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London jihad murderer had friends who wanted to join jihad groups

Mar 24, 2017 9:13 am By Robert Spencer

But, but — mental health! Drugs! Lone wolf!

“London terror attack: Killer had friends who wanted to join jihadi groups, says source,” by Jon Rogers, Express, March 23, 2017:

THE man responsible for the carrying out the London terror attack in Westminster had friends who had an interest in joining jihadist groups abroad, a US government source has said.

Police name Westminster attacker as Khalid Masood

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that there was no evidence that Khalid Masood, who was named by police as Wednesday’s attacker, travelled abroad to associate with jihadist groups.

The source told the Reuters news agency: ”The people he was hanging out with did include people suspected of having an interest in travelling to join jihadi groups overseas but the attacker himself never did so.”

The Met Police said the 52-year-old bodybuilder was responsible for the deaths of four people, including a security officer who attempted to stop him, after he drove a 4×4 into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before smashing the car into the gates outside Parliament.

Masood later died after being shot by police.

Islamic State have claimed responsibility for the attack although security sources have said they believe he was inspired rather than co-ordinated by the terrorist group….

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  1. Mo says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 9:46 am

    “London jihad murderer had friends who wanted to join jihad groups”

    Even if you wanted to claim a, “His bad friends made him do it!” sort of excuse, you have to ask yourself, what kind of person has friends like that?! How many people do you know who casually talk about wanting to join a terrorist group of any kind, like they’d talk about joining a sports team or a book club? Has that ever happened to you in your entire life?

    The culture of Islam is full of bizarre views and behaviors that most people in non-Islamic countries would not even dream about. This is an entirely alien culture that is rooted in complete intolerance of anyone else, in violence, in sexual perversion, and in hatred. (Especially toward women. Even their own women!)

    Tell me again why we are so eager to import it?

    • Michael says

      Mar 25, 2017 at 1:26 am

      Why so eager, Mo? Ah, but of course …. tolerance. Understanding. Kindness. Precisely the virtues and values that Islam itself despises. Don’t you know, we can ‘convert’ them to our way of thinking … of course, it’s tough to convert them when our heads are rolling on the ground …

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 25, 2017 at 4:30 pm

        I believe that the motive of the globalist elites who are dumping the Muslims on the people of western civilization is much more sinister than tolerance.

  2. Michael Casmer says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 9:48 am

    and they later arrested at least 10 other people. But the media labeled him a “lone wolf”. I don’t understand.

    • Michael says

      Mar 25, 2017 at 1:27 am

      lol … well, he wasn’t THAT lonely a wolf, you see. Lone wolf … wait, wait, wait … he DID have friends … hmmm … yes, yes, they DID love the Koran … ‘news’ made up on the spot, doing whatever damage control they can to minimize the awfully negative impact this could have on the image of the future leaders of Sharia law … perhaps the mayor himself!

  3. Mo says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 9:50 am

    Why am I getting a “Your comment is awaiting moderation” message when I try to post?

    • marc says

      Mar 24, 2017 at 11:59 am

      it’s automated, it picks up on changes in how you post sometimes, also a few things that can trigger it, getting a stupid amount of spam right now, so have it on its most sensitive settings or the comments would be flooded with unwanted stuff. sorry for the trouble.

      • Mo says

        Mar 24, 2017 at 9:45 pm

        @ Marc

        Thanks. Just wanted to be sure I didn’t do anything wrong!

  4. balam says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 10:19 am

    WITH SUCH A LARGE NUMBER OF MUSLIMS IN Britain , TIME HAS COME NOW FOR EVERY POLICE OFFICER TO BE FULLY ARMED. WE HAVE ALLOWED TOO MANY SNAKES IN HUMAN FORMS INTO THE COUNTRY.

  5. jewdog says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    I’m sympathetic to London, but it’s a little like feeling sorry for someone who is dying of lung cancer, but smoked. They knew the risks but decided to let in all of those Muslims anyway.

    • jayell says

      Mar 24, 2017 at 3:33 pm

      Absolutely. \the whole UK has been warned by a number of people and groups over a period of at least 15 years (probably a lot more) but these people have all been villified and/or ignored by the media and the fashionable powers-that-be. And, despite all the current evidence, they’re STILL at it, like demented ostriches with their heads stuck down in cencrete now it seems! Look at the the utterances of Mrs. May (“Islam is a great religion….”) and that other Tory Minister idiot who is quoted in a story just above this one, stating that there’s no proof that this atrocity had anything to do with islam!!! One character who put his head over the parapet many years ago was Nick Griffin, former leader of the British National Party. He stated that islam was an ‘evil and vicious faith’, gave everyone chapter and verse on the subject, and along with the MP Anne Cryer, was first to make a big noise about the muslim paedophile gangs that everyone ‘suddenly’ woke up to about 5 or 6 years ago. The establishment decided to drag him to court on trumped-up ‘hate speech’ charges with a view ti having their ‘enemy from the far-right’ put away for up to 7 years (whilst, of course, people were getting blown up and thousands of girls abused and raped)! I would say that it’s not so much proverbial ‘lung cancer’ that’s the problem here, more a nasty liberal-leftie-PC-induced gangreneous rot in the corridors of power, and no-one’s got the guts to wield the surgical scalpel.

      • DFD says

        Mar 24, 2017 at 3:50 pm

        Hi Jayell,

        You said: “…Absolutely. \the whole UK has been warned by a number of people and groups over a period of at least 15 years (probably a lot more)…”

        Try Enoch Powell. Remember him? At the moment there are no rivers, only puddles and brooks…

        BTW, surgical scalpel? The corridors in **all** of WE Europe are so infected, or infested, you wont get far with a scalpel. Think BIG! Try chainsaw…

        P…d off as you are. Salute!

        PS: Nick Griffin, out in the cold. For some bad remarks way back in his youth. If a lefty says something bad or unguarded or within incomplete context, say 30 minutes ago, then… “Oh, that was long time ago. Can’t you forget that?”

        • Michael says

          Mar 25, 2017 at 1:34 am

          DFD, thanks for the mention of Enoch Powell, I’m reading his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech right now.

      • Imnokuffar says

        Mar 25, 2017 at 6:54 am

        I gave about £1000 to Nicks defence fund and never regretted a penny of it.

        This was an obvious attempt to stitch him up for telling the truth.

        Then later on we had the Muslim peadophile rings and terrorist acts and it goes on and on with the same excuses being made.

        Now its the lone wolf theory that absolves 99.999999990% of Muslims of everything.

        • Jeanette says

          Mar 25, 2017 at 4:34 pm

          And if a real wolf (which would have the excuse of being a meme animal) killed someone, it would be shot.

        • Jeanette says

          Mar 25, 2017 at 4:35 pm

          That should have been “mere” wolf – sometimes the pale grey letters are hard to see on the paler grey background.

  6. Angemon says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    Islamic State have claimed responsibility for the attack although security sources have said they believe he was inspired rather than co-ordinated by the terrorist group

    *facepalm*

    Yes, he did what ISIS exhorted muslims to do – grab a car, pick up a knife, and go run over people and stab them. Yes, it’s on ISIS. No, they don’t need a direct link to a ISIS handler coordinating the whole thing to make it an ISIS attack.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 24, 2017 at 8:41 pm

      All true, Angemon.

  7. davej says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    Both the Koran and ISIS tell Muslims to do the same things, ergo ISIS is Islamic and Islam is ISISic.

  8. gravenimage says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    London jihad murderer had friends who wanted to join jihad groups
    …………………

    Gee–watta surprise…sarc/off

  9. Matthieu Baudin says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    “… But, but — mental health! Drugs! Lone wolf!..”

    How about this for an explanation for his actions: The guy grows up in an ordinary household, later in life is attracted to the very peaceful and great teachings of Islam, notices that there is hostility towards him and his adopted faith, he becomes angry and vulnerable to ‘radicalisation’, when he sees no hope in sight he decides to murder as many strangers as he can with a hire car and attack Whitehall with a knife.
    ISIS declares that it is their operation, but they would claim that wouldn’t they, anything for free publicity!

    There you go, no need to pry into the texts that this man immersed himself in after, and possibly before, his conversion (they would of course say reversion) to the Islamic Faith.

  10. sidney penny says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 7:29 am

    Always 3 buts Robert

    But, but — mental health! Drugs! Lone wolf!

    But, but ,but— mental health! Drugs! Lone wolf!

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