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UK: Man faces terrorism charge for fighting against the Islamic State

Feb 8, 2018 1:30 pm By Robert Spencer

How low will Theresa May’s government go in its shameless Islamopandering, its endless courting of the Muslim vote? There seems to be no bottom limit.

“Briton who fought against ISIS now faces terrorism charge,” Associated Press, February 7, 2018:

LONDON — A British man who fought with Kurdish militia against the Islamic State is now facing a terrorism charge.

London’s Metropolitan Police force said Wednesday that 43-year-old James Matthews is accused of “attending a place or places in Iraq and Syria where instruction or training was provided” for terrorist purposes.

In March, a Jim Matthews was signatory on an “open letter from British YPG fighters on London attacks” posted on a Kurdish news website. It urged people not to give in to extremism following several deadly attacks….This is one of the first cases in which a Briton who fought against ISIS has been charged with terrorism.

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Kurdistan, United Kingdom, Useful idiots Tagged With: James Matthews, YPG


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  1. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 1:39 pm

    Yes: unrestrictedly admitting ISIS fighters into Britain and punishing those who risked their lives to fight against them. How very “new” British! Doubtless, if Sir Winston Churchill would be still alive today, Theresa May would prosecute him for “war-crimes.”

    • dr ilona says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 2:56 pm

      and she would be right…………………………..go to youtube the truth about adolf hitler

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 8, 2018 at 9:19 pm

        Is dr ilona spouting apologia for *Adolf Hitler* again? Besides all his other horrors, Hitler was a big fan of Islam, and wished that Germany had been Islamic.

        Note that this vicious troll believes that Winston Churchill should have been persecuted for daring to have defended against Fascism.

        Of course, both Fascism and Islam are totalitarian–which is apparently what dr ilona is applauding. *Ugh*.

    • J D S says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 1:09 pm

      If Churchill or those like him were alive today May and her like would never have reached their positions…Of course the whole of Britton, the British peoples, was different at those times, further, I don’t believe they will ever be able to rise above where they are now and will only get worse. What a shame to the remembrances of those of the WW2 era and the BLOOD spilled by the Brits and many others, including Americans, to save them from a horde of enslavers and just look at the horde of enslavers whom are knocking on their doors.

    • David Busnick says

      Feb 13, 2018 at 6:19 am

      Better still if Theresa Mayhem was PM during ww2 English would now be Britain’s second language. Britain must dispose this traitor!

  2. R Russell says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    This is the PM who has admitted she has no idea where the returned jihadis are, who then says they pose no threat (but they were a threat to the people in Syria and Iraq) and now punishes someone who went to help those being tortured and murdered.
    I am ashamed.
    How does she live with herself

    • Marco says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:39 pm

      Watched a documentary about psychopaths. They are not all serial killers. In England 1 person in 200 is a psychopath, 1 in 100 in the US. Most live seemingly normal lives but cause chaos and havoc everywhere they go. I am convinced most western countries are run by psychopaths. We had our own psycho here in the US til Trump got elect d. May is a psychopath. Watch the documentary on Netflix it is aptly named Psychopath

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 3:08 pm

    London’s Metropolitan Police is INSANE! Will they ignore and not prosecute the HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of jihadis now walking freely? Those who BEHEADED, RAPED SEX SLAVES and THREW GAYS OFF THE ROOF will walk free? A man who helped the Kurdish people avoid TOTAL GENOCIDE (43-year-old James Matthews) will be prosecuted ALONE?

    The SCREWBALLS are running England … all departments of the UK government are compromised by submission to ISLAM. The jihadis have nothing to fear in Britain.

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 3:57 pm

      Next thing, the cops will start complaining that they had to divert resources from their most important duties – prosecuting ‘phobic tweets n stuff like that.

  4. Berengaria says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 5:34 pm

    I suspect that Horsey-Face MAY just Could be a CONVERT TO GW Bush’s “Religion of Peace”. I’ve seen her in a HEAD BAG, several times & she certainly BUTTERS-UP to KHAN, the KING OF OCCUPIED LONDON.
    Mr. James Matthews will become the MOST HATED MAN IN THE UK, who dared to fight against the “MUSLIM TERRORIST SCUM” & HORSEY-FACE MAY will make sure that he Is PUNISHED TO THE MAX!

  5. Phil Copson says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 7:18 pm

    James Matthews for Defence Secretary !

    • RichardL says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 12:02 am

      Grand idea! The UK might have a fighting chance if he got the job now.

  6. CRUSADER says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 7:36 pm

    It would be glorious if PM May could make up her mind which side she is on.

    May….or May not….

  7. gravenimage says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    UK: Man faces terrorism charge for fighting against the Islamic State
    ……………………….

    Just perverse. Bloody suicidal insanity.

    Meanwhile, the government has just lost track of most of those who fought *for* ISIS.

  8. Lydia Church says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 10:15 pm

    Okay. Time for a new acronym.

    ITYS

    It’s another ITYS.

    I TOLD YOU SO!

    Sadly, they will start rolling in and piling up.

    According to them, we are the ‘terrorists’ and ‘extremists,’ to be ‘dealt with.’

  9. Chand says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 1:23 am

    This is a result of a runaway bureaucratic hotch potch. Turkey has outlawed the PKK-YPG-YPJ as terrorists and so being a NATO member the UK, and all members, HAVE to do the same.

    Turkey has to end its oppression of Kurds.

  10. Dapto says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 2:44 am

    Just shows you who’s side Sharia Mays on, and it aint the side of the British.

  11. Dapto says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 2:46 am

    Will May will also endorse the Genocide of the Kurds ? we all know it wont be the first time the Turks have Genocided a people.

    • Lefox says

      Feb 10, 2018 at 12:34 am

      The Kurds worked hand-in-hand with the Turks killing hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians a century ago. I say all Christians and Jews should get out of the Muslim countries and let the Muslims all kill themselves

  12. al uzza bint-allaha says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 3:06 am

    england has become a very dangerous country to live in. if visiting, keep your stay at a minimum and avoid bringing up islam in any conversation.

    • Cicero says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 4:31 pm

      I would thoroughly agree with this statement. Britain is turning into an Islamic compliant society. No one , no one dares to have conversations in public about changes British society is undergoing currently, for fear of reprisal or career suicide

  13. Hope says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 7:00 am

    My heart goes out to James Matthews. What a HONORABLE man, to go fight EVIL, to save others in another country. I salute you, James.

  14. Virginia Pritchard says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 9:47 am

    We need to pray for this man and for England we need to also pray for the PM. May God bless England and deliver her.

    • Ecosse1314 says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 6:40 pm

      Take it you don’t care about Scotland Wales or N Ireland.

  15. Anne Smith says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 10:43 am

    The Government appointed “Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation” – an almost unknown barrister called Max Hill, Q.C. has stated that in his opinion Britain should welcome returning jihadis and that they are only guilty of naivety. He also stated that to refuse permission for their return would result in a “lost generation”.
    (Personally I feel that the only lost generations we have are those to be found in the British War Graves found all over Europe and the rest of the world).

    Most British do not agree with Mr Hill. The new Defence Secretary – Gavin Williamson – actually said they should be killed and not allowed back. This is a brave and strong response to the left wing shilly shalllying and hand wringing, but not many politicians have the guts to say it.

    However Max Hill seems undeterred. For those who may be interested in hearing, and perhaps questioning, his views he is booked to give a talk at the University of Hertfordshire on March 14th.
    This is a free of charge public lecture but anyone wishing to attend will need to book in advance and obtain a parking permit. Registration begins at 5.45 pm and the lecture is at 6 pm.

    Online: go.herts.ac.uk/MaxHillQC
    email: events@herts.ac.uk
    Phone: 01707 284121

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 11:12 am

      +1

  16. Rohit says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 11:01 am

    I assume Theresa May would prosecute MOD for “war-crimes.”
    haha, Ie like sending our soldiers in Iraq to fight ISIS!!!!!

    • Tom says

      May 5, 2018 at 9:00 pm

      What I’m about to say I apply equally to the EU as a whole. With regard to militant Islam if you lined up every country in the EU you wouldn’t find enough balls to equal what God gave a canary.

      So, you limeys persecute the few remaining of you with any balls. You pander to Islam because the UK really stands for United Kowards!

      THANK GOD WE HAVE TRUMP!

  17. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 9:47 pm

    Reminds me of the book Catch-22. We are sending troops and fighting ISIS, but if you do fight ISIS then there is a catch, its illegal.

  18. MARTEL SOBIESKI says

    May 2, 2018 at 7:41 pm

    DEC 19, 2016 – DENMARK: WARPED JUSTICE – OUTRAGE AS DANISH WOMAN WHO FOUGHT AGAINST ISIS IS HELD IN JAIL WHILE HER GOVERNMENT LETS RETURNING JIHADIS GO FREE & GIVES THEM PLENTY OF BENEFITS & PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2432987/joanna-palani-fought-isis-jailed-prison-copenhagen-denmark/

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