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Convicted jihadi Babar Ahmad pulling the wool over Leftist media’s eyes

Mar 16, 2016 1:03 pm By Robert Spencer

What a surprise. They’re so very eager to be fooled.

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“Babar Ahmad – a convicted terrorist – is pulling the wool over the liberal media’s eyes,” by Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph, March 14, 2016:

From Tony Blair over the Iraq dossier, to the parliamentary expenses cheats who ended in jail, the last resort of any scoundrel is to claim that he acted in “good faith”.

Today, we witness this age-old excuse in daring new territory. The Victoria Derbyshire show on BBC Two will introduce us to Britain’s first-ever “good faith” supporter of Osama bin Laden.

The man concerned, Babar Ahmad, from Tooting, London, was recently released from a 12-and-a-half-year prison sentence for terror offences.

Ahmad, 41, is the Alexander Graham Bell of online terrorism. The website he ran, azzam.com, was the pioneer, the template, for all the thousands of jihadi sites that followed. Set up in 1996, it was the first English-speaking site to publish bin Laden’s declaration of war against the West; the first to offer guidebook-style tips for the aspiring holy warrior; the first to publish Islamic rulings on the “permissibility of martyrdrom operations”.

Ahmad’s site solicited funds for the Taliban. It described how to get money to their representative in Pakistan, and transferred some money directly. It made overt appeals for people to join the jihad in Afghanistan. And cricially, as Ahmad admitted in court, it went on doing this for at least nine months after bin Laden, with the Taliban’s support and protection, attacked the US, killing 2,996 innocent people.

Ahmad, who pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism, also radicalised others through personal contact. His “Tooting Circle” included Saajid Badat, sentenced to 13 years for his part in the Richard Reid shoe-bomber plot. Badat testified that Ahmad arranged for him to receive “training in taking up arms”, and that “when we talk[ed] about jihad it meant armed jihad, taking up arms”.

Now, surely to the immense relief of us all, Ahmad tells the Beeb that he didn’t really mean any of it. As he explained: “I did it in good faith, but in hindsight, I regret doing that and it was naive of me to do that, because it was a complicated situation.”

Yes, he did support bin Laden, but “not knowingly,” because he did not know what the al-Qaeda leader “was really up to.” Sticklers might object that perhaps 9/11 should have given something of a clue – not to mention the declaration of war published by Ahmad on his own website.

Those with more detailed knowledge of the case can point out that this is also, in fact, the third version of events Ahmad has given us.

Fighting extradition to be tried in the United States, where his site was hosted, Ahmad became a cause célèbre for many of the liberal classes. He claimed that he was an “innocent, law-abiding member of the public”, who had been “terrorised in order to satisfy some political ambitions”.

“The crime that I committed is that I dared… to seek justice in an unjust world”, he declared.

Once the extradition battle had failed, having been prolonged literally for years in order to wring out every last drop of propaganda, Ahmad performed a swift handbrake turn, and pleaded guilty to his crimes.

The trial judge told him: “I view what you did as very serious. What you were doing was enabling bin Laden to be protected in Afghanistan and train the men who drove into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center…

Your websites were a source of information [to jihadis] unlike anything that had been on the web before.”

Yet Ahmad is not only a convicted accomplice to mass murder. He was and remains a skilled propagandist – before, during, and now after his imprisonment.

The campaign to prevent his extradition and “free Babar Ahmad” employed the same “war on Muslims” rhetoric as Ahmad himself used. It seized on his admittedly brutal arrest by the Met to claim that he had been “tortured.” Its explicit, and very effective, message was that in the “police state” for Muslims that is the UK, any British Muslim could suffer the “innocent” Ahmad’s fate. As the campaign kept saying: “Today it’s Babar Ahmad, tomorrow it could be you.”…

Yes, if I began cheerleading for jihad murder.

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 16, 2016 at 2:11 pm

    Hopefully, a new charge will be found against Babar Ahmad and he can continue his vacation at HM Crowbar Hotel until he drops dead from his belief in theocratic totalitarianism and eternal warfare against disbelievers.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 16, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    …’didn’t know what Bin Laden was up to…’

    …’didn’t know…’ after publishing OBL’s manifesto.

  3. Gbox says

    Mar 16, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    If you want to win and preserve western civilization, this guy should be dead. That’s how you win.

  4. Mockingjay says

    Mar 16, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    Well – at least there are some people in Britain he’s not fooling. I find that very refreshing.

  5. Paul says

    Mar 16, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    The BBC aren’t deceived. They’re up to their usual tricks in trying to
    deceive everyone else. It never stops. They’re anti-British, anti-Christian,
    anti-Israel etc. Their enemy’s enemy is their friend who they’ll never
    turn on.

    • islam :- the hateful religion of scum says

      Mar 16, 2016 at 11:07 pm

      The BBC’s main goal is to sell advertising (etc…) keeping people on their channel, doing whatever it takes to compete and make saleable product …..

      The key to the big buck is to keep current, and to keep controversy rolling along …

      That’s why this scumbag is on primetime …..

      • Paul says

        Mar 17, 2016 at 3:59 pm

        Obviously, the ultimate objective of that reprobate paedophile
        enabling corporation is to make a profit, but the sheer disrespect
        and contempt for British and Western culture is endemic throughout
        that accursed organisation.
        This is off topic somewhat, but this is typical of the BBC :
        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3490079/Matt-LeBlanc-performs-smoking-wheelspins-just-yards-Cenotaph-Gear-filming-brings-central-London-standstill.html

  6. Westman says

    Mar 16, 2016 at 2:50 pm

    Maybe they could get him a job in the AIG Financial Products Unit. He needs a job to match his character where he can continue pulling the wool on a larger scale. Or, how about executioner at some prison where every victim is an unbeliever?

    Nah, we’ll just read about some other jihad action associated with his name at some later date.

  7. mortimer says

    Mar 16, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    How many lives were ended by this computer engineer’s dirty work? Will he pay compensation for those who were caused pain by his support of terrorism? No.

    And yet, he received 60,000 pounds in compensation for rough treatment by the Met. This was after the 7/7 London underground murders that he helped inspire. He also receives $140 per week as a ‘job seeker’.

    This nauseatingly unrepentant weasel should be in jail for life. He’s responsible for much suffering.

  8. Angemon says

    Mar 16, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    Fighting extradition to be tried in the United States, where his site was hosted,

    As a rule of thumb, I’m against extraditing citizens of your nation to be judged elsewhere. Babar Ahmad supported an organization that waged war against the UK on ideological (religious) grounds. He made his choice, and he chose to be against UK, so he should be stripped of his citizenship, if possible, and be extradited to the US to face trial. After facing trial in the US and doing his time (if convicted), he should be judged in the UK for treason (if a British national) or as an enemy combatant (if stripped from his British citizenship).

  9. gravenimage says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 1:17 am

    Convicted jihadi Babar Ahmad pulling the wool over Leftist media’s eyes
    …………………………..

    Sadly, these tools want to be lied to–and want to pass these lies on to their credulous readers.

    More:

    “The crime that I committed is that I dared… to seek justice in an unjust world”, he declared.
    …………………………..

    The Telegraph may believe that Muslims use the word “justice” as we do, but they do no. For Muslims, “justice” is the imposition of Shari’ah law, and “injustice” is anything that prevents its imposition.

    More:

    The campaign to prevent his extradition and “free Babar Ahmad” employed the same “war on Muslims” rhetoric as Ahmad himself used
    …………………………..

    And why not? Leftists *love* “Free __________!” Who cares if the object in question wants to subjugate and murder us?

  10. Plamen says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 2:22 am

    Oh, those taqiyya eyes…

  11. Plamen says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 4:11 am

    “Unjust world” means un-islamic world in their culture, no matter even if they would deny it if you ask them. “Justice” – it is Islamic type of justice, nothing else. There is no justice outside of islam in views of the faithful. It is the ‘Justice’ banner that ones like Muslim brothers in Egypt fly to establish their ‘justice’ party to take power, and in Turkey to establish their same-name ‘justice’ party on power.

    During communism and nazism there were concepts of their communist and nazi ‘justice’ considered as to be ‘more just’ than that of the West. Islam has long ago overtaken them both. That is what the guy Babar with the innocent eyes have struggled all his life for, together with other umma-ulemma representatives like Morsi, Osama or Erdogan.

    In addition to military and police people in the West, all judiciary officials should attend courses in ‘islam justice’ in order to obtain much better idea of it. That must be lectured by people such as Robert Spencer, indeed.

  12. Bostongal912 says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 5:54 am

    What a BS artist this guy is! He should be doing life in prison! His sob story and all the liberal morons who believe it make me sick! When are people going to stop apologizing and kissing ass of these terrorist Muslims! They always play the victim card ALWAYS!!! Wake up people! By 2050 Islam will be the 2nd largest religion in the USA! Maybe sooner!!!!

  13. Wakeup says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 7:24 am

    Nothing that a muslim tells you that cannot be independently verified can be trusted to quote Cant ” social intercourse without the truth is meaningless” what is new about this? Nothing, it is all spelled out in clear detail in the koran so we should not take anything a muslim says seriously, we HAVE to get this clear in our heads, or they will just mess with our heads.

    Another quote Aishas father I have forgotten his name “we smile in the faces of many while inwardly we despise them” You may have a muslim friend though that is haram but you will never know if he is or not your friend. They designed the system not us the only a muslim can be believed is if he quits islam eg Walid Shoebat or Brother Rachid.

    Consider the nuclear treaty with the islamic state of iran no treaty between an islamic state and a kufar nation is valid. Their rules not ours they set up the pre-conditions it is completely meaningless. Another quote hitler to goering about Neville Chamberlain “he seemed such a nice old gentleman, I thought I would give him my autograph”

    The road to hell is paved with delusional liberals.

  14. steve says

    Mar 17, 2016 at 2:00 pm

    So shoot him, He can go to Islamic heaven where the Muslim filth expect some virgins. Lets hope the ‘Virgins’ are the successful child, female, suicide bombers . That way he will be handed a sack of human mush to placate his Muslim desires……Whlle we are on the subject, what is the collective noun for a group of virgins destined to be ‘serviced’ by a Muslim retard. ???…I suggest a ‘purgatory’. any offers ??

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