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UK: Son of jihadi imam stripped of passport after waging jihad in Syria

Apr 1, 2017 3:41 pm By Robert Spencer

This should be done with every last person who went to wage jihad in Syria or Iraq. Those jihad groups are at war with Britain. They are enemy combatants. Would Britain have allowed a group of British Nazis who had gone to Germany to fight against Britain to return to Britain in 1943?

“Abu Hamza’s son stripped of British passport after waging  jihad in Syria,” by Robert Mendick and Robert Verkaik, Telegraph, April 1, 2017:

The son of Britain’s most notorious hate preacher has been stripped of his UK passport after travelling to Syria to fight with jihadists.

The Home Office took the highly unusual step of withdrawing the passport of the youngest son of the “hook-handed” cleric Abu Hamza, leaving him effectively stateless and stranded in the civil war.

Sufiyan Mustafa, 22, whose father is in jail in the US after being convicted of a series of terrorism charges, has complained in an interview with an Arabic newspaper of his plight. He has pleaded for the option of coming back to his home in London.

Mustafa is fighting alongside rebel units after fleeing Britain in 2013 following the extradition of his father to America to stand trial. He denies fighting with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or with forces loyal to al-Qaeda, although sources say the decision to

revoke his passport was “not taken lightly”. It is unclear for which rebel group Mustafa is fighting.

In his interview with al-Quds, the Arabic newspaper, Mustafa spoke of his irritation at being accused by the Government of being a terrorist. He also told of his “surprise” at his passport being revoked.

He said he would return to Britain when the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has fallen and the fighting has stopped.

He also questioned the Home Office decision, insisting he was fighting with a moderate group which was supported with British and American weapons.

He said: “Britain is the place where I was born and lived. I have never been a threat to national security in Britain and will not commit aggression on its population because our religion does not allow attacks on unarmed innocents.”

Mustafa admitted his father, a 59-year-old cleric jailed for life after a trial in New York in 2015, had made mistakes, but added by way of explanation: “Who hasn’t when they believe in a cause?” Mustafa said he had taken part in battles in Aleppo and on his Twitter feed he has written about the killing of regime forces….

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  1. DFD says

    Apr 1, 2017 at 4:12 pm

    OK, so he is now on his way to Sweden, Germoney or Austria. What do you think, will he pass as an ‘unaccompanied child’?

    • martin says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 1:05 am

      Germany is so far gone they would likely take him in as an unaccompanied demon!

  2. Richard says

    Apr 1, 2017 at 11:49 pm

    He says he was fighting for a “moderate group”. He was probably telling the truth. To him, ISIS is a “moderate group”.

  3. gravenimage says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 12:18 am

    UK: Son of jihadi imam stripped of passport after waging jihad in Syria
    ……………….

    They never should have let him back in.

    • ShandyLover says

      Apr 2, 2017 at 1:38 pm

      The whole family should have been expelled when they got rid of his obnoxious father.

      Then the rest of us would be a little bit safer

  4. jayell says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 12:38 am

    Hamza’s son talks about the acceptability of making mistakes if you believe in a cause. Rubbish. Mistakes are never acceptable whatever the excuse. ‘Understandable’ if you’re on a learning curve but no one.has a right to expect others to tolerate incompetence especially if this is due a total disregard of others. And.there is something hideous about this character claiming any affinity to the UK. He may have been born and lived here, but that just proves that accidents happen. Even God, apparently, makes mistakes. And for his promise that he ‘will never commit aggression on the population’, for one who claims to have lived in the UK, doesn’t this ignorant joker.realise that that is such a basic assumption of UK.culture that it shouldn’t even need stating?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 2, 2017 at 12:49 am

      Slaughtering people is not, of course, an honest mistake…

      • jayell says

        Apr 2, 2017 at 6:02 am

        But if they’re only kuffar and they don’t really matter that much?

  5. Nietzsche says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 1:33 am

    Obviously you have to be pug-ugly to be a jihadi. Clearly a member of the nonobrow club. Bleurgh.

  6. Nietzsche says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 1:34 am

    *Monobrow, sorry.

  7. Harry says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 3:22 am

    A better idea would be to send him back to Syria (in chains) to face justice there.
    I think Assad still has hanging for murder.

  8. Harry says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 3:25 am

    Google “taqiya””.

  9. Ethel Red The Unready says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 5:30 am

    This should be done everywhere. If his father is complaining about his sons loss of passport, then we are accomplishing what we want. They want to go fight with our enemy, they may never come back. I see the Muslim scum in Britain, with their signs saying Kill The British Soldiers when the soldiers are returning home from the middle east. I would bring the soldiers off the plane with weapons fully loaded and say the enemy is here, take care of it. They want to be Martyred.

  10. Angemon says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 5:36 am

    The Home Office took the highly unusual step of withdrawing the passport of the youngest son of the “hook-handed” cleric Abu Hamza, leaving him effectively stateless and stranded in the civil war.

    I want to say “good”, but he’ll probably show up as an “unaccompanied minor” in Calais…

  11. isabella says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 6:04 am

    He said: “Britain is the place where I was born and lived. I have never been a threat to national security in Britain and will not commit aggression on its population because our religion does not allow attacks on unarmed innocents.”

    How can you make this statement with a straight face
    Gee whizz

    • Noel says

      Apr 2, 2017 at 2:55 pm

      An unarmed innocent means a Sharia-compliant muslim who is not carrying a weapon.
      As non-muslims we are not innocent.
      This is the other sort of lie we come across. The sort where the speaker hopes that we don’t know the meaning that he attributes to his words.

  12. Phil Copson says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 6:35 am

    Attacking the innocent is the whole point and appeal of Islam.

  13. steve says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 7:27 am

    Historically, England admitted Ist.Galician S.S troops and Canada admitted 2,000 Ukrainian S.S. after the war. So, there are plenty of descendants of these thugs living in these countries now.

  14. Frank Courtney says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 8:01 am

    The European Court of Human Rights will probably rule his passport must be returned to him. Our gormless PC British Government will then comply. The ECHR’s authority to overrule the English legal system was one of the reasons I voted for Brexit.

  15. R Cole says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 9:16 am

    The cost to any western nation is that you have to monitor migrants for generations. Where immigrant parents may only glorify terrorism, their children born in a western nation, may seek to carry it out.

    I believe that the UK counter-terrorism spending has risen from £11 to £15 billion for a 5 year period.

    And as we’ve seen from this last attack in Westminster – they can’t afford to follow everybody.

    It is not only safer but cheaper to strip these people of their passports. If one of their parents was born in Pakistan, the Middle East or North Africa – and they are involved in plots to attack or incite others to attack the homeland, or have travelled to a foreign destination, to train for or take part in waging jihad, then what’s to surveil, when they are no longer citizens. Either they should be removed or not be allowed to return to the country.

    The prison system is filled with wannabe jihadist and some real ones – they can easily, deport the ones with a foreign passport. Isolate those radicalizing others from the main prison population. There is no one who should convert to Islam for protection in prison or who enters it for shoplifting, clean shaven and emerges a radical jihadist, in full beard.

    ::

    Hamza’s son says he was just fighting alongside the Free Syrian army. A soup or jihadi affiliates, who are fighting to impose a stricter version of sharia on that country – only Sunni, rather than Shia led. Once he returns to the UK, he would have to be monitored. Then there’s no guarantee that any children he has, will not take up the terrorism mantle – tired of waiting for the Islamic state to arrive.

    Stripping him of his passport, is literally nipping the problem in the bud.

    ::

    What Islam brings is like the anti-enlightenment and it is as though the whole of western society is being held back for it – in vain hopes it could be integrated.

    It is like we have arrived in some uncharted remote jungle and when we came upon the people, they said, ‘we can’t show our faces because the god will be angry.’ What at first mystifies us, now instead of it seeming odd – we, who have put man in space, have invented all the things that allow for the modern world, are increasing looking odd and out of place in this new religious jungle. With all the debate brewing around populism, it’s no wonder when someone rises up and says – you’re ok, we are ok – that people don’t latch onto the message.

  16. Margaret Haugh says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 11:30 am

    Good.

  17. Irene Brekelmans says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    Don’t ever trust a moslem, ever , ever, ever. You can’t trust their wives either, as they will do what their husbands say, the women are oppressed, so they don’t have a choice, otherwise beheading or something like that. I realy get nauseated when I see the thousands of people kneeling on their little carpets.
    Is this a sign that they all need a private mosque for themselves.
    I can not believe the European , American, Canadian people and governments, but the leftisi are even more coward and should accompagny their fellow brothers to Islamic countries, and so should governments. It just shows you, democracy does NOT exists anywhere. We don t have a saying in anything, but it is not over yet Moslem Brothers !!!
    Thank you Robert, Mortimer, Gravenimage, Wellington and many others for your good comments, pity you have to use your writing skills on this fantastic “Religion of peace”, but you are right, we can not quit.

  18. Michael says

    Apr 2, 2017 at 2:20 pm

    yes, the classic lie of lies … and my god the people who believe them.

    of course, we non-Muslims are trained, from birth, to NOT lie. Muslims are trained, from birth, to lie. and therein lies one of the profound differences.

    One of our 10 Commandments: Thou shalt not lie. One of the bedrocks of our civilization.

    One of their 10,000 or so ‘instructions’ from their Manual of Murder: Lie, baby, lie, at every turn.

    the problem is, those of us who don’t lie, cannot fathom that there is a culture, an ideology, that actually instructs its people to lie to pretty much anyone, about anything. we, in general, will not ascribe ‘they lie to our faces, about everything’ to anyone.

    until and unless much greater numbers of people understand that Islam is an ideology of hatred, deception, lying, murder, violence of any imaginable sort … they will continue to the hijra pretty much unimpeded.

    And when one day they are cutting heads off in a public square, and someone says … ‘But you promised you just wanted to co-exist. You SAID you never wanted to do any harm to anyone’ … the one with the sword will simply smile and say, “I was kidding!”

    He was. all along. every step of the way. every word.

  19. Linnte says

    Apr 6, 2017 at 3:17 pm

    Why was he allowed back into the country? SMH!

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