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UK man converts to Islam, calls himself “enemy of Britain,” says “I wanted to be an ISIS suicide car bomber”

Jun 23, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Who converted Jack Letts to Islam? What is taught in the mosque he attended? Why wasn’t that mosque investigated? The indifference of authorities to questions such as these is ultimately suicidal.

“‘I wanted to be an ISIS suicide car bomber’: Jihadi Jack admits he was an ‘enemy of Britain’ in Kurdish jail interview after his parents are convicted of sending him cash,” by Jack Elsom and Danyal Hussain, Mailonline, June 22, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Jihadi Jack has admitted his cold-blooded ambition to carry out an ISIS suicide car bombing during his time with the extremist caliphate.

The 23-year-old, whose real name is Jack Letts, has revealed that he was prepared to die slaughtering targets of the jihadist militant group and branded himself an ‘enemy of Britain’.

Letts, who left his Oxford home in 2014 to join ISIS in their once stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, spoke of his evil desire in a shocking interview from his Kurdish jail.

‘They don’t ask you but they encourage you, in a sort of indirect way. I used to want to at one point believe it or not. I now think it’s actually haram [forbidden],’ he told the BBC.

He added: ‘I did at one point want to. Not a vest, I wanted to do it in a car. Hey so I said “if there’s a chance, I will do it.”‘

He gave the interview in October but it has only now been released following the conclusion of his parents’ trial.

Yesterday, John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, were found guilty of funding terrorism by sending their Muslim convert son £223.

Letts revealed how he joined ISIS because he thought he was ‘going to something better’.

Letts admitted: ‘If I was a member of the British public, I wouldn’t give me a second chance probably.’

He also spoke about why he joined the terror group, claiming: ‘I thought it was some sort of morality actually at the time.

‘Why do I have this nice life, and others don’t? And then, on top of that, the idea of it being an Islamic state and it’s actually your duty to do this….

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  1. John Allan says

    Jun 23, 2019 at 2:05 pm

    Well, find some wasteland, stick an old car on it, and tell him to let it all hang out.

  2. No Muzzies Here says

    Jun 23, 2019 at 2:17 pm

    Religions are supposed to help people be better people. I’ve never heard of new converts to Jehovah’s Witnesses going out and killing people. But there is one religion whose recent converts, on fire with their new-found religious fervor, go out and kill infidels.

    In a world where reason ruled, those undergoing this spiritual transformation would be sequestered so they cannot hurt anyone.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 23, 2019 at 8:25 pm

      Islam has a canonical, ‘ESSENTIAL’ doctrine of warfare against disbelievers. Muslims who do not conduct jihad will not go to paradise.

      It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihad died the death of a hypocrite.
      Sahih Muslim 2:4696

      Whoever dies but neither fought (i.e., in Allah’s cause), nor sincerely considered fighting, will die a death of Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic era of ignorance.
      Jihad is made Obligatory
      Sahih hadith, Tafsir Ibn Kathir

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 23, 2019 at 2:22 pm

    That self proclaimed “Enemy of Britain” jihadist Jack has thus exposed himself to be a very dangerous man .So he should be arrested and locked up ,for life, for the safety and protection of the public. For England does not need to have another murderous bombing as had occurred in Manchester.

    For that murderous jihad terror attack at the concert at Manchester totally cruel and despicable. This heinous Islamic of mass murder is so extremely evil , so evil , in fact, this is mass murdering of young people ,most of them girls also has a strong vicious element of misogyny to it. Misogyny, as most informed people do understand, is very much part of the essence of Islam. Along with the brutal deadly violence of this religion. This Muslim /terrorist bombing is not as some claim as result of a warped version of Islam but hard core non-watered down Quran based Islam. For example, the Quran instructs in Sura 9:123 “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…” It’s thus very easy for a jihad minded Muslim show harshness to young girls who are not Muslims by exploding and bomb .This sure can be harsh This wicked action was the outcome of the deadly cruel religion which is Islam.

  4. Angemon says

    Jun 23, 2019 at 2:33 pm

    He also spoke about why he joined the terror group, claiming: ‘I thought it was some sort of morality actually at the time.

    ‘Why do I have this nice life, and others don’t?

    Communism – islam without a God… In any case, why should others have your “nice life”? What have they, or their parents/grandparents/etc., did to deserve it? Muslim nations could have the same standards of living as any given Western nation – they simply choose not to by, instead, living up to their religion…

  5. Battle says

    Jun 23, 2019 at 3:08 pm

    Is Jack the same person previously reported as stating he went to ISIS to be a school teacher to children?

  6. abad says

    Jun 23, 2019 at 3:18 pm

    Most rational people do not allow their children, whether adult or under the age of 18, to be spending time, “hanging out” as it were, with the wrong kind of people who could prove to be a bad influence on their lives.

    Second, it could be that the UK has been socialist for a long time now, but socialism does not allow for productive ambition since everyone is “equal”.

    Letts is probably better off flying to Syria and detonating his suicide belt in private so he only ends up killing himself and other Moslems. Had his parents had a brain they would have rightfully disowned him.

  7. gravenimage says

    Jun 23, 2019 at 5:42 pm

    UK man converts to Islam, calls himself “enemy of Britain,” says “I wanted to be an ISIS suicide car bomber”
    …………………

    Gee, how did he get the idea that the “religion of peace” is like this? sarc/off

  8. Rufolino says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 4:14 am

    The values this young guy articulates reek of the moral emptiness of the Western world, and they suggest it is only a matter of decades before Islam conquers. The young of today will be the rulers of tomorrow.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 24, 2019 at 11:17 pm

      Rufolino, you are mistaken that that West teaches the waging of Jihad.

  9. unbeliever1 says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 8:09 am

    Turn him over to the Iraqis.

  10. Tom says

    Jun 24, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    He is the result of failed parenting.

    Had we known he had the desire to become a martyr and blow up a vehicle we could have invited him to a range and had him paste up targets to cover bullet holes, in real time.
    But that would have only resulted in his demise and not scores of innocents. Not what Islam has in mind.

    Of course I am only joking. Why waste rounds when Islam is prepared to provide both the brain dead volunteer and the means of his disposal.

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