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UK: Jihadi screams “Allahu akbar” as he is jailed, says “I have committed no crime under Sharia”

Feb 24, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Not that this has anything to do with…

“IT programmer Muslim convert, 37, screams Allahu Akbar as he is jailed for four years for posting a hate-filled rant on Facebook blaming Britain for the ‘inevitable’ Manchester bombing the day after the attack,” by Joel Adams, Mailonline, February 22, 2019:

A Scottish IT programmer turned Muslim convert screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he was jailed for posting a rant on Facebook in support of the Manchester Arena bombing the day after the attack.

Hamza Siddiq – born Andrew Calladine – took to social media while colleagues held a minute’s silence to remember the 22 people killed in the 2017 terror attack.

He wrote: ‘I do not think the attack in Manchester was the best choice of action to take but I refuse to apologise for it or pretend I don’t know the cause.

‘The blame for it lies at the feet of the politicians, their police and their armies.

‘It was an inevitable consequence of British foreign and domestic policy towards Muslims.’

The father-of-three also posted support for IS and expressed glee at terrorist attacks including the Charlie Hebdo massacre which left 12 dead.

Following his Facebook rant about the Manchester bombings, Siddiq, 37, was confronted by furious locals in a Tesco in his native Scotland. He fled south but was arrested by Nottinghamshire Police days later.

He was charged with one count of encouraging terrorism and another of failing to disclose information to police….

Prosecutor Simon Davis said: ‘When he was interviewed he claimed that the only valid form of Government was Sharia and he rejected man made law – he was in support of armed struggle.

‘The defendant was on the police radar in 2014 about the nature of his posts and after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in 2015.

‘He was back on their radar in May 2017 after the Manchester Arena bombing.

‘He’d declared that everyone who resists the prophet should be killed.

‘On May 25 he had 1,293 followers on Facebook, this had risen to 1,439.

‘The messages he posted were not just about the religion of Islam but it was to get across the complete and perfect message of Islam and that it would one day dominate the world.

‘The violent struggle of Islam was referenced in the Jihadi content. He declared support for the Caliphate.

‘In 2016, in the company he worked for, there had been a request for two minutes silence but on social media he said ‘my respect is for he Mujahedin who fight the enemies of Islam.’

‘In 2017, after the Manchester Arena bombing he also demanded an apology from the people of Manchester for acts of terrorism by the Government.

‘It is here that indicates the issue of intention. These are anti-democratic.

‘It was at his company where there was another minute’s silence requested where he made the Facebook post in 2017 after the Manchester bombing.

‘Other posts include him saying Allah has shown the Martyr his place in paradise – he’ll be married to 72 maidens of paradise and permitted to intercede for 70 members of his family.

‘There is references to the violent struggle and the global fight against the crusader.

‘There are others that reference the Koran as the perfect word of God and that anyone who doubts a single verse is an unbeliever.

‘The language the sense and the tenor are the same and indicates the issue of intention.

‘He has also been in communication with known terrorists and formed a close association with them.

‘The defendant is an IT software programmer and his IT skills signal his culpability.

‘On his public order offence in 2016 on March 4 – he shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and threw a ration box at soldiers.’

Earlier in the case, when asked how he pleaded, Siddiq told the court: ‘I have committed no crime under Sharia, the only law acceptable to Allah.

‘I believe and accept Sharia and do not accept man made law. However I accept that according to English and Welsh law I have committed this charge.’

On May 22, 2017, suicide bomber Salman Abedi murdered 22 people, including eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Rousso.

The court heard Siddiq was born into a Christian family but converted to Islam after reading Malcolm X and the Koran.

Alex Rose, defending, said: ‘He has a strong religious belief and there are many varied interpretations of Islam.

‘He has an orthodox belief, it does not mean he is politically minded.’

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  1. Ren says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 3:10 pm

    “I have committed no crime under Sharia”

    Obviously, sharia is book of “allowed” crimes.

    • J D.S says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 10:11 am

      “Convert to islam”. convert from what? He didn’t convert “He already was” His mind set put him there long before he said he converted.

  2. Paolo Pagliaro says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 3:34 pm

    I’m repelled by everything this man said, but what’s the crime he committed?
    If he can be jailed for expressing his idiotic ideas, the government can also jail you if it does not conform to what the current PC code deems acceptable.

    I found that absolutely chilling. People like that have to be contradicted and certainly controlled, but jailing him is a terrible idea, whose consequences will be paid by everybody.

    • Red Bee says

      Feb 24, 2019 at 7:03 pm

      Hear, hear!

      You are absolutely right about that & people who do not listen will be smoking a heavy pipe.

    • Geoffrey de Brito says

      Feb 24, 2019 at 7:17 pm

      The UK is well on it’s way to becoming a Police State. In fact, arguably it is already one.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 24, 2019 at 8:24 pm

      I am a near free speech absolutist–I think people have the right to express all sorts of ideas that I find personally abhorrent.

      The line comes at inciting violence against innocent people–which lauding the terrorist bombing of an arena is doing, whatever you might believe.

      • morallytainted (@nariedel2) says

        Feb 24, 2019 at 10:26 pm

        inciting violence must come before the violence. An atta boy afterwards is tacky but does nothing

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2019 at 10:35 pm

          Is “morallytainted”–what an apt username–claiming that there will be no more Jihad violence in Britain? Nice try…

      • robert owen says

        Feb 26, 2019 at 4:57 pm

        This guy is a nut. There are no “muslim converts”, just disaffected nitwits seeking attention by rejecting their native culture. The article calls him Scottish. I’ll take that for true. It is unfortunate that this is a free-speech issue, since that is a thing the UK is not good at. There are much more applicable charges against him. Let’s be glad he seems unable to shut up. Lock him away.

    • Reuben Scratton says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 5:03 am

      Agreed. Four years for posting (shitty) opinions on the internet?? It’s terrifying.

  3. morallytainted (@nariedel2) says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    Well this guy is a pos but pos’s should be able to express their opinions. 4 years in prison for talking/typing an unpopular opinion. This website offers unpopular opinions………..

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 24, 2019 at 8:26 pm

      Inciting murder is not merely an “unpopular opinion”.

      • morallytainted (@nariedel2) says

        Feb 24, 2019 at 10:24 pm

        If he wrote nothing more serious than it says in the article he was not “Inciting murder” if so it would have been his own. In the US we have only 2 exceptions “fight words” which is bs but only applies in person and yelling fire in the crowded theater-which doesnt fit either.This precedent will be used against Christians.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 24, 2019 at 10:32 pm

          Lauding the Manchester Jihad terror attack and calling for more of the same is indeed inciting murder. Is this poster pretending this Jihadist was calling for giving Infidels cookies?

      • Joe says

        Feb 25, 2019 at 8:05 am

        If that is the standard, shouldn’t everyone with a Koran be arrested?

        • robert owen says

          Feb 26, 2019 at 4:58 pm

          Not a bad idea but it leads to WORSE consequences.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 26, 2019 at 10:45 pm

          He wasn’t just reading a Qur’an–as many Anti-Jihadists have done–but is actually lauding Jihad terror and calling for more.

  4. Savvy Kafir says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    This guy has declared himself an enemy of the civilized world. He should be stripped of his British citizenship and unceremoniously dumped in Syria or Somalia or Afghanistan. Maybe from a plane at 10,000 feet, sans parachute.

    We need to start taking our enemies within the gates more seriously, and start acting like we are at war — as we clearly are. Wars require the efficient elimination of threats. And this war cannot be won by putting jihadis or would-be jihadis in prison, where they will recruit others, before being released back into society.

    This guy wants all opponents of Islam to be killed. We should take him seriously. He should be eliminated, before he murders innocent civilians.

    • Rufolino says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 3:32 am

      He lives in the United Kingdom, he uses all its advantages, but he has no loyalty to the UK whatever.

      His loyalty is to Islamic Sharia.

      This characterises many in the UK todsy. A fifth column, waiting to do its worst.

  5. Westman says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    There is something fishy about this story, maybe something is missing. They take four years from this Muslim nut for stupidly ranting against the UK and persecute/prosecute Tommy Robinson for speaking in defense of the UK. Maybe the government is sending a message to all the the “little people”?

    • Veracious_one says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 7:14 am

      Tommy Robinson was arrested, tried, and convicted in less than three hours…hmmm his crime? taking pictures of and reporting the convictions of Muslim rapists….there’s something wrong with this picture….

  6. keith Oades says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    Other than spewing mindless shite and being a threat to every civilized person in the world. The common thread with these dickheads seems to be, that they will take over the world! THEN WHAT???
    Will they start bumping each other off because of differences in who is the real Islam?

  7. Geoffrey de Brito says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 7:19 pm

    Sharia and Islam, the perfect ‘cover’ for hate.

  8. FYI says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    At this stage these converts should be sectioned and put into some type of bacon-rich care facility that refuses to serve halal food on the grounds that they don’t like cruelty to animals.

    The usual pattern is seen with these converts..

    1)Discovers allah,the god of al walaa wal baraa,allah “the BEST of deceivers” bk3:54
    {…they don’t get the ‘best of deceiver’ part:that might come years later..too late..}

    2)Says the shahada and ..Becomes A Muslim With Attitude.

    3)The Beard project,the silly Arabic supremacist name{what? are you now suddenly an Arab?Christian Arabs must laugh..},the false piety,the automatic ENTITLEMENT to
    be filled with hate,antisemitism,antichristianity,misogyny,racism,anti Israel,violence follow..

    4)For the serious convert:Years spent studying Arabic to know allah the “best of deceivers” warped,primitive, 7th century misogynistic chauvinist male mind in his koran,a god who can only be understood through Arabic as,rather inconveniently, he dislikes FOREIGN languages{compare BTW with the Polyglot Biblical God who can be understood in ANY language}

    “And if WE had appointed it a koran in a FOREIGN tongue they would assuredly have said:if only its verses were expounded so that we might understand?What! A foreign tongue and an Arab?” koran 41 v 44

    “What!A FOREIGN tongue and an Arab?”

    How inconvenient of allah to be so linguistically-challenged!

    5)Results:Either..

    #1Ends up dead on behalf of allah “the best of deceivers” k3:54
    {completely missing:”If you live by the sword you die by the sword”Matthew 26:52}

    #2Ends up in prison for crime or terrorism offenses.
    {…doesn’t allah look after his own well?}

    #3Ends up LUCKY.On mature reflection,realising that muhammed was not a morally good example to follow,that the koran teaches the OPPOSITE to God’s commandments and the 2 chief ones are missing,the “perfect” koran is riddled with scientific and theological errors and so cannot be either perfect or come from the same source as the Bible,that al walaa wal baraa and violence are WRONG ……..and then have the WISDOM to leave islam..to be whatever you want to be but never to revert.FREEDOM!

    #1/#2 you have wasted your life and you have no wisdom to see the error.
    #3 you have not wasted your life if you had the WISDOM to abandon that path
    { ex-muslims/former converts to islam who realized this:you have made the right decision.If you like you can even congratulate yourself with… a bacon sandwich.It’s OK…}

    If the choice was given:Convert to islam or be an atheist/Christian etc
    Be an atheist/Christian etc

    If the choice was given:Stay in islam or leave islam and be an atheist/Christian etc
    Leave islam and be an atheist/Christian etc

    At least then you think for yourself.

    Listen to people who know about islam,ex-muslims and former converts to islam…..
    {Apostate Prophet for starters..}

    {Ex-muslims are to be applauded for their courage and they receive constant abuse for it:But remember that these islamic trolls are most likely miserable in their islam and jealous of you}

  9. gravenimage says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    UK: Jihadi screams “Allahu akbar” as he is jailed, says “I have committed no crime under Sharia”
    ………………

    Well, *this* is true.

  10. Pedro says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 12:04 am

    Let him plea it down to two counts of theft and send him to Jeddah to serve his sentence.

  11. Antiislamicman says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 3:51 am

    Converts are the worse as they think they have something to prove to the false prophet Muhammad. What a sick twisted stupid ideology, only the most foolish will follow

  12. Dawne says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 4:20 am

    Thankfully he has been jailed and the case with the details of this has made the mainstream media. The more we have of this, surely the more people will wake up to these issues.

  13. Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 4:51 am

    Don’t mistake another’s pathological obsessions with foreign ideas “strong religious belief”.
    Therein lay the delusion and our confusion.

  14. Anne Smith says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 5:25 am

    Actually this is a very interesting report and on that should be carefully studied by our politicians.

    This Islamic convert is enunciating clearly the doctrine which is driving the terrorist attacks and is correct when he says that what he has done is not a crime under the Sharia. He is right. This is why our stupid politicians should now acquaint themselves with the actual doctrine, not the silly oft repeated mantra that “Islam is a Religion of Peace”.

    The Mosques in UK should be monitored strictly and closed down if they are advocating attacks or the killing of infidels. This probably means most of them should be closed down, but the politicians must grasp the nettle.

    We now have a dangerous and very large fifth column in our midst and it is time to crack down on it.

  15. islamic text says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 11:04 am

    Please download
    http://www.islamic-laws.com/download/Islaamic_Sharia_Law_sunni.pdf
    Dennis Durkop posted the link of the full English translation of the Arabic Islamic sharia on Facebook
    Many Muslims hate this link considering it a fake translation by Jews, but is fully supported by the 57 Islamic member states of the world’s largest devout criminal gang the United Nations Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), that passed into international law to protect their religious right, that only Muslim men are human beings, while Muslim females, children and unbelievers are lowly dirty animals with no rigths! See:
    http://www.islamic-laws.com/download/Islaamic_Sharia_Law_sunni.pdf
    Many Muslims will runaway from all arguments about the Quran when confronted with the OIC’s official Islamic sharia that shows the full oppressive barbarism of their pagan death rape cult! Most do not know it even exists; as they are so brainwashed by their brainwashed clerics! Great to have their own law to rub their faces in what is in black and white!
    Here is another link by someone else about early biography of mohd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Ishaq

  16. PRCS says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    “Alex Rose, defending, said: ‘He has a strong religious belief and there are many varied interpretations of Islam.
    ‘He has an orthodox belief, it does not mean he is politically minded.’”

    If we are to accept that Islam has many varied interpretations (the operative word being interpretation), then we must also accept that its strictest, most literal interpretation is as valid as its least.

    The pretense that Islam “is a religion of peace”–noted by Anne Smith above–must be countered with its orthodox interpretation.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Feb 25, 2019 at 9:11 pm

      When scholarly muslims say that islam is above everything, including democratic governments, then it has declared itself to be a politico-religious doctrine and therefore should be declared the enemy of democracy that it is.

  17. Marbran says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 8:43 am

    As others have stated, this man’s crime was one only of words. Who knows what he might do in the future, but based on this report, he offended people with posts and now is sentenced to four years? What I don’t understand is how the UK can do this, and then turn around and allow imams to preach all sorts of radical ideas in masjid, or allow known terrorist sympathizers to come to the UK all the while banning people like Robert Spencer or Lauren Southern for their words. It seems to me that the UK government is applying their law in a manner that suits their political position, and not equally. Are the people of the UK that obtuse to keep voting for these people?

  18. Debi Brand says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 10:31 pm

    Clearly, ‘ one good Muslim, thus declaring he is simply doing what all good Muslims will be doing: taking pains, discipline, and care to follow no law but the Sharia of “Allah’s” alleged Messenger.

    Therefore, this good Muslim’s affirmation: “I have committed no crime under Sharia”

    Indeed, ‘ just obeying “Allah’s” alleged command: “… affirm Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his Shari’a in the same way that the Muhajirun and the people of Yathrib [the Ansar] who had become Muslim affirmed him.” (Al-Qurtubi, Foreward [sic]; P. 166, respectively.)

    http://www.debibrand.org/chapter-one-of-khalid-masood-no-muslim-mere-muslim-or-one-among-those-who-believe/)

  19. Shalom Bertie100 says

    Mar 10, 2019 at 11:25 am

    See how violent Islam gives them that sense of importance and empowerment. Sickening.

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