Our moral superiors constantly tell us that jihad terror has nothing — nothing whatsoever! — to do with Islam, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” But the life trajectory of Khuram Butt and so many others suggests otherwise. The Obama administration, however, in 2011 removed materials that noted a sudden turn to devoutness in Islam could be a sign of a turn toward jihad terror from counterterror training. The politically correct myth conquered the unwelcome reality.
“Khuram Butt: The partygoer who turned into a killer,” by Keiligh Baker, BBC News, June 28, 2019:
As a teenager, Khuram Butt – the ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack – was a cannabis-smoking “wannabe bad man” who regularly indulged in petty crime.
As an adult, he retained all of those habits – even as he attacked others for being “bad” Muslims.
Those closest to him paint a picture of an easily-influenced man given to obsessions. It was that obsessive nature which led him to Islamic extremism and, ultimately, to murder.
Details of his life emerged during the inquest into those deaths. Although coroner Mark Lucraft said none of the members of Butt’s family who gave evidence was a “convincing witness”, their accounts reveal a controlling man with a history of violence, who lived a life of contradictions.
Born in Jhelum, Pakistan, on 20 April 1990, Khuram Butt had two older siblings, brother Saad and sister Haleema.
His father ran a furniture business and while his family members were practising Muslims, they were not particularly religious.
They arrived in the UK in 1998 on a visitors’ visa when Butt was eight.
All three of the children attended schools in Forest Gate and Stratford in east London, with Butt doing well in his end of school exams – he gained 11 GCSEs.
The family attempted to claim asylum, which was initially refused. But in 2004 – following the death of his father from a heart attack – Butt was given indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
He worked as a cashier at a pizza takeaway after school, before getting a job in the stockroom at Topshop on London’s Oxford Street.
He received his first police caution at 18 for fraudulently using a friend’s payment card on public transport.
From his teenage years Butt went clubbing, smoked drugs, indulged in casual sex and was described as a “wannabe gangster”.
Image copyright Metropolitan PoliceIn 2009 he became an office assistant at a removals firm.
But despite being in full-time employment, later working in a number of KFC takeaways, the life of petty crime still appealed.
In December 2010, when he was 20, he received a second caution for common assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a scuffle with a security guard at a shopping centre.
Haleema’s weddingTwo year’s later, Butt’s sister married.
At the wedding he met a man named Hashim Rehman, whose uncle had worked with his father.
Afterwards Butt began to be more observant. He spent time with him, reading Islamic literature and praying five times a day. He also ended a relationship with his then girlfriend because she refused to convert to Islam.
Mr Rehman told police that rediscovering religion changed Butt, initially making him a softer and more humble man. Butt went on to ask Mr Rehman for his sister Zahrah’s hand, and they were married on 25 December.
Initially, his newly found fervour for Islam was seen as a good thing. He began staying in and attended his mosque more regularly.
But the inquest heard his religious devotion began tipping into an increasingly extreme version of Islam.
On their wedding day, Butt insisted his new wife should wear a burqa and sat her behind a wooden screen so she could only be seen by him. His brother later took the screen down.
After returning from their honeymoon in Pakistan, Butt moved Ms Rehman into the home he shared with his mother, brother and sister-in-law.
His brother, Saad, said that Butt insisted his new wife wore a full-face veil and gloves inside the house.
“I think that says it all. He was the sort of person who did everything 100%,” Mr Butt told the inquest. “Random sexual encounters, lots of girlfriends, drug taking and now that he has gone into Islam he wants to do it 100%.”…
RichardL says
Great name for an allahist with his face…
J_not_a says
Butt-ugly inside and out for sure. Being an allah- bot will do that to you every time.
CRUSADER says
That’s why the bots like to show their butts to Allah’s face
when they “pray”….
Allah gets excited about seeing their uglies and then enrages
them to “prey”….
William A Carr says
It is as clear as day many people have mixed up lives and trouble with the law but only Muslims turn to mass murder. Because their religion leads them to it!
Jay says
England is lost!! Pm Churchill is not resting easy today. The unfettered Muslim invasion is destroying England’s sovereignty and their homeland! How many terror attacks, murders, rapes, etc etc will it take for England to wake up?? The attacks on English citizens, their schools, their Jewish citizens, their churches, no go zones, on their trains, etc., are numerous!! It’s complete insanity. Europe is almost lost as well when you see blind leaders like Merkel and Macron allowing their identities to be slowly but surely
eroded! I pray Poland and Hungary stay strong and keep their borders closed!
I pray the insanity stops before it’s too late! Only God can save them now!
CRUSADER says
One never quite knows what the future has in store….
No Muzzies Here says
Are you beginning to see a correlation between violent murder and a stepped-up observance of Islam? Are you getting the point that a fervent practice of Islam is associated with intolerance for all who don’t practice it equally fanatically?
CRUSADER says
Nope. Not yet.
Still don’t quite get the connection nor can I put together the dots.
I need to spend more time on Jihad Watch to learn more about that…..
joanofark06 says
Are you being sarcastic, or are you just that slow? You and Eddie need to get together, sounds like!
gravenimage says
Yes, CRUSADER is being sarcastic. Just glance at his posting history here.
Joe says
“now that he has gone into Islam he wants to do it 100%.”
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And he did Islam 100%.
William A Carr says
In the many preceding centuries Britain was a British country, yes it was not perfect just like any other but it was relatively peaceful. There were a very tiny minorities of non British born people. Only during the last 60 years which has seen the mass influx of Muslims has the country deteriorated so much. Many of our major cities have very large Muslim enclaves, they do not integrate and in fact their religion tells them it is forbidden to do so. They openly express their contempt for non Muslims every time they pray. That is why Britain is no longer the country it was.due to multiculturalism or as it is relabeled diversity. The people of Britain never asked for this radical reshaping of our society and they were never consulted. Successive govts have promised to reduce immigration but it continues unabated. What is more if you speak out against it you are likely to end up in a cell. If you go to jail your life is in danger from Muslim jihadists. Our very freedom of speech has been sacrificed in the name of ‘diversity’
Save Europe says
Agreed.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
joanofark06 says
Hey William, it sounds like you are living in Britain now? Thanks for your insightful, and intelligent comment about what it’s like there. Everything you said, is so very true!
I’ve been archiving everything islam/muslim, since 9/11, and I have it organized by different subjects, one being countries, and if you could see everything I have on how Britain has changed so much, for the worse, over the last 10 years or so, and how it is today and how many parts of Britain are lost to “no go zones”, and still falling, into this evil ideology, at light speed, it would shock you. Although I’m thinking, you probably already know, but just to see it ALL, at one time, is really something!
I’d compare it to a cartoonist (or to make it more serious, as it is, change that word to an artist), who makes one page of a few people, starting something in action, and then making another page, furthering that action, and another page, etc etc…
Looking at them separately, doesn’t mean much, but flip the pages fast, and it’s like a movie in action. And the movie I’m seeing when I look at everything I have, at all the deaths of Britons, how the government there is treating it’s own citizens, and their defending of millions of “immigrants”, and on and on and on…..and to know it’s real and happening in 18 other countries, is the real shocker! I just feel so bad for you, and others who are awake, and know what’s going on. I can only hope and pray that it’ll all change to better for you one day. Stay safe, and keep educating people there, who are open-minded, and will listen.
Walter Sieruk says
This title alone of the jihadwatch article is very interesting by a matter of contrast between a devout Muslim /jihadist and Christian who had given his or her life to Jesus and serve Him.
.To reiterate this sites essay heading which is “Muslim stops partying, starts becoming intensely observant in Islam, murders eight in jihad massacre”
This reveals a great contrast between a committed jihad-minded Muslim, in the UK or another other nation .and takes part in an a jihad quest for the advancement of Islam. As seen above, many times this had the outcome of mass murder and mayhem.
By Christian who stops wasting his time on frivolous thing as sports strives, by the Power of the Christ , to advance the Kingdom of God doesn’t engage in violence but prays ,reads the Bible gives to Christian missions and reads books on Christian evangelism to talk to people about Jesus to attempt to win souls to save them and other humans from hell .
Therefore there’s a great outstanding contrast between devout serving the god of the Qu ‘ran ,Allah ,and a committed Christian serving the God of the Bible, Yahweh.
For the God of the Bible,Yahweh, is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa ON PAGES 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.” In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi .
AleX says
1.Stops partying
2. Becomes observant, devout
3. Thinks of self as better than the kuffar
4. Joins the real party: حزب الله (hezb’allah)
5. Starts spreading peace
David says
6. A piece here; a piece there.
joanofark06 says
Beside the truth of what David said, here is what OUR God, said about your “peace”!
By peace he shall destroy many. Daniel 8:25
…saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace….Jeremiah 8:11,12
Because they have led My people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace…Ezekiel 13:10
And here’s something YOU… might want to think about:
“But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.” Matthew 10:3
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
And WHAT PEOPLE, was our God talking about HERE, don’t YOU just wonder…?? I don’t.!!
“Come, let us wipe away the nation of Israel. Let’s destroy the memory of its existence” (Psalm 83:4)
Maybe I should give YOU a little education to how most of us here, know about you and what your “Allah” has you doing, when you “speak”:
• Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
• Kitman: deceit by omission.
• Tawriya: deceit by ambiguity.
• Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not having to observe all the tenets of Sharia).
• Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden).
• Muruna: the temporary suspension of Sharia in order that Muslim immigrants appear “moderate”.
So don’t go away mad…just go away! Bye bye now!
Walter Sieruk says
Some of the words in the above, top, article of this site are interesting. Those words are “intensely observant in Islam.” This may also be expressed by the terms “Radical Muslim” and “Islamic extremist” hoses last terms are actually a misuse of terms. So “intensely observant to Islam” is really “much better.
For the words “Radical Muslim” and “Moderate Muslim” are ,very much ,Western term and not that well known in the Islamic Middle East. This is because what In the Islamic mindset in the Muslim Middle East as well as in Indonesia and other Muslim controlled countries what the non-Muslims of the Western nations view as “radical and “extremist” the Muslims of those places in the world see as “Normal” and even Devout and committed to the Cause of Islam”. Likewise they view those who Westerns see as “Moderate Muslims” those of the Islamic worldview and non-devout and non –committed Muslims. The violent jihadists even see them as “hypocrites.” Therefore, this explains the jihadist chant of those jihad-minded Muslims in different Islamic terror organizations. When they chant out loud “Death to infidels and hypocrites.” Meaning Death to people who and not Muslims and people who are non- jihadist Muslims.
Concerning the last part of this above essay, the violent spirit of that vicious jihadist chant “Death to infidels and hypocrites.” The later word of the chant “hypocrites” in the jihad –minded Muslim worldview is further explain in the book titled JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH by Jamie Glazov , for on page 42 the reader is informed that “Islam mandates that devout and real Muslims must punish , and in some circumstances kill, those Muslims whom they regard as neither legitimate nor properly devout.”
CRUSADER says
Gotta give old Butt boy some credit.
He goes 100% with whatever he’s into.
That type of commitment is hard to come by these days.
Now, the Muzzies are showing the world how that is done….
Full Commitment!
What a concept!
Michael Copeland says
Query for Keiligh Baker, BBC News:
How is what you call an “increasingly extreme version of Islam” different from ordinary Islam?
Ordinary Islam has commands such as “Kill them wherever you find them”.
Is there an “extreme version” of “Kill” that is different from ordinary “Kill”?
How can we tell?
Rufolino says
The words extreme, or extremist, are get-out terms for saying that the Moslem in question is simply, DEVOUT.
Shirley Ann says
Can any Western Woman even imagine being Saddled by Mr.Butt-Ugly in Marriage? The Idea is Repulsive, & Yet, this Guy & his Butt-Ugly Family were accepted in The U.K., just as they would have been in the U.S.A. He was given chances that no Brit or American would have been allowed to have & as a Thank-You, Butt-Ugly wreaked Havoc on England.
Western GOVS & their Pro-Muslim Administrators are actually accomplices of these Monsters, by Placating & Assisting them in every phase of their Jihad, & turned us Citizens into Sitting”Setting” Ducks, For Extinction! SICK!
David says
Butt probably had an arranged marriage, often necessary with someone who looked like him.
Yes, the British government is responsible for killers like him being allowed to wander around. There is dereliction of duty.
Angemon says
“Do it 100%” – nowhere in there says he was following a “distorted” version of islam…
James C. says
Butt by name, butt by nature
CRUSADER says
No ifs, ands, or buts, about that!
joanofark06 says
Lol…you both are killin’ me!
CRUSADER says
Bare Naked Islam
on
Disgusting Outrageous Butts….
https://barenakedislam.com/2010/07/29/disgusting-outrageous-ass-in-the-air-muslims-soiling-the-streets-of-manhattan/
mortimer says
Khuram Butt’s life story is a textbook case of Islamization. By studying the primary Islamic source texts, Butts was radicalized.
“It’s the ideology, stupid.” Robert Spencer’s books should constitute part of the anti-terrorism training of all government agents and diplomats.
Carol the 1st says
“Spiritual Masturbation” seems an appropriate term.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim stops partying, starts becoming intensely observant in Islam, murders eight in jihad massacre
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Islamic “morality” in action–partying is evil, but mass murder is sacralized. God, I hate Islam.
Georg says
When Anjem Choudry was “Andy” during college, drinking and chasing women, he wasn’t an issue. Now he’s turned into a genocidal lunatic thanks to his fervor for Mein Koran. There is simply no question Western society–warts and all–is far, far superior to Islamic society. That’s how it is. No amount of leftist hatred for America and the West will square the round peg of Islam. And Butt exemplifies Islam being the best argument against Islam.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Georg.
And good to see you posting again.
Georg says
Thanks, good to see you posting as well.
gravenimage says
🙂
R Russell says
That’s what happens when a non-observant Muslim rediscovers his faith.
He is appalled to find out that there is no way his good deeds can ever outweigh his bad deeds because of all the booze, night clubs etc he has been involved with.
The only way to be welcomed into jannah (Paradise) at the end of his life is to die killing Allah’s enemies.
Why does the media not know this?
Or are they just keeping quiet?
joanofark06 says
Ask the 19 leaders of 19 countries, that allowed millions of “them”, into their borders (without knowing or caring, what “they” believe in).
So the media not knowing this, shouldn’t surprise anyone.
And so we’re told that satan’s time is short….A major move by “him”, to make everyone (with no intelligence, atheists, gays, etc etc), to love and accept islam, and this same bunch of people,to get very angry, when someone doesn’t! Satan’s magic, to make most people in the world….zombies! Islamic zombies…that make a great title for a book….!
Carol the 1st says
Islam is an offence to the intelligence of humanity.
Badger says
“an increasingly extreme version of Islam”
Ooo, that sounds nasty. What is the less extreme version of islam?
joanofark06 says
Lol, Moderate Islam? or shortened to “moderates”? Those are the ones that stand around and watch the extremists do their thing, or hand them the necessary tools for the job..after they buy them. Eh, I give up, maybe someone else can answer that? 🙂
Carol the 1st says
The one where you pretend obliviousness and scoop up the free rides and goodies while ignoring all the hard and dirty thrusting work?
James Troutman says
When a young man, who has been living a hedonistic life, engages in a relationship with Jesus Christ, his greatest desire is to tell others of the good news he now knows about salvation from this world found in and through Christ and the love of Christ in which he now partakes. Why is that?
When a young man, who has been living a hedonistic life, engages in a religion with Allah, his greatest desire is to overcome all his sins by going out and killing infidels in the name of Allah. Why is that?
Jesus Christ died for our sins so as to reconcile God to us. We must simply believe and trust him, his death, burial and resurrection, so that we may be reconciled to God. Allah demands a Muslim to reconcile himself to Allah by overcoming his sins – an impossible task. Wake up and smell the coffee which is salvation by faith alone in Christ alone. There is no other way, truth or life than that found in and through Jesus Christ.
Carol the 1st says
Spoken like a kafir. Islam is not concerned with “sin”. It is concerned with compliance to a dictated “form” that works with petrified or semi-conscious people. A man such as Butts gains “status” plus an otherworldly admittance ticket into excessive venal delights that were denied him on Islam’s “World Tour” (that’s called “progress”?). By contrast Christianity inspires gently and thus works and is compatible with ALL humanity (weak, old, confused, young, feminine etc.) Islam dictates, warps, victimizes and grasps. It is unhealthy and destructive and obviously does not care for its victims.
For “religions proper” the everyday sense of “sin” implies an effort to live cooperatively and to eliminate or minimize selfish faults that harm others. Technically however it seems the word “sin” means only our “separation” from the higher Over-soul, Love, or God, as in:
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. (1 Corinthians 13: 12-13)
James Troutman says
Thank you for the opportunity to elaborate on my earlier comments.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Genesis 3:4-5)
Genesis 3:4-5 is the underpinning of all religion as generally understood and as generally practiced. Man cannot appease a god, be pleasing to a god, be bound again unto a god or be a god himself unless he knows good, and, evil. Prior to Adam’s fall, man only knew, was in relationship with, good, who is God. Once Adam fell he, and all mankind to follow, was/is out of relationship with good and was/is in relationship with evil, that which separates us from God.
Islam, just as all religions do, sets the scales of justice for those believers who want to appease, please and live eternally with a god, in Islam, Allah, receiving their great rewards on the basis of their good deeds outweighing their evil deeds – an impossible task to do with any certainty (or at all, in reality). Unless a believer kills and/or is killed in pursuit of pleasing Allah, engaging in an act certain to be a good deed greater than all of his evil deeds, he will never know if he has done enough to gain eternal life with Allah and to receive his great rewards.
By the revelation of the truth we receive from the Bible, God did create us to be in union with him and in relationship with him. However, the basis of our relationship was never intended to be on us knowing good, and, evil, but simply knowing, believing and trusting, him: the way, the truth and the life. Adam chose to believe the devil, the one who lies, and separates others by his lies from the truth, who is God.
With the advent of Jesus Christ, God incarnate, who came to die for our sins, to include our evil deeds, his sacrifice reconciled God to man. The sins of the world have been forgiven, a feat no man could perform. With Christ’s resurrection, God acknowledges and accepts the sacrifice, thus putting an end to sin (evil deeds or separation) which no longer need to be forgiven, as he remembers them no more.
Religions teach man we must still do good and abstain from evil in order to be right with a god. Faith, believing and trusting, in the true and living God who has revealed himself in and through the Bible, tells us God will create us anew by the righteousness of Christ who is the way, the truth and the life. No one’s good deeds will ever outweigh their bad deeds. Nor, does it matter. Sharing God’s faith in the finished work of Christ is what matters. To know Jesus Christ is to know the way, the truth and the life. Religion is premised upon knowing good and evil. Faith, and subsequently salvation, being made alive, is grounded in knowing the true and living God, Jesus Christ.
Carol the 1st says
I like to think Jesus came to be an example and facilitator to knowing “God”. Too often organized religion seems to be more focused on making him an obstacle that needs their specific edifices and rather contorted “translating ability”. Jesus had a simple message for all – “the Kingdom of Heaven lies within”. He spoke of something innate to each and every one of us that was not at all reliant on some authority’s magic Rosetta Stone.
We can all use well-meaning nudges, tips, and food for thought however. Thus the value of organized religion.
Laurence says
You want to know how to deal with a psychotic murderous muslim threatening you with suicide bombing? – kick him right in the elbow and break his damn elbow!! I did that in the mid 80s at work when one of these muslim scum bags threatened me that way at work so this is nothing new. It worked very well because the guy never threatened me again. What happened to the gangs in the UK and the mob? Can’t they ultraviolence the muslims and put contracts out on the hate preaching Imams like Anjem? Man that scum bag wouldn’t survive long in my County – we don’t have one single muslim or mosque in our entire county and believe me it is going to stay that way. I tried to make friends with one of the Imams in a neighboring county and it just turned into an argument about “Islamophobia”. There is no way of integrating Islam into our civilization.
gravenimage says
These days you would probably wind in jail…