“The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.'” (Bukhari 4.52.269)
And anyone who would dare to question the sincerity of any moderate Muslim in the West would be excoriated by Western non-Muslims as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe,” so the deceit was easy.
“The radicalisation of Safaa Boular: A teenager’s journey to terror,” by Dominic Casciani, BBC, June 4, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Teenager Safaa Boular has been found guilty of plotting an attack as part of the UK’s first all-female terror cell. The case revealed the workings of a truly dysfunctional family.
April 2017 – five bangs rang out as heavily armed police fired CS gas into a suburban home. As the officers broke into the property in north-west London, a 21-year-old woman was shot.
Screaming in pain and in anger, Rizlaine Boular was dragged to the street to receive first aid.
“Don’t touch me, my body, don’t touch my dress,” witnesses heard her shout, as she wrestled feebly with the officers.
She was one of the targets of a major surveillance operation.
More than 50 miles away, Rizlaine’s mother, Mina Dich was arrested outside the Medway Secure Training Centre – a youth prison. There, her daughter Safaa was already awaiting trial, having just turned 17.
Safaa’s sister and mother were about to join her in custody, accused of the first all-female terror plot in the UK.
When Safaa Boular, now 18, eventually took to the witness box in her defence, she was every inch the professionally minded student.
She stood there in a smart black mini-skirt, top and cardigan, with highlights in her hair. She was polite but firm – softly spoken, but clear.
A year earlier, on the eve of her arrest, she had been wearing the most conservative of Islamic religious dress. So how did she end up as the youngest woman in the UK to be convicted of a terrorism plot?
Rizlaine and Safaa Boular grew up in a Thames-side flat in Vauxhall – across the road from MI6’s imposing headquarters.
Their Moroccan-French parents split up acrimoniously when Safaa was aged six. While she maintained a good relationship with her father, the 18-year-old accused her mother during the trial of being violent and vindictive – the head of a chaotic home where the girls had to fend for themselves.
Mina would throw mugs. She would spit. And the next day she would act as if nothing had happened and say she loved her children deeply.
Mother’s lectures
The family had not been remotely religious – but as the children grew up, Mina began to adopt a highly conservative interpretation of Islam, apparently without any proper religious instruction other than what she had found online.
She would lecture her daughters about covering up. When she discovered Rizlaine at the age of 16 talking to a man online, and wearing Western clothes and make-up, Mina was furious.
She assaulted her daughter, and Rizlaine then ran away.
When Safaa spoke to boys from her school on her phone, her mother was appalled. She confiscated the phone and made her wear even more conservative Islamic dress.
And under pressure from her mother, Rizlaine appeared to buckle and began to adopt the same world view.
Safaa’s life worsened at 14. She was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, requiring a lifetime of insulin injections.
But, she told her trial, the diagnosis had initially made her happy.
“I got all the attention from my mum that I needed,” she said. “She treated me like a little princess.
“After maybe a month or so, my mum got used to it and I had to start managing my diabetes myself.
“She was not looking out for me – and my diabetes was all over the place”.
She was repeatedly admitted to hospital – but home had become a place where there were religious lectures but little in the way of parenting. Mina made her daughter fast – even though there was no religious requirement for a diabetic to do so.
And on 29 August 2014, Safaa ran away.
“This home is not the right place for me,” she wrote in a note she left behind.
The escape did not last long. She was found in a local park calling ChildLine.
Syria attempt
As chaos reigned in the family during 2014, Safaa’s older sister, Rizlaine, tried to run away to Syria. She was stopped after a call to the police from Safaa and her older brother. Rizlaine was found and returned from Istanbul. And police and social services initially investigated until it seemed she had settled down.
But at her trial, Safaa told the jury Rizlaine had been married off by her mother to a man her sister had known for only five days. While they later had a child, the couple soon split.
Safaa appeared to settle down as she gained more control of her diabetes – but it was not a happy existence.
The November 2015 Paris attacks had a big effect on her. She wanted to know what the self-styled Islamic State in Syria meant – and whether she was under a duty as a Muslim to help it, given her mother’s lectures about being a good Muslim.
Online, she made contact with a woman recruiter in Raqqa, who was among the first and most prolific English language propagandists for IS. Partly through her, Safaa met hundreds of new people online.
“It was special, it was exciting,” she told her trial. “I was not allowed to go out with my friends from school – so to have these friends was exciting.”
And one of them was the man who would change her life forever – Naweed Hussain, a Coventry man twice her age, who had left for Syria with a friend in June 2015.
They never met in the flesh but soon enjoyed an online romance with a dark undercurrent.
Hussain would post images of apparently bustling life in Raqqa – no pictures of the war, other than one particular gruesome image he sent to Safaa of himself standing next to a publicly executed prisoner.
He confirmed everything that the recruiter had been saying – that life was good. But he was using these tales to groom young women.
As Safaa’s GCSEs approached, she chatted with him for up to 12 hours a day.
“He was very caring, very sweet, very flattering. It was the first time that I had received this kind of attention from a male.”
And like many romances, it was sealed by a holiday, although one where Safaa met her lover only electronically.
In August 2016, Safaa was staying at her grandfather’s home in Morocco, away from her messy London life. Over a fortnight, she had deep conversations with Hussain about their future.
Hussain wrote: “I love you. I miss you loads uno, just to touch you, to make sure you are real and I ain’t dreaming.”
“Yeah me too,” said Safaa.
And as they blew each other kisses, they promised they would meet in Syria – and blow each other up in the face of the enemy. Naweed Hussain sent Safaa a picture of his bomb belt.
“Belts… are a must even with you… Don’t even be hesitant to pull da pin ok. Your honour is worth more than any kaffir’s life,” he wrote.
“Does the pin make me go [explosion emoji]?” asked Safaa.
“Yes – straight away. My one has a five second timer so they will laugh when I pull it.”
Safaa sent emojis indicating she was laughing and then added: “When you’re teaching me how to use in, God Willing, don’t actually pull the pin – ok?”
During her trial, prosecutors said this discussion had been preparation for an act of terrorism. Safaa Boular said it was a jokey chat about self-defence, were they to be attacked at home.
A marriage
The couple’s relationship moved on.
In a secret “ceremony” conducted on a messaging app, Safaa, Hussain, two witnesses, an Islamic State sheikh and a “guardian” hastily came together online.
In a series of text messages, which have not been recovered in the investigation, 16-year-old Safaa Boular “married” Naweed Hussain.
As she prepared to return to the UK, she hurriedly deleted all the posts and promised to keep it a secret.
Safaa told the jury she and her sister had talked about running away to Syria in 2016. By the time she had decided to “marry” Hussain, the sisters were agreed they would leave the UK.
But they were already on the security services’ radar – and Safaa was questioned on her arrival home from her holiday in Morocco.
Police confiscated her phone and passport – and while Safaa confessed to talking to Naweed Hussain and her plan to go to Syria, she did not reveal the “marriage”. It was time for MI5 to take an increasingly close look at Hussain.
MI5 deployed a team of undercover officers posing online as British extremists.
Their task was to extract as much information as possible out of Hussain.
The officers became characters, known to Hussain as Abu Maryam and Abu Samina, offering to organise an attack in the UK.
The operation’s aim was to find out what else Hussain, who was using the name Abu Usama, was doing. Who were his other volunteers?
In social media messages, Hussain gave the MI5 officers some advice:
“Remember brother – war is deception,” he said. “Keep your beard – but be like one of those moderate muslims who is happy living there and happy living with kaafirs [disbelievers].
“Cos brother believe me a lot of spies.”…
somehistory says
And that is what m. atta did before he got on the plane and flew it into the WTC building.
He went to bars, he listened to music and drank and watched television. He tried to “blend in” with other people in the community, acting as though he had not a thought in the world about murdering innocent people on September 11.
“Moderate” just means the moslim hasn’t done enough to be arrested. Or if he has done, he hasn’t been caught for one ‘reason’ or another.
gravenimage says
*Exactly*, Somehistory.
mortimer says
A ‘moderate’ Muslim is practicing Islam ‘moderately’. He is not practicing ALL of Islam, but practicing cafeteria Islam or Islam-à-la-carte.
BC says
How can one tell a ‘god’ Muslim from a ‘bad’ Muslim, you cannot until the day he/she decides he/she will please Allah by trying to kill you
gravenimage says
UK jihadi: “Remember brother – war is deception. Be like one of those moderate muslims.”
………………..
Jihadists hide in the sea of “moderate” Muslims.
And what a nasty, dysfunctional mess the whole of the above is–all perfectly Islamic, though.
somehistory says
They are “undercover” and pretending to be one of the “gang” until ready to do what they have planned and were instructed to do.
One of the differences in this undercover work is that the “gang” won’t bat an eyelid if the one undercover is found out. Grins, slaps on the back and wishing success are the order of the day.
StellaSaidSo says
Memo to all ‘infidels’:
All Muslims are potential jihadis.
There is no ‘moderate’ Islam.
mortimer says
IS THERE ONE MOSQUE THAT HAS DEVELOPED an ANTI-RADICALIZATION PROGRAM?
I didn’t think so.
mortimer says
A prudent person ASSUMES THAT EVERY MUSLIM IS LYING due to Islam’s doctrine of SACRED PREVARICATION. It is foolish NOT to assume every Muslim is lying.
– Quote: “taqiyya permeates almost ALL the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – former sheikh Sam Solomon
There are some six DIFFERENT ways Muslims may deceive according to Sharia law:
There are SIX DIFFERENT WAYS of deception that are permissible in Islam: 1) taqiyya, 2) kitman, 3) tawriya, 4) taysir, 5) darura, 6) muruna
•Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
•Kitman: deceit by omission.
•Tawriya: deceit by ambiguity.
•Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not having to observe all the tenets of Sharia).
•Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden).
•Muruna: the temporary suspension of Sharia to make Muslim migrants appear “moderate.”
Through the principle of ‘hijra’ (Muslim immigration), the first Muslims to enter a territory lay a red herring of ‘peaceful Islam’. They constitute a Trojan horse. The Kafir or Kuffar community gets the false sense that the early immigrants are not a threat, at least not until the Muslim community has gained strength of numbers…at which point, Muslims aggressively begin to demand Sharia law against the will of the kafir victims of supremacism. This creeping persecution of the host culture begins and continues until Islam becomes the supreme and unanswerable political ideology in the territory. When Islam becomes official, the persecution of non-Muslims goes into full gear to humiliate and inconvenience them to the extent that they will convert to Islam in order to avoid Islam’s official policy of persecution. Jihad is warfare against disbelievers. Deception is a huge part of jihad.
Allah is the greatest deceiver – “Allahu khayru al-makireena” – K. 3:54; cf. 8:30
Ren says
“War is deceit” is a muslim excuse for lying. That’s all there is.
BC says
How can one tell a ‘god’ Muslim from a ‘bad’ Muslim, you cannot until the day he/she decides he/she will please Allah by trying to kill you
Noah says
Your contact page did not work in my up-to-date Safari browser.
My question is what religion did moohammad follow before his satanic revlation?
james c a reid says
From “The Art of War”, by SUN TZU, Chapter I, Laying Plans, #18:- All Warfare is based on deception. This was written 1,000years approx. before the Koran. So, Mohammed plagiarised another book, or indeed the writer/s of the Koran.
Susan B says
james, nothing in islam is original. Everything is taken from true religions and turned upside down. Evil is good and Good is evil. Deceit of course is one of the biggest weapons used by islam.
PATRICIA KOENIG says
The problem is not just radical Islam. The problem is Islam. Even moderate Muslims in the West will vote for Muslim candidates…and those candidates will be radical…even if they hide it. Muslims in the Western nations drag down the culture of the Western nations…with their no-go zones and the impossible task of governing those who do not accept your government.