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UK: Would-be jihadi bride guilty of helping jihad fighter get to Syria to wage jihad

Aug 2, 2015 8:03 am By Robert Spencer

Angela ShafiqThere are hundreds, and possibly over a thousand, Muslims from Britain waging jihad in Syria and Iraq. Each one has a support network at home.

“Would-be jihadi bride Angela Shafiq convicted of terrorism offence,” BT, July 31, 2015:

A would-be jihadi bride has been found guilty of helping a young man to fight in Syria after they struck up a long-distance romance over the internet.

In a series of Skype chats, Angela Shafiq, 22, gave advice to Mohammed Nahin Ahmed, from Birmingham, about travel documents and how to get past border controls before he left to join rebels in the war-torn country.

In May 2013, Ahmed and his friend Yusuf Sarwar travelled from the UK to Syria, via Turkey, in order to join the ranks of Islamist rebels fighting the Assad regime.

The pair were arrested on their return in January last year and later pleaded guilty to an offence of preparation of terrorist acts, the court heard.

Shafiq denied committing the same offence between January 1 2013 and May 16 2013, saying her chats with Ahmed – a man she never met – were all “fantasy”.

But the jury at the Old Bailey found Shafiq, from Hounslow, in Middlesex, guilty after deliberating for less than a day.

In the five months before Ahmed left, he had some fairly intense Skype exchanges with Shafiq under the user name Neon Salam.

Prosecutor Christopher Hehir QC told the jury: “Although as I have said the two of them never met, the conversations between Angela Shafiq and Nahin Ahmed were quite intense at times.

“They discussed the possibility of marriage, and of Angela Shafiq herself travelling to Syria.

“A continuing issue in the conversations was the fact that Angela Shafiq’s mother, quite understandably you may think, would not allow her to go to Syria.”

In January 2013, Ahmed told her he wanted to be a “mujahid” or warrior and Shafiq replied that she prayed “Allah gives you the pleasure of being shaheed (martyr)”.

The following day, she expressed a wish he would come back for her so they could go to Syria together and he responded: “Lol I’ll prbly be deaddddd I cant cme bk ill get arrested Guaranteed Dats y. I talked to a Swedish brudaa who went syriaa. He said da battles get addictive (sic).”

When she spoke of going to Birmingham to see him, Ahmed put her off. He went on to tell her of his plan to go to Syria via Turkey with a friend who he said he was training because he was “a bit chubby” – in reference to Sarwar.

Shafiq was accused of helping Ahmed by giving him advice on renewing his passport and suggesting he do a first aid course – “like in case u get stopped at borders u can show that certificate nd say ur going there to help the ppl.”

The chats tailed off in February 2013 after Ahmed told Shafiq he had received a message from an alternative jihadi bride who wanted to go to Syria….

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Filed Under: Syria, United Kingdom Tagged With: Angela Shafiq, Mohammed Nahin Ahmed, Yusuf Sarwar


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  1. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 8:44 am

    Let’s get the ball rolling; put away all of these accomplices for ten years or more even if it means building new (Koran free) prisons.

  2. Annie Oakley says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 10:09 am

    I’m betting she’s grossly overweight & can’t get a decent man from her own Western culture so she decided to settle for becoming a slave to a psychopathic barbarian.

    Rather than face her own physical & psychological shortcomings, she decided to help attack her own nation.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 12:28 pm

      It doesn’t appear (to me) that she is a convert, but in one report “claims to never have been a practicing Muslim” meanwhile Ahmed clearly found a better looking jihad-bride prospect and this was devastating for Ms. Shafiq (she was “crying a lot”).

      At the trial she played dumb about the whole thing, which the jurors did not believe:
      “Shafiq told jurors that she did not believe Ahmed when he told her about his plan to go to Syria, saying that he used LOL – text speak for laughing out loud – a lot in his messages which made her question whether he was serious…she said she had no idea when he asked her for a donation for his “AK” that meant an AK47 rifle and she thought he talked about being a soldier as a slang term to sound “hard”.

      On their talk about marriage, she said: “I liked the topic of marriage. I wanted to fantasise about someone wanting me. I didn’t feel like in real life anyone wanted to marry me.”
      (She also envisioned a very short marriage, “Allah gives you the pleasure of being shaheed”).

      The same day (as Shafiq’s conviction) a Muslim convert, Jamila Henry, 22, of Walthamstow, east London, was sentenced to 12 months in prison suspended for two years for using a relative’s passport when trying to get to the Syrian border. She had already been in Syria and was apparently leaving her ISIS husband. “She had converted to Islam while at secondary school where ‘it was the “in” thing to do,’ her twin sister (a nightclubbing ‘party girl’) said. At 18, Jamila married and had a child in the UK. She and her husband became estranged and the increasingly devout youngster fled to Syria with their son. There she is thought to have married an ISIS militant before returning to Britain in December.”

      “She was arrested on Thursday ON SUSPICION OF PREPARING ACTS OF TERRORISM but has not been charged.”
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3005282/Party-loving-twin-jihadi-bride-Jamila-Henry-tells-sister.html

      “In February Kadiza Sultana, 16, Shamima Begum, 15, and Amira Abase, 15, all fled to Syria.
      The girls were captured on CCTV in the UK and in Turkey where they are thought to have been ushered over the border by an ISIS ‘fixer’ who provided them with false documents…Sharmeena Begum was named as the first of four Bethnal Green Academy schoolgirls to have fled home to join ISIS…
      Earlier three teenage boys were thrown out of the country after being picked up in Istanbul as they tried to cross the border. Their British parents phoned police after the boys, aged 17 and 19, went missing.”

      The Body Snatchers are all over the place…

      • Jack Diamond says

        Aug 2, 2015 at 12:51 pm

        good grief, I totally missed that Robert had posted an article about Jamila Henry….

    • Charli Main says

      Aug 2, 2015 at 2:03 pm

      Normal women have the occasional ” bad hair day “. Abnormal women convert to islam, cover themselves in garbage bags and become 2 hour at a time ” jihadi brides”

  3. Jay Boo says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 11:07 am

    The same well-entrenched support network that sends out ISIS support also funnels in massive numbers of illegal immigrants.

    They are called Muslims.
    Some offer direct support but all followers of Islam support this behavior just by the very nature of their duplicitous ideology.

  4. abad says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 11:12 am

    Is that the mummy from “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy” in the above photo?

    Or a Muslima trying to conceal her guilt?

    Muslims are the most guilty beings in the world.

  5. Angemon says

    Aug 2, 2015 at 1:54 pm

    But the jury at the Old Bailey found Shafiq, from Hounslow, in Middlesex, guilty after deliberating for less than a day.

    Doesn’t that make the jury “islamophobic”?

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