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UK: Man converts to Islam, plots to murder 100 people in jihad massacre near Disney Store

Nov 8, 2018 1:45 pm By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion calls him to commit treason and mass murder. Authorities have no interest whatsoever in this disturbingly recurring phenomenon.

“Muslim convert facing jail for Oxford Street terror plot,” ITV News, November 2, 2018:

A Muslim convert nicknamed “The Eagle” is facing years in jail for a plot to kill 100 people in a terror attack near the Disney Store on Oxford Street.

Lewis Ludlow, 27, swore allegiance to Islamic State as he prepared to drive a van through London’s shopping district or Madame Tussauds.

He bought a phone under a false name and wrote down his attack plans, which were later found ripped up in a bin.

The defendant, who called himself “The Eagle” and “The Ghost”, also researched potential targets around the capital.

He identified Oxford Street as an “ideal” target, writing: “It is expected nearly 100 could be killed in the attack.”

Ludlow, from Rochester, in Kent, formulated his plan after being stopped by police at Heathrow Airport in February as he attempted to board a flight to the Philippines.

It was alleged he also set up a Facebook account called Antique Collections as a front to send money to south-east Asia for terrorism.

He pleaded guilty to plotting an attack in the UK and funding IS abroad and will be sentenced on Friday by Old Bailey Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC.

According to a prosecution summary, Ludlow first came to the attention of police in 2010 when he attended a demonstration led by radical preacher Anjem Choudary and his banned Al-Muhajiroun (ALM) group.

When he was arrested in 2015, IS material was recovered from his electronic devices but no further action was taken.

In January this year, he bought a ticket to fly to the Philippines on February 3 but was stopped at the airport and had his passport seized.

Spoken to by police, he claimed he was going to the country as a sex tourist, but in a search of his home, officers found he was in communication with a man named Abu Yaqeen in an area with a significant IS presence.

In March, Ludlow sent him money by PayPal and created the Facebook account Antique Collections.

It purported to be an antiques business in Maidstone but, the prosecution alleged, was really a front to raise money for IS in the Philippines.

On March 21, police recovered torn-up scraps of paper from Ludlow’s bin detailing his plans.

They were pieced together to reveal “potential attack sites” including Madame Tussauds, Oxford Street, St Paul’s Cathedral and a “Shia temple in Romford”.

It added: “Further locations scouted for the kil.”…

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  1. Ray Jarman says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 1:59 pm

    There is irony here. When one apostates from Islam, that person is subject to death but when one is a proselyte of Islam, that person subjects others to murder by his/her hands and I would laugh were in not tragic and true. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hit it out of the ball park when he declared that Hungary has no terrorist problem because no Muslims are allowed to desecrate its soil.

    • DHazard says

      Nov 8, 2018 at 3:14 pm

      Viktor Orban is awesome.

      “We don’t see these people as Muslim refugees. We see them as Muslim invaders,” he told German tabloid Bild. “For example, to arrive from Syria in Hungary, you have to cross four countries, all of which are not as rich as Germany, but stable. So they are not running for their lives there already.”

      Mr Orban added that a large influx of Muslims “inevitably leads to parallel societies”. He claimed Christian and Muslim communities “will never unite”.

      “Multiculturalism is only an illusion,” he said.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 8, 2018 at 4:12 pm

      Islam is all about killing.

      • Brian Birkby says

        Nov 10, 2018 at 8:53 am

        Try telling that to Christian and western culture that have been subjected to terrorism rape and beating I’m sure they will disagree with your optimism of a hateful and outdated religion that has no place in western culture

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 10, 2018 at 11:01 pm

          Yes–few in the West can bring themselves to understand that Islam is a threat.

    • J D S says

      Nov 9, 2018 at 1:34 pm

      People like this guy must have hidden thoughts of murder going way back in their life and all of a sudden a light flashes in their wee brain telling them that…hey your murder suppression tendencies are being awakened and Islam is the venue to fulfill your hidden desires to kill.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    Those jihadist /Muslims , be they converts to Islam is in this UK case or Muslim migrants have the Islamic agenda and quest to conquer the nations of the West for Islam. Either “by hook or by crook” as in by engaging in the stealth jihad or in the violent and deadly “jihad of the sword.” Likewise part of all this in is by the Muslim infiltration of the Western countries which is being accomplished by the great number of Muslim migrants who are entering the Western nations.
    As a Former Muslim had revealed in his book when he wrote that “there has been large –scale immigration into the West, from Islamic nations…of Muslims who are implacably hostile to the West, have no desire to learn why the West became so rich and tolerant , and certainly have no desire to assimilate. They feel no gratitude of allegiance to their Western host nations; their only obligations are to fellow Muslims.”
    The author further clarifies by adding. “The mere presence of so many Muslims in the West had affected the domestic and international behavior of governments, whose foreign policy is dominated by fear of offending their Muslim population ready to riot on the slightest pretext. Those unassimilated Muslims are committed to introducing Islamic laws in the West. , and they are able to do so cleverly exploiting the freedoms created over the centuries by the infidels.” [1]
    As for that above statement that the “Muslim population [is] ready to riot on the slightest pretext…” This is valid evidence that the old saying is true .Which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
    On this very important subject another scholar in his book informs the reader that “Islamic involvement in the political process is much more advanced in Europe than in the United States.” and he further makes it known that “Of all the continents of the world, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategists who are seeking world dominance.” [2]

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq, page 354
    [2] HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANCE THE WORLD by William Wagner , pages 176, 195.

  3. Almira says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    These converts , like Sinead O’Conner seem to be the freaks and weirdos of society BEFORE their conversion to Islam. They’re basically social outcasts that makes them prime easy pickings for Islam. Already they have proven NOT to be the sharpest tool in the shed. So Islam picks them up, dusts them off and then says “ Here’s how to get back at everyone and get to Heaven “. Unless Islam is outlawed and eradicated completely these cases will continue. Society is never short of its local freaks , Islam just makes them more deadly.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 8, 2018 at 4:34 pm

      Very true.

      Christianity also reaches out to the lonely and socially marginal–but to give them fellowship and peace, not bloody violence and a sense of supremacism.

  4. Gjallarhornet says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 2:51 pm

    Converts to islam, plots to kill 100 at Disney. Jesus, Why doesn’t he instead convert to Disney and then plot to hug 100 … at a jihadi mosque?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 8, 2018 at 4:34 pm

      Yes–“converting” to Disney sounds a lot saner and more decent.

  5. DHazard says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 3:04 pm

    Another pathetic loser joins Islam over self esteem issues, and with the blessings of Allah starts planning his revenge against the World. The “Eagle”, the “Ghost”; dream on. Should have stayed in your Mom’s basement playing video games and eating.

    • jayell says

      Nov 8, 2018 at 4:19 pm

      Absolutely. The pattern seems to be that those with some kind of a social/psychological problem, or lacking a few points on the IQ scale, or a just plain with a screw loose somewhere, or maybe having spent some time in one of Her majesty’s hostels, will find themselves drawn into the islamic cesspit, because islam was designed to entrap the intellectually-challenged and gullible as fodder for its political expansion. Just like 1930’s Germany and similar.

  6. Samer Ibrahim says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    This is the new britain : Stupid and ignorant Queen, princes, political parties, churches and the majority of people. The old britain was a champion of democracy, human rights, rights of minorities in the muslim world, while the new britain is a champion of savage and racist ideology called islam. This animal who converted to islam is a representative of the new stupid, ignorant and evil britain.

  7. gravenimage says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 3:58 pm

    UK: Man converts to Islam, plots to murder 100 people in jihad massacre near Disney Store
    ……………………..

    When most people think of the Disney store, they think about excited kids squealing over cute toys of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Even the most negative think nothing worse than “too commercial for me, man”.

    Muslims think of the Disney store, and what comes to mind is “target-rich environment”.

    God, I hate Islam.

  8. James Lincoln says

    Nov 8, 2018 at 4:15 pm

    Anyone of at least average intelligence who voluntarily converts to Islam is either mentally ill – or extremely naïve.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 8, 2018 at 8:28 pm

      Or just plain evil.

      There might be something merely naïve about some silly twit who converts to Islam so she can wear a colorful Hijab–but not this murderous thug, above.

      • James Lincoln says

        Nov 8, 2018 at 10:33 pm

        gravenimage,

        Yes, just plain evil is always a possibility.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 8, 2018 at 10:40 pm

          +1

  9. Paul says

    Nov 9, 2018 at 6:44 am

    I think we as thinking people should decide and and agree that there is evil in our societies. It’s not being irrational or misguided. Its pure evil that says I want to run down innocent people including children for the benefit of my crazy religion.

    Once we accept that evil exists then we can see about exterminating it from our society.

    Paul

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