“A florist has described his shock after being featured in an Islamic State propaganda magazine which calls on jihadis to ‘strike terror into the heart of disbelievers.'” That imperative comes from the Qur’an: “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the enemies of Allah and your enemies…” (Qur’an 8:60)
In any case, Stephen Leyland hasn’t done a thing to offend the Islamic State. He hasn’t invaded Iraq. He hasn’t drawn Muhammad. All he has done is exist as an Englishman and a non-Muslim. This should emphasize to people that there is no point to living in fear and above all no point to trying to appease the jihad forces. Their imperative to kill Infidels is not predicated upon the Infidels having provoked them. They must fight until “religion is all for Allah” (Qur’an 8:39).
“British Florist’s Picture Used In Islamic State Propaganda Magazine,” Sky News, September 7, 2016:
Stephen Leyland, from Cheshire, says he is “concerned” after discovering that an image of him appeared in jihadist propaganda.
A florist has described his shock after being featured in an Islamic State propaganda magazine which calls on jihadis to “strike terror into the heart of disbelievers”.
A photo of Stephen Leyland, 64, appears in Rumiyah alongside a caption that encourages supporters to take “even the blood of a merry Crusader citizen selling flowers to passersby”.
Rumiyah also lists businessmen on their way to work, teenagers playing sports and old men buying lunch as “fair game”.
Counter-terrorism police have interviewed Mr Leyland after the magazine emerged online.
“It has come as a bit of a shock,” he told The Times. “When I was first contacted I thought it was a wind-up.
“I really don’t know what to do. I’m not scared but I am concerned that the photo is in this magazine.”
The image of the florist is believed to have been lifted from the internet.
Mr Leyland, from Cheshire, added: “I don’t know any jihadis….
As far as you know, anyway, sir.

Kay says
They just want to destroy anything good and beautiful.
john sielman says
how can any one hate FLOWERS?
Lioness says
How can anyone hate flowers? Same cultured folks that hate music, singing, art, wine, western civilization, Christians, Jews, Hindus, blacks, women’s faces, children’s toys, piglets, dogs, fresh air… actually there is hardly anything out there they don’t hate. Flowers are definately haram. Beheadings, on the other hand, are quite halal.
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Lioness.
Tom says
Trump will have a plan to annihilate Islam within 30 days of taking office. Who else has even murmured such an idea?
It is time to squash Islam like the evil little bug that it is. It is time we declare war against Islam.
Apryl says
Sadly, our Congress will not allow that to happen. No matter what Trump may say (and I agree with him and plan to vote for him), our government will never attempt to “annihilate Islam”. We will continue to war with Islamic countries on foreign soil and all for oil and Saudi bribes.
gravenimage says
Um–what? Trump has certainly talked about a moratorium on Muslim immigration to the US–a very good thing–and hinted that he has a plan to defeat ISIS, but he has never talked about having a plan to “annihilate Islam”. Where did you get this idea?
gravenimage says
Islamic State calls for “blood of a merry Crusader citizen selling flowers to passersby”
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Jihad against *pleasant florists*.
Stephen Leyland is a peaceful person, spreading beauty in a small way, and doing it *without having submitted to Islam*. This is his only “crime”.
God, I hate Islam.
biff says
Islam. Religion of death, destruction and murder.
Eric Jones says
The only crime that Mr.Leyland has committed against Islam is that he is HAPPY!
Eric
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elana says
and there lies the problem for Islamists – they abhor happiness – look how they live in the blackness of their sins. Allah’s chosen people killing Allah’s children.
gravenimage says
There is no joy in Islam.
The Ayatollah Khomeini said, “There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”
Of course, he is wrong. Christians and other Infidels find a great deal of joy in matters that are otherwise quite serious.
Charli Main says
Must be one of the reasons that Muslims hate Hindus, so much. In years past, I have watched some Bollywood movies on long distance flights, to pass the time.
Wall to wall music, singing, dancing and boy meets girl romance !!!!!!!!
Allah must be ripping his hair out in rage, at all that happiness.
Maggie says
But within the walls of their homes guess what they listen to and watch? Yes Hindi movies and songs.
gravenimage says
Yes–most Bollywood movies are very joyful. Of course they are Haram.
boakai ngombu says
even the Psalmist of old said: “… Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous; …” (Psalm 18:15b, ESV)
the malevolent, belligerent allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) would prefer that humans believe death is final. what joy awaits those who believe otherwise; especially those who find it in the Christ..
carol says
Humour has too much insight, fraternity and power. They have to stamp it out before it catches on.
JIMJFOX says
Pharrell Williams deserves a fatwah, then. As Ayatollah Khomeini said,
“There is no fun in Islam, no jokes- it is too serious for that”
Mark A says
But he’s also an infidel non-believer in their view.
Frank Courtney says
“… an Islamic State propaganda magazine which calls on jihadis to “strike terror into the heart of disbelievers”.”
Notice that the Sky News piece avoids mentioning the quote comes from the Qur’an by disingenuously implying it comes from the IS magazine. This could be due to ignorance but I think not because avoiding criticism of Islam is endemic within the British MSM. They must think we are stupid, but we are not.
gravenimage says
Oh, I doubt anyone at Sky News realized that Rumiyah was quoting the Qur’an here. Journalists are supposed to enlighten and inform us, but they are all too often sadly ignorant.
By the way, “Rumiyah” means “Allah is exalted”. Apparently the foul “Allah” is exalted by threatening teens playing sports, old people buying lunch, and those running flower stands. *Ugh*.
Scorpio says
The comments highlighted in this article are self-evident to any civilized person but constantly repeating such comments is a waste of time; it is simply singing to the choir. We also hear that the majority of Muslims are peaceful people; indeed it is the politicians’ mantra and to be fair, it is true – but it is utterly irrelevant. It is not the “good Muslims” that are the problem it is the very large minority of Muslims that actually carry out the instructions of the prophet, that are the problem. Or put simply the problem is Islam, first second and last.
Appealing to “good Muslims” will not work, they are in as much danger from the radicals as are the infidels. I was lucky enough to come across a youtube website that sums up this point better than I have ever seen or heard before. It emphasises, as no one has ever emphasised before, the futility of appealing to the majority of “good Muslims”. See Brigitte Gabriel and her off the cuff response to a “good Muslim” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3NzkAOo3s. It is sensational!
gravenimage says
Scorpio wrote:
The comments highlighted in this article are self-evident to any civilized person but constantly repeating such comments is a waste of time; it is simply singing to the choir.
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Actually, Scorpio, there are many more readers than posters here. From the numbers Robert Spencer periodically posts, it appears Jihad Watch is reaching more people all the time. I know I have learned a great deal from comments here; I imagine that is true of other readers, as well.
More:
We also hear that the majority of Muslims are peaceful people; indeed it is the politicians’ mantra and to be fair, it is true – but it is utterly irrelevant. It is not the “good Muslims” that are the problem it is the very large minority of Muslims that actually carry out the instructions of the prophet, that are the problem. Or put simply the problem is Islam, first second and last.
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Alas, many of those “good Muslims” also support Jihad terror–‘morally’, financially, and through other means. In the US, a *majority* of Muslims supports the imposition of Shari’ah law, which is the goal of violent Jihad.
More:
Appealing to “good Muslims” will not work, they are in as much danger from the radicals as are the infidels.
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Well, lax Muslims certainly can be at risk for there more devout coreligionists.
The problem is that there is no ideology of “good Muslims”–“good Muslims” are actually *bad* Muslims–those who are not adhering to the tenets of their creed.
More:
I was lucky enough to come across a youtube website that sums up this point better than I have ever seen or heard before. It emphasises, as no one has ever emphasised before, the futility of appealing to the majority of “good Muslims”. See Brigitte Gabriel and her off the cuff response to a “good Muslim” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3NzkAOo3s. It is sensational!
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Brigitte Gabriel is a staunch Anti-Jihadist, It is always good to see her.
This Hijabbed Muslimah sounds more like a Taqiyya artist than a “good Muslim”, though–addressing a panel about the murder of our diplomatic staff in Libya, she whines that all Muslims are being treated as terrorists–which is not the case, either by this panel or by Western society in general.
I think most people here at Jihad Watch realize that appealing to “good Muslims” is of no use–there are too few of them, they have no ideology to counter that of their more devout coreligionists, and all too many of them turn out, on closer examination, not to be as “moderate” as one might have hoped.
Frank Courtney says
More: “Counter-terrorism police have interviewed Mr Leyland after the magazine emerged online.”
This is puzzling. Why exactly was he interviewed? Was he interviewed under caution as a suspect?
Did they think he’s a mate of Andy Choudary because he appears in the magazine?
I have less confidence in the British police and our legal system than I have in our MSM which is close to absolute zero.
Hard to believe, but it is possible PC Plod thought Mr Leyand is connected with IS.
Another possibility is that they were warning him not to make a fuss about it, to stop appearing in the news and on TV therefore avoiding offending “Muslim sensibilities” to ensure “social cohesion”.
Hopefully they were offering him protection or at least advice on self-protection.
I cannot say plainly here what my advice to him would be because I know my comments on the internet are monitored by those very same counter terrorism police and MI5 but the protection he will need rhymes with clock.
Yokel says
The use of the word “interview” in the report had a similar impact on me. Plod only “interview” people when they think they have a chance of a conviction. And in the target driven force of today, it is easiest to get convictions by attacking the law abiding middle class.
gravenimage says
I hope police were offering him protection–anything else is absurd. That being said, there is all too much absurdity these days.
Yokel says
I would suggest that the jury is still out on that suggestion. Just have a look at how the police treat Tommy Robinson.
gravenimage says
True.
Angemon says
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the “Religion of Peace”!
Crusades Were Right! says
“Mr Leyland, from Cheshire, added: ‘I don’t know any jihadis.'”
If current UK establishment attitudes to Mohammedan immigration doesn’t change radically pdq, he just might find himself bumping into a few!
jayell says
We’ve had this sort of unadultered impertinent insolent arrogance from these insufferable islamic bigots before. Several years ago, well before ISIS appeared, some group of muslims in the middle east declared that they were going to exercise their (non-existent) ‘authority’ against someone in Europe (Denmark?) who had said something uncomplimentary about islam. Likewise with this story. These people have absolutely no self-awareness and just don’t understand basic respect and boundaries of any kind, do they? If Mr. Leyland were to sell flowers in some god-forsaken hole in ISIS territory, they might have some right to perform one of their usual atrocities if they wish. We will no doubt comment for our own purposes, but then that’s our right in our own neck of the woods, and our opinions are none of their concern. Similarly, if Mr.Leyland sells his flowers somewhere in Cheshire, UK, they may comment for their own amusement if they like, but beyond that it’s none of ISIS’s business and their opinions are none of our concern over here. It really is intolerable that these opinionated morons fail to grasp that simple fact time after time. The other thing is this use of the word ‘crusader’. No doubt the use of this ridiculously inappropriate term stems from some over-sized chip on their collective shoulder because persons representing us in the West took back territory that they had misappropriated god-knows-how-many centuries ago – and. of course, one isn’t allowed to do that (apparently?) because muslims (apparently) have rights to everything, even things that don’t belong to them or concern them. Rather like Mr. Leyland’s right to sell flowers in Cheshire.
gravenimage says
Jayell wrote:
Similarly, if Mr.Leyland sells his flowers somewhere in Cheshire, UK, they may comment for their own amusement if they like, but beyond that it’s none of ISIS’s business and their opinions are none of our concern over here.
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Alas, Jayell, this *is* our concern, because the pious Muslims of ISIS may very well decide to murder this pleasant flower-seller, or any of the other innocent Infidels they targeted in Rumiyah.
Gerald4 says
I believe that all US and European citizens should express fear, bias, prejudice and hatred towards all of those followers of Islam and also any other religion that commands their followers in writing to convert or cut off the heads of US and European citizens!
The main enemy of the USA and Europe today is ISLAM.
ISIS members are just true followers of and true believers in the ISLAMIC FAITH
Those who believe in Islam and are commanded by the Qur’an to murder all US citizens that are not Muslims. I believe that Muslims should not be allowed to enter or to stay in the USA!
Tell me how ISIS, al Qaeda, the Taliban, Islam, plus our home grown local Muslim mass murderers living in the USA and Europe who are only obeying the commands of the Qur’an to murder non-believers are not a part of true ISLAM as probably read and taught in our local mosques?
RightStuff44 says
We are dealing with pure, unadulterated insanity here, and Islam must be stamped completely out of this world. There is no way of reasoning with these cretins.
Larry A. Singleton says
Mr Leyland, from Cheshire, added: “I don’t know any jihadis….”
“As far as you know”, anyway, sir.
Better would have been: “not yet”.
Norger says
Pure evil, that’s what ISIS is.