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Norway: “Refugee” Islamic cleric accused of being behind jihad group planning “violent actions on European soil”

Jan 7, 2018 7:31 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

an Iraqi-born cleric suspected of enticing recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria will be extradited if a court in Italy convicts him.

Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad (aka Mullah Krekar) was arrested “as part of a coordinated action ordered by the Italian police.”

This was not the first effort of the Norwegian government to extradite Ahmad. In 2003, proceedings began to send him back to Iraq since he was deemed to be a threat to national security, but the “extradition was blocked on human rights grounds, because Iraq has the death penalty.” Ahmad was also jailed in Norway for 18 months for praising the Charlie Hebdo Paris jihad massacre. “Throughout the trial, Ahmad denied any wrongdoing, arguing his statements were an interpretation of Sharia law.” He was then acquitted of threatening a Kurdish immigrant in Norway and was released from prison” in 2016.

Ahmad arrived in Norway as a refugee in 1991 and has clearly been a dangerous menace. Now that Norway is finally managing to get rid of him, Italy inherits this hardened jihadist, if he is convicted by an Italian court.

There are endless reports of imams like him preaching hatred and inciting violence — and in Ahmad’s case, actively recruiting jihadists — who manipulate democratic social and legal systems.

“Minister: Norway to Extradite Radical Islamic Cleric if Italy Convicts Him,” Associated Press, January 6, 2018:

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s justice minister said Saturday that an Iraqi-born cleric suspected of enticing recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria will be extradited if a court in Italy convicts him.

The Muslim cleric, Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, is scheduled to go on trial in Italy Wednesday without him being physically present in court, Norwegian daily newspaper Nettavisen reported. Ahmad is known as Mullah Krekar in Norway, where he has lived since 1991.

Italian prosecutors allege that Krekar is behind Rawti Shax, a European network aimed at violently overthrowing the government in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and replacing it with a radical caliphate. Rawti Shax ultimately was to join the Islamic State group, Nettavisen said.

The prosecutors claim Rawti Shax built up a network of operative cells “to carry out violent actions on European soil or against Western interests to create fear in the population or put pressure on governments and international organizations,” according to the newspaper.

Krekar has denied the allegations.

Norwegian Justice Minister Per-Willy Amundsen told Nettavisen that Krekar should be sent to Italy, if he is found guilty.

“If he is sentenced in Italy, he will serve his time in Italy. I’ll take care of that,” Amundsen was quoted as saying.

Krekar came to Norway as a refugee in 1991. Norwegian officials have long wanted to get him out of the country.

Krekar founded the now-defunct Ansar al-Islam insurgent group of Sunni Kurds, which aimed to install an Islamic caliphate in Iraqi Kurdistan. It reportedly merged with the Islamic State group in 2014.

The 61-year-old cleric was convicted of threatening Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, making other death threats and praising the 2015 extremist slayings of cartoonists at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo….

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  1. StellaSaidSo says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 7:40 am

    ‘Nothing wrong’ with praising the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, eh.

    Nothing wrong with dropping this POS from about 20,000 feet above the putrid rock that he crawled out from under, then.

  2. MFritz says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 7:53 am

    Old German saying: “Fish always smells from the head.” (“Der Fisch stinkt immer vom Kopf her.”)

    Which means, if the leaders are rotten the rest will also be rotten. And there’s a LOT of stink coming from islam’s “spiritual” leaders in this sense.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jan 7, 2018 at 11:56 am

      Yes, *it* rolls down hill.

  3. WPM says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 8:33 am

    He came their in 1991 right from the beginning (according to article) he was one of the top dogs in a terrorist group it only took the brave leaders of Europe 29 years to do something about it. The articles says he is 61 years old now so when he came to Europe he was in his mid 30s .I guess the good leaders of Europe were waiting and hoping he would die of old age before they would have to make the political incorrect move of locking him up and deporting him.

  4. WPM says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 8:41 am

    I am sorry I have to cut them some slack its only about 27 years ,but my guess he will not be deported. He will get three hots and a cot, free medical care for his aged jihad body in Italian prison. There he can spread Jihad through the many losers he can convert to his religion tailor made for losers, misfits, sexual perverts, either way he wins free man or in prison. The only win is deporting these broken toys back to return to sender or better yet not accepted defected programed humans into Western society.

  5. Santa Voorhees says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 8:59 am

    “extradition was blocked on human rights grounds, because Iraq has the death penalty”

    Oh, I see someone still does not get that human rights only apply to humans. Just send him to Iraq, execute him and be done with it…

  6. StellaSaidSo says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 10:54 am

    It is impossible to calculate the amount of damage done to Denmark by this disgusting creature. How many vicious, hate-filled Friday sermons, how many children corrupted and brutalised, how many women abused. It’s enough to make one hope that the Islamic vision of hell-fire actually exists, and that it is populated entirely by the Mullah Krekars of this world.

  7. WorkingClassPost says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 1:00 pm

    You’ve just highlighted the difference between us and them.

    Despite all their wickedness, and all the horrible things they’ve done, most of us still don’t wish such ills upon them, that they want to inflict upon us for having done them no harm at all.

  8. mortimer says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    Quote: “Throughout the trial, Ahmad denied any wrongdoing, arguing his statements were an interpretation of Sharia law.”

    Of course! Sharia law commands JIHAD against the dirty KUFAAR and Norwegians are dirty kufaar!

    Mullah Krekar’s Sharia law is in his mind above Norwegian law, so his ISLAMIC TERRORISM is jihad while opposing jihad is what he considers terrorism.

    According to Krekar, ‘IT ISN’T TERRORISM IF MUSLIMS DO IT.’

  9. brane pilot says

    Jan 7, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    We hear a lot about ‘human rights’.
    Well, people have a basic human right not to have their culture and ethnicity socially-engineered out of existence via open borders mass immigration of criminals and terrorists masquerading as ‘refugees’ and ‘children’..
    Strange, how that basic human right to a stable society takes a back seat to the right of foreign criminals and terrorists to have a ‘family life’ via state sponsored immigration of their extended families, and not be sent back to places of origin where they may be ‘uncomfortable’ when convicted of crimes.
    Romper room refugee and immigration laws will be the death of Europe, Canada and the USA.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 1:23 am

      Indeed, the ‘human rights’ of the greatest abusers of human rights are accorded the most protection.

      Islamic hate preachers are tolerated – even encouraged – but if we dare quote them or their sources verbatim, we can be prosecuted.

      There is no justice anymore. Punishment depends not on the crime itself, but on the identity of the perpetrator. Last week, a man was jailed for 15 years for causing damage to a mosque. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth was sentenced to ‘community service’ for the brutal rape of a teenage girl.

      Our traitorous ‘leaders’ must be held accountable for the destruction they have caused.

  10. CRUSADER says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 3:39 am

    Seems to be a wide spread pattern going on with these imams….globally….

    Seems that JihadWatch is on to something here, after all….

    Too bad not enough folks tune in….

    Keep lighting candles….

  11. StellaSaidSo says

    Jan 9, 2018 at 6:29 am

    Fanaticism and stupidity in equal measure. It’s on all their faces. Ugly, stupid, inadequate men whose only talent is their ability to exploit the weakness and vulnerability of others, including children. Every mosque should be monitored, and mullahs like Krekar deported or incarcerated, and their mosques closed. No second chances. The fact that it has taken nearly 3 decades to shut down this POS is a scandal.

  12. mike9a says

    Jan 10, 2018 at 7:45 pm

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