Whose bright idea was this early release program, anyway? The British government needs to do more than just evaluate this program. It needs to overhaul radically its entire counterterror approach and understanding of the problem of jihad itself.
“Govt rushes to prevent release of terrorist who called for ‘year of fear,'” by Mark White, Sky News, February 6, 2020:
A terrorist convict due for release within weeks called for a “year of fear” and posted comments saying there was “nothing wrong with chopping off heads of your enemies”.
Sky News can reveal that the government is so concerned about the upcoming automatic release of Mohammed Zahir Khan that it is rushing through its emergency sentencing legislation to prevent it.
The 42-year-old shopkeeper from Sunderland was arrested as part of Operation Seabee in May 2017 after he posted tweets and Facebook statements supporting Islamic State and seeking to encourage terrorist attacks.
CCTV shows Streatham attacker pass shopKhan had previously been arrested in June 2014 for social media postings expressing hatred for Shias and the West, but on that occasion was convicted of non-terrorist offences.
On 4 December 2016, he published a statement on his Twitter account calling for “death to Shias” – a rival sect of Islam.
On 30 December, he tweeted a series of images, one of which appeared to show a person aiming a firearm with the words “The Lone Mujahid [fighter].”
The next day he replied to another user: “NOTHING wrong with chopping off heads of your enemies.”
On 2 January 2017 he published a statement on Twitter saying: “Welcome to the year of fear. IS will make this year the DEADLIEST EVER. Mr Kuffar [infidel] prepare for REAL WAR.”
Khan is the first of up to 20 terror prisoners due for release under automatic sentencing procedures in the next few months.
On Monday, the government promised to introduce emergency legislation to ensure those convicted of terror offences spend more time behind bars.
A Whitehall source has now confirmed that legislation will be introduced to parliament next Tuesday, with the specific aim of becoming law on 27 February, the day before Khan’s release….
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“On Monday, the government promised to introduce emergency legislation to ensure those convicted of terror offences spend more time behind bars.”
Whatever the length of their current sentences, just add 20 years to each.
keith says
Screw it, make it a term of natural life with hard labor, no special books, no prayer mats and a pork diet and that will be a nice start.
7th century jail conditions for life, that will put a dampener on their Jihad plans.
mortimer says
No, keith, we are a modern, compassionate, humanitarian, rule-of-law society. You will find YOUR medieval jail system in Muslim countries or communist China or communist Korea.
Shame on you for having such backward, cruel thoughts. Muslims are human beings with erroneous ideas. We need to help them have better thoughts.
supremacist says
idiot appeaser.
Carl -stealth Infidel- says
Ah!
The yellow brick road approach. Islam are just loving it.
Trick_or_Treat says
Surely you are standing heavily on the sarcasm button [IHope], Mortimer?
Mural says
@ Mortimer, Shame on you for having such optimistic thoughts!!
This group will never change and it is your pipe dream that they can be re-programmed.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, why do you believe that it is fine to release someone who is threatening to murder innocent people–and think that someone who is against such a release is backward and cruel?
gravenimage says
Trick_or_Treat, sadly Mortimer has said such things many times before.
keith says
Mortimer, You are partly right. We are a modern, compassionate, humanitarian, rule of law society. And that, when we are fighting a lawless, primitive, savagely destructive group is a great weakness.
I am, due to being a pagan, a very compassionate man, HOWEVER,,,,,I do understand that when dealing with a people who are worse than savages then the only way to make any sort of impression upon them is through means that THEY will understand.
gravenimage says
Leander wrote:
What we really need to show them that life shoould be s struggle for Love and not for animal like behavior. From Muhammas worst Phase he belived that men should become eagles….
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Muhammed said no such thing. Leander has also claimed that Muslims believe that “Allah” is a eagle, which is also tosh.
I think that Leander got this from symbolism for the Four Evangelists. He hates the Gospel of St. Matthew for some inexplicable reason, and seems to have gotten the symbols of the Evangelists mixed up. The eagle is *not* the symbol of St. Matthew. These are symbols, in any case–no sane person takes this literally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Evangelists#Symbols
More:
whereas Jesuha really tended to convince Romans that the highest being should be divine Humans and not Raptors. The insane Matthews Gospel on which Islam was founded spins into the other direction.
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Of course, the Romans did not believe that the gods were eagles, either. Leander is one confused poster.
Kerry Wade says
Absolutely right, or better still hang the lot.
Conrad says
There is a far easier solution to this problem.
Trick_or_Treat says
I agree Conrad, and every civilized human being should own at least one (if not more)of those solutions.
These trash are not human beings (let alone anywhere nea civilized ones), they have forfeited any right to be considered such, and somebody with a Piled higher and Deeper is never going to be able to convince them otherwise. Their erroneous thoughts are akin to rabies.
william carr says
I will tell you who is responsible. The UK govt signed up to the EU’s declaration of human rights and the ECHR court decided what the human rights would encompass. Even though UK is out of the EU it is still a signatory to the charter. Among the ECHR’s mad decisions was to award a CONVICTED terrorist 30.000 Euros because they decided his human rights had been violated. This sum was to be paid by the Belgian government, in other words by the Belgian tax payer
Kris Lowe says
Jesus, I’m no apologist for the EU but the EU and ECHR are two separate entities. PLEASE guys, it’s not that difficult.
mortimer says
There is no reason to keep Muslims in prison for 20 or 30 years as long as they NO LONGER BELIEVE in jihadism … the ideology that claims ‘JIHAD-WARFARE in the cause of Allah’ is the most important action in life.
The only way to take Muslims TOTALLY out of jihadism is take Muslims TOTALLY out of Islam. Once Muslims perceive the Koran is of HUMAN ORIGIN, they leave Islam instantly.
The British prison system THINKERS should develop a PROTOCOL of UNIVERSITY-LEVEL STUDIES that will convince Muslim terrorists that the KORAN was a manmade FABRICATION of the CALIPHS.
This is now the opinion of many Western ISLAMOLOGY RESEARCHERS, namely, that Islam was created between 60 and 200 years following the death of the shadowy figure whom the Koran calls “AHMAD”.
Such people as Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, should be employed to write the protocols.
After years studying the Koran, he became convinced that Islam evolved from a heretical Christian sect and that it was manmade, rather than inspired.
Such first rate scholars are more than capable of deprogramming most Muslims RIGHT OUT of Islam. t
gravenimage says
Mortimer, this Jihadist threatening war against us is proof that he *hasn’t* given up Jihad.
And note that Muhammad Sven Kalisch has never talked about “deprogramming” Muslims–this is quite mistaken.
Januce Mermikli says
Agreed, but, after realising that Islam had a human – not a divine – origin, did Muhammad Sven Kalisch leave it? Was he allowed to?
Jayell says
This particular character was picked up because he opened his big mouth on social media. What about the many thousands of ‘sleeping jihadis’ who are keeping their mouths shut until their opportune moment arrives? Thaf might be a significant proportion of all muslims; if all muslims acted out their religion to the letter, that would ALL muslims. In the interest of tge safety of all citizens, if’s time to separate muslims from the rest of society.
ElderlyZionist says
Wait. He’s in prison for posting on social media? Did he *do* anything?
gravenimage says
ElderlyZionist. He had statements supporting the Islamic State and encouraged terrorist attacks. Inciting murder is not part of freedom of speech.
mortimer says
Agree with Jayell. There are some 20,000 sleeper jihadists in the UK right now. They only need to be recruited to swing into action. I disagree that Muslims can be ‘separated’ or ‘segregated’.
We have to convince Muslims the Koran is a human-made document or better a collection of documents from different authors. Once Muslims perceive the human origin of the Koran, they cannot remain pious, jihadic Muslims.
gravenimage says
How many Muslims have accepted that the Qur’an is man-made? Do you have hard numbers?
FYI says
Jihadists are unlikely to to give up on the basis that the koran is evidently of human origin.Fanatics are hardly guided by reason.
Consider what happens with converts to islam:the koran gives permission to do violate the official commandments of God in Exodus 20.No amount of “deprogramming” is going to work with hardened fanatics.Just go try that in prisons!
Greyhound Fancier says
Because islam is so appealing to the “natural man” as Apostle Paul put it, they receive huge reinforcement for jihad, hatred, and oppression – because they become a religious duty. So they can have their violent hateful cake and eat it, too.
Trick_or_Treat says
…correct.
Hence the need to be well informed and well armed. When the S finally hits the F, nobody is going to be interested in any intellectual banter, just solving the problem. Getting rid of it.
mortimer says
Mohammed Zahir Khan should be deprogrammed RIGHT OUT of Islam and then retained as a condition of early release to DEPROGRAM incarcerated jihadists RIGHT OUT of Islam. He should live near a prison while being retained in perpetuity to DEPROGRAM jihadists.
Western governments should now COME TO THEIR SENSES and realease that it’s the IDEOLOGY of JIHADISM based on the Koran, Sira and hadiths that is the REAL PROBLEM … not Muslims per se.
Once Muslims see the Koran is a manmade fabrication, they are no longer jihadists, and they leave Islam immediately.
gravenimage says
Oh, right–now you are saying that this Jihadist will himself be “deprogramming” other Jihadists. Uh huh…
n says
‘Mr. Kuffar’ (written by Mohammed Zahir Khan) is a grammatical error! Mohammed Zahir Khan doesn’t know Arabic very well.
He should have written ‘Mr. Kafir’ which is the singular form.
He should have written ‘Messrs. Kufaar’, if he wanted to express the plural form.
‘Kufaar’ is an example of a MUTATED PLURAL FORM which is used a few Arabic words. Normally, the Arabic plural ending is “-een” or “-oon”, depending on the position in the sentence.
Mohammed Zahir Khan doesn’t know Arabic as well as a dirty KAFIR … like me.
Sad, innit?
gravenimage says
I’m not sure his poor grammar is my biggest concern, n.
Antiislamicman says
Islam coming is coming to get us, Tommy warned us but they just wanted to talk about race.
This is not about race it’s about a sick twisted ideology that has no place in western society.
Kurt says
It really has no place in any society.
gravenimage says
UK government rushes to prevent release of Muslim who wrote “Mr Kuffar [infidel] prepare for REAL WAR”
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Why should this Jihadist be released back into British society? Keep him in prison or deport him.
Jayell says
These jihadis are simply were never part of ‘British society’ in the first place. They openly declare themselves to the enemies of ‘British society’. which is why they are conducting this form of guerilla warfare. With the catalogue of outrages incessantly building up, the British establishment has no choice now but cease their libertarian pretensions, come clean and recognise these jihadi terrorists as the Enemy of the UK, as indeed most of the UK population has already done. What the Great British Establishment has yet to take on board is that these jihadis are not the EXCEPTION to the islamic rule – they ARE the islamic rule. Perhaps I’m being a tad optimistic, but I get the impression from all the pressure from the media and elsewhere (e.g., the lack of cesnsorship around the grooming gangs, the anti-BBC pressure, etc. etc.) that the Liberal-Left cabal is unravelling, and probably taking their muslim chums with them. So maybe we should prepare for a spike in ‘islamophobia’ hysteria before their last-ditch defence collapses.
gravenimage says
So true, ayell.
gravenimage says
Jayell
James says
Perhaps they should reintroduce the death penalty for specially virulent terrorists, perhaps under the laws of war. They are not in the EU now, perhaps that would free the UK to introduce the death penalty or life in prison without chance of parole, or life at hard labor without chance of parole.
Tim Carlo says
Isn’t it just like the Rich & Famous to say, “We need these people in our society”? It’s the Hollywood bunch and government officials who promote it. Of course they do not live in the “Real World”. They live in gated communities, with 24hr. police patrol, and all probably own guns. They are better then us, they show you and tell you that all the time.
Goofy says
Good we have Imran Khan’s word for it than there is no connection between terrorism and Islam. It is a pure coincidence that almost all terror crime is committed by Muslims. This means that we don’t need to take religion into consideration and we can just lock them up for good as dangerous criminals
FYI says
muslims follow the Sunnah of their “prophet” muhammed{apbuh,actual prophecy be unknown to him}
muhammed admitted to being a TERRORIST
“I have been made victorious through TERROR”
[Sahih Bukhari 4:52:220}
muhammed is the prophet of islam.
Since muhammed is a self-confessed TERRORIST and is the prophet of islam and muslims follow his sunnah…..
Thus there is an obvious connection between terrorism and islam i.e
between terrorism and islam’s prophet{who admitted to being a terrorist!}
muslims just don’t get Logic or Irony.
IF muhammed admits to being a Terrorist
AND
IF muhammed is the prophet of islam
THEN muhmmed the self-confessed Terrorist is the prophet of islam
There you go:muhammed the Terrorist ,whose sunnah muslims follow is islam’s prophet.
Looks like a pretty clear connection..
imran khan certainly doesn’t get it{or prefers NOT to get it}:does he deny his own prophet’s words in sahih bukhari 4:52:220?
Joshua Markham says
This scum is an exemplar of “diversity”. Noone, in any Western Country was ever accorded a referendum in which they could if suicidal, or if they really hated their own children, or they were insane or they were chauvenist, revenge minded cultural-marxists to elect to allow this sort to be lifetime parasites on the fat of the Nation and murder non-mus1im members of the Human Race. In fact, before there even were any mus1im haters of Humanity in our countries, the revenge obsessed cultural-marxists inveigled our politicians into giving residency to these mus1im wreckers of all that’s good in the world, without a referendum.