Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the idea that his new religion commands him to commit treason and mass murder. Authorities everywhere remain resolutely incurious about this recurring phenomenon. British authorities should be investigating how and why Ludlow fell in with Choudary. But they won’t be.
“‘I spit at this country’: British Muslim convert was on anti-terror course when he scoped out Oxford Street and Madame Tussauds for attacks after going to Anjem Choudary rallies,” by Richard Spillett and Duncan Gardham, Mailonline, January 4, 2019:
A British-born Muslim convert said ‘I spit at Britain’ in an ISIS allegiance video as he plotted to slaughter shoppers in a ‘ram attack’ outside Oxford Street’s Disney store.
Lewis Ludlow, a former Royal Mail worker from the upmarket Kent town of Rochester, became radicalised after converting to Islam and attending the poppy-burning rallies of hate preacher Anjem Choudary.
The 27-year-old then tried to join a new ISIS group in the Philippines, but was stopped from travelling and so began hatching plans for an attack in London.
He plotted a vehicle attack on Oxford Street or Madame Tussauds while, at the same time, meeting officials from the deradicalisation programme Prevent.
The convert had been offered three different courses of deradicalisation since he first came to the group’s attention in 2008, but repeatedly failed to show up.
Investigators then found a torn-up letter setting out his vehicle attack plot, and a video in which he said: ‘I pledge allegiance to Islamic State and it’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi… I want nothing from Britain and I spit at this country.’
An investigation revealed he was preparing to drive a van into shoppers on Oxford Street or near tourist hotspot Madame Tussauds.
Prosecutor Mark Dawson told an earlier hearing: ‘This was a plot to cause mass fatalities using a vehicle in Oxford Street targeting among other places the Disney store or pedestrians in and around Oxford Street at its busiest times.
‘In one of his notes he talks of causing upwards of 100 fatalities.’
Ludlow was under surveillance when he was observed at an internet cafe on Portland Street in London’s West End on March 16this year where he researched ‘busy shopping centres.’
He wrote notes on his planned attack, including: ‘Long road with no bollards or barriers preventing a van mounting the pavement.’
Ludlow admitted charges of preparing acts of terrorism and funding terror and was sentenced today.
He was once attracted to the far-Right and expressed admiration for Hitler – but turned to Islam after his aunt was ill and soon became radicalised.
The 27-year-old, who has autism, told the court he felt accepted by Choudary and his gang after being bullied at school.
Ludlow had been offered three different courses of de-radicalisation, a court has heard.
He had attended a series of 17 meetings of the Prevent de-radicalisation programme beginning on October 20 2017 and attended one on the day he conducted his surveillance in Oxford Street.
In December 2008, he start ‘community mentoring’ at a local mosque. …
In a video message Ludlow said his allegiance was to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS and added: ‘May his name strike terror into your hearts.’
He went on: ‘I am the Eagle and I pledge allegiance to Dawlatul Islam [ISIS].
‘I have grew up amongst you filthy [word unclear] I learnt your culture, your ways of life and your disgusting debauchery. I reject all of this.
‘I am amongst you as someone who has given dawah [proselytising] for many years and as one who has studied the deen [religion] of Islam.
‘There is nothing between us except animosity and hatred. We love death as much as you love life so therefore, my allegiance is to Islamic State.
‘I have nothing for this country of Britain. I spit on your citizenship, your passport, you can go to hell with that.
‘So be ready, for we too are waiting. Signed off, The Eagle’.’
tedh754 says
What a loser.
christianblood says
Don’t judge him but go to the roots of his problem and confusion. Most of the young people in the West are bored in the materialistic, superficial life that exists in the Western world today and they are looking to find some deeper meaning in life. Unfortunately, Christian churches in the West could have covered this deep spiritual and philosophical needs but these “churches” themselves are secularized and are spiritually bankrupt. In the Eastern Orthodox countries, Christianity is deeper, more spiritual, more mystical and allow profound spiritual and philosophical reflections whereas in the Western Christianity both (Catholics & Protestants) God is confined in a tiny rational secular box and Christianity is limited to attending churches on Sundays etc.
There are no meaningful spiritual monasteries in the Western world and the few that exists are themselves secularized with computer games and have NO deeper theosis spiritual/philosophical dimensions to them. There are No ascetics in the West, No monastics, No mystics, No Holy seekers of God who move among the masses with their Crosses, icons and relics. There is HUGE spiritual bankruptcy in the West and until these problems are addressed millions of young people in the West, will either keep converting to the islamic death cult and become homicidal jihadists or will try to fill the empty void in their hearts with drugs, sex, satanism, LGBT perversion, violent gangsterism, other perversions and all kinds of other evil practices. This is the kind of thing that majority of people in America and in the West are really interested in passing their time with. Click on the link below to see it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3244105/Caitlyn-Jenner-flashes-cleavage-blue-mini-dress-grabs-coffee-male-companion.html
Prabh108 says
The marriage laws in the Anglosphere including India are also fully corrupt and morally bankrupt: Man marries Maiden and the two commence upon Family Life together with the support of their relatives and community. Marriage has only ever been between two persons of the opposite sex: man and woman. (I am aware of rare historic instances of polygamy but note that polygamy has NEVER been anybody’s ideal.)The ideals of family life are now absent from the Law in the entire Anglosphere, including India.
(blame Obama – child of moslem is always moslem – obama’s father is moslem) Moslems seem to think that by destroying the moral fabric (marriage Laws) of America, Europe, India and Africa plus Australasia that the Ummah will succeed in making the whole of the America’s part of their global Kalifate – no moslems, not so fast -your delusional fantasies of the caliphate will not come to fruition.
Fortunately the vast majority of the population in the whole of the Anglosphere (including India) is genuinely deeply religious and spiritual. But the Law does enshrine or protect the Ideals of True Civilization which are rooted in family life. Mad (at once immoral and amoral) scientists are working overtime to create a world of ectogenesis. (out of utero gestation – how will child be fed if there is no mother? and who will protect child if their is no father?) Islam and mad science are working feverishly to enslave virtually everyone.
Prabh108 says
typo: ‘their’ ought to be ‘there’ near end of above comment.
christianblood says
Prabh108
India is blessed with her millions of Sadhus and spiritual seekers and by comparison, Western world is cursed with atheistic materialism and false technological physicalism that denies the spirit or consciousness which is the real force behind the universe! Imagine if some those millions of Sadhus, including some of the naked ones come into the streets of Western countries? They would be arrested and committed to mental institutions or even killed by the police! The biggest problem in the West is that they deny the importance of the Spirit over matter and they only focus on the false materiality of the (atomic five senses) which is nothing but a solidified Spirit! Even as most of the Western quantum scientists confirm today that beyond the false cloak of matter and physicality lies the real deal, the true foundation and essence of the universe, including the material universe which is Spirit/Consciousness/God!
(..We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal..) 2 Korinthians 4:18
Watch the blessed Sadhus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j12nb-gVzTY
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
Prabh108
India is blessed with her millions of Sadhus and spiritual seekers and by comparison, Western world is cursed with atheistic materialism and false technological physicalism that denies the spirit or consciousness which is the real force behind the universe! Imagine if some those millions of Sadhus, including some of the naked ones come into the streets of Western countries? They would be arrested and committed to mental institutions or even killed by the police!
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What absolute crap. There are large numbers of Hindus and Hindu Temples here in Berkeley, including Hindu holy men. There are regular Hindu processions up and down Telegraph Avenue–the main street. No one has been threatened or killed by the police–what garbage.
As for “false technological physicalism”. christianblood would not be able to spam his propaganda here if the ‘filthy Infidels’ had not invented computers and the internet.
infidel says
Thanks for posting that vid on Hindu Sadhus.. U see all those Sadhus featured there..Yes they may come across as strange but U can bet Ur last dollar that none of them will ever become a terrorist or a non Hindu hater ….and that folks makes a BIG BIG HUGE DIFFERENCE..
christianblood says
infidel
Exactly! These Sadhus are very godly people who dedicated themselves for spiritual pursuit, rejecting materialism and personal gain! India is blessed because of their presence and without them, India will become spiritually bankrupt like the Western world is today! As a homeless street preacher, Jesus was more like them and He would feel right at home among these Sadhus today than the godless materialistic world out there!
“..Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head..” Lukos 9:58
gravenimage says
We’ve heard this sort of thing from christianblood before–how *dare* anyone say anything bad about this Muslim wanting to murder Westerners? After all, christianblood himself has said many times before that he wants to see Muslims conquer and destroy the West.
The idea that freedom and human rights are insufferable, but that wanting to murder unbelievers provides a “deeper meaning” is just sick. No, raping small children and mass slaughtering people does not satisfy a “deep spiritual need” for any psychically healthy person.
And the idea that he had to plot the mass murder of innocent people because there are not more Russian Orthodox monasteries in the UK is just sick.
That he would even want to compare the savagery of Islam with the Russian Orthodox Church is very twisted–doesn’t he realize how insulting this calumny is to Christianity?
Moreover, this does not explain why there are Russians who convert to Islam–why don’t they just become Orthodox monks, instead?
Then that he is citing Caitlyn Jenner–someone who gets virtually no attention these days–as the way that all Westerners live could not be more ludicrous.
mortimer says
Agree with GI 100%. Well-expressed. CB is pathologically genocidal and thus a very evil person practically devoid of conscience. He wants to murder people based on what they believe. He hides by a mask, but actually solicits genocide. Those of us who have studied the EIGHT STAGES OF GENOCIDE. CB frequently uses CLASSIC EXAMPLES of various excuses for GENOCIDE … the evilest of all crimes.
People like CB must be exposed and condemn everytime they insuate their toxicity of racial and religious excuses for crime.
christianblood says
gravenimage
May be you misunderstood what I said above Graven. I was pointing out the fact many young people in the West, thousands of them convert to islam every year and many of them end up joining islamic terrorists like ISIS and others. What I am saying is the root cause of this problem is spiritual in nature because almost all of those youths in the West that are converting to islam and ending up becoming terrorists are disillusioned with the materialism and the spiritual bankruptcy that is prevalent in their culture! In the words of the the French philosopher Blaise Pascal “..There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator..). The very serious problem is that most Churches in the West
are themselves secularized and are in NO better position to address this issue! Bottom line is this Graven: There a very profound spiritual and philosophical bankruptcy in the Western world today and this is creates all kinds of problems and scenarios that will have some far-reaching negative effects on the society and islamic terrorism is just one of them.
Man is a Trinity and this Trinity consists of Mind/Body/Soul
and if one focuses only on one or two of those components there will be serious imbalance which will create serious problems for that person or society. Western society focuses only the needs of the body, neglecting the needs of the more important Mind or the Soul/Spirit which is the real deal.
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
gravenimage
May be you misunderstood what I said above Graven…
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This is just more of the same–that the free West is not spiritual, but that converting to a creed that sacralizes rape and mass slaughter *is*.
Most of those in the West who are attracted to Islam in the West are violent felons or anti-social losers–I imagine it is much the same in Russia.
Note that pretending that materialism is the root cause of Jihad makes no sense–in that case, places with little hope of a materially comfortable life like Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia would be bastions of peaceful spirituality–but nothing could be further from the truth–these places are violent Jihad hellholes.
More:
In the words of the the French philosopher Blaise Pascal “..There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator..).
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The idea that what really fills that spiritual hole is raping and murdering Infidels is really sick.
The idea that any of the problems in the free West are solved by that savagery of Islam is perverse. Russia is plagued by alcoholism and suicide–none of these problems are made better by the savagery of Islam, either.
The main problem with Jihad in the West is not converts to Islam–who make up a fraction of Muslims here–but our foolishly allowing Muslims to flood into our civilized nations.
More:
Man is a Trinity and this Trinity consists of Mind/Body/Soul
and if one focuses only on one or two of those components there will be serious imbalance which will create serious problems for that person or society. Western society focuses only the needs of the body, neglecting the needs of the more important Mind or the Soul/Spirit which is the real deal.
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Ignore the fact that the greatest universities and think tanks are in the West, and that we have full religious freedom here–as christianblood would have it, some illiterate Muslim hell hole is far more intellectually and spiritually advanced than is the West, which needs to be conquered by them. *Ugh*.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mortimer.
christianblood says
gravenimage
The West Is Spiritually Dead And It Cannot Be Revived!
You Don’t Understand My words Graven Because (…The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit…) 1 Korinth 2:14
BTW, VERY MERRY ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS TO YOU GRAVEN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQGs6WEHdMQ
christianblood says
mortimer
Is my moniker “christianblood” a big threat to your gang of globalist thugs? BTW, Why do you hate Christians? (Jesus Is Lord).
Get lost M.F.
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
gravenimage
The West Is Spiritually Dead And It Cannot Be Revived!
You Don’t Understand My words Graven Because (…The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit…) 1 Korinth 2:14
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The claim that I am not spiritual because I do not appreciate how ‘spiritual’ raping and slaughtering Westerners is is really sick.
Saying that those who don’t appreciate this are “Spiritually Dead” is deeply disturbing.
More:
BTW, VERY MERRY ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS TO YOU GRAVEN
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The same to you, chirstianblood–and to all other Orthodox Christians, including Robert Spencer. Unlike yourself, I am sure that few Orthodox Christians will celebrate this day by praying for Muslims to destroy the West.
Western Christians celebrate this day as Epiphany. Few of them will be praying for Muslims to rape and murder us, either.
And Mortimer does not “hate Christians” by opposing violent Jihad. Just the opposite, in fact.
The Crusader says
Very sad. You can tell that he’s not all there .
FYI says
Like the Invisible man..his kids said he was never there for them.
So this convert to islam has all the ATTENTION he so desperately needs and wants…he has found a religion that accomodates his self-hatred which he can project on to others.
islam{sarc} it always attracts the bright sparks
{actually the smart ones are the ones who leave islam}
Renate says
If he became Muslim at 16 and he’s now 19, where were his parents, his church, his community from the first 1 – 16 years of his life? It seems as though he is desperate to belong to something, to anything.
Windy Girl says
When you’re autistic, you don’t seem to fit anywhere but with misfits. Also, probably autistic, but that’s another story.
gravenimage says
I know several people with autism–they may be socially awkward, but they are not plotting the slaughter of innocent people…
Ferdinand (@StFerdinandIII) says
I work near there. So another Moslem low IQ lunatic could have killed dozens along a very congested shopping area. Police, leftards, MSM will have no idea as to motivations. Victims would have been blamed. Moslem declared mentally ill.
gravenimage says
Scary.
Cicero says
It would appear that this convert is autistic as well as bullied and socially isolated at school.
He was searching for some acknowledgment and companionship on line in the comfort of his bedroom. He found it in Islamic chat rooms. He was sen as “ funny and interesting”.He felt flattered and soon was being groomed to become an Islamic soldier.
What intrigues me is how total and enveloping is this conversion and brainwashing of vulnerable non Muslim British youth. What surprises me is how easily the Christian or even secular values of such individuals are erased only to be replaced by a profound hatred of the land and society which nurtured , educated and invested in them .
And another thought – where were his parents and his extended family whilst all this was going on?
gravenimage says
I would take the claims that he was bullied by the ‘filthy Infidels’ with a large grain of salt. This is what Muslims always claim.
mortimer says
Agree. He was groomed. This is standard dawa, a normative Islamic process of cult seduction through intentional distortion and misleading promises.
thebigW says
Every society has marginal types, lost souls etc. I bet this is the main “non violent” way Islam spread through conversions (after it spread violently). Muslims probably took advantage of them throughout the ages and are still finding recruits today that way.
Wellington says
Quite instructive how Islam regularly attracts the detritus of the human race.
Westman says
I think Cicero has it right. Islam attracts the lonely, failing, uncompetitive, socially backward people as its converts; its more sophisticated members being Muslims since birth. I could be wrong, thinking that an eventual crisis is coming for Islam in Western countries, caused by unbelief and not wanting to be associated with the militant factions.
gravenimage says
Islam attracts not just losers, but vicious losers. That’s why it’s so popular among violent felons.
Giacomo Latta says
Useful idiots to islam all: spoiled brats, those twisted emotionally, those ignored by parents, leftists, polyannas, etc.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
‘He was once attracted to the far-Right and expressed admiration for Hitler – but turned to Islam after his aunt was ill and soon became radicalised.”
That he was first a neo-Nazi, before “reverting to Islam” is hardly surprising. The same violence, the same triumphalism (“Tomorrow belongs to me”), the same instant community of Brovvers for someone who offered nothing, had nothing, was nothing, the same license to hate and even to murder. And a rich fantasy life to boot, about all the terror he would inflict.
But where does his aunt and her illness figure in all this? I am guessing that he may have lived with her, or she may have otherwise provided companionship, and when she became ill he had an even greater need for contact with a group of people who were willing to feign friendship on line, and even admiration, as he threw in his lot with them, and Reverted. There he was, with his mentally impoverished existence, now with his wretched life suddenly given Meaning, with a Complete Regulation of Life, and a Simple Explanation of the Universe,
gravenimage says
+1
Prabh108 says
I very much appreciate your excellent analysis Mr. Fitzgerald. Thank you.
What you describe in your comment happens around the world.
The press reported that the izlamojihadist attacker in Toronto’s Greektown district last summer also had an ill relative. The jihadist claimed he had not experienced even “one happy day” in his life. I have seen news reports of one child in Syria region crying, stating that he had not experienced even one happy day in his life. That was a very heartbreaking news story to watch. The Boston Marathon attacker claimed he was unable to make even one friend in his entire life.
In good faith how can anyone experience a “good day” if one is shackled to an ideology that prohibits fun: infamous words of an ayatollah – ‘there is no fun in islam’.
And how can one who is hateful of Mithra Deva (Deity of Friendship) ever hope to create friendship with anyone other than JhallaAllah? There is a muslim who posts comments at JihadWatch (Ibrahim Itace) who absolutely Hates Mithra Deva.
(jhalla is the word for one who is harmlessly crazy – strange how followers of Allah can tend to be dangerously crazy).
My online research indicates Allah is present at the third starry (astral) plane of Existence. (3 levels higher than the MilkyWay universe of Earth- the universe is not flat – there are Multiverses beyond range of human beings current capacity for physical sight.) There are at least seven realms above Allah’s abode if the article I read is factually correct. The indestructible Spiritual (celestial) Realms commence at the Fifth level. I’m sure at this level it doesn’t matter if one covers one head or not… but religious headgear is a different topic. Also present at the third realm would be Dhruva Maharaja – the saintly Child King of Ancient India (Dhruva Bhakta’s father practiced polygamy! – polygamy’s only purpose is continuity of bloodlines but polygamy creates strife like nothing else.. )& Lord of the three worlds – physical,(Earth-MilkyWay&rest of the seen universe) astral (heavenly&hellish realms)and causal (realm of purest Platonic forms). This fact of Allah and Dhruv Maharaja coexisting at the same level of Creation would shed light on why Moslems harbour abject hatred for Hinduism and related creeds as well as all non-Moslems.
It is important to understand metaphysics of religious systems in order to figure out the best course of action against izlamojihadists. There is no true live and let live philosophy within Islam. (dhimmitude is unacceptable) Religious heritage is a birthright privilege. Conversion is unethical – wealth of ethnostates belongs to legitimate heirs of ethnostates. In absense of ethnostates mother languages cannot be protected. Nothing is sweeter than mother, motherland and mother tongue. The UNO might claim to protect languages but the UNO is bringing about an islamic dystopia where the only accepted language will be arabic. No sane person ought to support the genocidal ambitions of islam.
Too much God and not enough common sense is a v. bad combination.
J D S says
No Christian..Thousands of westerners are NOT converting to Islam daily..maybe one or two nuts now and then…but Muslims out there are being reconverted/reconnected to the barbaric Islamism that is being taught in mosques and nothing is being done because the leaders are misinformed and complacent and are ALLOWING creeping Islam to thrive like a poisonous creeping vine…What to do is the question…I know what I do to a poisonous vine. I kill it by digging up its roots..
gravenimage says
Good post, J D S.
thebigW says
“The Boston Marathon attacker claimed he was unable to make even one friend in his entire life.”
Maybe if he didn’t stab them to death he might have had more friends…
“On Sept. 11, 2011, Raphael Teken, 37, Erik Weissman, 31, and Tamerlan’s friend Brendan Mess, 25, “were bound, their throats were cut, and at least one of them had marijuana sprinkled over his body,” federal prosecutors stated”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/11/friend-of-boston-marathon-jihad-murderer-tamerlan-tsarnaev-testifies-he-committed-jihad-in-2011-murdering-three
gravenimage says
*Spot on*. thebigW.
mortimer says
In this case, mental illness was involved. It’s sad but predictable that an autistic boy will be victimized by little schoolyard demons. This young man needs a vacation in a psychiatric camp where he can sit by a lake and meet kind people and others like himself and hear their stories. He would probably pull out this Islamic nightmare. A mentally ill person cocoons and tries to avoid stimulating contact with unsympathetic people. Rather than deprogramming, he should go to a psychiatric club where people like him can socialize.
gravenimage says
He plotted to murder innocent people. I think he belongs in prison, not at a social club. If he is competent enough to plot murder, he is competent enough to answer for plotting murder.
LR says
True, graven…
Don McKellar says
Islam was designed to appeal to 3 groups. 1) Failing young loser males desperate for purpose 2) Rich old perverts wanting to be above the law 3) Dysfunctional self-loathing young loser women desperate for somebody to control them. This is the secret of its success.
mortimer says
McKellar, have you read and studied about the SA’ALIK and the ANSAR (virtually same)? They were the enforcers of Islam, when Mohammed moved to Medina (the ‘capital of governance’ and foundational city of the Islamic empire).
gravenimage says
Video: UK man converts to Islam, plots jihad massacre, says “I have nothing for Britain. I spit on your citizenship”
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Funny that this doesn’t happen with converts to Judaism or Hinduism or Methodism…
Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says
Another goat for the camel.
At least he spews his pagan poison openly, my favourite kind of dumb demonic.
james reid says
Idiot! Wants them sex slaves real bad.
Walter Sieruk says
Jesus had taught By their fruits you will recognize them” Matthew 7:20. [N.I.V.] With this teaching and concept clearly keyboarded concept it may be seen that this man,Ludlow, is one o the fruits of Islam. For before he was proselytized to Islam ,he was not just” not so much of a nice of a person” ,yet non-violent. Now after joining “The House of Islam” he transformed into a scheming jihadist who viciously with murderous intention plotted to murder/massacre many people who are British citizens.
In other words, with Islam he turned from bad to worse. Now he’s a jihad/ monster, another fruit of Islam.
Fritz says
What’s it with gingers and islam?
infidel says
What is it with this cult that it attracts the worst of the worst in humanity,