Of course, lots of people are bullied at school without turning to the Islamic State. What, oh what, could be the difference in this case? Could it be that Usman Khan read Islamic texts mandating violence against unbelievers and took them to heart? Nah, that couldn’t be it. Everyone knows that when Muslims turn to jihad, it’s non-Muslims’ fault! Must have been the bullying!
“London Bridge terrorist ‘preached with ISIS flags after being bullied at school,'” by Dan Coles, Mirror, November 30, 2019:
A man who went to school with the London Bridge terrorist claims he turned to ISIS after being bullied at school.
Usman Khan’s former classmate remembers him as the quietest student in the class, who became a recluse and only had one friend.
The classmate, who has not been named, told how Khan desperately tried to fit in and be liked at school by wearing the latest clothes but had no confidence and would never speak up.
He claimed Khan was bullied after starting secondary school when he started to grow facial hair at an early age, before his peers .
But the classmate was shocked when just a year after leaving school, he saw him preaching hate on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent, under the black flag of ISIS….
762x51FMJ says
Never trust person with giant centipede instead of eyebrows..their brain is not normal..
Save Europe says
Well he’s from a Muslim Pakistani background. Decades of consanguinity betwixt his forebears left him with that vile monobrow and cold, lifeless, expression.
Peter WF says
Search “world map marry first cousins”.
Search “world map average IQ”.
Search “world map muslims”.
Note the 2 smartest nations do not have a jihadi problem.
AP says
+1 too funny!
Angemon says
XD
James says
Bullying is the standard excuse for perverted individuals who commit schoolyard massacres. It could be that they were never bullied but rather treated quite nicely by other people. Typically when someone fails in life they blame it on discrimination. Their group has been discriminated against for decades or centuries, and if they were only treated fairly it would all work out right. And then one looks at their lifestyle and perhaps they were using narcotics or maybe they had done all sorts of irresponsible things that other people in their group did not do. They may even have had special privileges the others did not get and no one held it against them. Like the Boston marathon bombers. Privileged benefited from all sorts of special giving by the state that ordinary citizens whose families had been in America for generations would never receive. So where was the bullying?
Jay Sundberg says
That’s exactly what they do
gravenimage says
So true, James.
PRCS says
His claim is definitely suspect:
He’s 28 years old.
In what year did ISIS originate?
gravenimage says
The Islamic State only dated to 2015–so this fine scholar did not graduate from high school until he was 23 years old according to this article…
PRCS says
At which time he was in prison.
Gralen says
IS actually start about 2010 and came to prominence in 2014.
gravenimage says
Gralen, the Islamic State itself only dated to 2015.
Giacomo Latta says
At my elementary school there were two bullies and a few hundred bullied. My hometown never became known as the home of worldwide terrorism.
gravenimage says
+1
DHazard says
The scriptures that comprise Islam don’t make people become terrorists. But some of the people who are likely to become terrorists discover or know that they have permission to act on their violent fantasies. Allah’s endorsement is then all that’s needed to turn their murderous thoughts into dead bodies.
Ned Kelly says
what I read in the quran,it ORDERS them to kill all who dont follow Islam. What book did you read.?
Carol the 1st says
And the uglier they are, the more redemption they need. A perfect pairing, though they have the sin and virtue thing a little a#$ backward per non-Islamic norms.
Battle says
The poor dear.
bob kelly says
there YOU GO THE murder PLAYING THE VICTIM sound familiar
Wellington says
So, against all odds and evolutionary biology, we finally have a photograph of Homo erectus.
gravenimage says
🙂
PRCS says
Apparently not extinct, after all.
Save Europe says
Boo Hoo! Many kids at school get bullied for some point of their lives. It IS not right, but it’s life.
Virtually NONE go on to become killers!
Oh, and by the way, I don’t believe the claim anyway, as he was from a heavily Muslim populated area, and there would have been loads of Muslim kids in his school. I cry ‘BS’.
gravenimage says
+1
clive delmonte says
Interesting that the Met is keeping an open mind as to the killer’s motive.
The rest of the world thinks it’s terrorism.
PRCS says
And those who’ve studied Islam KNOW it’s jihad.
Jayell says
He didn’t ‘fit in’ because he didn’t ‘belong’. Pakistan is a totally different social environment from the UK because the people are totally different, and we see this all the time in the UK when the Pakistani community create their own ghettos and persist in their native ways, apparrently completely unable (or unwilling) to adapt. Being ‘quiet’ and ‘not having friends’ is a clear symptom of incompatability or/and a passive-aggressive rejection of a situation where where one wishes to dominate but cannot because of social incompatability. So this turns into an impulse to destroy where excessive ego dominance factors override any moderating civility one might have. Which in turn explains how phenomena like islam and Naziism came about as social projections of certain people’s inherent desire for destructive dominance.
gravenimage says
Actually, a lot of otherwise normal kids go through periods where they are quiet and don’t have a lot of friends. Not every shy kid is aggressive–some are scared or socially awkward or just going through a pensive stage.
Not in this Jihadist’s case, though…
kielykd says
Well put!
gravenimage says
UK: Schoolmate of London Bridge jihadi says he turned to the Islamic State after being bullied at school
…………………….
What crap. Lots of kids are bullied and don’t turn to mass murder. I was severely bullied in elementary school and middle school–I was a small kid in a rough neighborhood who got good grades and had no money for cool clothes. I just vowed I was going to live a better life than the losers who bullied me; and I have.
Also, how old is this guy? The Islamic State was only around for a few years–this guy looks as though he has been out of secondary school for a long time. And note that there is no actual bullying described here; just that the Jihadist was shy in school. Growing facial hair early is no more embarrassing than is developing breasts or having your voice change early, which happens to hundreds of thousands of kids.
This is just an excuse, like so many, for why Muslims supposedly have to wage violent Jihad.
Peter WF says
Again we hear “it is somebody else’s fault”
He should have stayed / lived in one of the “advanced” islamic nations who are planing to land a man on the moon.
Carol the 1st says
Will the stone be named Burock?
Jack Holan says
Don’t miss the set up folks. This is the whole show for part B to be more diligent against those who point out facts or report real news or have a name Tommy Robinson. Mind you growing up as a Jew some had their teeth kicked in for being Jewish but they didn’t go out and murder. Im sure Sadiq Khan and Tell Mama will come to the rescue of this wanton terrorist
OLD GUY says
I think it has to do with inbreeding within the muslim countries. And they do follow Muhammad who is not exactly the best example of mankind
Peter WF says
OLD GUY – it is more like a “I know” –
Search “world map marry first cousins”. In fact it is “first cousins or closer”.
Search “world map average IQ”.
Search “world map muslims”.
Note the 2 smartest nations do not have a jihadi problem.
Walter Sieruk says
So this Muslim man said the he joined ISIS because he was “bullied at school.” In other words he became bitter and then tuned violent and joined the Islamic “state,” as a result of awful harassment he received by school bullies.
So that the answer is “So what”
Keyboarding form firsthand experience and first hand observation back in the last century in high school my friend ,Kent, and I were the school “nerds” and received much awful bullying. Nevertheless in spite of harassment from school bullies we both understood the difference between right and wrong and even though what the school bullies did to us was wrong. As adults both knew that turning to a life of cruel and violent behavior, because of the terrible things we went through in high school, would be wrong very wrong. Kent and I now live non-violent peaceful lives.
Thus what that Muslim /jihadist said about joining that brutal cruel and murderous jihad entity ISIS because was “bullied at school” only proves true the old saying which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Yeah, right! That, and a dollar will buy you
a bag of candy at the 99-cents only store.
MJP says
It all boils down to weakness anybody that would participate in the Garbage is sick the Quran, is nothing but a crock of Feces intended for the weak minded.
tim gallagher says
So are all these endless Muslim terrorist attacks being committed by poor, put upon Muslims who were bullied? Yeah, right. I believe the difference between all these attacks by violent Muslims and the distinct lack of such terrorist attacks by Christians or Buddhists and other non-Muslims is the violent content of Islam. I know that, as someone who was brought up as a Christian and was bullied to some degree (as most people have been), I was certainly taught to try to remain peaceful and to try to forgive and not to go and retaliate violently, but Islam is full of calls for hatred and violence against non-Muslims. I’m sure that that’s the difference. Islam encourages violence whereas other religious ideologies do not. Islam tells Muslims to go and indulge in their desire for murderous violence. The bullying that this particular man received could have been a factor in this case, but I’m sure that it is the content of Islam that is the root cause of all these Muslim terrorist attacks. There are far too many of these Muslim terrorist attacks for it not to be Islam that causes them. Wasn’t there a US President who said, “It’s the economy, stupid” or some such words. Well, I’d say, “it’s the content of Islam, stupid.” It’s certainly not rocket science to be able to work that out.
gravenimage says
Likely most of these Muslims were the ones doing the bullying.
tim gallagher says
Exactly, gravenimage. If there were large numbers of Muslims at the school who could get together in gangs, then they’d be doing most of the bullying, just like in that photo recently from out here in Australia, where the Jewish student was forced to bow down and kiss the Muslim bully’s feet. In Australia, in schools and out in the general community, we’ve seen plenty of Muslim youths getting together in gangs which stand over and bully non-Muslims. That seems to be a feature of the way they like to do things.
R Russell says
I just knew he had to be the victim. They are always the victim.
At least this time we haven’t had the obligatory spurious comments from the local mosque.
Mind you we had to listen to a vicar who said he got on with the local mosque and that they had to try to help those who had been traumatised.
I never heard him mention Jesus, who can not only take away the trauma. but can make life very worthwhile.
Why am I not surprised Jesus was left out?
Carol the 1st says
Telling local mosques to “shove a sock in it” would help were the target audience constructively minded. The vicars seem too busy licking boots to lead anyone to the Christian sugar bowl.
AntiIslamicman says
He’s a Muslim born into this evil cult so what do you expect, he was born to kill once he read the Koran.