“Hamlett knew Majeed and Hassane through the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in Ladbroke Grove, west London, where he used to work as a cook.” The Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre? No one told them that what they were plotting had nothing to do with Islam?
“Two British students jailed for plotting Isis-style drive-by shootings,” Guardian, April 22, 2016:
A pair of home-grown terrorists have been given life sentences for plotting to kill soldiers, police officers and civilians in a series of Islamic-State-inspired drive-by shootings.
Acting on instructions from mastermind Tarik Hassane, the physics student Suhaib Majeed had got his hands on a gun and ammunition and was discussing buying an untraceable moped before police swooped to arrest him in September 2014.
His old school friend Hassane, nicknamed the Surgeon, was studying medicine in Sudan at the time but rushed back to London to carry on as a “lone wolf terrorist” before he, too, was picked up.
He identified Shepherd’s Bush police station and the Parachute Regiment Territorial Army Barracks at White City as possible targets on Google Street View.
Majeed, 22, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder and preparation of terrorist acts after Hassane, 22, admitted the charges midway through the Old Bailey trial.
Mr Justice Wilkie jailed Hassane for a minimum of 21 years and Majeed for a minimum of 20 years.
The judge told them: “It is shocking, tragic and deplorable that you, two young British men, educated through the UK school system, undertaking university courses, should be so influenced by the bloodthirsty version of Islam presented by Isis and other similarly minded groups, that you decided to take up arms against your fellow British citizens and those charged with protecting them in the streets of your own city.”
Earlier, the court was told that both Hassane and Majeed had now accepted their involvement in the plot to murder. In his confession, Hassane had said he felt like he was in a “bubble” at the time but added: “I really doubt I could have ever done this.”
The judge said that, in a “frank” account, Hassane had admitted visiting Syria in 2013 where he learned how to handle guns and spent time with a fighter who was killed.
On his return to the UK, having decided not to become a fighter too, he raised thousands of pounds to support extremist violence in Syria before becoming the “prime mover” in the murderous plot.
Nyall Hamlett, 25, and Nathan Cuffy, 26, who were acquitted of being part of the plot, were sentenced for firearms offences. Hamlett was given six and a half years in jail while Cuffy received 11 years.
Hassane and Majeed, from west London, had links to the same mosque associated with Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, who achieved notoriety before his death in Syria as an executioner for IS.
Metropolitan police commander Dean Haydon said the terror plot was a “step up” in terms of complexity and the use of guns, which was a “real concern” for police.
Prosecutor Brian Altman QC had said Hassane and Majeed were heavily influenced by the rise of Islamic State, which pronounced a caliphate in June 2014. Within days, Hassane pledged his allegiance to IS and encouraged his friends to follow suit. He was pictured posing with a gun in one hand and a book on Osama bin Laden in the other.
His close friend Majeed was studying at the prestigious King’s College London and was chairman of its Islamic society. The court heard that Majeed sent a picture of a dead fighter “laughing” to a Telegram chat group named Turnup Terror Squad, of which Hassane was also a member. And he had a “grim” video of Emwazi beheading a journalist on his iPad, jurors were told.
Majeed was an “essential cog” in the conspiracy, having set up a laptop to exchange encrypted messages with Hassane in Khartoum. In them, Hassane repeatedly urged him to get the “P”, “Z” and “C” together to set his deadly plan in motion. The prosecution said P was code for money, Z was for a “zoom zoom” or moped and C was for “Creps” – their secret language for firearms, which were also referred to as types of trainers.
In September, they received “direct” encouragement when the IS official spokesman issued a fatwa to kill disbelievers in the west in a speech on YouTube. Later the same month, Cuffy supplied a self-loading Baikal pistol with silencer and bullets to fellow Muslim convert and former Catholic altar boy Hamlett, who had admitted transferring it on to Majeed.
It was one of five guns the “street criminal” had stashed at his home in sports bags, which he claimed he was holding for three joint owners. When armed police raided Majeed’s home, the student was spotted tossing the gun and ammunition out of his bedroom window.
Hamlett knew Majeed and Hassane through the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in Ladbroke Grove, west London, where he used to work as a cook. But he denied knowing what he had been asked to deliver to Majeed until the last minute. Cuffy also said he had no idea about the plot….

Jay Boo says
They were just bored.
Prayer dance fetish exhibitionism only goes so far.
Islam without the concept of a ‘thrill kill’ has to rest upon the fragility of Muhammad’s credibility.
Guest says
Execute them! If they won’t obey our laws out of respect, they’ll obey them out of fear for their life.
Dave Flang says
The judge told them: “It is shocking, tragic and deplorable that you, two young British men, educated through the UK school system, undertaking university courses, should be so influenced by the bloodthirsty version of Islam presented by Isis and other similarly minded groups, that you decided to take up arms against your fellow British citizens and those charged with protecting them in the streets of your own city.”
Already revealed in the Bible.
2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2 Timothy 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Angemon says
Bah, too lenient for a case of treason…
sam says
I am wondering if any of their family members, friends, or mosque members knew what they were up to.
I would say not and they were as shocked as the judge how such good citizens on state doll would try to kill innocent citizens who were paying for their education thru tax dollars.
Another isolated incident.
Charli Main says
” should be so influenced by the bloodthirsty version of Islam presented by Isis and other similarly minded groups”
Perhaps Mr Justice Wilkie could enlighten us, as where we can find a copy of the Kumbya version of the Koran, that is apparently followed by the 99.99% of Muslims that are relentless potrayed as ” tolerant” “peaceful” and “moderate” by the MSM.
Geoffrey Cooper says
Good point, anyone who has forced themselves to read that turgid, ranting little tract knows that there is not and cannot be a ‘moderate’ Islam, it is perfectly explicit. Moderate Muslims are simply lapsed or ‘bad’ Muslims, and are all the better for that. Unfortunately though these have a nasty habit of becoming ‘born again’ Muslims who are often the very worst kind of all.
Mirren10 says
” … turgid, ranting little tract … ”
Nice one. 🙂
mortimer says
The judge said: “you decided to take up arms against your fellow British citizens and those charged with protecting them in the streets of your own city.”
How does the judge know they think themselves to be British? They have pledged allegiance to a foreign power and were acting as its soldiers.
How many other Muslims in UK have similar plans to target British people? Probably about 2,000.
Keith says
Life in prison for planning to kill people. They will be out in 10 to 12 years to continue their jihad.
Westman says
A UK physics student and a medical student in the Sudan. Who goes to Sudan to get a medical degree? Sudan educated surgery anyone? I doubt these two were brilliant students. Now they can learn law at state expense.
linnte says
The problem that Britain and Europe don’t GET is, these jerks DON’T think of themselves as British or whatever, but Muslims who belong to the Caliphate. They don’t recognise Law of the Land.
Also, I vehemently REJECT that the Judges who handle these cases don’t know the modus operandi of Muslims in Britain. There is no way they don’t discuss this issue with other Judges who have had cases brought before them of this sort. When will these men of Law speak up and reveal this evil Muslim mindset??? It would be very hard to call a Judge an islamophobe as they are supposedly “blind” when it comes to justice.
bloggerd says
In light of Matt 5 we need to pray for these enemies that they would recognize they are serving Satan. let us pray for their eyes to be opened.
linnte says
I do! Always!
خَليفة says
Blood thirsty version of Islam? Poor judge, he doesn’t really understand, but his statements work to allay concerns of non Muslims who want to believe Islam is not always blood thirsty.
PRCS says
Correct!
“the bloodthirsty version of Islam presented by Isis and other similarly minded groups”
As opposed to what, judge?
No rational thought process can possibly conclude there is anything but a bloodthirsty version.
ECAW says
Note to judges, politicians, academics and journalists:
The bloodthirsty version is Mohammed’s version.
Repeat until it sinks in.
Michael Copeland says
That “bloodthirsty version” of Islam is identical to Mohammed’s version.
Louis says
Why are the uk gov filling up prisons with these jihadis?
Rather bring back capital punishment for terrorism!!
SpiritOf1683 says
That isn’t life. They could be out in 11 years with ‘good behaviour’.
Kepha says
It’s good that these creeps get the harshest penalty the law allows. However, the speech of Justice Wilkie bothers me no end. Once upon a time, the at least semi-Christian judges of the Western world would sentence a man to hang and end simply with “and may God have mercy on your soul”, as if the judges themselves knew that they were also sinners accountable to God’s judgment. Now, we have all these pseudo-humanists and moral relativists on the benches of the Anglosphere who feel compelled to give these long, self-righteous harangues as if they themselves are 100% perfect in the eyes of a divine and natural law in which scarcely 1 in thousand of our post-modern judges actually believes.
Sure, the creeps in the article are traitors. Possibly they deserve hanging. Yes, we should be shocked that our educational system and popular culture nurture a kind of treason chic. But doesn’t anyone see a kind of perversity in all of this? What does our Western world expect after a century or more of nurturing the “men without chests” of whom C.S. Lewis once wrote?
As for Nyall Hamlett and Nathan Cuffy, could it possibly be that conversion to Islam gave them those metaphorical “chests”, only to fill them with cancerous garbage? And I wonder what is in Justice WIlkie’s?
Often, when I teach history, I remind my students that we may see a lot that looks ugly and wrong-headed, but when it is our turn to make the decisions, will we do better? Perhaps when I’m ready to retire and the PeeCee polizei cannot touch me, one class will end with a full-orbed sermon.
Florida Jim says
Now they will preach, recruit and offend everyone within the prison as political correctness rules England and America’s prison system where the koran and islam is taught to 90% of the criminals. How dumb is that?
Michael Copeland says
The report states:
“he raised thousands of pounds to support extremist violence in Syria”.
“Extremist violence”?
These may be the judge’s words, or perhaps the Guardian’s: it is not clear.
What is “extremist violence”? Is there “non-extremist” violence?
It looks as if the word “extremist” is standing in as a euphemism for “Islamic”.
The obfuscation has become subconscious.
PRCS says
There are so many idiotic euphemisms for the belief and practice of written, Orthodox Islam:
Radical Islam (which for most who use/see/hear it infers to a nebulous, undefined bastardization of the “faith” rather than a reference to core/root/radix). Radicalize/radicalized. Extremist/extremism (as the stand in for literalism). Tiny minority of “extremists”.
And others, as the beat goes on.
Martha McCallum (Fox News) recently referred to “radical/radicalized/extremist Wahabbists” and “their Wahabbist faith” (wording might have been slightly different) in a conversion about the possible Saudi involvement in 9/11.
With such ready access to a computer, there is just no excuse for that degree of stupidity.
Sharon says
This cannot be tolerated. You know some members in their family knew what they were up to. Politically correct says they would be sympathizers. The truth is called aiding and abetting. Need to go after them and those that help them.
Mirren10 says
” … turgid, ranting little tract … ”
Nice one. 🙂