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UK: Amazon.com employee becomes observant in Islam, tries to bring ‘taste of immense pain’ to Britons

Oct 28, 2017 1:36 pm By Robert Spencer

“Jamil told psychiatrists he was possessed by evil spirits or ‘jinns’ and experts agreed he had suffered periods of mental illness, including symptoms of schizophrenia and depression. He told jurors he needed an IS imam to exorcise him in Syria after Sunni imams in Luton and Birmingham failed to cleanse his soul.”

If any of that is remotely true, it is noteworthy that Jamil thought that Islamic State imams could do what imams in Luton and Birmingham could not. This reflects an assumption that they must have superior powers, perhaps stemming from their residing in the caliphate.

“Watch: Moment police arrest would-be suicide bomber who asked Birmingham Imam to ‘cleanse soul,'” by James Cartledge, Birmingham Mail, October 20, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

…Mubashir Jamil, a former straight-A student, was arrested after telling an undercover officer he would blow himself up in Britain if he could not fight for the terror group in Syria….

The 23-year-old was yesterday convicted of a terror offence at the Old Bailey, which heard he was due to travel to the Middle East to fight for the terror group within days of his arrest.

Footage released by the Metropolitan Police shows cops bursting into his Luton home, where he was held down and handcuffed on a bed before being taken away….

Before he was radicalised online, the Amazon worker was an avid computer gamer but became an extreme jihadist.

He was obsessed with gruesome execution videos and images of dead jihadi martyrs, the Old Bailey heard.

The once gifted schoolboy worked in an Amazon warehouse to save up nearly £2,000 and turned to encrypted messaging app Telegram in a bid to join the terror group in Syria.

He filled out an IS application form and offered to blow himself up to bring the ‘taste of immense pain’ to innocent people on British soil in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris and Belgium.

But Jamil, who moved to Luton from Pakistan aged two, unwittingly discussed his detailed plans for jihad with an undercover police officer who he told: “Put an explosive belt on me and tell me how to press.”

The officer, posing as ISIS handler ‘Abu Hasan’, persuaded Jamil to send him a copy of his passport, photographs of himself and even a copy of the boarding pass for a flight to Turkey leaving on 30 April last year.

Jamil was caught red-handed talking to Abu Hasan online as anti-terror cops burst through his bedroom door on April 27 – just days before he was due to leave.

He claimed he wanted to go to Syria to be ‘exorcised of evil spirits’ by an ISIS imam and he has been diagnosed with schizophrenic symptoms since his arrest.

Jamil told forensic psychiatrist Dr Martin Lock he was so disinterested in politics he had no idea who Theresa May was and didn’t know that the Queen lives at Buckingham Palace.

But prosecutor Barnaby Jameson said his claims were ‘dubious’ because he ‘knows about attacks going on in Belgium and Paris and mentions them specifically, he knows what is going on in the world’.

Mr Jameson said: “It was through the internet that the defendant was drawn into a world poles apart from that of the once gifted schoolboy with A* in both the arts and sciences.

“He became a would-be IS recruit willing to sacrifice his life for IS and indeed the lives of others.

“He turned from a player of video games into someone willing to carry out suicide attacks in this country on behalf of IS.

“His preference however, was to go to Syria and join IS as a jihadist fighter.”

Jamil told psychiatrists he was possessed by evil spirits or ‘jinns’ and experts agreed he had suffered periods of mental illness, including symptoms of schizophrenia and depression.

He told jurors he needed an IS imam to exorcise him in Syria after Sunni imams in Luton and Birmingham failed to cleanse his soul.

“If the exorcism couldn’t be done I would have killed myself,” he said.

“I wanted them [IS] to think I would fight for them so they would let me into Syria.”…

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  1. Angry Aussie says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 2:02 pm

    I wonder if a .303 might cleanse his soul?

    • david Cameron says

      Oct 28, 2017 at 2:06 pm

      How about an automatic 50 cal just to be sure.

    • john spielman says

      Oct 29, 2017 at 8:24 am

      why not send him to Syria to be cleansed of jinn or is it gin? just DON’T allow him back in the UK

  2. Stan Lee says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 2:22 pm

    This guy has learned how forgiving UK justice can be when the display of repentence would override a sentence of treason, etc. The justice his defense seeks is complete forgiveness by the British people.
    What the hell, his bomb didn’t explode! He only prepared for such a mission in earnest.
    And so, his “cop-out” is now that this young man with visions of murder and torture dancing through his mind, sufficient to strap on a bomb meant for a UK shopping center, to cleanse his soul for good old Islam and secure a direct pass to “paradise”, only to be blocked by a dutiful undercover officer in order to stop this radicalized supporter of jihad from serving his prophet’s directives.

  3. Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 2:49 pm

    These Muslim fanatics believe that “allah” will reward them with 72 Virgins & they could Not be more Wrong! Mohammad was a Closeted & Dyslexic Homosexual, who misread the Quran! It says, “with 27 Virgins, will I reward You, BUTT YOU WON’T KNOW, IF THEY ARE MALE OR FEMALE, until
    You get here, SUCKERS”!!!

  4. RAB says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 3:00 pm

    The kid is just a normal devout Muslim doing what the “Holy” Koran tells him to do.
    As for being schizophrenic that is normal for a Muslim. There is no other way you can believe in both the Mecca verses and the Medina verses without being schizophrenic. A true Muslim is incapable of critical thinking because the Koran cannot be questioned. All Muslims are schizophrenic as well as deluded

    • David says

      Oct 29, 2017 at 8:40 am

      It might be something to do with marrying first cousins, and causing genetic degradation.

  5. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    He desired to “cleanse his soul” by participating in plunder, murder, rapes and mass genocide committed by his fellow “brothers” from ISIS. He desired to have his “pie in the action.” No ISIS imam would help him, but Mohammed (according to his most fundamental beliefs) would: follow his examples right into Islamic “paradise” (read: hell in the real world).

  6. Donald R Laster Jr says

    Oct 28, 2017 at 5:47 pm

    Sounds like this Islamic is trying, or tried, to use the old excuse of mental illness to avoid facing the consequences of his actions. Islamics know what they are doing since they know what the Qur’an instructs the citizens of Islam to do to those who are not citizens of Islam.

  7. gravenimage says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 12:12 am

    UK: Amazon.com employee becomes observant in Islam, tries to bring ‘taste of immense pain’ to Britons
    ……………………..

    Whenever someone “becomes observant in Islam”, you know the murder plots are not far behind.

    God, I hate Islam.

  8. Infidel says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 12:39 am

    Why can’t they let this animal go .. ONE WAY… and never come back

  9. tgusa says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 1:43 am

    After reading the article with the background of the creep I see a pattern developing here.

    It appears that when muslims reach their twenties the underlying madness takes over, forever.

    Even the book smart ones descend in to this madness. You can only imagine how bad the madness is in the overwhelming masses of the not so smart.

  10. MFritz says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 2:42 am

    There was a study about “extremist” tendencies and ethno-cultural background. The numbers were:

    – 18 of 1000 Westerners may turn to extremism
    – 8 of 1000 Asians may turn to extremism
    – 1 of 10 muslims may turn to extremism

  11. Aardvark says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 8:14 am

    They should have let him go.
    He’s so dumb he would have got himself killed in Syria, solving all his problems, and saving the UK taxpayer a lot of money.

  12. FYI says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 10:20 am

    And he appears to be STILL afflicted by jinns

    Those jinns….like when muhammed imagined that the anti semitic angel jibreel{who is “the enemy of the Jews”} appeared to him with his anti semitic koran from allah who “curses the Jews and The Christians” k 9:30

    Those jinns seem to be overworked in islam…

  13. Henner720 says

    Oct 29, 2017 at 6:19 pm

    ben affleck?

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