says

      Aug 23, 2015 at 12:40 pm

      This is a very good summary explaining the irrationality of current Western governance and policy, such as the one affecting this translator. Yes, the worship of ‘culture’ trumps all with these politicians, to the point where the nation-state is seen as passé. Ironic; people used to immigrate to escape the political, legal, and economic aspects of their home cultures. Now our politicians encourage them to transplant old ideas into Western societies. Instead of promoting the unique ideals of the West, which we should be proud to do, we encourage immigrants to remain in a cultural bubble, and transmit the old culture to a new generation. (Food, music, art; yes please. Politics, law, economics; no thanks.)

      You mention the rights of individuals; yes, thank you, and amen. The individual is what Western society is all about. The individual should always trump ‘culture’ and its handcuffs.

  5. Judi says

    Aug 21, 2015 at 1:41 am

    No doubt he is being housed by the state and receiving welfare benefits.

  6. RonaldB says

    Aug 21, 2015 at 4:28 am

    Just from the article, it sounds to me like the case against M2 was pretty thin. Unless they had a more substantial case than was reported, it sounds like the Home Office simply revoked his citizenship while he was traveling. Do you want the government to have that type of precedent?

    In the case of the interpreters who were denied entry into Britain, that is one of the consequences of intervening in foreign affairs: inevitably, your side will lose, and the troops allied with you will want to escape reprisals by coming into your country. If you accept the principle with interpreters, what about the army units that supported, or supposedly supported, the occupying forces?

    This is a reason why governments should be very, very careful about getting involved directly in foreign disputes or occupations. Any such action will result in huge pressures to admit thousands or tens of thousands of allied soldiers and civilians.

    I believe there should be a fixed number of discretionary slots available for foreign nationals who provide exemplary service to a country. There should be a clear understanding to the allies that this is the limit of immigration, win, lose, or draw. It sounds like the interpreters would qualify for this privilege.

    But, my main point is, any open commitment to immigration should always be critically examined.

    • Marty says

      Aug 21, 2015 at 5:19 am

      You make some very logical points which have made me think about the
      principles involved.
      On balance, I think the interpreters should be allowed into the UK for two reasons.
      1 We are crawling with bogus asylum seekers & jihadists.
      The interpreters should be useful in spotting phonies & also acting as fifth columnists
      in the assorted mohammedan groups which pollute the UK.
      2. They took massive risks for our interests, & if they are seen not to be rewarded fairly, there
      will be few volunteers when we next have to put boots on the ground in Filthistan or wherever.

  7. Marty says

    Aug 21, 2015 at 5:12 am

    As I sit at this somewhat grubby keyboard, BBC Radio Four is repeating a programme
    where Moazzem Begg & assorted mohamedan scum reminisce about their hard times
    in Guantanamo.
    Sadly the times were not so hard that they failed to survive.
    The UK is being steadily colonised by mohamedans & the few political characters who dare
    to observe it are stigmatised as being “far right”, which in the UK means Nazis.
    Every genuine conservative, liberal, “progressive”, feminist & socialist should resist
    every aspect of islam for being the distillation of pure evil.

  8. mccode says

    Aug 21, 2015 at 11:31 am

    What a disgrace. Winston Churchill is twisting in his grave in agony.

  9. Sam says

    Aug 21, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    I can see a civil war in UK and other European countries soon. In fact I bet it is ongoing on a small scale that no one is reporting. Europeans can not be that spineless to allow Islam just walk over them right? Well, maybe I am wrong. I don’t understand human nature and the stupidity that we show in front of Evil, Islam.

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