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UK Muslim spent his student loan on a trip to Syria to join the Islamic State

Nov 22, 2015 12:05 pm By Robert Spencer

But…but…all would-be jihadis need are educational opportunities and jobs, and then they will turn away from the jihad in droves, right? Right?

Yahya-Rashid

“JAILED: Terror teen blew student loan on Syria trip to become ISIS foot soldier,” by Siba Jackson, Daily Star, November 19, 2015:

A WOULD-BE teen terrorist who blew his student loan on a trip to join Islamic State has been jailed for five years.

Yahya Rashid, 19, blagged his way onto an electronics course at Middlesex University in London using forged documents in a bid to pocket more than £6,300 in grants.

Rashid spent the cash on flights to Turkey so he and four pals could travel to war-torn Syria to become IS foot soldiers.

And despite having a below average IQ of just 65, the teen managed to outfox suspicious cops at Gatwick Airport in February this year.

Rashid, together with Khalid Abdul-Rahman and Ibrahim Amouri, tricked their way onto a plane to Morocco after claiming they were looking for LOVE – not war.

They travelled to an ISIS safe house on the Syrian border with fellow jihadis Swaleh Mohammed and his wife, Deqo Osman.

But Rashid got cold feet and returned to Britain after his family begged him to come home.

The others stayed in the Syrian war zone and their whereabouts are unknown.

Rashid was arrested at Luton airport on March 31….

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  1. Katnis says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 1:04 pm

    Figures. The UK gives him a chance. He chooses a path true to what he believes. We give him money for education. He spends it learning how to kill us. Another strike against letting these people into Western countries in the first place.

  2. Bamaguje says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    “And despite having a below average IQ of just 65, the teen managed to outfox suspicious cops at Gatwick Airport…” – Daily Star.

    The supposedly low IQ Jihadi didn’t just outfox Gatwick airport cops, he outfoxed Middlesex University to get admitted for electronic course, then scammed the system of £6300 in student loan.
    Are we sure his stated IQ score is correct… or did he fool the test administrators?

    • BlueRaven says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 4:25 pm

      His IQ score is most likely correct, because if you are smart you go and learn.Only the dim wit Muzzies get tricked by Imams to go and kill infidels and rape as many women/girls as you like. The Muzzies are really scum of the earth. I don’t believe there is a single muzzie who is telling us the truth, because they are taught not to.

      The UK guys are very soft on these bananabenders, you know it when you read articles like Muzzie Rape Gangs are getting away with another form of massacre – psychological massacre for all those innocent young girls they groomed.

      • Jay Boo says

        Nov 22, 2015 at 6:16 pm

        On obvious question that comes to mind is if he has a below average IQ of just 65 why would he be granted a student loan?
        Don’t universities have minimum aptitude requirements anymore?

    • sam klas says

      Nov 23, 2015 at 3:46 am

      obviously test administrators have IQ BELOW 65.

      • Dr. Divinity says

        Nov 24, 2015 at 11:43 am

        but…..but…..but…. he’s a muslim….a minority and black. All this works for him …Given only 5 years…he will be out in 18 months

  3. Juala says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    They don’t get no shame, they should never give loans to people like this, if he wanted to go somewhere he should go back to his war wrecked country and mend it.

  4. Sulfar Bohi says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    He look Albashbaab.

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    And despite having a below average IQ of just 65, the teen managed to outfox suspicious cops at Gatwick Airport in February this year.

    In one of his books(“The Evil That Men Do”, if my memory doesn’t fail me), Roy Hazelwood describes the MO of a serial rapist with an IQ of ~80. The rapist would feign an illness to gain admittance into an hospital, wait around the woman’s restroom until a woman entered alone, hang a paper on the door saying “out of order” and raped the woman. One time, another woman disregarded the sign, entered the restroom, caught him on the act, and raised the alarm. He waited a bit, dragged his victim by the hair, and walked out of the restroom shouting at the victim “this is your final warning, bitch – if you ever cheat on me again I’ll kill you and the other guy”. The crows dispersed and he walked away free.

    There’s IQ, and there’s street smart, and I bet it doesn’t take an IQ of 180 to kick up a fuss and cry “racism”, and I also bet that was how he “outfoxed” the suspicious cops at the airport – the perp *knew* which keys to press to disable PC-bounded cops.

  6. Jo says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    He is not a proper refugee, he should be sent back to Mogadishu where University is free.

  7. gravenimage says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    UK Muslim spent his student loan on a trip to Syria to join the Islamic State
    …………………………

    Using the money of the “filthy Infidels” to wage violent Jihad is perfectly Halal.

    More:

    Yahya Rashid, 19, blagged his way onto an electronics course at Middlesex University in London using forged documents in a bid to pocket more than £6,300 in grants.
    …………………………

    If Rashid has an IQ of 65–which is barely functioning–then someone else forged the documents. This Jihadist had help.

    And no doubt Middlesex University felt that actually testing Rashid or confirming his documents would have been “racist”. Was he even interviewed?

    An aside, but a salient one, though it does not involve a Jihadist: I taught adult literacy for a number of years. Students had all sorts of reasons for not having learned how to read–some were previously undiagnosed dyslexic, some were immigrants and had never learned how to read in their country of origin, and a handful of students were very low IQ and would probably never fully learn how to read.

    One of my students was almost certainly one of the latter–but he became convinced that all of his troubles stemmed from the “racism” of his teachers. He actually attended community college for several years, and was supplied with tutors from the learning center. *No one* told him that he was not remotely ready for college if he couldn’t read. I was actually reprimanded for telling him it would be best if he learned to read before considering college. He was finally expelled after threatening one of his teachers–I never heard the details, but it must have been pretty serious. I was scared of him myself.

    In this environment, “tricking” a university is probably not all that difficult…

    More:

    And despite having a below average IQ of just 65, the teen managed to outfox suspicious cops at Gatwick Airport in February this year…
    …………………………

    Of course, the cops at Gatwick may not have been all that bright, either–but far more likely they had also been impaired by “political correctness” and the fear of appearing “racist”–this is what is making all of our security artificially “stupid”.

    More:

    Rashid, together with Khalid Abdul-Rahman and Ibrahim Amouri, tricked their way onto a plane to Morocco after claiming they were looking for LOVE – not war.
    …………………………

    This isn’t as benign as many might think, even it had been true–this would have meant that Rashid and his thug buddies were off to Dar-al-Islam for forced marriages to girls who then would have been brought into Britain to swell the ranks of the Ummah there.

    More:

    They travelled to an ISIS safe house on the Syrian border with fellow jihadis Swaleh Mohammed and his wife, Deqo Osman.

    But Rashid got cold feet and returned to Britain after his family begged him to come home.

    The others stayed in the Syrian war zone and their whereabouts are unknown.
    …………………………

    No doubt they are now waging violent Jihad–at least partially on the British taxpayer’s dime…

    More:

    Rashid was arrested at Luton airport on March 31….
    …………………………

    This is good. But will defense say he is juat a poor fellow suffering from low IQ? How soon will he be out on England’s streets again?

  8. Old African Lady with no teeth says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    Just looking the picture I feel uneasy.

    • abad says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 5:48 pm

      Me too.

      Not just the dead eyes but like a demon is actively in them.

      And Obama wants to bring more of his type into the USA even though this guy’s in the UK.

  9. abad says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    “having a below average IQ of just 65”

    Um…….

    Who said brains were a requirement for joining Islam???

    The more brain-dead, the more they can be manipulated and brainwashed.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 8:11 pm

      Brains are removed with the shoes at the mosque door. The advanced brain-ectomy occurs in the Islamic study groups where Muslims become brain-dead zombie killers.

  10. mortimer says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    ISLAMIC RADICAL CHIC is prevalent among Muslim youth…but no one is watching it, because they can’t recognize the symptoms. That’s why no one noticed Yahya Rashid, 19.

    Our teachers, social workers, police and other professionals don’t know the jihad doctrine, the taqiyya doctrine, the Islamic apartheid doctrine and the Kafir doctrine. They haven’t a chance to find the terrorists or a needle in a haystack.

    Hint: to find a needle in a haystack, get a strong magnet.

    • Davegreybeard says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 9:22 pm

      @ mortimer
      “Hint: to find a needle in a haystack, get a strong magnet.”

      Well mort, I’d suggest a “Muhammad Cartoon Contest” as a pretty strong magnet.

      Aren’t we due for another one?

      • Joseph says

        Nov 22, 2015 at 10:22 pm

        Dave, “Aren’t we due for another one?”

        LONG, LONG overdue.
        How about San Francisco? Perfect spot, it is a **sanctuary** city and I really would like to go there.

    • carpediadem says

      Nov 23, 2015 at 2:44 am

      They don’t actually want to see the signs at all anyway. Too unPC.

  11. BC says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 5:44 am

    IQ of 65 must be educationally subnormal, how on earth could he do an electronics course?
    Sounds about the right level for an IS fighter though!

  12. Sam says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 8:17 am

    Common sense should dictate that working people of England can not afford to feed, educate and than keep the enemy in jail.

    Common sense is not used when the religion of peace is involved ofcourse.

  13. Andrew H. says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    If Russian bombs don’t finish him off and he tries to return, drown him in the Thames.

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