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Islamic State executioner was refugee in UK who turned to jihad after 17 days of sermons at local mosques

May 23, 2016 3:58 pm By Robert Spencer

“In a further insult to the UK, Elsheikh was given shelter here aged just five when his Communist supporting parents fled Sudan and claimed asylum.” Very unwise of the British authorities to be taking in Communists, but that is beside the point. “His devastated mother last night disowned her son and revealed how he became an extremist just 17 days after attending sermons at local mosques.” Why are those mosques still operating? Who else learned Islam in them? Where are they now? What are they doing? Does anyone in Britain care, or are they all just resigned to a future of submission and Sharia?

El Shafee Elsheikh

“Jihadi John’s fourth Beatle unmasked as refugee given shelter in UK,” by Tom Whitehead and Harry Yorke, Telegraph, May 23, 2016 (thanks to John):

A refugee given shelter in Britain as a child has been unmasked as the fourth brutal member of Jihadi John’s “Beatles” execution squad who went to Syria after being radicalised in just 17 days.

Former fairground mechanic El Shafee Elsheikh is believed to be the fourth member of the all-British group of fanatics who held and executed western hostages, including two Britons, for Isil.

The 27-year-old was a close friend of Mohammed Emwazi, who was revealed as Jihadi John last year, and grew up in the same part of west London.

In a further insult to the UK, Elsheikh was given shelter here aged just five when his Communist supporting parents fled Sudan and claimed asylum.

His devastated mother last night disowned her son and revealed how he became an extremist just 17 days after attending sermons at local mosques.

Security and intelligence sources believe Elsheikh was one of the four violent guards who held hostages in Raqqa and became known by their captives as “the Beatles” because they were all British.

Emwazi, who beheaded several westerners on video including Britons David Haines and Alan Henning, was killed in a drone strike in November last year.

The other two members of the group were later revealed as Londoners Aine Davis and Alexanda Kotey.

Elsheikh is understood to be living in Syria with two wives and two young children who were both born out there.

His mother, Maha Elgizouli, from White City, said her son was influenced by west London hate preacher Hani al-Sibai, who was also an alleged influence for Emwazi.

She said he began attending sermon at three mosques the following year and rapidly became a fanatic. He left for Syria in April 2012….

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  1. Champ says

    May 23, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    17 days? What took him so long?!

    And why is he looking so pious and smug? …oh yeah he’s a muslim!

    • mortimer says

      May 23, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      What? Again?

      • KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says

        May 24, 2016 at 12:53 pm

        What should his punishment be, Morti? A botty-spanking? Or something more serious like his bruv JJ got – a drone up his arse?

        • Rob Porter says

          May 24, 2016 at 10:40 pm

          Mortimer, How about a baseball bat just smashing him in the face, with a coup de gras crushing of the skull – Al Capone-style – seconds later. Yes, for him I fancy that. Let him have a few seconds to contemplate that he is about to die. I am so sick of seeing these smirking, vile Muslims knowing that they are getting away with murder.

    • Debbie says

      May 24, 2016 at 5:39 am

      He looks like a sick twisted POS Muslim executioner.

  2. mortimer says

    May 23, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    MUSLIMS BITING THE HAND THAT FED THEM? What? Couldn’t be!

    You Islamophobes! Don’t you know…Jihadists are following a ‘twisted’ form of Islam that is endorsed by Al Azhar University, the ayatollahs of Iran, the German council of Turkish Muslims…warfare against the disbelievers… so you must be wrong. Oops.

  3. mortimer says

    May 23, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    Quote: “His mother, Maha Elgizouli, from White City, said her son was influenced by west London hate preacher Hani al-Sibai, who was also an alleged influence for Emwazi.”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3150348/Living-50-000-benefits-hate-preacher-inspired-beach-killer-Cleric-lives-five-bedroom-home-wife-five-children-thwarting-deportation-attempts-15-years.html

    HANI AL-SIBAI is ‘key influencer’ of the Islamic fanatics behind Tunisia beach massacre and inspired Jihad John and El Shafee Elsheikh
    •The preacher once described 7/7 terror attacks in 2005 as a ‘great victory’
    •Lives with his wife and five children in a £1 million house in West London
    •Successive governments have failed to remove him despite worrying links

    Al-Sibai and his wife are estimated to be on benefits of more than £48,000 a year – almost double the cap of £26,000. They are able to defy the limit because both are entitled to disability living allowance. Al-Sibai has also used public money to fund a series of legal cases against the Government to stop him being deported and to have his name removed from terrorist sanction lists.

    Al-Sibai, who has written about ‘celebrating the anniversary of the martyrdom of Sheikh Osama bin Laden’, was last night under investigation on suspicion of benefit fraud.

    • cynical1 says

      May 24, 2016 at 1:00 am

      How long before vigilantes start payback?

      This is ridiculous.

      Fancy financing these scumbags with taxpayer funding.

      Britain is totally ruined.

    • Anne Smith says

      May 24, 2016 at 5:03 am

      Just shows you how useless Cameron and his Government gang are.
      British taxpayers money used to fund this swine and his filthy preaching.
      When are the British ever going to elect a Government who can deal with this scum?
      All the time the Muslim immigrants are pouring in and outbreeding the indigenous population.
      The numbers are against us and the puny pusillanamous Government quakes and bows the knee.

    • Debbie says

      May 24, 2016 at 5:41 am

      That is disgusting that the British government puts their terrorists on a pedestal.

  4. WorkingClassPost says

    May 23, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    Hi, I’ve got a question for all you JW techies.

    I’m looking for the Update button that says:- ‘Text me when he’s toast’?

    It must be here somewhere…

  5. Infidel from Down Under says

    May 23, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    Another peace lovin’ refugee

  6. linnte says

    May 23, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    His mother KNEW this, yet now that he has been revealed, NOW she disowns him? Of course, she disowns him so SHE doesn’t get into trouble.

    Why aren’t people who KNOW about Jihadis deported if they are originally from somewhere else? It BAFFLES me! Like the Brussels people who harbored the IS “immigrants”. I’d be rounding all those people up and tossing their butts into the Mediterranean saying “SWIM!”.

    WHY DO EUROPEANS FEEL THE NEED TO PROTECT CRIMINALS?

    • Champ says

      May 23, 2016 at 5:21 pm

      His mother KNEW this, yet now that he has been revealed, NOW she disowns him? Of course, she disowns him so SHE doesn’t get into trouble.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Spot on! You’re absolutely right, Linnte!

      • linnte says

        May 23, 2016 at 5:25 pm

        Isn’t there an “Aiding and abetting” law in Britain? She is just as guilty as her son.

        Hi Champ! ?

    • Ted Tyler says

      May 23, 2016 at 5:54 pm

      Linnte, Yes, there is a lot of harboring of terrorists by the Muslim community – but I think that what we might be seeing here is what I call the “mother effect”. That is: “Yes, I know that my son has a lot of bad ideas and he gets into trouble – but he is basically a good boy and I love him”. That type of thinking can really distort your view of reality. Then, after a while, she does understand the magnitude of his crimes. Reality finally sets in – and she disowns him.

      • linnte says

        May 23, 2016 at 6:46 pm

        Ted, you are describing denial. If I had known one if my sons had become an IS member, my whole family would know. And the rumors from that, with their friends would have made it all the way to the authorities. This mother HAD to have kept this quiet. It doesn’t say if she is Muslim, but I bet she is. It claims the family escaped because of their communist views. Huh? Sounds like Taqyyia to me.

        • Ted Tyler says

          May 23, 2016 at 7:08 pm

          Yeah, I’m sure that she knew that he was in ISIS and that he was bad. I am just hoping that she was surprised by the magnitude of his badness.

        • linnte says

          May 23, 2016 at 8:18 pm

          Me too Ted. Me too. As a mother of boys, it would be my undoing! If she was NOT Muslim it would explain her ignorance and denial. ?

        • Champ says

          May 23, 2016 at 7:11 pm

          “…you are describing denial.”

          Indeed, Linnte! I think you’ve hit the nail on the head.

    • aDhimmiSaysWhat? says

      May 23, 2016 at 8:52 pm

      I would like to point out that according to the latest poll, it was found that 67% of British muslims would NOT report jihadist activities to the authorities. So his mother not saying anything until now fits perfectly into that poll result. This is mainstream islam in England.

    • Renee says

      May 23, 2016 at 11:38 pm

      Most Europeans are Leftists:” when we are kind, we will receive kindness in return, if not, we need to be more kind, we need to repent from our past colonialism and feelings of supremacy, we need to deny ourselves and our ways, because there is something wrong with us”

      • linnte says

        May 24, 2016 at 1:32 am

        Renee, sorry! This sort of guilt trip is so sad. I don’t play that game with anyone, and I call bull on people who try to squelch my freedom of speech or freedom for equality. Europeans just need to call bull on that mentality and quick. I am not responsible for ANYONES actions. Period.

        • KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says

          May 24, 2016 at 1:02 pm

          Odds are you will be held responsible for your own dahling.

        • linnte says

          May 24, 2016 at 10:47 pm

          Yeeeeessss Dahling, I know that! Hahahahaha. I am accountable to myself and God, and therefore only responsible for me!

    • Debbie says

      May 24, 2016 at 5:44 am

      Maybe Trump has it right. “Kill the terrorists & their families”. That might encourage their families to do some “honor killings”. Take care of the problem for us.

  7. Angemon says

    May 23, 2016 at 5:17 pm

    In a further insult to the UK, Elsheikh was given shelter here aged just five when his Communist supporting parents fled Sudan and claimed asylum.

    Why was the UK taking in communists to begin with? What, Russia ran out of space?

    His devastated mother last night disowned her son and revealed how he became an extremist just 17 days after attending sermons at local mosques.

    Well, he did grew up as the child of followers of a totalitarian ideology – all he did was change to one with a better afterlife plan…

    • Mirren10 says

      May 24, 2016 at 6:33 pm

      ”Well, he did grew up as the child of followers of a totalitarian ideology – all he did was change to one with a better afterlife plan…”

      Smart comment, Angemon.

      Let’s hope we’ll hear soon the scumbag is dead as a doornail.

  8. Ted Tyler says

    May 23, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    You cannot convert a normal person into a vicious killer in only 17 days. Our Muslim guy must have had two telling personality defects:
    1. Susceptibility to internalizing doctrine without evaluating the merits of that doctrine.
    2. Disrespect for life combined with gratification obtained by killing people.
    Thus I am proposing the “bad seed” combined with violent, radical, Islamic, indoctrination.

    • linnte says

      May 23, 2016 at 6:40 pm

      And his father is probably his Uncle. That makes for a bad combination. Note the defect on his right ear pinna.

  9. KrazyKafir says

    May 23, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    Yes, yes, the quisling elites have resigned to a future of submission and sharia. It’s up to the patriots now to take their country back.

  10. Jack Holan says

    May 23, 2016 at 7:46 pm

    The question Robert, are they sending FBI agents into Mosques here just to observe and listen? Here is a true story. During the mid-1970s the government sent FBI agents into Jewish Synagogues to see how inclusive or wide spread the Jewish Defense League/Meir Kahane was and if there was any connection to the Temples. I vaguely remember this took place in New York City and Chicago. So, what is the deal? Muslims are Special and can feel free to organize terror cells if they wish to do so. G-d forbid I should say they would preach the idea. Jews don’t enjoy a special class? It sure seems this way since supposedly the FBI cannot spy on Mosques but could do so on the Schul.

  11. Matthieu Baudin says

    May 23, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    Traditional, uncompromising Islam today provides the Grand Totalitarian World View, with much the same impact that Marxist theory had on the previous two or three generations. The communist movement, of which this young man’s parents were allied, was also a barbarous mass slayer of innocent lives, so there’s plenty of room for soul searching on the part of his mother, and other communists, who were somehow spared the type of trials that the National Socialists of Germany faced.

  12. Westman says

    May 23, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    What? No leftist counciling program to help him integrate back into society? His own mother wrote him off?

    His mommy was a commie,
    And so was dear old Dad.
    Could that be a factor
    In why they’ve now been had?

    Hani al-Sibai taught him,
    And gave him Quran food.
    Now he’s carving neck lines,
    Now He’s no damn good.

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      May 23, 2016 at 11:09 pm

      Westman, your poetry is quite good! Refresh my memory . . . didn’t Muhammad’s mother also write him off . . . or am I wrong?

      • Westman says

        May 24, 2016 at 11:05 pm

        I can only determine that he became an orphan at the age of six, but appears to have been loved by his mother. Perhaps the orphaning had something to with why he turned Muslim marriage into an unequal coupling that minimizes heartfelt relationships in favor of an institutionalized Islam-controlled set of responsibilities. The Jannah seems to have few relationships beyond the physical; truly a Hell for anyone with a 50+ yr-old mental maturity.

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          May 24, 2016 at 11:27 pm

          Westman, thank you for the information you provided.

  13. brane pilot says

    May 24, 2016 at 3:34 am

    The problem is not Islam. Islam has not changed in 1600 years.
    The problem is the collapse of competent governance in the West.

    • linnte says

      May 24, 2016 at 3:36 am

      Well, Brane, I think they both are profoundly horrible problems.

  14. SD says

    May 25, 2016 at 4:03 am

    How could someone who has so-called prophet muhammad that was a rapist, peaedophile, murderer, mass murderer, genocidist and instigator go on to commit some of the same killing and geniciding, hmm I wonder.
    The truth is these beliefs are always there in the minds of Muslims. Surely by many of them do not activate but they are always part of the foundation of the teachings of Islam that they believe in. Ever heard of Muslims say that he is ashamed of Muhammad’s crimes against humanity such as raping women, slavery, murder etcetera?

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