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Muslim family from UK detained in Syria claim they joined the Islamic State by accident, beg to return

Feb 18, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

They should never be allowed back in. They joined an entity that is avowedly at war with Britain and has repeatedly called upon Muslims in Britain to murder British civilians. But the British authorities are so clueless and compromised today that they will probably fall for this.

“‘HOLIDAY’ TO HELL Brit family detained in Syria claim they joined ISIS by accident while on holiday and beg to come home,” by Jon Rogers, The Sun, February 16, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A BRITISH family detained in Syria have begged to be allowed to come home, saying they joined ISIS by accident.

Mum Safiya Zaynab, 51, and daughters Shabina Aslam, 29, and Alireza Sabar, 17, say they miss their independence.

The family from Didsbury, Manchester left the UK in 2014 and thought they were on a family holiday.

According to the family, a relative told them they were going on holiday to Turkey but from there they “ended up in Syria”.

Both daughters had children while they were living within the caliphate.

Aslam told Channel 4: “I don’t regret anything because we came on holiday, which then turned into this.

“I don’t know how, it’s never been explained to me.”

They claimed they had tried to escape but had been unsuccessful.

She added: “We all miss our life before, we miss freedom, independence, no fear.

“We want to go back to England, back to my family, I want my children to have a normal life.”

Zaynab’s husband, Sabar Aslam, who is still living in Didsbury, told The Daily Telegraph: “They left me four years ago and that’s the end of the story. She wasn’t happy with me.

“They are not brave people they are very soft people. I don’t think they would be joining something like ISIS.”

“The police have interviewed me many times. They asked me questions about them but they never said they were in Syria.

“I thought she had gone to Saudi Arabia as all the time Safiya was talking about it. I thought she went there.”…

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), United Kingdom Tagged With: Alireza Sabar, Didsbury, Manchester, Safiya Zaynab, Shabina Aslam


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  1. somehistory says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    By “accident.” No problem. UK has allowed back in those who joined “on purpose.” And admitted to it.
    Liars. It’s just that they “miss” all that the UK offers mosims.

    • Jessie says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 7:55 am

      By Accident, ha ha ha ha !!!! So funny ! They are the biggest liars in history, but that is ok. Didn’ t their Allah say it was ok to lie ,if it served the good of a muslim. I live in Ottawa Canada where Trudeau the white Somali lives. He is a liar and will protect them till the end, but he lives in a white neighborhood. Gosh! I wonder why. Politically correct ass for a PM. He is going down like.

    • J D.S says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 11:26 am

      Once an individual has joined ISIS. That person is “done” Any country who allows these fighters to return , without severe consequences, are part and parcel of the problem..I note in today’s news that a woman , with her 18 month old child wants to return to the U.S.after joining ISIS..I’ll be interested in what happens with this.

  2. David Grisez says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:15 pm

    They joined the Islamic State by accident while on vacation! Sure sounds like a phony story to me. And now they want to move back to the United Kingdom because they miss their former lives in the UK and live like nothing ever happened. They should not be allowed back in the UK. No one joins a group such as ISIS by mistake. Joining a group like this is a major decision by a Muslim who wants to do Jihad and kill people who turn against the ISIS group.

    • Joe Z. Wells says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 6:50 pm

      HEY HOLLYWOOD! Need an idea for a movie? This sounds like a good one! Better than most of the recycled garbage you’ve put out in recent years.

      Just don’t try to make these people look like heroes (psst! I already know you will. Wink-Wink!)

  3. Soundaryambha says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:15 pm

    //“They are not brave people they are very soft people. I don’t think they would be joining something like ISIS//.

    Am reminded of ” so & so was my neighbour…such a quiet gardener…gave me tips on growing gardenias , Hydrangeas…can’t believe was actually plotting to bring down….”.

  4. Soundaryambha says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:25 pm

    Never get swayed by such reports of so & so is very soft….

    Read the following to gain more insight into jihadists. Even deaf & dumb among them are receiving training to become jihadists.

    Watch Hollywood’s ‘Lone Survivor’ based on facts. One mistake made proves brutally fatal for those Americans. The deceptively meek goatherds turn out to be taleban agents.

    Why is there such a fatal desire to fill our countries with jihadists calling it co existence / secularism blah blah ?

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/deaf-and-mute-kashmiris-getting-trained-in-terrorism/articleshow/68047575.cms

  5. Les says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:29 pm

    One word …

    Taqiya

  6. Jay says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    The more you stir this story the more it stinks!!! The officials in England cannot be this naive !
    England is all but lost now, with the unfettered invasion of Muslims throughout their country,
    Not to mention the cost of crime, and welfare, medical, and housing, no go zones to deal with, their loss of sovereignty and safety for English citizens, etc etc. why would they let these traitors back in their country?
    It’s the definition of insanity!! God save the Queen 👑

    • Kilauea says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 9:20 am

      Officials in England are not that naive. They just don’t care about the British people. The only Muslims that English government officials have contact with are Ambassadors and Princes who wine, dine, and ply them with gifts.

    • Leon Degney says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 1:35 am

      “God Save The Queen” but from where I’m standing it doesn’t look like she’s doing anything to save herself. What a waste of space almost to a person the monarchy of once Good Ol’ England is.

  7. ALI-JUMAH TOURE says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:34 pm

    Let all of those blood sucker moron stay in the so-called ISIS territories. Their children are sons and daughters of murders and so they will inherit their dads murderous gene and end up killing innocent people in the West. NO RETURN FOR EVIL AND STUPID PEOIPLE!

  8. Dawne says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:35 pm

    Oh fgs who the hell believes them? What absolute rubbish. Of course they shouldn’t be allowed back in but the British government has no b*lls at all and will welcome them back in with open arms. For all these British citizens who committed treason and went to join IS to try to kill us – the British government should contact Assad and offer him a deal whereby he gives all of these British IS members -Syrian citizenship – men women and children. The British government should then revoke all of their British citizenships and Syria can then deal with these IS traitors as it wants. I wouldn’t care if it was capital punishment for the whole lot of them.

  9. Renate says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    How, on God’s green earth, could anyone join ISIS “by accident”?

    • Georg says

      Feb 18, 2019 at 11:46 pm

      Hate when that happens.

  10. SB says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    Muslims on God’s green earth could. Their IQ is 68 and lower.

    • observer says

      Feb 18, 2019 at 4:37 pm

      In spite of everything, sometimes the humour on this website keeps me going.
      Thank you SB !

      • Joe Z. Wells says

        Feb 19, 2019 at 7:03 pm

        I agree! Would be one hilarious movie!

        Went on holiday & accidentally joined IS! Became a jihadi sex-slave! Had a baby! Beheaded several infidels! Can’t wait to get back to UK to tell my husband and friends all about it!

        The plot twists are infinite!

  11. Keith says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    Joined the Islamic State by accident? How?
    Wetting the bed is an accident.
    Walking out into the road without checking that it is clear to cross first is an accident.
    Joining a terrorist organisation that is posting videos of its atrocities online is not an accident. That takes planning and deceit on the part of the new recruit.

  12. Susan says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    I think their names declares enough for me that they are not going to change. Only wanting to come back to destroy more people. They are liars..

  13. observer says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 4:33 pm

    Golly gosh…
    How easy it is to join IS, avowed enemy of the West …. just a wee mistake ….. easily resolved, and back we come.
    Play or toy wth the infidels all you like.
    Of course our govts will have y’all back to come and leech off us indefinitely
    I think as Dawne says, British govt has no b*lls and will have them back.
    But at what cost to its citizens ?

    Lethal parasites + dummy governments = sharia law. Then they’ll turn on one another just as they turned on (an) innocent child – Zakari – recently. Amazing, at this point, that anyone on earth does not believe in hell… Even old Dawkins prefers church bells to the call to prayer these days…

    I go with InfidelLover…
    Anyone joining IS for whatever reason who wishes to return to his/her former adopted country must, on return, be executed for treason. Because treason it is !!

    It is enough already!

  14. Ren says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 4:48 pm

    We beg them not to return. Just stay where they are with ISIS.

  15. abad says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 6:03 pm

    Dear UK:

    Do NOT under any circumstances allow these Moslems back in to your country. These Moslems can stay in Syria.

  16. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 6:40 pm

    The family from Didsbury, Manchester left the UK in 2014 and thought they were on a family holiday.

    According to the family, a relative told them they were going on holiday to Turkey but from there they “ended up in Syria”.

    They took a wrong turn at Albuquerque. See you in St. Louis..

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 18, 2019 at 10:09 pm

      +1

  17. Mike Stevens says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 6:49 pm

    “A British family”. Safiya Zaynab, Shabina Aslam, and Alireza Sabar.

    What else is there to say about modern Britain and its future?

  18. gravenimage says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 10:06 pm

    Muslim family from UK detained in Syria claim they joined the Islamic State by accident, beg to return
    ……………

    Ah, yes–because anyone could go on vacation in Turkey and wind up in the Islamic State! They probably took a wrong turn when they got separated from the tour group at the Topkapi Palace…sarc/off

  19. infidel says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 11:40 pm

    Typical Islamic grovelling and pleading at the feet of Khafirs when Jehaad does not go as expected and instead backfires. I have seen these kinds of Muslim false drama and pleading many times in my life. DO NOT EVER FALL FOR THIS. because they will come back to UK, regroup and then devise some other vile strategy of Jehaad. maybe homegrown…. they will also spawn the next gen of UK hating jehaadis and would be the star attraction and motivators at their local mosques and spew more poison and hatred

  20. Georg says

    Feb 18, 2019 at 11:57 pm

    Well, the lady was only 51 (late adolescence) she probably didn’t know any better. You’d really be surprised how “vulnerable” people can be at that age. Or maybe she was “radicalized online.” Or underemployed. Whatever it may be, it certainly wasn’t her fault. Or the other person’s. Or the other person’s.

  21. R Russell says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 3:29 am

    I suppose many of the Leftist fool will we taken in, but the rest of us are not that naïve.

  22. Marigold says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 6:52 am

    Joined ISIS by accident !.Who are they trying to kid?

    • Kilauea says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 9:26 am

      Incest has been very very good for me and my followers – Muhammed.

  23. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 8:19 am

    It was that blasted Tom Tom Go again.

  24. Lorensacho says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 11:20 am

    The Muslim family claimed that they joined ISIS by mistake. They though that they were enrolling in a Karaoke school.

  25. Gene says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 9:02 pm

    I hate when that happens! You go down to the store pick up a gallon of milk and boom, you accidentally join an evil mass murdering terrorist organization that is killing, raping, and enslaving innocent people in a country 2,000 miles away. Happens all the time to me. I wish there was some way to avoid it. But I guess you just have to put up with some things.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 10:16 pm

      Grimly hilarious, Gene!

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