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UK: London Bridge jihad murderer was “beyond rehabilitation,” with views that were “deep and stubborn”

Dec 4, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Gee, where could Usman Khan have picked up “deep and stubborn” views? British authorities will never, ever figure it out, but here’s a hint:

“And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out; persecution is worse than slaughter. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, kill them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is all-forgiving, all-compassionate. Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.” (Qur’an 2:191-193)

“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 3:151)

“They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore do not take friends from among them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, seize them and kill them wherever you find them; do not take for yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

“This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth to do corruption there: they shall be killed, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall be struck off on opposite sides; or they shall be exiled from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.” (Qur’an 5:33)

“When your Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers; so strike the necks, and strike every finger of them!” (Qur’an 8:12)

“Fight them, till there is no persecution and religion is all for Allah; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.” (Qur’an 8:39)

“Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatever you spend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.” (Qur’an 8:60)

“Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.” (Qur’an 9:5)

“Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)

“Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.” (Qur’an 9:111)

“O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.” (Qur’an 9:123)

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray.” (Qur’an 47:4)

“Usman Khan was freed. Then he went on a killing spree. How did this happen?,” by Jamie Doward, The Observer, December 1, 2019:

That Usman Khan killed two people having been released from prison under licence for terrorist offences has raised a flurry of urgent questions concerning public safety and prisoner supervision.

The most pressing is why Khan, who was jailed in 2012 for his part in an al-Qaida-inspired plot to bomb high-profile locations and build a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, was freed in the first place…..

The Observer understands that although Khan was not considered high risk, he was seen by probation twice a week. There was nothing in his pattern of behaviour prior to the attacks that suggested his risk profile had changed. As is mandatory for convicted terrorists, he was on the government’s Desistance and Disengagement deradicalisation programme and was attending a conference on prisoner rehabilitation, organised by the University of Cambridge, when he is alleged to have stabbed two people to death.

The conference, held at London’s Fishmongers’ Hall, was to celebrate five years of the Learning Together initiative, and was an invitation-only event.

Founded by two academics, Drs Amy Ludlow and Ruth Armstrong, the initiative has been widely praised by penal reformers.

“They wanted to get academics out of ivory towers,” said one justice campaigner who asked not to be named. “They wanted prisoners and criminologists to sit together in the classroom and learn together.” An American idea, it has now spread across the UK, with many prisons teaming up with universities.

“It would be a tragedy if what has happened has an impact on the initiative,” the campaigner said. “Maybe 98% of those who attend benefit from it. Remember, some of those who chased him down were ex-offenders who’d been at the same conference.”

Why Khan appears to have been beyond rehabilitation will now be the subject of intense scrutiny.

His radicalism dates back to at least 2006 when he would engage in street activism, preaching against homosexuality. In 2008 his Staffordshire home was raided by police who suspected him of trying to brainwash vulnerable members of his community. His views, it seems, were deep and stubborn.

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  1. Yorkshire Kufir says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 8:34 am

    Send him to antarctica in clothing muhammed the kiddy fiddler would have approved.of. Or send him to West Falkland and let the weather and his abilities decide if he should survive.
    .

    • Dan says

      Dec 4, 2019 at 9:37 am

      To H with sending them anywhere!

      An execution involving pork and be done with it.

      No exceptions.

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Dec 6, 2019 at 12:23 pm

        Agreed. One bullet, some hog offal, and an unmarked grave — and we’re done. That should be the fate of all jihadis in the West.

        Keep it simple, keep it cheap, and give superstitious, would-be jihadis cause to pause.

    • Rufolino says

      Dec 5, 2019 at 5:46 am

      Interesting how jihadists often have similar expressions on their faces:-

      Confidence, security, pride, certainty, arrogance, inner superiority.

      How some people imagine it is possible for these people to be “programmed out of Islam”, surprises me.

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Dec 6, 2019 at 12:28 pm

        Good point. Trying to “deprogram” Muslims is a waste of time, money, & energy. They know they are “the best of people”, and have nothing but disdain for infidels & the opinions of infidels.

        The solution is to insist that these “best of people” live among other Muslims, and only Muslims, in Muslim lands. Let them all be awesome somewhere else.

  2. Antiislamicman says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 8:55 am

    He had the normal views of all Muslims. Sura 9 :29

    The difference is he followed through with the orders of his false book the Koran.

    The Muslims that don’t do the violence are the so called moderate Muslims.

    They encourage other Muslims to cause acts of violence. This is Islam.

    • Cicero says

      Dec 4, 2019 at 9:27 am

      ++1

    • elee says

      Dec 4, 2019 at 1:40 pm

      ++1 me too. You have identified the danger in purportedly assimilated and/or law-abiding Muslims. How many more of these guys are they harbouring right now in your community?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 6, 2019 at 12:00 am

      So true.

  3. FYI says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 9:11 am

    Knew you’d block it!

    OK..

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 6, 2019 at 12:01 am

      What?

  4. somehistory says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 11:03 am

    Dr. Robert Hare, who has written of his experiences with prison inmates, makes so many good points about dealing with psychopaths. Prisons are full of psychopaths. islam is chock-full of psychopaths.

    Even without islam being a factor…in those not moslim…psychopaths lie. And they don’t “change.” Psychopaths can “read” other people better than they are “read” by others, esp those not trained to recognize when they are being conned by a psychopath. And after reading, the psychopath acts to manipulate and deceive in the ways in which he is expert.

    Dr. Hare tells of his experiences being “conned” by one particular psychopath in prison where Dr. Hare was the counselor hired to help inmates make changes and adapt, etc. This particular inmate was “charming” and seemed so much to want to be a good citizen, that Dr. Hare trusted him and it almost cost Dr. Hare his life. Everyone having to deal with psychopaths…in any manner and for any length of time, should read Dr. Hare’s books.

    Since this guy was not only a psychopath, but also a moslim, and also…a convicted terrorist, it should have been obvious to everyone that he was just a ticking time bomb on its way to jihad, to mass murder, to mayhem, to the evil exploding from within.

    Some people just seem incapable of ***learning*** from experience…their own and that of others. How many does it take before people realize that islam encourages, commands and demands, that moslims murder others? One of the main reasons for this killing…the moslims that murder, have a lust for it, they enjoy it, just as a serial killer lusts for his next kill, ponders it, seeks it, and relishes it while he is killing.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 11:17 am

    It’s very obvious that this jihadist /Muslim by asking to undertake a “ deradicalization program “ is just playing the game of “I want to change and be a good citizen ,so help me become one” Therefore after he fakes being a change man ,if he does revive a “deradicaliaztion course,” he then hopes to be released so may join his jihadist brothers in their bloody and murderous jihad against Westerners and Western civilization.
    Of course that London Bridge jihadist who is such a brutal and murderous man is “beyond rehabilitation.” This is because he is so thoroughly indoctrinated and infect with non- watered down, hard core Qu’ ran based Islam with its violence and killing in the jihad for Islam and against “disbelievers. “

    As found in the Qu ‘ran for example in 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.

    Let’s not be naïve and think that “ deradicaization course’ would impress and thus cause a jihad-minded Islamic terrorism to no amount of counseling will straighten them out.

    As the philosopher, Emmanuel Kant wrote “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can be made.” Likewise, the Ancient Greek playwright, Aristophanes, had also written “Even the wisest of the wise can never make a crab walk straight.”

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 6, 2019 at 12:03 am

      Walter, not all people are Jihadists. I don’t think you are.

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 12:35 pm

    Here is a teaser for Jamie Doward of The Observer:

    Can you identify a difference between Khan’s “views” (as you express it) and the instructions given in the teaching of Islam.

    Yes, yes, we know, this means a little investigation and homework, but give it a go.
    We’d love to hear.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 6, 2019 at 12:03 am

      Damn good question, Michael.

  7. SamB says

    Dec 5, 2019 at 3:33 am

    The juxtaposition of psychopathy an lying is interesting. War is deceit it has time-and-again been reported. This homily is usually encapsulated in the sobriquet, taqiyya. Imprisonment underwrites the time and space to foment ideas and possibly to circumvent the system. It is interesting that prison officials after decades of experience and evaluation have not connected the concealment or deliberate distortion of intentionality. In this case and others likeminded, paroles, have fooled , messed up the officials theory of repentance. In this case, no Western system is willing to see Islam as a deceptive thought process. Rehabilitation unfortunately is not possible for many of these folks. What is scary we live side by side

    • Spiro says

      Dec 5, 2019 at 7:36 am

      A Catholic priest (who’s name I don’t remember )
      Once said a good Muslim is a bad Muslim
      To those who don’t get it he was saying the good
      Muslim is one who is not practiceing his so called religion

  8. MJP says

    Dec 5, 2019 at 10:02 am

    Their Mentality is like that of a Pedophile Death is the only way it changes

  9. gravenimage says

    Dec 6, 2019 at 12:05 am

    UK: London Bridge jihad murderer was “beyond rehabilitation,” with views that were “deep and stubborn”
    ………;………..

    And yet, he was free to murder innocent people. What is wrong with this picture?

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