Complicity.
It’s what happens when parents and loved ones of a convert to Islam get dragged in to his new lifestyle. Wives convert and turn Jihadist. And parents end up on trial for funding terrorism.
These are the family tragedies that begin when one man converts and drags everyone else down with him.
The parents of a white Muslim convert – dubbed Jihadi Jack – who sent their son money after he travelled to Syria to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), have gone on trial accused of funding terrorism.
John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 56, from Oxford, whose son Jack went to the Middle East in 2014, each face three charges in relation to cash they sent him in 2015 and 2016.
The couple deny knowing that the money could be used to fund terrorism, and insist it was only intended to support his welfare.
Here’s where the problem began.
The court heard how Jack Letts, who has a younger brother, grew up in Oxford and converted to Islam at the age of 16.
While his parents initially supported his decision, they did harbour concerns because he had suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.
Here’s how it continued.
But the court was told that despite having concerns that Jack intended to go and fight in Syria, Ms Lane purchased a return airline ticket for her son to travel to Amman in Jordan in May 2014.
The court was told he failed to return as planned and instead travelled on to Kuwait and later Turkey before eventually crossing the border into Syria.
It is alleged that while he was in Isil held territory in Syria and Iraq, Mr Letts and Ms Lane, sent their son three money transfers totalling less than £2,000, despite being aware the cash could fall into the hands of the terrorist group.
These are some of the many tragedies that occur when Islam makes contact with free nations.