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UK: Muslima who stole passport to join the Islamic State spared jail so she can be with her young child

Aug 1, 2015 2:27 pm By Robert Spencer

AA_17032015_27532The British government has never, ever extended this leniency and compassion to foes of jihad terror. Britain is in its last days as a free society, and as they are carted away into slavery, its leaders will congratulate themselves about how they avoided being “racist” to the very last.

“Young mother who stole her ‘party girl’ twin sister’s passport so she could join ISIS in Syria for a second time is spared jailed [sic] so she can be with her young child,” by Duncan Gardham, Mailonline, July 31, 2015:

A young mother who stole her twin sister’s passport in order to join ISIS for a second time has escaped a jail sentence after a judge told her it was an exceptional case.

Jamila Henry, 22, was arrested in Turkey in March as she prepared to board a bus in the capital Ankara, because Turkish police suspected she was heading to join ISIS.

It emerged that she was travelling on her twin’s passport and the two sisters could not be more different: one was a self-confessed ‘party girl’ who was supposed to be on a weekend in Amsterdam with friends when her passport was taken by her sister.

The other was a Muslim convert who was making her second visit to Syria, after returning to Britain with her baby son, a few months earlier.

Prosecutors dropped terrorism charges against Jamila even though she admitted spending six months living in Raqqa, the self-declared capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), with her two-year-old son.

She brought him back to London but disappeared back to Syria four months later without him because she was missing her friends there.

Jamila had told police officers as she was driven from Luton Airport to London for questioning, that she had been ‘lonely and had she had been to Turkey and Syria to see friends.’

She said she had a friend in Atmeh, a refugee camp just over the border from Turkey, and ‘expressed a desire to look after Muslim children who had suffered,’ Brinder Soora, prosecuting, said.

‘She also said that the Islamic State government had assisted with food and money. She said that people couldn’t easily cross the border into Syria and that they had to be sponsored before arriving in Syria.’

The court heard that Jalila Henry described herself as ‘opinionated, outspoken and confident’ in contrast to her sister who was ‘shy and quiet.’

Their mother was a Jehovah’s Witness and their father a Muslim but their parents separated when the girls were aged two and they lived with their mother.

She married at the age of 18 but her husband, who is of Turkish origin, moved out of their home in Walthamstow, East London and went back to live with his parents.

Alphege Bell, defending said: ‘The defendant asks through me to apologise to her sister and her mother. She wants the court to know the pain and distress she has caused. That is uppermost in her mind as she wants to move forward.’

Jamila pleaded guilty to possession of an identity document with improper intention between March 12 and March 19 this year.

Sentencing her to a 12 month suspended prison sentence, Judge Christopher Moss QC, told her: ‘I have decided in your case I can take an exceptional course, which will immediately allow you to re-establish contact with your child and put your life in order.’

The Old Bailey heard that Jamila was planning to study midwifery and nursing so she could get a job and bring up her son and the judge told her: ‘I hope things go well for you.’

The court heard that Jamila had made several previous attempts to get to Syria.

She was one of four women stopped by police at Heathrow Airport on January 4 last year. The women were spoken to by a ‘Prevent’ team of police officers dedicated to talking people out of going to Syria and Jamila decided not to go.

However, on May 12, she tried again, this time taking her two-year-old son and a friend of hers.

Once again they were stopped, this time at Luton Airport on their way to Turkey via Belgrade, and gave conflicting accounts of their destination.

When Jamila’s mobile phone was seized, police found eight or nine images of men and women in military clothing, holding guns, and others showing the flag adopted by ISIS and what was called the ISIS ‘salute’ – holding up one finger. One image had a caption referring to martyrdom.

The following day the group of three tried a different route, traveling to Belgium, via Dover by coach. They were stopped at Dover and questioned but allowed to continue.

Jamila spent six months in Syria, returning with her son on November 26 when she was stopped at Stansted Airport getting off a flight from Turkey.

She admitted that she had been living in the ‘declared capital’ of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria with her son since May and had returned to Britain through Turkey, using a similar route to the one she had taken to get there.

Jamila was carrying a basic model of mobile phone without a sim card and admitted she had thrown it away while on the flight. It was recovered from the aircraft but was badly damaged.

Jamila was released and four months later on March 17, British authorities were notified by officials in Turkey that Jamila’s sister had been ‘stopped and detained for deportation as it was suspected that she was intending to travel to Syria,’ Ms Soora said….

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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    Just look at the “comments” section.

    Islam is in disgrace.

    We patiently await our political elite to reflect the opinion of the overwhelming majority…..

    • Timothius says

      Aug 1, 2015 at 2:41 pm

      Don’t wait too long Peter your freedom and very lives depend on it! Good luck

      • Peter Buckley says

        Aug 1, 2015 at 2:52 pm

        Well, I think they’re very close to it in France:

        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10855797/Marine-Le-Pen-wins-record-victory-in-French-elections.html

        and the Netherlands:

        https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/geert-wilders-pvv-takes-the-lead-and-is-now-the-largest-political-party-24-in-netherlands-in-latest-poll/

        Despite the dhimmitude of the current leaders, it’s just a matter of time…………..

        • cs says

          Aug 2, 2015 at 3:39 am

          Those links are old… and may not reflect reality entirely, there is still a lot more too, a few more terrorist attacks may do the trick though.

    • Babs says

      Aug 1, 2015 at 4:09 pm

      I am rapidly losing patience with our political “elite.”

      What happened to Theresa May’s excellent idea of confiscating passports and, even better, ARRESTING Islamoloons if they come back to the UK?

      Why should this fool be allowed to mess with her child’s head?

    • Laura says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 6:35 am

      You may have a long wait Peter.

      • particolor says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 6:47 am

        We will be a Caliphate if People don’t stop voting for Donkeys !! 🙁

  2. somehistory says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    And just what, pray tell, will she teach her son? How to steal, lie and jihad?

    • Marty says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 2:13 pm

      Exactly what I was going to say.
      The UK is in a terrible mess culturally & may well be heading of total islamification
      within a couple of generations.
      We are being prepared for it by the advertising industry, especially government
      funded sites, where Asians outnumber Europeans & girls in headscarves are
      presented as normal children, instead of what they are.
      Future terrorists.

      • particolor says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 7:35 pm

        Beware of SNAKES in the Woodheap ! 🙁

  3. Angemon says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    Are you sure that’s not a guy masquerading as a girl, like those Boko Haram?

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    Did this woman have any compassion for the child she was going to take into a warzone where the child would see atrocity after atrocity and wake up screaming in nightmares for the rest of her life (if she survived the bombings).

    Is that not an abusive mother? Is the child not better with a mother like that?

  5. Michael Warden says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 4:30 pm

    ,,,,, and the Judge told her, ” I hope things go well for you “.

    • particolor says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 4:47 am

      Now here’s an Halal Iced VoVo and Nice cup of tea !! 🙂

  6. Mahendra Singh says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 5:03 pm

    Is that a woman or a transsexual?

    • DP111 says

      Aug 1, 2015 at 8:47 pm

      I suppose she goes to ISIS Syria, as it is the only place where men appreciate any woman.

  7. PRCS says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    I wonder how she pays for all these tripe.

    • PRCS says

      Aug 1, 2015 at 5:55 pm

      trips

      • particolor says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 4:54 am

        Exactly ! Tripe Trips !! 🙂

  8. voegelinian says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    Britain is in its last days as a free society, and as they are carted away into slavery, its leaders will congratulate themselves about how they avoided being “racist” to the very last.

    Indeed. And that most cogent observation by Spencer based upon mountains of data over the years is why I make the unremarkably elementary claim that the PC MC of the mainstream West (of which Britain is obviously a part) racializes the problem of Islam in myriad ways (and I extrapolate further from that to locate that meme as the primary reason why the PC MC mainstream West persists in indulging its myopia about the problem of Islam — including its vilification of the Counter-Jihad). Why Angemon challenged me to “prove” this baffles; as though he were looking out the window in full view of the Rockies and challenging someone to prove there was a mountain out there.

    • Angemon says

      Aug 1, 2015 at 7:45 pm

      voegelinian posted:

      “Why Angemon challenged me to “prove” this baffles; as though he were looking out the window in full view of the Rockies and challenging someone to prove there was a mountain out there.”

      Voeg, I know you couldn’t accurately describe reality to save your life, and that you consider correcting your propaganda (because there’s no other way to describe the lies you insist on repeating, no matter how many times they’re debunked) as an “attack”, but nevertheless here it is: you claimed that most of the people in the West are racists. I asked you to prove your assertion. Don’t try to change the goalposts, you’ll get no traction. Also, I said many, many times that the charge of racism is a handy tool to silence criticism and allow the stealth jihad to advance unimpeded because, diametrically opposed to what you say, most people are not racist and don’t want to be labeled as such. Which is exactly the situation being described:

      Britain is in its last days as a free society, and as they are carted away into slavery, its leaders will congratulate themselves about how they avoided being “racist” to the very last.

      But do carry on lying about me and what I say on one hand while accusing me of “pestering you”, “attacking you” and “sophistry” on the other – there’s no way that can blow up in your face, right?

  9. Jay Boo says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
    An ordinary human turned into a babbling Babylonian due to a virulent Islamic ideology infection.
    So Sad

    • Charli Main says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 3:07 am

      infected by the islamo-rabies virus.

      • particolor says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 5:02 am

        Mr Careroony will be really Happy when one of the War Dogs brings MRV back and shares it among You !! 🙁 🙁

  10. No Fear says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    Her mother was a Jehovahs Witness and her father a Muslim.

    Undoubtedly her (pacifist) mother was responsible for her urge to live in a terrorist state.

    (sarcasm)

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 1, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    UK: Muslima who stole passport to join the Islamic State spared jail so she can be with her young child
    ………………………………..

    Where was her concern for her young child when she was jetting off to the Islamic State? She either left the child behind, which shows she doesn’t much are about him, or–worse–she took the child with her into a violent and oppressive Jihad zone.

    The idea that what this little child really needs is a pious Jihadist “guiding” him is utterly insane. He’d be better off with his Jehovah’s Witness grandmother, his party-girl aunt, or any random foster care social services might provide. Anything but being raised by this vicious Jihadist.

  12. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 12:51 am

    Was there a suspended sentence handed out to this terrorist accomplice mother?

    As for Roberts concerns about Britain spiralling into servitude, he may be right, however its people have dragged themselves out of deeper pits at a number of times in their long history.

    This current problem is a moral failing of the country’s intellectual class brought about in large measure by their addiction to fashionable French Postmodern attitudes. Cambridge University in particular has failed the people of the U.K. and the broader modern civilisation of the world by elevating the personage and paranoid musings of Jacques Derrida.

  13. cs says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 3:25 am

    OIIIIIIIINNNNNN, cute, it is a touching story, she just wanted to cooperate with people who beheads and take sex slaves.

  14. dsinc says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 4:20 am

    Wasn’t Tommy Robinson jailed for nearly a year for a similar passport offense when he traveled to the USA to see Pamela and Robert?

    • Judi says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 6:26 am

      Yes he was, but then he’s not a muzzrat. Different rules apply it would seem.

      • particolor says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 6:34 am

        Absolutely ! He wasn’t “THE BEST OF PEOPLE” 🙂

  15. jayell says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 12:39 pm

    I think the thing is that here in the UK women generally get ‘justice’ on a siginificant discount (probably the same happens in the USA). In fact, I think it’s true to say that they’ve actually got away with murder (there’s even a woman’s organisation over here that’s been campaigning against prsion sentences for women) whilst attempting to invent even more pretexts for prosecuting and banging up men. It’s got to the point that the newspaper letters and internet comment columns are bursting with indignant items from either gender every time one of these ‘acts of justice’ occurs, and they’re becoming more frequent and predictable. So, add the pussy-footing around the muzzies to the already rampant gender-bias, and this is the sort of thing you can expect. And this ‘having a kid to look after’ bit is the oldest get-out in the book (you notice they don’t ask if she’s fit to care for a child??). The worst case of this sort was about 2 years ago, when three Somali females in their late teens – early 20’s got themselves drunk and, screaming racist abuse, viciously attacked a lone young English female sitting quietly by herself in a town centre. The victim needed hospital treatment. The judge let the three ‘young ladies’ off with a suspended sentence because ‘they were culturally incapable of dealing with alcohol’ (now, why might THAT be???). So, even when it’s against your own gender, you’ve got carte blanche to do what the hell you like if you’re (a) female, (b) from an ethnic minority and, better still, (c) a muslim. And I believe statistics will bear me out on this.

  16. Philip says

    Aug 6, 2015 at 9:55 am

    “Britain is in its last days as a free society, and as they are carted away into slavery, its leaders will congratulate themselves about how they avoided being “racist” to the very last.”
    Succinctly put. The UK has been ‘owned’ by Saudi almost ever since the end of WW1 when they were arse licking the Saudi and Jordanian royal ancestors. Then after 74 and the oil shock it became complete. The only reason there isn’t a larger Jewish emigration from the UK is that except for places like Bradford in the East Midlands and parts of London (Londonistan) the influence of Islam is not ‘apparent’. People in the UK simply do not understand what is racing towards then like an express train. Only when Buck Palace becomes the Caliphs or Emirs Palace and Westminster Abbey a Mosque will awareness begin. But as with bans on smoking etc. there is no resistance in the UK to laws of banning (alcohol under sharia…?) or attire enforcement. The British are conformist and subservient to a tee. If the govt says do this they will grumble but they will do it. So its an ideal country for Islamism to become the majority. London is the only capital outside the Islamic world that does Sharia finance. Read ‘Secret Affairs’ by Mark Curtis. Its damning…

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