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UK Muslim convicted of terrorism offense for jihadi training notes, says he just wanted to lose weight

Oct 28, 2015 12:32 pm By Robert Spencer

“Amjad who has run a jewellers shop in Dewsbury for 17 years and a hotel in Roundhay Road, Leeds for five years had denied the offence claiming he made the notes, which included physical exercises because he was trying to lose weight.” Hamas-linked CAIR should have rushed to his defense. He could have been a poster boy for their cynical and deceptive campaign from a few years back about how jihad was essentially benign, and involved activities such as regular workouts:

MyJihadStayFit

“Dewsbury man Adeel Amjad convicted of terrorism crime,” by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, October 28, 2015:

A Dewsbury businessman has been convicted of an offence under the Terrorism Act for making notes about Mujahideen training.

Adeel Amjad, 35, was unanimously found guilty by a jury at Leeds Crown Court of possessing a record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

The handwritten notes titled Commander of Mujahideen were in a notebook discovered in a wardrobe in his bedroom during a police search of his home in Headfield Road, Savile Town on November 5 2013.

Amjad who has run a jewellers shop in Dewsbury for 17 years and a hotel in Roundhay Road, Leeds for five years had denied the offence claiming he made the notes, which included physical exercises because he was trying to lose weight.

The eight man four woman jury took under four hours to reach the unanimous verdict and Amjad was bailed with a condition of residence until December for a pre-sentence report to be prepared by the Probation Service….

Brett Weaver prosecuting had told the court police visited Amjad’s home “for an entirely unrelated and irrelevant matter.”

But during a search of the property the notebook containing the handwritten notes was found in a wardrobe in his bedroom along with other documents inside clear plastic envelopes.

He said it was the Crown’s case that Amjad had the notes not as part of any keep fit regime but because they would be useful for somebody preparing for combat “arising from Jihad.”

Mr Weaver suggested in cross-examination that Mujahideen fighters needed to be fit to carry out Jihad.

“I suppose so,” replied Amjad. “But it was not part of my plan, it was not something I would look into at all, I never had any intention of doing anything terrorist related.”

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  1. ICH says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh makes sense now !!

    When Jesus said take up your cross he
    actually meant something deeper and more
    beautiful like do a little JIHAD

    followed with a little Alluh Akhbar !

    MAN OH MAN we are all so dumb.

  2. JeffS says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    Sigh! Yet another British newspaper article in which we can’t be told that the protagonist is Muslim. He’s a “Dewsbury businessman”. We’ve got a plague of violence breaking out among “Dewsbury businessmen”. You’d better watch your back in Dewsbury.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 28, 2015 at 2:37 pm

      Adeel Amjad is a “Dewsbury businessman” planning to murder dirty kafirs and become a suicidal ‘martyr’ by using violence to show the REAL, violent meaning of the supposed ‘religion of peace’.

      Islam is theocratic fascism whose goal is world conquest through violence. The method of violent world conquest is called jihad and its troops are called ‘jihadists’.

      Adeel Amjad is a jihadist.

    • logdon says

      Oct 29, 2015 at 6:05 am

      Look for the names. Always a good giveaway.

      Adeel Anjad. Come on it’s hardly John Smith.

      • Diana says

        Oct 29, 2015 at 8:21 am

        The word was “jihad”.

        Only one religion teaches jihad.

        If the accused had not been a Muslim, he would have said so as the first line of his defence.

    • BC says

      Oct 29, 2015 at 2:37 pm

      The name and the Dewsbury address sort of gives it away does it not? Note that he is apparently a successful business man, so not one of those poor unemployed types we are always told about

  3. Angemon says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    He said it was the Crown’s case that Amjad had the notes not as part of any keep fit regime but because they would be useful for somebody preparing for combat “arising from Jihad.”

    Mr Weaver suggested in cross-examination that Mujahideen fighters needed to be fit to carry out Jihad.

    “I suppose so,” replied Amjad. “But it was not part of my plan, it was not something I would look into at all, I never had any intention of doing anything terrorist related.”

    My two cents:

    1 – That he wasn’t planning on doing anything “terrorism related” doesn’t mean he wasn’t preparing himself to if/when an occasion would where he’d be able to do something “terrorism related”

    2 – Cross-check his training schedule with military/para-military exercises and the IS issued guide “How to Survive in The West”.

    Not sure how the accusation will prove intention though.

    • BC says

      Oct 29, 2015 at 2:40 pm

      I am sure he could afford to join a gym if he really wanted to lose weight

  4. Joseph says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    denied the offence claiming he made the notes, which included physical exercises because he was trying to lose weight.”
    ___________________

    Notes which ***included*** physical exercise. So there were other jihadi notes. What exactly were those notes or is that “Muslim privilege” and we are not allowed to know. They must have been bad because the jury took less than 4 hours to convict.
    Of all the exercise books out there and of all the information on the web about exercise he just had to take it off of a jihad website. The jury got this one right for once.

    If he wanted to lose 10 lbs real quick all he had to do was go to his local mosque, shout out “Mohammad(MHABFR may his ass be forever raped) sucks”. The Imam would have made sure he lost his head real fast.

  5. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    More bad reporting. As JeffS points out, we have to infer Adeel Amjad’s background from the little information we are given. He has run a jeweller’s shop for 17 years (since he was 35 – 17 = 18 years old), so he probably deals in diamonds and is a Hasidic Jew. But an even more glaring omission is the reason why the police were searching his residence at all. Did they have a search warrant “particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”? What was the “entirely unrelated and irrelevant matter” that prompted a police search? What were they searching for? And why did these obvious questions not occur to Huddersfield Daily Examiner reporter Neil Atkinson?

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Oct 29, 2015 at 3:07 am

      A fellow jeweller, and an interesting person. What’s her favorite hadith collection?
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorrit_Moussaieff

  6. gravenimage says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    UK Muslim convicted of terrorism offense for jihadi training notes, says he just wanted to lose weight
    ……………………………

    Uh…yeah. Because I know my weight loss and workout notes could easily be mistaken for Jihadi training. *Isn’t this true of everybody?* A very common mix-up…sarc/off

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 30, 2015 at 6:20 am

      Well, of course !

      He must be a disciple of Ahmed Rehab.

  7. jayell says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    Wanted to lose weight, did he? But I thought that he and chums already knew the quickest way to do that. Detach the head from the body. Or run a tank over it (better still, a local double-deck bus – there are.loads of them in Dewsbury, and I’ll bet half his compatriots are driving them, the other half drive the taxis). On second thoughts, he wouldn’t want that because it would infringe his human right to a nose to breathe through (well in any case his brain wouldn’t have accounted for much weight and it would have left a mess on the road just like it did with that Syrian soldier and the tank, plus the local council would have sent the family a bill to clean up the mess). And I’m interested in this idea that he was a ‘businessman’ and a ‘jeweller’ because he’d no doubt managed to get hold of the lease on some little local shop selling cheap stuff when the previous owner had the sense to get out when the local area became ‘enriched’. It’s a good way of laundering the drug money and makes a change from the usual ‘convenience store’. Come to think of it, he could have called himself a ‘company director’, just like the bloke who mows your lawn and cuts your hedges is a ‘landscape gardener’. In any case, I shouldn’t think he’d need to know much about jewels since these small shops make a lot of their money changing watch batteries. It’s not as intellectually demanding as re-assembling bits of electric clocks in pencil cases and no doubt hasn’t the same explosive potential. And I shouldn’t have thought that there would have been much demand for ‘pencil box clocks’ in Dewsbury, but, if these things could grab the attention of the President of United States, why not Her Majesty the Queen? He could have been ‘By Royal Appointment, Purveyor of Pencil Box Clocks’ to Her Majesty rather than possibly just a ‘guest’ in one of her ‘institutions’! And only because he was wasting his time trying to keep fit and lose weight instead of reading Jihad Watch and getting all these fantastic ideas for career advancement! No, forget that, he might have got a few too many brilliant ideas, best he hopefully enjoys Her Majesty’s hospitality just like a lot of his other chums.

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 29, 2015 at 3:17 pm

      jayell, I love your comments.

      But may I suggest you break them up into paragraphs. They’d be a damn sight easier to read.

  8. DeMolay says

    Oct 29, 2015 at 5:36 am

    The alarming aspect of this story is the police were there on an unrelated matter and found this material. What else is lurking in the homes of ‘moderate’ Muslims. What would be found if every one was to be raided.
    As for losing weight, blowing yourself to smithereens is a little extreme.

  9. Mary says

    Oct 29, 2015 at 9:13 am

    Ah. Yeah.

    What. The.

    You really cant say much.

    Muslims are going to the point to now say that JIHAD is for FITNESS????!!!

    #_#

    BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHANANANANANANAHANAHAHAHAH
    NOW THAT cracked me up.

    Whoever so is that gullible to believe this crap, please some one for the sake of all that is good, SLAP them!

    What has this world come to

    We spend more time protecting those who are guilty then protecting the innocent.

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