“I accidentally joined a mafia in Iraq and Syria, maybe not a mafia, but a very bad group of people, thinking they are Muslims. If I had learned Islam properly, If I had understood I would have learned that these were a very bad group of people. I wouldn’t have been in the situation that I’m in.”
This kind of talk is music to the ears of Western leaders, but once again it is non-specific. Jack Letts joined the Islamic State in the first place because he thought it was living out Islam properly. What exactly convinced him that it was actually un-Islamic? He doesn’t say, and of course no establishment media “journalist” had the wit to ask him. Meanwhile, jihad recruiters still quote the Qur’an and Sunnah to potential recruits, in order to convince them that jihad violence is the pathway to pleasing Allah.
“Jihadi Jack: ‘Free me so I can fight against Islamic radicalisation,'” by Dominic Waghorn, Sky News, August 20, 2019 (thanks to Robert):
The Briton who ran away to join Islamic State as a teenager has told Sky News he wants to be released from jail to join the fight against Islamist radicalisation.
In an interview from prison, Jack Letts told Sky News he does not care about being stripped of his British citizenship, because he would not want to live in a country governed by Boris Johnson anyway.
“I’m being truthful when I’m saying I want to make a difference,” he told Sky News.
“I want to make up to the world that which I did against it.”
The 24-year-old, known as ‘Jihadi Jack’, said he wants to persuade other Muslims not to be lured into joining extremist terror groups.
He said: “If I could do something to help them from making the same mistake that I did, I would love to do that, I think that would be great.”
Letts was arrested as he tried to flee IS territory into Turkey. He claims he deserted the terror group because he decided they were not Islamic.
“I accidentally joined a mafia in Iraq and Syria, maybe not a mafia, but a very bad group of people, thinking they are Muslims.
“If I had learned Islam properly, If I had understood I would have learned that these were a very bad group of people. I wouldn’t have been in the situation that I’m in,” he said.
To sceptics who might suspect him of lying to try and secure release from jail where he is being held in Iraq, he said he had given up hope of being let out any time soon
Letts said: “I genuinely think I’m going to stay here for more years. I don’t think anything’s going to change soon.
“I don’t think Canada’s going to help, I don’t think Britain can help. So me lying is not really going to make a difference.”
Mr Johnson’s government has endorsed Theresa May’s decision to strip Letts of his citizenship. Canada condemned that decision as the UK “offloading its responsibilities”.
Letts said he was not bothered by the decision.
“I genuinely don’t care if they give me a piece of paper saying whether I’m British or not,” he told Sky News.
“I’m British because my mother’s British and her family have been British for 5000 years. It’s not something that comes on a piece of paper and can be taken, at any time.”
He told Sky News he would not want to live in the UK in the current political climate.
“I don’t want to live in a Britain that’s being governed by Boris Johnson and his private school group. I think Boris Johnson is ridiculous. I don’t want to live in his Britain to be honest. I don’t want your passport anyway,” he added….
Jack Holan says
Robert
Simple Solution. He can do so from prison via Voice of America;/Mid*East and in prison by monitoring and mitigating extremism at Friday Services.
Lydia Church says
That’s what I was going to say. Let him work as a counter terrorist in the prisons that are jihadist factories to convince them not to become terrorists, and he can begin in London and go from there and we will see what happens next.
CRUSADER says
Yet another
self promoting
enlightened
Masjid Nawaz
in the making!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilliam_(think_tank)
Roger Woodhouse says
We dont want this man back in Britain whether in jail or not..They lie .Oslam must and will be exposed for the violent creed that it is.No good appologising after killing innocent people which appears to be the practice of these people.Expose the real Islam and see just what ‘the people ‘ will conclude.
mortimer says
If he has not left Islam, he is not sorry. He’s sorry he got caught. He’s sorry he didn’t die in battle. He never thought he would be standing in a court of law humiliated before the world. Even Muslims don’t want anything to do with people like him.
Robert Porter says
Here we go again, another Muslim imbecile who says that ISIS are not true Muslims. What did he see when reading the Qur’an? All those verses advocating murder, hatred, intolerance, bigotry and cruelty never seemed to penetrate his empty skull. Now, he says, he “feels Canadian”. Why? Because over Islam it has proven utterly idiotic?
CogitoErgoSum says
Oh sure, the group that lost were not really Muslims. He wants another chance to join another group of “real” Muslims. But I notice he does not tell us how the real Muslims differ from the fake Muslims. I ask him to explain Surah 9 of the Quran to me and everyone else so we can see how real he is.
mortimer says
The Koran contains 164 jihad verses and the hadiths, Sira and Sharia manuals explain and endorse jihad. Hundreds of fatwas endorse jihad for all Muslims. Muslims all must participate in jihad … militarily, verbally, by writing or by giving money to the fighters. All Muslims conduct verbal jihad by lying about the meaning motive and methods of jihad.
Letts is conducting verbal jihad by deceiving people about his motive which was his hatred for the dirty kufaar.
If Letts doesn’t hate kafirs, he has left Islam.
Jenny H says
I don’t know when this man left to join ISIS, but there surely would have been enough information out there as to what they were doing and endorsing. His morals must be externally, not internally controlled. What he’s basically saying is that, he was okay with beheading, torturing, enslaving, raping, stealing and extorting from people, slaughtering men, women and children, if they weren’t muslim or the right kind of muslim, but now he’s found out Islam doesn’t approve of that, he’ll stop doing it. I someone manages to convince him that he was right in the first place, (or, maybe if it is convenient for him to do so) he’d go back to his previous view. How many foul activities has he committed or supported whilst a member of ISIS anyway?
mortimer says
How does a person ‘accidentally’ join a Mafia? To join a criminal gang requires the determination to break the law and hurt people mercilessly. None of that is ‘accidental’, but deliberate and ‘with malice aforethought’.
malice aforethought. n. 1) the conscious intent to cause death or great bodily harm to another person before a person commits the crime. Such malice is a required element to prove first degree murder. 2) a general evil and depraved state of mind in which the person is unconcerned for the lives of others.
Az gal says
He’s a liar. If the UK gave his citizenship back he’d pee on himself for happiness.
Crusades Were Right says
Jack ain’t nimble
Jack ain’t quick
Jack Letts face it
Is just a …..*
* Any suggestions? lol
FYI says
Little miss moffet,
sat on a tuffet,
eating her curds and whey.
when down came a muslim
{a member of isis}
And blew them both clean away”
Us infidels love humor…
boom-boom{“allahu akbar”.. kaKEBOOM}
Crusades Were Right says
He discovered that Islamic State weren’t “real” Muslims just about the time they were getting their a*ses well kicked by Assad and Putin.
Co-inky-dink? lol
elee says
When a soldier of Allah is disarmed he uses what weapons he can. Take their guns, they’ll use knives; take their knives and they’ll run you over with a truck. Take away everything—-which not even prisons can do, shanks and other-such are ubiquitous—and he’ll use taqiyya and tawriyah and kitman and muruna, and dawah too. As has been said elsewhere, what fools these dhimmis be!
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
So he deserted the terror group because he thought that they were “not Islamic”.
But they WERE Islamic…
Too many inconsistencies in his story.
Full sentence solitary confinement in an ADX Florence type prison, then deport.
CRUSADER says
Have you studied up about Quillium?
gravenimage says
Yes–they are a bunch of Taqiyya artists.
Kepha says
There are lots of other young men in prison who thought that experimenting with a dangerous drug was just “being open to new eperiences” or “fitting in with the cool group.” While I may criticize the UK for stripping him of citizenship, I think he is very blessed that he only sits in prison rather than rots in a grave after a long drop and a short tow.
In Taiwan, I knew one Hui kid who immigrated to the USA with his family at age 7, and at the time of 9/11 fell in with a group who said it was time for “real Muslims” to strike at the Great Satan. He got caught running guns for them at age 19, and, according to law, got deported. Back home, military service awaited. Being illiterate in Chinese, he became the butt of all the buck-toothed rural boys and the despair of his officers. But, the silver lining in the cloud was he was studying the Bible in English, and moving towards apostasizing from Islam.
Back to Letts: Maybe what he needs isn’t the chance to educate other Muslims, but to reconsider that counterfeit faith to which he converted, and which royally messed up his life. He also needs to stick up a flying fickle finger of fate at all those “ejjikaters” and media talking heads who assured him that Islam is such a wonderful, dignity-bestoying belief system. when it is in fact the world’s best justification for looting and brigandage this side of Marism-Leninism. He certainly needs to reconsider the claims of the Jesus Christ presented in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. It was openness to the Holy Spirit of God via the Gospel of Christ that made the Anglo-Saxons a great people, and nothing else (and Uncle Kepha is an “Anglo-Saxon” chiefly by osmosis).
For the rest of us, our US, UK, and Canadian governments need tp stop wasting taxpayer money on “re-education” efforts on jihadis, trying to convince them that a Western liberal’s misconception is more accurate than than the teaching of men who have spent half of their lives memorizing Qur’an, Hadith, and some school of jurisprudence in Medressas. This project is foredoomed at its inception, and probably benefits nobody except a handful of enterprising charlatans.
gravenimage says
Kepha, I don’t think their is any actual indication that this Jihadist has left Islam.
gravenimage says
“…there is any actual indication…”
I shouldn’t post so late…
Roger Woodhouse says
Isuspect that the majority of British people ( and Americans) know little or nothing about the ‘true’Islamic and prefer not to know.They cannot bring themselves to take an interest and prefer to remain in ignorance hoping the problem will resolve itself along the lines of Christianity.ie muslims themselves will silently come to the realisation rhat Islam offers them nothing and that the ‘infidel’ is never going to buy into their religion anyway.This is not going to end well I’m afraid because we have a government equally in denial.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Roger.
CogitoErgoSum says
If this man fought with the “fake” Muslims against the “real” Muslims, I don’t know of a more blatant case of violating verse 5:33 of the Quran. The “real” Muslims are supposed to kill him or crucify him or amputate an arm and a leg from opposite sides of his body — or exile him. By exile I assume that means send him someplace where he can’t be around real Muslims. Well, okay, where is there a place like that? I don’t know. Guess that option is off the table then.
mortimer says
Letts is wrong and he surely knows it. Mohammed says that ‘real’ Muslims conduct jihad and fake Muslims (hypocrites) avoid jihad.
Lukewarm Muslims are no different from kafirs…they are ‘rubbish’ according to Mohammed…so they must be replaced by real Muslims who conduct jihad.
Allah will punish jihad-dodgers
“O you who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah (jihad) you cling heavily to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life as compared with the hereafter. Unless you go forth He will punish you with a grievous penalty and put others in your place; but Him you would not harm in the least. For Allah has power over all things.” – K. 9:38-9
Muslims who avoid jihad are fake Muslims
“It is only those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and whose hearts are in doubt that ask your leave (to be exempted from jihad).” – K. 9.45
Non-Jihadists are ‘Mentally Ill’ (a ‘disease’ is in their ‘heart’-mind)
“But when a decisive surah (explaining and ordering things) is sent down, and fighting (holy fighting in Allah’s Cause) is mentioned (i.e. ordained) therein, you will see those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) looking at you with a look of one fainting to death…” – K. 47:20
So not going on jihad is a disease or mental illness in Muslims according to Allah/Mohammed.
Not content with calling non-jihadists ‘diseased’, Mohammed insults them further; they are ‘garbage’:
“Prophet Muhammad said; It is expected that the nations will call other nations to share them against you (Muslims) as the eaters call each other to eat from the food in front of them in a large wooden plate A person asked, Will that happen because of our small number on that day? The Prophet said, No. Your number will be great, but you will be rubbish like the rubbish of flood-water. And certainly Allah will remove from the hearts of enemies the fear of you and surely Allah will throw Wahn in your hearts. A person asked, What is Wahn, O Messenger of Allah? The Prophet said, Wahn is to love this world and to hate death.” – Abu Dawud 4284
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, he is lying but the Muslims know that if they crucify him or perform amputations on him they will look barbaric. Besides, he did not really wage war against Muhammad or Allah. My guess is that if they cannot send him into exile they will execute him based on some other crime he has committed … like killing another Muslim.
mortimer says
CES … no, no, no, sir. Letts is the AUTHENTIC Muslims, while his critics (‘moderate’ Muslims) are to be considered ‘fake’ by Mohammed and by traditional, canonical statements about jihad. Only a Muslim who conducts jihad is an AUTHENTIC and a ‘REAL’ Muslim according to traditional, canonical authorities.
Letts has not committed a crime according to Sharia … he should be considered a Sharia hero … a Sharia law defender. Letts put his life on the line for Islam, while those Muslims who ‘SAT’ at home risked nothing.
Mohammed says Allah replaces Muslims who do not conduct jihad.
CogitoErgoSum says
I agree with you that Letts is the real Muslim but the “moderate” Muslims can’t allow us Infidels to know that he is real. They have to keep up the pretense that they are real and he is fake. Otherwise, they have no justification for holding him. He has to be guilty of something or else they are the guilty ones. It gets pretty confusing, doesn’t it? That is one thing Islam seems to be great at doing — causing confusion.
CRUSADER says
Luckily, al-Azhar is defanging Jihad from Islam.
Remember soft rock “elevator 🎶 music”?
Well, that’ll be Islam soon, peaceful and sublime.
mortimer says
Jihadi Jack is QUITE WRONG to say that ISIS is NOT Islamic. He is grasping at straws to save his neck. ISIS was and still is METICULOUSLY ISLAMIC … EXTREMELY ISLAMIC … SELF-CONSCIUOUSLY and SCRUPULOUSLY ISLAMIC! And leading Muslim scholars have declared that.
A number of leading Islamic scholars have endorsed the soundness of Caliph al-Baghdadi’s decisions.
– in 2015, the former imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca, Sheikh Adel al-Kalbani, declared that the Islamic State and Saudi Arabia “follow the SAME THOUGHT”. He has stated as well, that ISIS is a “TRUE PRODUCT of Salafism,” the SAME brand of Islam as officially espoused by Saudi Arabia. He clearly stated, “We [in Saudi Arabia] follow the SAME THOUGHT [as ISIS], but apply it in a refined way…They draw their ideas from what is written IN OUR BOOKS, from OUR OWN PRINCIPLES … we DO NOT criticise the thought on which it (ISIS) is based”.
– (Is ISIS Islamic?) “Yes. This is the truth, and we must discuss this in full honesty and fairness. We must confront our [problems]. We must discuss (the actions of ISIS) in full honesty … ISIS has come to implement Islam as it is, by the book. It has not come up with anything on its own. It evoked the religious texts exactly as they are. It did not distort, change, or replace anything. It came with the text and implemented it exactly as it is….They came in order to [implement] the proper Islam, complete with slave girls, the rape … We cannot shut our eyes and deny this … We must not blame others … We must all own up to what is happening.” – Yemeni Academic, Dr. Arwa Al-Khattabi
Al Azhar University Cannot Denounce ISIS of Being Un-Islamic—Even If ISIS Commits “Every Atrocity”
– Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Sheikh and Grand Imam of Al Azhar refused to condemn ISIS terrorism, “Al Azhar CANNOT accuse any [Muslim] of being a kafir [disbeliever], as long as he believes in Allah and the Last Day—even if he commits every atrocity,” adding: “I cannot denounce ISIS as un-Islamic, but I can say that they cause corruption on earth. ISIS believes that those [Muslims] who commit the great sins are kafirs and can be killed. Thus if I denounce them of being un-Islamic, I fall into the same [trap] I am now condemning.”
Though the Sharia-law approach of ISIS can be dismissed as “selective quoting” of Islam’s voluminous legal tradition, the fact remains that ISIS’ critics can be accused of doing the same thing. The problem is that with such a huge corpus of Islamic literature and no central infallible authority (such as the Pope) to regulate teachings, many of ISIS’ actions, seen as heinous in this day and age, can find a place within the vastness of Islamic tradition.
CRUSADER says
The Pope does not speak for all Christians, thank goodness!
The four main schools of Sunni Islam are nearly sacrosanct in their jurisprudence
and interpretations.
They speak for more Muslims than the Pope does Christians.
Frank Scarn says
“If I had learned Islam properly, If I had understood I would have learned that these were a very bad group of people. I wouldn’t have been in the situation that I’m in.”
You believe him, doncha? Right? He’s sincere. He really, really means it. So you do believe him?
DHazard says
“I’m being truthful when I’m saying I want to make a difference.” Sounds like a liar and could have been at least a little specific as to what he would do to make a difference. But there’s really not much he can do and still be Muslim.
“I want to make up to the world that which I did against it.” Then donate all your organs and hang yourself. Being a member of ISIS = being a murderer.
“If I had learned Islam properly” it’s rare that a Muslims is prevented from learning about Islam. They just don’t. But if they do they will most likely leave Islam, and keep it to themselves.
“If I could do something to help them from making the same mistake that I did, I would love to do that, I think that would be great.” You already did that by getting arrested and losing your freedom. But you could do much more by publicly leaving Islam while still in prison and learning what oppression really feels like.
“…he would not want to live in a country governed by Boris Johnson anyway.” Then he can rot.
Spiro says
He has a golden opportunity right where he is to join the fight to correct his fellow terrorist
I’m sure he a willing audiance and they can’t wait to hear his
Reasoning
FYI says
The Convert to Christianity…
I once was lost but now I’m found.
The convert to islam…
{Former christian who stupidly converts to islam…}
I once was found but now i’m lost.
..and then joins IS
I know I’m lost and now i’m fiend
..and then realizes IS sucks
I know i’m fiend but now i’m even more lost.
Oh,I’ve wasted my life now,haven’t i?
why,oh why did I join this stupid Arab pagan cult?
CRUSADER says
Ironically the fiend can REPENT and then convert to Christianity….
That seems the likeliest of DEPROGRAMMING possible !
Angemon says
Stay the f*** out, then, In any case, I know the story of that Brazilian kid who went out to buy bread and ended up in Hitler’s Army, and it’s this alleged volte-face I find hard to believe.
Angemon says
P.S.: What was bis mistake, getting caught?…
Eric Jones says
Letts does not want to live in Britain because he wants to live in a Caliphate under sharia!
Eric
gravenimage says
Islamic State jihadi asks to be freed so he can keep other Muslims from “making the same mistake that I did”
……………
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!
CRUSADER says
Precisely.
ElderlyZionist says
“If I could do something to help them from making the same mistake that I did, I would love to do that, I think that would be great.”
Step right up. I’m sure your rotting corpse displayed impaled on a stake would be educational for many.
Edmund says
Lies. Truly understanding what Islam is about, you have only one way – abandon it forever. If person still want to belive in such, then he understand nothing.
This “Poor innocent” soul, which murdered other people, now want to be a good person.. Like German nazis after lost war ? XaXa.
tim gallagher says
My immediate reaction to this liar, saying he wants to stop people making the same mistake, is “Oh, sure, and there are fairies living at the bottom of the garden”. I really hope that no one is fooled by his lies. Maybe I’m wrong, and I guess sometimes people really do change for the better, ( I wouldn’t want to say these characters are always lying in every case) but I don’t believe it is the case with this man. And going off to join the sadistic vermin that comprised ISIS is as low as a human being can go. That required a special level of evil.
fixeddisdain says
“Making the same mistake”
1.Getting Caught.
2.Failing to coordinate efforts on a larger scale.
infidel says
ALL LIES
UNCLE VLADDI says
“But then when I got caught, all of a sudden I found out islam doesn’t condone violence!”
(But it sounds like he got the “Taqiyya” part down pat from the start, thought, doesn’t it?)!
Kerry Wade says
You don’t need lie detector to know this animal, like all the same, is a habitual liar. The only solution is execution.
Trick_or_Treat says
Unless that plan essentially involves calling on all muslim lunatics to renounce this hateful doctrine of islam, then all I’ve got to say is, stop trying to piddle in our pockets and tell us it’s raining, little boy, stay where you are, you’ve got nothing further to say. We’ve already got ex-muslims (and the number is steadily growing) out there who are also working hard trying deprogramme all the brainwashed by exposing the evil and futility of this hateful doctrine and to get them to denounce it.
Thanks, but meh.
jca reid says
Liar! Simple Taqiyya!