One of the primary purposes of zakat, Islamic almsgiving, is for jihad, so Syed Hoque and his accomplices most likely thought that what they were doing was completely acceptable, and within the bounds of what constitutes “aid for Syria.”
“Men ‘used Syria aid convoys to transport items for terrorists,'” Guardian, November 14, 2016:
Four men used aid convoys bound for Syria to transport items that would be used to commit terrorism offences, a court heard.
Syed Hoque, 37, of Stoke-on-Trent, allegedly handed over £3,000 and a further sum of £1,500 on 21 December 2013, to help his nephew, who was fighting against the regime in the war-torn country.
He is also accused with three other men of making “other property” available between 1 December 2012 and 31 May 2014.
Mashoud Miah, 27, of east London, Mohammed Hussain, 30, of east London, Pervez Rafiq, 46, of Birkby, Huddersfield, and Hoque all deny the charge. Hoque also denies a further two counts of funding terrorism.
Prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC, said: “The defendants made use, or so it would appear, of aid convoys as a means of moving money and other property out of the UK to Syria.”
Adding that it was not the suggestion the convoys did not have a legitimate charitable purpose, she continued: “Normal routes are not much use when you look at Syria. So if you do want to get property or money out to Syria, the convoys would have provided a useful conduit. And you may think that an abuse of the spirit of the convoys to convey the money and property to terrorists.”…

aspomdpkfm says
Fessitude is Bob Selig.
ECAW says
Probably the grenade launcher that gave the game away.
ECAW says
Oops. That wasn’t meant to be a reply to aspom. Just a bit of free floating facetiousness.
Angemon says
If they were aiding the islamic state, they should be judged for treason.
linnte says
I agree, and why don’t governments still give the death penalty for treason? It is the highest crime in every Western Nation.
tom parry says
hang em in the maket square for all to see- let god sort em out
A Harris USA says
Treason in most nations = death !! The EU globalist are such fools!! When are they going to get the deal? May I suggest to my EU friends, WAKE THE HELL UP!!! The savages want to KIIL ALL OF YOU!!!!
Same goes for the Aussie’s the Kiwis, the Canadians, and all of western civilization !!!
Ever wonder why the Israelis stop each boat and search it?? Stop letting these savages in!!! My God, what will it take??? When is enough enough? I can not even stomach it anymore!!
GET YOUR TUMP ON!!!!
Crusades Were Right! says
Hopefully we will soon see Trump, Putin and Assad working together to stamp out this BS in Syria.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslims used Syria aid convoys to transport items for jihad terrorists
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This should surprise no one.
Christianblood says
(..UK: Muslims used Syria aid convoys to transport items for jihad terrorists..)
Not only that, UK, US, Turkey, Qatar, France along with their head-chopping Saudi buddies facilitated, armed and funded tens of thousands of international islamic jihadist mercenaries flowing into Syria from the Turkish border. UK and US also supplanted some of the jihadist as “humanitarian workers’ and called them “White Helmets” . Please watch more of this on the lively discussion below. You wont see this anywhere else:
Jay Boo says
The duplicitous British Broadcasting Corporation is the White Helmets equivalent to journalism.
Christianblood says
Angemon posted
(..BTW, around the 14m10s mark there’s a footnote saying that the head of the While Helmets was denied entry in the US – how do you reconcile that with your claim that they are in league with the US?..)
Angemon, it is great that he was denied entry into the US and I believe he should not also be supported as a human rights campaigner in Syria by the US and West. And even though, he was denied entry into the US he is now being used as a political propaganda tool to demonize those who are fighting jihadists in Syria.
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Angemon, it is great that he was denied entry into the US”
You are acting as if this is all news to you. It’s almost as if you never actually saw the video you’re recommending and have no idea of what is said there. Not the first time you screw up like that.
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“UK, US, Turkey, Qatar, France along with their head-chopping Saudi buddies facilitated, armed and funded tens of thousands of international islamic jihadist mercenaries flowing into Syria from the Turkish border.”
Citation needed. Did they, for example, facilitated, funded and armed the thousands of Russians fighting for ISIS?
“UK and US also supplanted some of the jihadist as “humanitarian workers’ and called them “White Helmets” .”
Citation needed.
“Please watch more of this on the lively discussion below. ”
“Discussion”? Far from it. A “discussion” implies opposing views. Having four hive-minded people in an echo chamber regurgitating one single viewpoint they all wholeheartedly agree to begin with is nothing short of propaganda. Just listen, for example, around the 8m11s mark, at the arrogant, disdainful “harumph” when alleged incriminatory evidence was explained as an “administrative mistake”. The hypocrisy around the 12m20s mark, where the host of a “discussion” where no dissident views were allowed claims that journalists are simply “seeing and believing” instead of questioning, is breathtaking. That he claims it started with the Iraq war in 2003 is simply the cherry on the cake – for f***’s sake, the MSM couldn’t even agree on the reason to go to war.
BTW, around the 14m10s mark there’s a footnote saying that the head of the While Helmets was denied entry in the US – how do you reconcile that with your claim that they are in league with the US?
Christianblood says
Angemon
Do you know that the “White Helmets” jihadists were very close to winning the Noble Peace Price this year?
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Angemon
Do you know that the “White Helmets” jihadists were very close to winning the Noble Peace Price this year?”
What does that have to do with what I said? Oh, yeah – nothing. I stand by what I said – an echo chamber where four people sharing one hive mind regurgitate an idea they all agreed with since the get go is not a discussion, it’s indoctrination – propaganda.
Christianblood says
Angemon
You don’t mind if Al-Qaeda jihadists win the ‘Nobel Peace Price’ ?
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“You don’t mind if Al-Qaeda jihadists win the ‘Nobel Peace Price’ ?”
That never happened. Anyway, you are again posting something that’s unrelated to what I asked you. I stand by what I said – an echo chamber where four people sharing one hive mind regurgitate an idea they all agreed with since the get go is not a discussion, it’s indoctrination – propaganda. Propaganda that you seemingly recommended even not knowing what was in it, as demonstrated above.
Christianblood says
Angemon
It is not an “echo chamber” it is a reality. It is true. You can deny it all you want but it is the reality. The West is directly backing, arming and supporting islamic jihadists and the whole world knows about it. To the Orthodox Christians who lived under islam for over 400 years and lost tens of millions under islam this is really, really incredible!
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“It is not an “echo chamber””
Yes, it is. There was no outside opinion. Those four people agreed on something and all they did was to reinforce each other’s belief that they are right all along. You know who in the West acted like that? The media who predicted that Hillary would win by a landslide.
“it is a reality. It is true. You can deny it all you want but it is the reality.”
Repeating the same thing over and over doesn’t make it true.
“The West is directly backing, arming and supporting islamic jihadists and the whole world knows about it.”
Citations needed.
“To the Orthodox Christians who lived under islam for over 400 years and lost tens of millions under islam this is really, really incredible!”
Are you their spokesperson? Oh, and didn’t your employer stated that Orthodox Christianity was closer to islam than to Catholicism, who fought islam for centuries?
Christianblood says
Angemon
I am not at all surprised at your detachment from reality and your inability to understand and appreciate the facts that are before us. BTW, you are not alone, hundreds of millions of people in the West think like you. They are totally and dangerously disconnected from reality and that is why they are calling islam to be the religion of peace like a mantra and also backing the jihadists across the globe! They will soon reap what they have been sowing for decades!
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“I am not at all surprised at your detachment from reality and your inability to understand and appreciate the facts that are before us. BTW, you are not alone, hundreds of millions of people in the West think like you. ”
Blah, blah, blah, generic platitude and collective blaming #666. That I refuse to swallow your irrational propaganda is more than enough evidence that I have my feet on the ground and that I’m in contact with reality as it exists today. BTW, when did I ever said that islam was a “religion of peace”?
Kay says
I could hardly get past the first line. If (since) jihad is one of the primary purposes of Muslim alms giving, then here is yet another word that they have an alternate meaning for.
Long ago in school we learned about the five pillars of Islam. I’m pretty sure alms giving was one. It sounds so . . . peaceful and altruistic, just like Judaism and Christianity. We weren’t told it has an alternate meaning, creating a war machine.
Baucent says
The British hostage of ISIS who was beheaded by “Jihadi John” (sadly I forget his name) came to Syria on a “aid convoy” with several muslim friends. He was grabbed by some militant gang and sold to ISIS. What his friends did to help him, before they returned to Britain, is anyone’s guess. The luckless Brit was deceived and abandoned my his muslim pals.
gravenimage says
The victim you describe was either David Haines or Alan Henning, Baucent.
Baucent says
Thank you, I think it was Alan Henning.
Jerry says
Did anyone ever bothered to investigate the South African Islamic “Charity”
“Gift of the Givers”?
gravenimage says
Last I heard, Jerry, they were active in getting a group of “Britons”–really, Muslims living in Britain–out of China after they had been detained there after having been caught watching terrorist videos.
Most Muslim “charities” are thinly-veiled groups enabling Jihad.
And why not? “Zakat” is not really “charity”–instead, it is anything that enables the spread of Islam, including Islamic terrorism.