British authorities have made their choice. They’ve abandoned the idea of equality before the law for all citizens and established Muslims as a protected class with rights and privileges beyond those of other citizens. This will no doubt result in the creation of a happy and peaceful multicultural paradise. Won’t it?
“Jihadi behind soldier beheading terror style plot claimed £1m legal aid,” by Dominik Lemanski, Express, March 15, 2020:
THE LEADER of an al-Qaeda terror cell who plotted to behead a British soldier claimed more than £1million in legal aid – and could be back on the streets next year.
Jobless Parviz Khan, 49, was jailed for life in 2008 for the plot to kill, and for sending equipment to terrorists in Pakistan. The Birmingham-based extremist, who planned to slaughter a serviceman “like a pig”, received £1,696 a month in benefits while plotting his atrocity, including £160 a week as an allowance to care for his elderly mother. He was arrested before identifying a target and admitted the plan at Leicester Crown Court in February 2008.
Records show the married father of four claimed £1,072,398 in legal aid, of which £345,842 went to his solicitors and the remainder to barristers representing him.
Derby-born Khan is eligible for parole in February 2021, having served a minimum 14 years of his life sentence from being on remand after his arrest in 2007. Three members of his gang have already been released.
Zahoor Iqbal, 41, Mohammed Irfan, 42, and Hamid Elasmar, 55, were freed in October 2009 with African recruit Basiru Gassama, 41, who was deported to Gambia.
In covert recordings Khan, codenamed Motorway Madness during surveillance operations, said: “It would terrorise British soldiers and young Blair is going to go crazy.”
Nigel Rumfitt QC said of the beheading plan: “The initial idea was to approach him [the soldier] in Broad Street [in Birmingham] and lure him into a car, then take him to a lock-up garage and there he would be murdered by having his head cut off ‘like a pig’.”
After the trial Det Supt Liam O’Brien described Khan as “a dangerous man who had deep and entrenched views”. He warned at the time: “I strongly believe that, if we hadn’t taken action, we would be talking about the kidnap and murder of a British soldier.”
Khan was a keen Sunday league footballer and cricketer before he was radicalised during several trips to Pakistan. He then became a fanatic who spoke of the July 7 bombers as “brothers”.
Arrested four months after naming his third child Usamah – a version of Osama – Khan was “training” his three-year-old daughter to marry a Mujahideen fighter.
Critics slammed the level of public funding for Khan, contrasting it with reports that families of victims of the London Bridge, Westminster and Manchester Arena attacks were denied legal aid….
Frank Anderson says
As long as illegal combat is treated as a criminal offense instead of an act of war this is the expected and normal result. There are two crimes here, the crime of violence to the victims, and the crime of fraud to the community by draining its economic resources in the total expense of prosecuting, defending, trying and “punishing” the crime. Do this enough and the government, any government, will be bankrupt, and its citizens destroyed with the tax burdens. There is no free lunch.
Student of History says
Agreed and furthermore it is a jihadi strategy called lawfare. There’s more to it, but that will suffice for now.
The following struck me:
“…before he was radicalised during several trips to Pakistan…”
NO, setting aside there is no such thing as radicalness within the islam ideology, he went to Pakistan because was ALREADY “radicalized” or as realistically put because he was just another “faithful follower” of that ideology.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Frank Anderson,
100% agree, people like Parviz Khan should be treated as enemy combatants.
And extreme cases like this, in my opinion, warrant execution.
And I do not say this lightly…
Frank Anderson says
Look at any of the wars that followed WWII, the last officially declared war. The invasion of the Falklands, Kenya with the Mau Mau, Malaya, Vietnam. Korea. Philippines, Congo, Uganda, Columbia, Guatemala, Peru. Arrest and prosecute the criminals? “Rotsa Ruck” for Scooby Do fans. Dispersed combat by a concerted plan is still war conducted by illegal means deserving treatment of those conducting it as illegal enemies of all mankind.
toomanyhobbies says
rewarding evil not a real good idea….
Frank Anderson says
TMH, agreeing with you. Neither is playing into their hands with utter delusional naivete. In general, criminal enforcement is intended to reform the convict and discourage others from copying. But these “goals” have no application to jihadists.
Paul says
A poor defendant has to be represented and thus gets legal aid. It would be wrong to prosecute a person without someone standing in his defence.
Victims are covered by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board who make payments to them after their damage is assessed. Its not generous. Its not a lottery win.
Prosecution is done by the state in criminal matters. In the UK you can’t refuse to press charges, just be an unwilling or obtuse witness.
If they are giving him remission I hope they watch him as he will slip back into a hero of the jihad. But from past evidence they will fail.
Paul
mortimer says
UK is bending over backwards to defend its most determined enemies. Deportation is surely a better option.
gravenimage says
So you think over a million dollars of taxpayer money is reasonable for every Jihadist? We’ll go bankrupt in no time–which is, indeed, one of the purposes of Jihad to begin with.
gravenimage says
There are over 23,000 Jihadists in Britain right now:
“Huge scale of terror threat revealed: UK home to 23,000 jihadists”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/huge-scale-of-terror-threat-revealed-uk-home-to-23-000-jihadists-3zvn58mhq
Note that this was three years ago–there are no doubt many more now.
Then, take all the increased security, cost of prisons, and lost productivity of the victims, and you have a hell of a toll on the economy of the UK–now multiply this by every other nation in the West suffering from Jihad terror.
Frank Anderson says
GI, for every dollar/pound spent on his defense, an honest guess is at least 3 more are spent on the prosecution, court and penalty, not counting at all the harm done to the victim, family and friends. Multiply that cost by a reasonable expectation of jihadists looking for the promised rewards, then see how long before the government and taxpayers collapse under the burden.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that breakdown, Frank. That’s the point I was trying to make.
Frank Anderson says
GI, I hope a little help is okay? 🙂
I tell friends if they need a little help, I am about as little as I know in one place! My best friend when working at my first job after graduating from engineering school said OFTEN, “Stud, every time I look at you I know we are TWO men short: YOU and YOUR REPLACEMENT!” And I follow his creative process to this day. I have known some good and inspiring people in this life.
gravenimage says
Always, Frank. I need all the help I can get.
Frank Anderson says
GI, WHO does not?
Sam says
Englishtaan
End PC says
Can’t decide which Western European country deserves more the Super-Sucker of the World award: might be Britain.
tim gallagher says
Good comment, End PC. The amount of money the poor taxpayer in the UK has given to this Muslim scumbag makes the UK a big contender. Probably Sweden, from the reports here at Jihad Watch, would claim the Super-Sucker title though. Countries like Hungary and the other Visegrad countries show what should be done by all these Super-Sucker type countries. Don’t let Muslims in and you avoid all this disgusting shit that Muslims inevitably bring. Of course, when you already let so many of the vermin in, you are in big trouble.The amount of money thrown away on this piece of garbage in the UK sickens me. It is insanity. This piece of trash isn’t worth spending a cent on, well, maybe the price of a bullet to send the maggot off to Hell would be an OK expense.
FYI says
He has the zebibah..of course:the internationally recognized symbol of islamic false piety and fraudulent carpet-kissing ‘holiness’.
Such ‘holy’ people these muslims:the “best community that hath been raised up for mankind”{koran 3:110} unlike those infidels the Jews and Christians{ and everybody else} “the Worst of created beings”{koran 98:6},the wudu that never washes away those perverted islamic sins{try kissing the black stone at the kabba while on hajj:that’ll work},that preened beard,all that carpet-kissing.. leaves its mark on the demonic savage.
All that two-faced,hypocritical islamic “praying” in that muslim 5 times a day Butt-in-the-Air show,that outward show of false piety to hide the perversions and immorality of their sick religion of “peace”{peace:WHERE?} with its ‘holy’ prophet muhammed{PBUH,poison be the undoing of him}who admitted to being a FRAUD{al tabari 6:111},its plagiarized ‘holy’ book that has so many errors and incongruities in it that by allah’s OWN criterion of koran 4:82 it cannot possibly come from God but must come from “other than allah”and its ARAB god al lah who admits to being a champion deceiver{koran 3:54}
shortfattexan says
The photo tells you everything you need to know about this guy. Any time you see someone with a zebiba, you know with 100% certainty that they are an inhuman monster.
Obviously all jihadis do not have zebibas; but anyone with a zebiba is a rabid dog.
FYI says
Zebiba doo dah,Zebiba day
A sign of evil …and its heading our way…
GOLDMANN says
What’s a zebiba??.?
Frank Anderson says
The bruise or knot in the center of the forehead caused by repeated bumping of the head during “prayer”. Among some, a sign of great fervor and dedication.
gravenimage says
+1
andrew mckendrick says
Among others ,known as a headbanger.
Paul J says
Also a convenient spot to aim for.
Dude says
The smell of evil oozed out of that picture of him. Such monsters don’t belong in civilized society. Back to the desert or jungle for this guy, or a noose to hell.
Michael Copeland says
“….utterly incompatible with civilised society”
David Hume
jayell says
So this hideous refugee from the farmyard (sorry to insult farm animals) was pocketing £1696 (about $2000?) a month from the taxpayer? That’s possibly more than a nurse gets! And probably a young teacher or police constable as well! Then he’s put inside prison which costs as much sending a child to a leading public school like Eton or Harrow. Do these muslims serve any useful purpose at all?
Leon degney says
No, they serve absolutely no useful purpose whatsoever. They are similar to the virus the world is now fighting, all they do is sicken societies just as Muslims do.
Frank Anderson says
L.D., they serve a very useful purpose, in fact several very useful purposes, if the goal is to destroy a country and enable its replacement with an Islamic swamp. They drain the treasury, burdening the people who actually work and pay the taxes, they rob, rape and pillage just as they have been taught for 1400 years; and they turn the legal system into a joke. NEVER forget, the UK has hundreds of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. What happens when muslims are in control?
mortimer says
Robert Spencer writes: “British authorities have … established Muslims as a protected class with rights and privileges beyond those of other citizens.”
This unbalanced approach clearly favors the growth of Islamic supremacism. The UK policy is clearly suicidal for the indigenous British people.
Carolyn Marlin says
Sir, are kains fathers children turning law into kill all non muslims?????
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim who plotted jihad slaughter of soldier got $1,227,000 in legal aid, victims of jihad attacks got nothing
……………..
More suicidal insanity.
Tim Carlo says
Let me see? Islam has declared Jihad on all Infidels, correct? A war. Isn’t it time to send them to meet their 72 whores in heaven or where-ever they thing they are going?
Anonymous Busch says
Kahn… Kahn… Kahn… strange name, but sounds familiar.
OLD GUY says
Execution of terrorist is truly the only answer.
DazzleMe says
It’s quickly becoming that way in America!