The “Trojan Horse” school scandal was the transformation of state schools in Britain into de facto Islamic schools. Rasheed Benyahia’s mother was governor of a group of schools at the center of the scandal. She now claims that “the case might have been used by extremists to turn him against Britain.”
Even among a group known for its victimhood posturing, this really takes the cake. Because British officials stepped in to stop the Islamization of taxpayer-funded schools that were supposed to be secular, young assimilated and moderate Rasheed became so enraged that he decided to wage violent jihad as part of a group that had declared war against his native country?
Does even Nicola Benyahia herself believe this nonsense?
Note, however, her description of how her son was “radicalized”: by appeals to his Islamic faith and loyalty. An odd approach for a group that, as we’re constantly told, has nothing to do with Islam!
“Trojan Horse school governor’s son was killed fighting with Isil,” by John Bingham, Telegraph, November 22, 2016:
A former governor of a group of schools at the centre of the so-called “Trojan Horse” affair has spoken of how her 19-year-old son was radicalised by Islamic extremists and eventually died fighting with Isil in Syria.
Nicola Benyahia was among a group of board members from the Park View Educational Trust in Birmingham who stood down in July 2014 at the height of the uproar into allegations that hard-line Muslim groups had attempted to infiltrate schools in the city.
An official review by the former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism chief Peter Clarke concluded there was “disturbing” evidence of attempts to take control of schools to spread an ultra-conservative brand of Islam, leaving children “vulnerable” to radicalisation.
Mrs Benyahia, 46, a British convert to Islam, has recently set up a support group to reverse the process of radicalisation, working with experts to identify “triggers” in vulnerable young people.
But she believes that the Trojan Horse affair could have been used as one of the triggers to the radicalisation of her son, Rasheed.
The teenager, an enthusiast for the acrobatic craze free-running, disappeared in May last year and travelled to the so-called Islamic State where he was killed six months later in a Coalition drone strike.
In an extensive interview with the BBC she offers a rare glimpse into the experiences of families of those who have travelled to join Jihadist networks, Mrs Benyahia describes how the teenager gradually changed during the course of 2014.
Mrs Benyahia, a care manager and counsellor, details how, with hindsight, changes in her son’s mood and outlook chart a process similar to grooming by a group of people she believes he met after joining late night Islamic study circles in the city.
She singles out two elements in their family life at the time which she believes may have made him more vulnerable to extremists: a rocky patch in his parents’ marriage and her own experience in being caught up in the Trojan Horse affair.
She said that despite concerns about what was happening she had hoped to stick it out as a governor because she wanted a progressive Muslim female voice to be heard on the board.
But she fears the case might have been used by extremists to turn him against Britain.
“I could see a great man that he was going to become and it was just taken away in the last year of his life,” she said.
“They just ruined him.
“They lured him into something he knew little about.
“He didn’t have any understanding or comprehension about what he was walking into.
“His softer nature and that vulnerability in him was manipulated [by saying] ‘Oh this is the Caliphate, this is what you must do, if you don’t do this, if you don’t do this journey then you’re not a believer, you’re not a Muslim, you’re not a good Muslim’.
“That would have got to him more than anything.”…

Resistant says
Pathetic iSSlam!!!
A Harris USA says
Bye Bye scum!!! Hope you took a lot of like minded filth with you to HELL!!!
RichardL says
I have a trigger for her: islam.
When she talks about his “softer nature” she was referring to his brain, I am sure. Now, as worm food, he is an appreciated part of nature again, unlike when he was still breathing.
PRCS says
Worm food. Heh!
Marty says
Very true.
It’s time everyone realised & admitted that devout & sincere muslims
want to convert, kill &/or rob us.
The “good” muslims, & as a percentage, I’d guess 15%, are barely
muslim at all.
Much like the leadership of the UK & European Christian
churches are barely Christian at all.
We must integrate the good/ex mohammedans into Western life,
& make the devout ones feel uncomfortable living here.
After all, are any Westerners ever made to feel comfortable in muslim lands ?
Raja says
Marty,
I like your analogy: Much like the leadership of the UK & European Christian
churches are barely Christian at all.
You have guessed the “good Muslims” to be at 15%. You are being too kind here.
Aren’t 100 per cent taught from nursing age- democracy is bad, bible is corrupted, Jews must be killed, destroy all traces of ancient civilizations, never befriend Christians and blah blah?
Musalmaanmasala says
I just cannot sympathise with this mother. She left whatever she was following (a “Christian” name “Nicola” does not make one a Christian) and converted herself into this cult. The death of her son is enough retribution.
If she is reading this site let her see that nobody sides with her. She is lost just like the cult she follows and whose rules she abides by.
The “prophet” she worships is nothing but a philanderer who murdered and raped and whose doings followed by his followers took away her son.
vladkoval says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmachi_movement
“During the Sovietization of Central Asia, Islam became the focus of antireligious campaigns. The government closed most mosques, repressing Islamic clerics and targeting symbols of Islamic identity such as the veil. Uzbeks who remained practicing Muslims were deemed nationalist and often targeted for imprisonment or execution.”
Learn from History. Do not expect muslims will become “good” someday on their own accord.
If the muslim immigration is not stopped now – it may be too late.
Bob says
Vladkoval – your final sentence…tell that to our western politicos who’re increasingly selling out to islam. Maybe they think that they’re protecting their own necks when the big islamic caliphate comes!
Phil says
But she needed to go further than this and reveal unequivocally that the more pious and devout that one becomes in Islam the more violent and intolerant they become of others. And that, of course, would lead her to denounce Islam in favor of any other religion or secularism. As many really good Muslims have done.
PRCS says
But, will she–ever?
Stan Lee says
Sorry, madame, for your loss and that of your deceased so. However, he did have support in the decision made to partake in Jihad.
He was raised with the Quran as his religious guide, obviously with approval by his mother. While he was alive, I think Mother’s approval existed.
Now that the lad has become a casualty of war, operating in a combat zone on his own volition and following the creed of Jihad, his loss is being attributed to having been radicalized, but by whom?
I suggest the radicalization came as a common matter within the religion he practiced, the same one he was born into.
What other facts are known of his radicalization? What about innocent victims who have fallen prey to “radicalized” young men? What have their mothers to say about their losses if the mothers are still alive to say anything?
Aspy says
I totally agree with Stan Lee above. Madame, there is still time to denounce Islam, the religion of the sword, & and revert to other more paths available.
john spielman says
I could be cruel and say I love stories like this with a “happy ending”, but the lesson is this: islam is a DEMONIC EVIL RELIGION OF DEATH DARKNESS AND HELL! This young man was enticed and destroyed by its evil malevolent nature because Satan (allah) has been a murderer liar and a thief from the beginning -as Jesus said. No other religion allows /encourages its adherents to kill in the name of their god to ensure entrance to its paradise- which in the case of islam, is a drunken brothel in the sky!
Unkown says
Yes, then come those leftist and say “oh, Christian killed in the name of their God too”, that is different, the Bible doesn’t teach how to kill non-believers (you have few parts on Old Testament which is another context, it’s related to Israel, yet, I don’t see Jews stoning people to death right now, and most Ancients Civilizations did it). Crusades were to defend Europe from becoming an Islamic continent, the most fatal mistake was they saying it was from God: Deus Vult, which was about self-defendant also I’m thankful for those who died trying to save us but also get mad because people from today made their deaths worthless.
Unkown says
Also war is war. You just have two opinions: kill or be killed. You instinct of survive will act.
Allan says
That could not have happened to a better mother.
Ginger says
He couldn’t possibly have been radicalised by the hard-line brainwashing in the Trojan Horse school of which his own mother was a parent-governor, now, could he? Lady, that’s why all you parents choose to send their kids to these schools.
Cretius says
The mosques are the fifth column spreading hate and radicalism. Islam is a fascist totalitarian political system that includes a religion of holy war, bigotry, intolerance, sexism and barbaric cultural practises. Mohammedans are their own worst enemies. They even kill each other! No one has to lie about Islam. Simply bear witness to the intolerance, bigotry and hatred spread by imams online. Mohammedans demand respect and rights that they deny to everyone else. This makes them unfit immigrants/refugees to modern western democracies.
Allowing such a poisonous political system/religion in is tantamount to committing national suicide.
David says
Allowing them in at all, IS TO COMMIT TREASON!
Do not let any in. EVER!
Phil Copson says
Note how even the tragedy of her own son’s death can’t cut through the self-pitying “every-one-else-is-to-blame” attitude. Who introduced him – as an impressionable little boy looking for his parents’ approval – to the idea that Islam was preferable to his own white British/Western culture ? She did. And who introduced him to radical Muslims ? She did. And who allowed him to become radicalised and leave the country ? She did. And did she say one single word of regret for any harm he did out there or for anyone he may have killed before dying himself ? No – that would be far too much to ask. The combination of smug Left-wing self-importance and Islamic entitlement and self-pity is a truly toxic cock-tail.
Angemon says
All this happened under the watch of a “progressive muslim woman”…
gravenimage says
UK: Trojan Horse school governor’s son killed waging jihad with the Islamic State
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This should surprise exactly no one.
More:
The “Trojan Horse” school scandal was the transformation of state schools in Britain into de facto Islamic schools. Rasheed Benyahia’s mother was governor of a group of schools at the center of the scandal. She now claims that “the case might have been used by extremists to turn him against Britain.”
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Good grief. Yes, it was Britain–no matter how weakly–opposing Jihad that drove the young lad to Jihad.
*Shameless* false victim mongering.
Anne Smith says
Converts are always more enthusiastic. It seems that this woman, sadly, sowed the seed and reaped the whirlwind.