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UK Muslima who joined Islamic State was “radicalized” at London mosque

Aug 2, 2015 2:43 pm By Robert Spencer

Sharmeena BegumSharmeena Begum was apparently “radicalised at a women’s charity based at one of Britain’s biggest mosque.” Western authorities are paying insufficient attention to mosques and Islamic charities, assuming that they’re “moderate” on the basis of wishful thinking more than anything else. And whenever an Islamic jihadist is discovered to have attended a particular mosque, mosque officials insist that they barely knew him or that they opposed his “radicalism” — and law enforcement authorities accept it all credulously.

“Britain’s jihadi bride groomer: Schoolgirl radicalised in London mosque recruited her three classmates to join ISIS in Syria,” by Omar Wahid, The Mail On Sunday, August 1, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A teenage jihadi bride who groomed three of her school friends to join her in Syria to fight for Islamic State was radicalised at a women’s charity based at one of Britain’s biggest mosques, it has been claimed.

Sharmeena Begum became one of the youngest British teenagers to join the murderous IS terror group when she fled from her home in East London and travelled to Syria last December aged 15.

Three months later, three of her closest school friends – Amira Abase, 16, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Shamima Begum, 15 – also fled to Syria, triggering an international search to rescue them.

Islamic leaders and some of their family members blamed the internet for grooming the four schoolgirls, who were all pupils at Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets, East London.

But now it is claimed that Sharmeena was first radicalised inside the East London Mosque, Whitechapel, allegedly by women from a group called Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE). She then allegedly groomed three friends to join her at the meetings.

The IFE previously attracted controversy because one of its founders is a suspected Muslim extremist accused of 18 murders and war crimes in his native Bangladesh.

Family members and relatives of the teenager broke their silence and told The Mail on Sunday that they suspect rogue individuals within the IFE’s women’s wing, known as the Sisters Forum or Muslimaat, advised her to travel to Syria in the wake of her mother’s death. The IFE has denied the claims….

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 3:12 pm

    I am shocked, I am shocked – she was radicalized in a London mosque!!! To all those Sherlocks where else she will be radicalized – in a Hindu Temple??

    • Neil Jennison says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 4:03 pm

      At least 5 times I have pointed out what the Koran teaches about Jihad and death for unbelievers on UK websites to be told by leftist non-muslims that I cannot possibly understand the Koran, because that can only be done if I understand Arabic.

      They seem completely unaware that MOST MUSLIMS cannot read Arabic.

      What is going on? It isn’t as if anyone who takes a few hours to study Islam would not come to the conclusion it is a violent and supremacist religio-political ideology.

      • citycat says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 7:53 pm

        Not only that but it reminds of “by their fruits you shall know them”
        what do the fruits of Islam say about muslims or their religion?

  2. Stephanie says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    what does the word “radicalised” means, exactly?

    from the lat. word “radus” = root = allah/Qur’an = devout Muslims?

    and NOT so-called “radicalised” = wishy-washy Muslims (Ali Sina)

    http://192.96.206.71/jahannam-the-hell.html

    Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 6, Number 301 “the MAJORITY of the dwellers of Hell-fire were YOU(women).”
    & “DEFICIENCY in her(women) INTELLIGENCE”

    • citycat says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 8:26 pm

      So they don’t like intelligent women? Especially an infidel woman who deconstructs the Koran or Islam or their bull.
      Yeah, figures.

  3. ECAW says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    Radicalised=groomed=alerted to the requirements of Allah.

    Shhh – don’t tell the Mail.

  4. Jack Diamond says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    and one of the founder’s of IFE mentioned is Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, sentenced to death in absentia by the government of Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal for the torture and murder of 18 intellectuals in the 1971 jihad against Bangladesh independence. Britain does not have an extradition treaty with Bangladesh, is opposed to the death penalty, and Mueen is now a UK citizen (nice background checking). So, he remains and flourishes. The IFE and Mueen are identified with Jamaat-e-Islami, but overthrowing exiting societies to make them sharia-compliant (the stated goal of Jamaat-e-Islami) doesn’t cause concern. Mueen even received Prince Charles during a visit when he was Vice Chairman of the East London Mosque. He is a trustee of the Muslim Aid charity, which has been accused of siphoning money to mujahideen in Bosnia, funding Hamas, and “extremists” in Bangladesh. Who needs to be looking for “rogue individuals”?

    Where can all this “radicalization” be coming from??? A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma!

    • Jack Diamond says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 4:16 pm

      “existing societies” I meant, though they are also viewed as “exiting societies.”

  5. Angemon says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    A teenage jihadi bride who groomed three of her school friends to join her in Syria to fight for Islamic State was radicalised at a women’s charity based at one of Britain’s biggest mosques, it has been claimed.

    Did anyone believe this fiction? That Shenikwa Boom Boom was a law-abiding, “moderate”, upstanding member of the community until that one fateful day, at that one fateful specific event where she became “radicalized”?

    • Jack Diamond says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 4:29 pm

      it’s akin to being drugged or hypnotized or occupied by an Invasion of the Body Snatchers-like pod.
      Since it can have no connection to the real and peaceful teachings of mild-mannered wouldn’t hurt a fly wants to just be left alone Islam.

      • Susan B says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 6:14 pm

        Loved that movie, a real classic and a perfect analogy.

      • ECAW says

        Aug 3, 2015 at 2:12 am

        I’ve come to realise that radicalisation cannot be properly explained as a process, even less as a decision, but as a thing which falls out of the sky like birds’ mess or the Monty Python big foot and lands on random folks. They are in no way to blame, it could happen to anyone.

      • Babs says

        Aug 3, 2015 at 7:54 am

        The process described here

        http://www.faithfreedom.org/articles/free-thought/how-islam-fascinates-the-west/comment-page-1/

        facilitates radicalisation and the social/cultural milieu and family manipulation complete it.

      • Babs says

        Aug 3, 2015 at 8:08 am

        I believe that this is how the process is facilitated:

        http://www.faithfreedom.org/how-islam-fascinates-the-west/

        and it is bedded in by family members who are desperate to shine in the questionable reflected glory of their children, and, in the case of their daughters, who encourage them to travel to ISIS so as to keep them from being led astray by kufr.

        IFE behaves like Hamas during the intifadas, when it regularly took advantage of families suffering tragedies by apparently offering them a way by which to honour the memory of the bereaved, and even, in some cases, seducing young, unmarried girls and then offering them a way to restore their “honour” and that of their families by committing suicide murder of Israeli Jews.

        One husband even drove his adulterous wife to the place where she would explode herself.

        These are homo sapiens, no doubt, but human they are not.

        • Jack Diamond says

          Aug 3, 2015 at 3:15 pm

          But the reason they are able to seduce them or manipulate them is that their “call” has the imprimatur from the fixed texts and teachings of Islam behind them.

          The “fascination” for Westerners may come from disdain for their own history and culture or being fed fairy tales about Islam, but this is something that was first made intellectually fashionable. Decades ago Jacques Ellul wrote about how in France
          “it is no longer acceptable to criticize Islam or Arab countries” and the reinvention of Islam and rewriting of history by prominent opinion shapers. Stockholm Syndrome might be more to the point since fear of Islam underlies much of the relationship
          (and you do detail the always present threat). That’s why Salman Rushdie said, regarding Western self-censorship: “what no one talks about is the fear…if people weren’t being killed right now, if bombs and Kalashnikovs weren’t speaking today, the debate would be very different. Fear is being disguised as respect.” And fear disguised as respect sums up dhimmitude, an attitude and condition imposed on non-Muslims by Islam, historically chronicled in many works by Bat Ye’or.

          Dhimmitude was a result of jihad war, massacres usually preceded it and underscored it. Peace was entirely conditional. The dhimmi status as “protected” people meant only protected from the jihad war against them as long as they submitted to Islamic law. Besides inducing a servile, submissive psychology, constantly reminded of inferiority
          and vulnerability, Bat Ye’or mentions another phenomenon: “dhimmitude was also a very large movement of osmosis, of collaboration and collusion by the elite of those nations that were engaged in a painful process of their own self-destruction. Without this mechanism of collusion, the Islamic State could not have survived.”

          It’s worth quoting her conclusion to “Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate” in reference to the development of Eurabia today:

          “How did Christian peoples and states, some with powerful armies and the richest cultures of their times, collapse when faced with the onslaught of jihad and dhimmitude from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries? Now I no longer ask myself this question. The breakdown process…I have seen taking place in today’s Europe…Indeed, the present situation is reminiscent of the one that followed the Muslim conquests. Keeping Christian officials in their positions maintained a semblance of continuity (*note, under pain of death). Behind their foggy screen, Islamization could penetrate within every stratum of the vanquished societies…I was missing one essential link in the chain of events…the mix of cowardice, corruption, hatred and short-term ambitions that within
          the space of forty years have led Europe along the road to Eurabia…Europe has lost its bet. A hostage to hatred of Israel, it thought it could salvage peace by its surrender to Palestinian terrorism since the late 1960s…it has argued that terrorism will not be defeated through the military option but rather through dialogue, multilateralism, and multiculturalism, the main argument of the coming Caliphate…the caliphate is already alive and growing within Europe, in the
          extinction of the basic freedoms, control over thought, opinions and culture, subverting democratic laws by shari’a, fatwas, self-censorship and fear–inseparable companions of dhimmitude. Muslim immigrant masses… remain firmly anchored in the Islamic traditions of the Koran and Sunna, following shari’a laws, while Europeans are called upon to abandon their historic values and even their identity condemned as Islamophobia. Today, muffled rumblings are arising from the peoples of Europe, announcing to those who created this situation that they will not escape the judgment of history.”

          Young girls heeding the Call of Jihad is the least of it.
          (also, I don’t see the need to use the term “Islamism”for Islam, it is unnecessarily confusing implying a distinction without a difference).

  6. gravenimage says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    UK Muslima who joined Islamic State was “radicalized” at London mosque
    ………………………..

    Is this Mosque going to be shut down? How about this “charity”? Of course not–that would be “Islamophobic”…

  7. gravenimage says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 5:32 pm

    Dhimmi tool George Galloway was recorded as saying that his 2005 election owed “more than I can say, more than it would be wise for me to say, to the Islamic Forum of Europe.”

    Yup.

  8. God Almighty says

    Aug 3, 2015 at 6:19 am

    All mosques need to be demolished en-masse..Preferably whilst still in use!

  9. Babs says

    Aug 3, 2015 at 7:50 am

    “…Family members and relatives of the teenager broke their silence and told The Mail on Sunday that they suspect rogue individuals within the IFE’s women’s wing, known as the Sisters Forum or Muslimaat, advised her to travel to Syria in the wake of her mother’s death. The IFE has denied the claims….”

    Well the IFE would, wouldn’t it?

    Note firstly that this wretch was targeted soon after her mother’s death, when she may well have been grieving. I don’t doubt that, as Hamas would do in Gaza while they tried to suicide murder Israel into submission, the IFE offered this wretch a chance to make her mother’s death meaningful by joining ISIS

    Note also that the family “broke their silence..” This bears out my firmly-held belief that regardless of what these Muslims may say to the authorities, they almost always know all about the plans and radicalisation of their family members and do not inform the authorities as they would if they were good citizens

  10. Babs says

    Aug 3, 2015 at 8:47 am

    The IFE targeted this fool following her mother’s death by telling her that if she died she would see her mother again. There are no depths to which these low lives will not sink:

    http://www.clarionproject.org/news/islamists-told-teen-she-could-see-her-dead-mother-again

  11. gordon miller says

    Aug 3, 2015 at 9:22 am

    Yes, mosques need more scrutiny, particularly here in the homeland. They are the breeding ground for all kinds of anti-American propaganda as well as criminal activity.

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