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“I miss my mum, pasties and Doctor Who”: Islamic State jihadi who approves of jihad massacres wants to return to UK

Feb 23, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Sufyan Mustafa, Hoda Muthana, Shamima Begum; Safiya Zaynab, Shabina Aslam, and Alireza Sabar; Mohammed Ali; and now Jack Letts. The establishment media is now embarked upon an all-out campaign to compel Western countries to accept returning Islamic State jihadis. This is just more evidence of how insidious the establishment media really is.

Jack Letts joined an entity that is avowedly at war with the UK, and that has repeatedly called for the murder of British civilians. Why should he return? What would be the benefit for Britons?

“‘I miss my mum, pasties and Doctor Who’: White Muslim convert ‘Jihadi Jack’ reveals from Syrian jail that he wants to come home and claims he never joined ISIS – but admits thinking Paris attacks were ‘a good thing,'” by Connor Boyd, Mailonline, February 22, 2019:

Muslim convert Jack Letts – dubbed Jihadi Jack after becoming the first white Briton to join ISIS – has revealed he wants to return home to see his mother.

The Oxford-born 23-year-old was speaking from the Kurdish prison where he has been held for two years for fighting for the terror group.

He moaned that he missed interacting with people, mostly his mother who he hasn’t spoken to since his imprisonment, and home comforts including pastries and Doctor Who.

He told ITV News: ‘If the UK accepted me then I’d go back to the UK, it’s my home. But I don’t think that’s going to happen.

‘I miss people mostly. I miss my mum. I know that sounds a bit toddler-ish,’ he said.

‘What else do I miss? I miss pasties. It’s not really English – sort of Scottish isn’t it? I miss pasties. And Doctor Who. Sounds a bit stupid… that’s all.

‘Even if I could just see my mum – I would like just a phone call, I don’t know if Britain can do that for me here, but I’d like just a phone call to my mum – it’s been two years.

Letts admitted at the time he felt the 2015 Paris attacks were justified after seeing children killed by coalition jet bombing raids during his time in Raqqa.

‘To be honest at the time I thought it was a good thing,’ he said, when asked about his reaction to the terror attacks that left 130 dead in the French capital.

He said when asked about the Bataclan atrocities: ‘At the time, I thought it was a good thing.

‘At the time we had this idea, living in Raqqa, getting bombed every five minutes by coalition jets. I’ve seen children burnt alive.

‘You have this idea of ‘why shouldn’t it happen to them?”

But he claimed he has since had a change of heart, and sympathy for the innocent people killed, as he ‘realised that they had nothing to do with it’.

Letts holds dual nationality through his Canadian father John Letts and British mother Sally Lane.

He revealed he hadn’t spoken to his parents in two years and doubted either country would take him in because ‘no one really cares’….

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  1. Ecosse1314 says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 12:13 pm

    Well he is right. No-one does care if he rots in jail. Oh and btw pasties are Cornish.

    • Lynn says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 1:28 pm

      Pasties are also very tasty!

      • Jayell says

        Feb 23, 2019 at 2:21 pm

        And pasties aren’t halal. And Dr.Who destroyed the Daleks, who looked, sounded and behaved like robots in burkhas.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 23, 2019 at 2:46 pm

          Thanks for noting that about Dr. Who, Jayell. Something similar could be said of the Harry Potter books and films. But these were favorites at Gitmo. I think Muslims completely miss the obvious themes of good and evil (where the evil is similar to Islam), and just consider them to be thrillers.

          I’m sure it’s the same with this Jihadist and Dr. Who.

        • mortimer says

          Feb 23, 2019 at 3:14 pm

          There’s no bacon and no beer in jail.

        • Terry Gain says

          Feb 23, 2019 at 11:16 pm

          The best pasties are wrapped around pork.

  2. Chrissie says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 12:18 pm

    what makes these two-legged beasts think that they can count on the mercy they never had for anyone?

  3. Rob Harris says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    Of course he should come back on the same process/outcome as William Joyce post WW2

  4. James Hilborn says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 12:50 pm

    Play stupid games; win stupid medals. Remorse, none; contrition, none; plans for restitution, none.

  5. Martin says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Feb 24, 2019 at 3:13 pm

      It’s nice to see he hasn’t changed. He still has that same sweet smile he had back when he was slitting throats.

  6. Sam says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    So how many innocent people he killed? Shoot the traitor!

  7. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 1:16 pm

    I miss my mum, pasties and Doctor Who.
    He moaned that he missed interacting with people, mostly his mother who he hasn’t spoken to since his imprisonment, and home comforts including pastries and Doctor Who.
    So are we missing girls running around with pasties or do we miss eating pastries? Miss both? Eat both? I dunno.

  8. Ashley says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    As expected…mental illness:

    • Rufolino says

      Feb 24, 2019 at 4:03 am

      Any excuse will do if it works.

  9. John says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 1:44 pm

    He made his bed, now sleep in it(in some Akbar country)

  10. Kuffar 'n Proud says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 1:52 pm

    Would any of these people have had a change of heart and want to “come home,” if ISIS hadn’t had their a***s kicked?

  11. gravenimage says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 2:05 pm

    “I miss my mum, pasties and Doctor Who”: Islamic State jihadi who approves of jihad massacres wants to return to UK
    ………………….

    Notice he doesn’t say that he misses democracy, freedom, and human rights.

    Missing dear old mum–who probably taught him Jihad at her knee–and TV shows and snack foods does not exact prove that he is not a dangerous Jihadi.

    You hare this sort of thing all the time–that since a Muslim roots for Arsenal or Manchester United and likes rap music that he must ergo be an assimilated Briton. It doesn’t work that way.

    • Ashley says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 2:25 pm

      I don’t get the sense that Sally encouraged Jack to embrace Islam, GI.

      I just think the parents are in deep denial that their son was slipping into the abyss of the death cult.

      But hell…I’m not a shrink.

      Hope you are well, friend!

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 23, 2019 at 2:55 pm

        Ashley wrote:

        I don’t get the sense that Sally encouraged Jack to embrace Islam, GI.
        ……………………

        Ashley, you are *quite right*–my error. There are so many of these returning Jihadis that I was thinking of someone else, whose mother is herself a Mohammedan.

        Thank you for the correction.

        • Ashley says

          Feb 23, 2019 at 3:29 pm

          LOL…no problem, GI!

          Sally and her husband admit to being “naïve” about Jack’s interest in Islam and comment that Jack took “comfort” in pursuing the death cult. That alone is messed up.

          And yes…there are so many of these stories of traitors wanting to return “home” from Syria it is hard to keep up!

  12. A_M_Swallow says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    When he left to join an enemy of Britain he lost his moral right to live in Britain. I suggest that the main stream media campaign to raise money to send the Jihadists to a Muslim country – Saudi Arabia.

  13. Rarely says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 3:04 pm

    Sadly Canada will probably take him in.

  14. Kepha says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    He joins the legions of Western rebellious youth who embrace savage anti-Western ideologies and live to regret it

    Good work, Granscians! We’ve had your march through the institutions (especially schools and universities), and the institutions are now nurseries for spiritual and political dysfunctionality. I also expect that his “atheist” (probably worshipers of science and state, in fact), will probably also spew a lot of moral equivalency about how evil Christianity is, too.

    • JM says

      Feb 24, 2019 at 6:34 am

      Good post.

  15. Jeff Jones says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    Why are these Evil Vile Murderous Terrorists and their Whore Wives still alive and not arrested and executed?

    • Ashley says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 4:09 pm

      You know, Jeff…your comment would probably get through on Twitter. You didn’t mention Islam, Muslim or pork so your comment won’t likely be flagged. 🙂

  16. Peter WF says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    His parents can go over there to see him.Or is it too dangerous for them to travel there? The fruits of his labor?

  17. Raja says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    There seems to be a pattern in the thought process of Islamic think tank. I guess it stated with some begum who wanted to return to the UK from ISiS and SUDDENLY you have potential returnees knocking at the doors.

    You also can have boatloads of refugees disguising as returnees. Notable here is the Islamic psyche of wanting to deceive everyone possible to “accommodate” their returning brethren, which is pretty common.

    More terror, jizya and more third world. Wonder how long the West can manage these contradictions.

  18. Lydia Church says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 8:04 pm

    You know what???

    Me thinks me sees another pattern here.
    I mean, there surely have been a lot of these ‘wanna come home’ jihadi’s lately, don’t you think?
    And they have made media coverage too. I think this just might be another attempt at that borderless thing. Another peck at the ‘wall’ at least.

  19. Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 4:26 am

    “No one cares” he says!
    Oh yes we do, very much so, more than he understands, we don’t want him here, we don’t want Islam here either, but his kind, even less.
    It’s not an army, it’s a bunch of unholy, spiritless political anarchists, raping, beheading and generally running amok in the freedom of time, fighting for an ancient Arabic warlords ‘wet dream’ fantasy.
    Now they’ve been woken up by reality, they want “Mummy”. Pathetic.

  20. Joe says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 8:17 am

    “No one cares” is a lie. We care about the people he killed, tortured, raped, robbed, and enslaved. I noticed that he doesn’t mention them, and he says he didn’t join ISIS. Yet, he is in jail for being captured while fighting for ISIS which he doesn’t address as a pertinent fact.

  21. David Foster says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 11:25 am

    I’m surprised Justin Trudeau isn’t embarking on a campaign to return this terrorist to Canada to visit his father.
    After all diversity is our strength. Trudeau welcomes all Jihadi terrorists and treasonous citizens back to the safe confines of Canada.

  22. alex dennison says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 8:43 pm

    ‘no one really cares’. Correct, no one cares about you, you disgusting animal.

  23. irrops says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 12:10 am

    Iran will gladlt take him.

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