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Islamic State torturer from UK wants to return, says his interpretation of Islam has changed

Sep 27, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“I was more inclined to those interpretations of Islam which are inclined towards a [terror] attack. Now my view has changed, dramatically.”

Would his view have changed if the Islamic State caliphate hadn’t been destroyed and he hadn’t been captured?

In any case, the authorities of shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain will probably allow him and his comrades to return. At this point, Britain is so far gone that they might as well make him Prime Minister.

“Odious arrogance of a Jihadi ‘Beatle’: Jailed Londoner Alexanda Kotey who helped Jihadi John murder western hostages tells RICHARD PENDLEBURY he was a torturer but begs from his Syrian prison: ‘Why can’t I come home?,'” by Richard Pendlebury, Daily Mail, September 20, 2019 (thanks to Henry):

Alexanda Kotey has just received a letter from his mother. Among other news she tells him that his teenage daughter in London has ‘finished her GCSEs and is starting college’.

Naturally, Kotey is pleased at her progress. But circumstances mean he remains very much a hands-off parent. The letter arrived not via the Royal Mail but the International Red Cross. This is because Kotey, 35, is in custody in northern Syria.

He tells me he has done little to warrant this detention. Others like him might have done wrong; it is for God to judge. But he himself, he says, is no more than an ‘over-rated and over-stated’ international ‘scapegoat’. The world nonetheless continues to regard him as ‘Jihadi Ringo’, one of the so-called ‘Jihadi Beatles’ — Mohammed Emwazi (John), Aine Davis (Paul)and El Shafee Elsheikh (George) — who got the nickname because of their British accents.

This was the quartet of Islamic State extremists who came to personify the worst excesses of the murderous caliphate which, between 2014 and 2016, conquered vast swathes of Syria and Iraq.

Countless thousands were killed, raped or enslaved in its name. Footage of gruesome executions of Western hostages and other prisoners was broadcast to the world.

Kotey’s close friend from West London, Mohammed Emwazi, aka ‘Jihadi John’, was said to be the man who wielded the beheading knife in several of these atrocity videos. Emwazi was later killed in a targeted air-strike.

Kotey has been accused of torturing IS hostages. It has been reported that the Crown Prosecution Service has enough evidence to charge him with five murders….

This week, I spent several hours with Kotey — the longest one-on-one interview with a member of the ‘Beatles’ — in a small, guarded room somewhere in this war-ravaged scrap of Mesopotamia. I also talked to another British Islamist prisoner, a former porter at the King Edward VII hospital, in Central London, where the Queen had knee surgery and the Duchess of Cambridge was treated for morning sickness.

The tales they tell of their roles in the nightmare caliphate are markedly different. But they have one thing in common.

In April 1945, the war correspondent Martha Gellhorn wrote a scathing essay on the refusal of the Germans she had met to admit any complicity with Adolf Hitler’s defeated regime. ‘No one is a Nazi. No one ever was,’ the piece began.

This denial of personal participation in, or responsibility for, the state’s organised barbarity can also be heard today across the camps and prisons of north-east Syria….

The question has become a diplomatic hot potato. Who on earth would want these people back?

Certainly not the vast majority of the British public who have seen a number of mass attacks in this country by IS sympathisers.

And yet earlier this month, U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper visited London to urge the British government to repatriate its own nationals. Their continued presence in the Middle East was destabilising the region, he said. This seems unlikely to happen soon. The UK Government has recently revoked the citizenships of a number of prominent IS adherents, including Kotey, ‘Jihadi Jack’ Letts, the son of an Oxfordshire farmer, and teenage East Londoner Shamima Begum, who gave birth to a child in a refugee camp….

He says he ‘verbally converted to Islam at the age of 19, but did not change his lifestyle until his early 20s.

‘It was the year of the 7/7 bombings in London, 2005,’ he recalls. It was around this time he first met Jihadi John. They both attended the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre off Ladbroke Grove. ‘It had pictures of Prince Charles on the walls, because he did the inauguration.’ He chuckles.

In 2012, he left for Syria….

The $64,000 question is what Kotey really did in the caliphate between arriving and leaving.

Hadn’t he been accused of taking part in the torture by IS of Western hostages? ‘If you could call it torture, yes, that happened,’ he begins, cautiously.

I tell him he was accused of administering electric shocks. ‘No, never. Only physical beatings . . . A detainee was struck by myself and others —punched.’ He explains such brutality all quite matter-of-factly….

He wants to face trial in the UK.

‘It would be preferable to do prison time in the country of my birth, where my family is. That is just logical.

‘If you want me to be frank, I was more of a danger — to the population — before I left the UK.

‘I was more inclined to those interpretations of Islam which are inclined towards a [terror] attack. Now my view has changed, dramatically.’…

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  1. Peter WF says

    Sep 27, 2019 at 8:36 pm

    Leave them all there so they can enjoy what they have built.

    • Jule Bacal says

      Sep 28, 2019 at 4:05 am

      Right, his new interpretation is always Deceive and actions speak much louder than words.

  2. gravenimage says

    Sep 27, 2019 at 9:46 pm

    Islamic State torturer from UK wants to return, says his interpretation of Islam has changed
    ……………………..

    *Torturer*–his having reformed is even less plausible than the Jihadi brides…

    • Eric says

      Sep 28, 2019 at 12:03 am

      Here in Canada our defecto regime liberal muslimbrotherhood government led by Justin Trudeau has publicly said before he was elected that ” the liberal party of Canada believe that terrorists should get to keep their CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP…. Because I do and I’ll take on anyone who disagrees with that” This was repeated in 2016… His immigration minister is a Somalian immigrant to Canada who arrived in 1996. The government then was liberal. The majority of invaders to Canada are Somalian m0$7ims.. For Public Relations back in 2017 they brought over 1200 Syrians who were Christian,shorty after a true Christian refuge was accosted by one of her captors who had murdered her family and raped her then sold her to 1$1$. She saw him in Canada on a city bus he too came as a refuge. Our taxes are paying for poetry and wellness programs for the returning 1$1$ fighters. Who also get full benefits and a pension on the Canadian taxpayer. That’s just barely scratched the surface of the treason and betrayal.. We are owned by the deepstate and run by the rnoslim brotherhood

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 28, 2019 at 7:36 pm

        All true–madness in Canada as well.

  3. Ren says

    Sep 27, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    «Islamic State torturer from UK says his interpretation of Islam has changed.»

    If his interpretation of islam changed to more violence, he is truthful.
    If his interpretation of islam changed to less violence, he is a liar.

    • TattooedMan77 says

      Oct 1, 2019 at 6:07 am

      Ibn Ishaq writes about Kenana ibn al-Rabi,[2]

      Kenana al-Rabi, who had the custody of the treasure of Banu Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (Tabari says “was brought”), to the apostle and said that he had seen Kenana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kenana, “Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?” He said “Yes”. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr Al-Awwam, “Torture him until you extract what he has.” So he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud

  4. R Russell says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 3:41 am

    Since there are C 400 returned jihadis roaming the UK (some say C 800) why would one more make any difference. Mrs May admitted she didn’t know where they were when she was PM so I suppose we ought to be ready for the next one to disappear among the no-go sharia controlled areas.

  5. terry sullivan says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 6:38 am

    taqiyya–duty according to koran

    • Spiro says

      Sep 28, 2019 at 8:59 am

      Don’t forget welfare freebies to live on while plaining your next jihad move

  6. mortimer says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 7:41 am

    Alexanda Kotey should be on trial for crimes against humanity. Her talk is cheap. I wish Western countries would bring back the death penalty for Islamic terrorists such as Kotey, since those terrorists claim they ‘Love Death more than kafirs love life’. Let them prove it at the end of a rope. We should help them to achieve their morbid goal by introducing them to a professional, institutional hangman as was done to hundreds of Nazi criminals after the Nuremburg Tribunals. Without any proof of repentance, such as collaborating with prosecutors to arrest, incriminate, try and sentence Islamic criminals, the words of Alexandra Kotey are insincere. She remains a threat to the society that she formerly hated with a passion … if she has changed at all. Talk is cheap.

  7. mortimer says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 7:48 am

    Jihadi John should be hanged in the Syrian prison where he is being held. Correction: Alexanda Kotey is a man. oops.

    • Sylvia Clark says

      Oct 2, 2019 at 7:24 am

      This man is DECEASED, he was killed by a US Air Strike.

  8. Crusades Were Right says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 9:01 am

    “Jihadi Beatles”

    Looks like “Ringo” has released his “Whitewash Album”. lol

  9. Savvy Kafir says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 3:08 pm

    Sure, let him come back. Then execute him within the hour. One less POS jihadi in the world, bringing up more little jihadis.

    And tell him, just before putting a bullet in his head, that we take his savage religion at face value — and the UK is part of the House of War.

  10. James says

    Sep 28, 2019 at 3:10 pm

    These jihadis are despicable, but the real problems are greater in scope. The growth of bigger and bigger communities of Islam in the UK or the West is the great threat. All the good, innocent Muslims are potentially the parents of future jihadis, their good beliefs are the ground for Islamism to grow in. So, of course these people should be punished, but more important is to stop the expansion of Islam in the west, including “good” Islam, the one that is constantly being praised and exonerated.

  11. Christopher Watson says

    Sep 29, 2019 at 8:14 am

    People frequently say we should execute these jihadists with or without trial. They are correct. The problem is that we still insist on confronting these islamists with a very big disadvantage: that of Christianity. We, in the west, have morals, which limit our ability to fight these animals on an equal footing. We are hampered by a set of rules, often self-imposed such as ‘giving our opponents an equal chance’, not shooting someone in the back and not shooting an unarmed person. The allies may have won against Hitler but it was a close-run thing. Any war against islamists will be a different scenario. So far they are winning hands-down. Our politicians, our police, our miltary and much of the population side with ‘poor’ muslims. No-go zones in Europe and America, which politians say do not exist, are growing.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 29, 2019 at 10:13 pm

      We have defeated Muslims many times–as well as Fascists. Christianity and morality do not stop us from defending ourselves. The problem now is more denial and “political correctness”, not Christianity.

      We do not have to become Muslims or Nazis in order to win.

  12. jca reid says

    Sep 30, 2019 at 6:45 am

    F*CK HIM!!! He’s made his bed, let him lie in it! The Koran is simply all about Banditry & sexual perversion in the name of Allah, as it’s permissible. He’s simply missing the “Good Life” in the West. Send them ALL back to the Middle East so they can live in their ‘Islamic Paradise’! It’s not wanted anywhere else!

  13. OLD GUY says

    Sep 30, 2019 at 12:16 pm

    This is a man who by all rights deserves to be executed for his terrorist actions. Why give him a get out of jail card?

  14. TKF says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 6:11 pm

    All members of ISIS and their families and enablers should be EXECUTED. Every. Last. One. The earth will be a better place without them in it. They cannot be reformed. If we let these scum return we are crazier than they are. In addition, Islam should be OUTLAWED. It is worse than Soviet and Chinese Communism, it is worse than Nazism. Carve this in GRANITE….Islam is EVIL, the phony-baloney prophet Mohammad is EVIL, the fake God Allah is EVIL, Sharia is EVIL, and while not all Muslims are evil, they are either enslaved by, or enabling an EVIL ideology. If I could push a button and make Islam disappear….that button would get pushed. In the meantime, in order for Western civilization to survive, we must isolate Muslims in the backwards, primitive Islamic turd-piles they create wherever they call the shots, lest they infect the rest of the modern world with their barbaric Islamic culture. Say it loud…Death to Islam! It’s way past time to consign this insane excuse for a religion to the scrap heap of history…..the sooner the better. Like the crazy Jihadis….Islam cannot be reformed. It must be DESTROYED.

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