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UK: Parents of Muslim convert who joined the Islamic State convicted of funding jihad terrorism

Jun 21, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Jurors heard that in July 2015 Jack spoke about wanting to decapitate a former school friend on social media. Linus Doubtfire posted a picture on Facebook as he completed his Commando Artillery Course in the British Army. Jack then posted: ‘I would love to perform a martyrdom operation in this scene.'”

Jack Letts somehow got the idea that his new religion required him to commit treason and mass murder. His parents apparently didn’t care. But of course, authorities the world over also ignore the recurring phenomenon of converts to Islam turning to jihad violence.

“‘Jihadi Jack’ parents guilty of funding terrorism,” BBC, June 21, 2019:

The parents of a Muslim convert dubbed “Jihadi Jack” have been found guilty of funding terrorism.

John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, from Oxford, sent their son £223 in September 2015 while he was in Syria despite concerns he had joined Islamic State….

In March 2015, police warned the couple they risked prosecution if they sent their son money.

Then in September, Lane transferred money to an account in Lebanon after Jack Letts insisted it had “nothing to do with jihad”….

She added Letts and Lane were repeatedly told by “numerous police officers” not to send any money.

Jurors heard that in July 2015 Jack spoke about wanting to decapitate a former school friend on social media.

Linus Doubtfire posted a picture on Facebook as he completed his Commando Artillery Course in the British Army.

Jack then posted: “I would love to perform a martyrdom operation in this scene.”

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  1. martelsson says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    Hope prison is waiting for these ‘parents’.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 21, 2019 at 10:13 pm

      There love for their child was understandable, but misguided. They listen to emotion, but not to reason.

      • mortimer says

        Jun 21, 2019 at 10:16 pm

        John Letts and Sally Lane did not understand that Muslim are required to hate kafirs. They could not bring themselves to understand the mind of their son and his evil associates. Islamic ideology turns people into sociopaths ready to start WW III.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 21, 2019 at 10:20 pm

        Agreed, Mortimer.

    • IanB says

      Jun 22, 2019 at 10:40 am

      They got off with a suspended sentence and moderate fine.

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    Then in September, Lane transferred money to an account in Lebanon after Jack Letts insisted it had “nothing to do with jihad”

    “Mum, can you send me a couple hundred quids? No, Mum, it has nothing to do with jihad. What’s with you immediately assuming the worst? Just because I’m in Syria waging jihad for allah doesn’t mean that’s what I want money for.”

  3. somehistory says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 1:53 pm

    Well, they were warned and they did it anyway.
    If a guy on the street asks for money for a “sandwich,” he may intend to buy illegal drugs. A moslim who is “fighting” for satan and asks for money, is not likely wanting the money for something good.
    They had to know, even if they denied it to themselves.

  4. mortimer says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 3:06 pm

    Jack Letts got the impression from reading the Koran, the Life of Mohammed and the hadiths that Muslims are not supposed to be friends with dirty kafirs and they may even assassinate them if they wish.

    Those who have not read Islam’s primary texts wouldn’t suspect that those teachings are in them.

    • Rob says

      Jun 21, 2019 at 9:42 pm

      As a parent, I have sympathy and think of all those Rotherham parents who were ignored by police for decades.
      Like Tommy Robinson the police go after the low-hanging fruit and ignore the societal stuff.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    Jihadi Jack by his own words exposed just how deluded and dangerous he actually is when he declared “I would love to preform a martyrdom operation.”

    Its very obvious how dangerous he is but as for him being “deluded” that word also fits his exactly he is indeed, strongly under the power of Islamic deception. His Islamic deception may be explained a number of ways one of which are in the following.

    First, Jihadi jack is deluded and confused because he sees a harmful ,malicious murderous terrorist attack as a “martyrdom operation.” Many jihadists who engage in s Islamic suicide /homicide attacks view being extremely dangerous to self and other by in jihad homicidal /suicidal attacks in such a deluded because the Muslim clerics, who never carry carry out such self destructive bombing themselves , ar so dishonest the they substitute the term “murder attack for the term “martyrdom operation..’ that just like taking a jar of cyanide and scrapping off that label ad replacing it with another label withe word” apple juice ” printed in it .
    Changing the word or terms doesn’t chance the deadly essence of It. Therefore jihadi Jack by his using those words “martyrdom operation is showing just who much Islamic deception and delusion he is under.

    Second, jihadi Jack is under Islamic delusion in under the influenced and power id being taken in by and deception of the false doctrines of Islam.

    As for jihadi Jack or any other jihadist is acting out,in Islamic murder violence, under Islamic deception because just after his Islamic suicide /homicide attack right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31. That jihad minded Muslim of ISIS was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V] As for in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.

    In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears , they will heap up for themselves teachers ; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.” Second Timothy 3,4.

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  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 3:12 pm

    Such deluded jihadist suicide/homicide Muslims terrorists, as jihadi Jack, are very dangerous and delusional because they are under the spell of Islamic deception, so much so, that those jihadists actually view their murderous attacks as “martyrdom operations.” This is because they firmly believe that they will have a paradise, for themselves, after they die in a jihad attack. This is how strong the influence of the deceptive power of the false religion of Islam can be. This delusional madness which results in death and destruction is, somewhat, explained in the following quotation by a Christian author.

    “Muslims killed while waging jihad are often honored as martyrs. Also, the prophet Muhammad said that they would be guaranteed passage to paradise. Narrated Abu Huraira in Hadith 9:549:
    ‘Allah’s Apostle said “Allah guarantees to the person who carries out jihad or His Cause and nothing compelled him to go out but the jihad for His Cause and belief in His Words, that he will either admit him into paradise or return him with the reward or the bounty he has earned to his residence from where he came out.’ [1]

    As for the first part of this above quote about a “guarantee’’ of entering into a paradise for a Muslim who dies fighting in the jihad is a falsehood and false doctrine of a “guarantee “. Which a both tragic and sad for many reasons as well as bogus way of God. For Jesus taught not the above but clearly did teach that He is the genuine and only way to heaven. For example, John 14:6 gives the very words of Jesus Which are “I am the way ,the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father ,but by Me.”

    [1] ISLAM AND THE BIBLE: WHY TWO FAITH COLLIDE BY David Goldmann page 122

    • John Allan says

      Jun 22, 2019 at 8:50 am

      ‘… the prophet Muhammad said that they would be guaranteed passage to paradise.’

      And none will return to prove or disprove that facetious guarantee.

  7. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 5:02 pm

    A tough situation for parents. But the law should be enforced.

  8. abad says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 5:48 pm

    A major parenting failure. But they need to pay for the consequences of their actions: not just the sending of money to their Moslem-convert son, but even allowing him to convert to Islam.

  9. underbed cat says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 6:27 pm

    I would guess like a parent trying to save her son, she may have thought they would send money to her son, thinking that he can’t say he wants money to come home if a fellow jihadist was nearby, he could be slain. In a way that law should be revisited, the U.K. was accepting isis soldiers back, didn’t allow people to speak about Islam, would call any one who spoke about jihad terror connected to Islam as racist, islamophobic, bigoted etc.,heard about the evils of Assad, heard about tolerance and peacefulness nature of Islam that was erroneous, didn’t have a clue about targeting propaganda spread on the internet……so unless she researched it she may have thought he converted and fought as a soldier against Assad. So what she knew about his actions would be important. If he is still alive and does return he will face charges, especially by saying he would love to perform a martyr(suicide) operation…what all Islam claims they “never do”, but that also is not true. Now what is the U.K. going to do with all the this Islamic influence in the country.?? Inform the public truthfully or not? Sad.

  10. gravenimage says

    Jun 21, 2019 at 10:22 pm

    UK: Parents of Muslim convert who joined the Islamic State convicted of funding jihad terrorism
    ……………………

    I doubt that that was their intent, but this is just what these parents wound up doing.

    I just hope the courts are going after Muslims funding Jihad who know *exactly* what they are doing.

  11. Maggie says

    Jun 22, 2019 at 12:10 am

    Meanwhile in Yorkshire, England another 44 arrested in a child sex ring, and guess their origin, no prizes given.

  12. R Russell says

    Jun 22, 2019 at 4:11 am

    Since the parents are so gullible, I’m sure they will be ripe for conversion inside the Islamic governed prisons in England.

  13. Watto35 says

    Jun 22, 2019 at 4:59 am

    Many people will want to forgive or understand the parents but they committed a crime. They were helping an enemy of the state. They were committing treason and should spend the rest of their days in prison.

    • IanB says

      Jun 22, 2019 at 10:47 am

      They were given a suspended sentence.

  14. vtology says

    Jun 22, 2019 at 6:39 am

    The parents are clueless and stupid and so is the UK government. Should be shipping moslems back to the deserts and wastelands en masse.

  15. John Allan says

    Jun 22, 2019 at 8:46 am

    ‘Jack then posted: “I would love to perform a martyrdom operation in this scene.”’

    I’m sure you would find plenty of people willing to help you achieve your goal. After all, one less jihadist means one less moron.

  16. Giacomo Latta says

    Jun 22, 2019 at 11:09 am

    ”Hey, Jack, your parents are still kaffir.”
    ”Oh, yeaaaahhhh”

    • Steve says

      Jun 22, 2019 at 11:24 am

      But useful Kaffir.

  17. Ginger Snap says

    Jun 23, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    Sadly, parents who need to see this probably won’t read this news.

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