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UK Muslims trained for Islamic State jihad by playing paintball

Dec 16, 2016 4:22 pm By Robert Spencer

We have seen this before. Hamas-linked CAIR employee Randall Todd “Ismail” Royer was part of a group of Virginia Muslims who trained for jihad by playing paintball a few years ago. Anyone who might look with suspicion on such activity would, of course, be accused of “Islamophobia.”

“Isil sympathisers ‘trained’ for Jihad at Solihull paintballing centre,” by Martin Evans, Telegraph, December 15, 2016:

A bricklayer who told friends he wanted to die fighting for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) underwent “training” for battle at a paintballing centre in Solihull, it can be revealed.

Humza Ali, 20, posed for photographs in military fatigues, alongside fellow Isil sympathisers, including a friend of the Brussels bombing suspect, Mohamed Abrini.

He was convicted of terrorism offences after a trial heard how he had made several attempts to join Isil, even though one of his efforts was foiled because his mother had confiscated his passport.

Ali was pictured beside a military vehile attending a “bonding session” at the Delta Force paintballing in Hockley Heath, Solihull in June 2014.

Other members of the group included Mohamed Ali Ahmed, who last week was jailed for eight years after being convicted of handing over £3,000 to Abrini, who was dubbed the Man in the Hat after being linked to the Brussels aiport bombing.

Also taking part were Gabriel Rasmus, 29, who was jailed for four years at the Old Bailey last month after being arrested en route to Syria and Abelatif Gaini, who is thought to be fighting for Isil in the Middle East.

The men were pictured making the single-fingered Isil salute as innocent members of the public sat close by completely unaware.

Ali from the Hodgehill area of Birmingham had expressed a desire to join Isil more than two years ago when he was secretly telling an associate that he wanted to “fight until I die” in Syria.

But his travel plans were foiled when it emerged that his mother had confiscated his passport.

In January 2015 he managed to travel to Istanbul via Scotland, Belfast and Dublin, but was sent back to Britain by the Turkish authorities….

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  1. Angemon says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    I guess it’s time to ban paintball…/ sarc. off

    • Byzantium1683 says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 6:30 pm

      I know liberal Christians who play paintball. Connection?

      Funny that nobody could tell. If I see Muslims with ISIS fingers, I hope I can tell.

  2. SAKOVKT says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 5:53 pm

    Truth is, a lot of military training is done with paintball.

    The Mil-Sim variety allows the use of Mk-4 or M-9 converted weapons and is expensive, but it doesn’t do anything regular paintball or airsoft doesn’t.

    MILES gear and traditional blanks are right along the same line.

    Modern military training attempts to simulate the most lethal human activity with zero tolerance for injury so, of course, all the simulations are going to lack something and make great hobbies.

    I’ve done a lot of it for gov’t and military as well as recreations like Reenacting.

    Truth of that, is that there are actually some reenacting groups that could give a fairly good account of themselves on a real battlefield even though none of them intend to.

    Groups doing French and Indian War, with all the Roger’s Rangers stuff, would have little trouble with it, swapping the Brown Bess for an M-4.

    My guess is that WW2 groups would have more trouble because they are portraying infantry units in a mechanized, combined arms force, which they don’t have in appropriate numbers, so their idea of tactics is actually farther off the real thing, although it’s a lot of fun, too.

    Civil War or Revolution are right out!

    WW1? Depends upon which part of the war.

    There’s no way to stop anybody from doing anything like this.

    You can just run around with sticks and yell “bang’!

    A lot of WW2 training was actually done like this.

    A lot of it still is!

    It’s all the maneuver you’re trying to get right.

    That’s what takes the practice.

    Once you’re on spot, pulling a trigger is the least of it.

    If you’re interested, you can find army manuals on line that tell you everything you need to know, and it ain’t rocket science.

    Ahmed Massoud never had any military training but gave the Soviets a run by simply reading a few books on the subject.

  3. jayell says

    Dec 16, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    They’ve been up to this sort of thing for years. Groups of Muslims have been.caught indulging in their own “outward bound’ sessions organised in the moutainous Lake District of northern England roundabout the turn of the century, and Nick Griffin, formerly of the BNP, noted that young muslim males had been heavily into martial arts classes in the northern cities where the 2007 London train bombers came from. It really is like having a UK wing of the Nazi party training under our noses in the late 1930’s – We all (including the Police and MI5) know what’s going on.

  4. gravenimage says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:14 am

    UK Muslims trained for Islamic State jihad by playing paintball
    ……………………

    Innocent Infidel games being used for Islamic savagery. *Ugh*.

  5. ECAW says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 1:35 am

    So his mum stopped him playing! It’s easy to write these juvenile wannabe jihadis off as fantasists, but they are dangerous fantasists just as Mohammed was. That’s the Mohammed who invented Jibril and Allah and dreamed he climbed up a ladder to heaven and haggled with the almighty over how many times Muslims should pray. If it wasn’t for Mo, encouraged by Moses, Allah’s slaves would be doing it 50 times a day, leaving very little time for jihad and all the other nasty little habits that go along with the one true religion.

    Did anyone see the recent two part program “Muslims like us” on Al-Beeb? I was surprised at how little the participants actually knew about Islamic teaching. The only one who did know was the ISIS supporter who went for the full loopy version. A Shia woman was shocked…shocked… to discover that Sunnis hated them and another one said “I don’t really go in for heaven and hell much. I think what we do in this life is more important”. Is he a Muslim in anything more than name and habit? What will Allah have to say when he finds out?

  6. BC says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 7:28 am

    These people do not get much help from almighty allah do they? If they were capable of joined up thinking they would work out that if ‘almighy’ allah wanted them there to die for him. He would make damn sure they got there
    Also of course needless to mention the so called Caliphate is close to its end and did not even last as long as the 12 year Third Reich

  7. August West says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 7:37 am

    I have been at rifle ranges where groups of 20 something male Muslims have shown up and have started using the range.

    I recall that they seemed to need a lot of assistance from the Range Officer with the basic function and maintenance of their AR 15 style rifles.

    You can be sure that nobody turned their back on them, and you can also be sure that pretty much everybody there was watching them.

  8. WarEagle82 says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 11:29 am

    I train for counter-Jihad at my local ranges several times a month. One has a 20,000 square foot urban training environment where we conduct force-on-force urban warfare training exercises.

    I don’t waste my time with paintball though as I use my M1911 .45, 9mm and rifles at 5 to 100 yards at another rage.

    So, if these Jihadi morons want to start a fight, just remind them that Americans are armed and ready.

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