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Spain: Muslim migrant who ran successful computer business in UK jailed for funding the Islamic State

May 20, 2020 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Dentist Ataul Haque was sentenced after being convicted of funding terrorist organisation Isis following a three-day trial at a court in Madrid. The 37-year-old lived in the UK for around six years until 2014, running a successful computer business from Cardiff with his younger brother Siful Sujan after moving to Britain from their native Bangladesh. Siful was described as a top jihadi computer hacker who also coordinated anti-surveillance technology and weapons development when he was taken out by a drone strike in the Syrian capital Raqqa in December 2015.”

Yet before they were caught, their successful computer business would have led any observer to assume that they were models of the successful integration of Muslim migrants. Yet they ended up waging jihad anyway, showing yet again that the falsity of the mainstream narrative that only those who are poor and unassimilated turn to jihad.

“Boss of Cardiff company jailed for seven years in Spain for funding Isis,” by Gerard Couzens, Wales Online, May 18, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A former director of a Cardiff company whose terrorist brother was killed in a US air strike in Syria has been jailed for seven years in Spain.

Dentist Ataul Haque was sentenced after being convicted of funding terrorist organisation Isis following a three-day trial at a court in Madrid.

The 37-year-old lived in the UK for around six years until 2014, running a successful computer business from Cardiff with his younger brother Siful Sujan after moving to Britain from their native Bangladesh.

Siful was described as a top jihadi computer hacker who also coordinated anti-surveillance technology and weapons development when he was taken out by a drone strike in the Syrian capital Raqqa in December 2015.

He spent around 10 years in Britain after settling as a student in Cardiff in 2003 and enrolling on a computer course at the University of South Wales before setting up an IT firm called Ibacs in 2006. He is thought to have left for Syria after being kicked out of Britain.

Ataul moved to Spain with his second wife, a Spanish au pair he met and married in the UK who converted to Islam, after his residency permit was also withdrawn when he and his brother came under the UK police radar. He was arrested in September 2017 at their home in Merida in the country’s western Extremadura region and accused of two crimes following intelligence sharing with Britain and the US.

He was convicted of helping to finance Isis following a trial at Madrid court the Audiencia Nacional but acquitted on a second charge of belonging to a terrorist organisation. It was not immediately clear if he is appealing his conviction and sentence, which was made public in a written ruling.

When they arrested him police described Ataul as a “key piece” of Islamic State’s so-called Technological Development Battalion, dubbing it “one of the most secretive and sophisticated” branches of the terrorist organisation and saying it aimed to create weaponised drones….

Police said after his arrest in a statement, where he was not named: “The detainee constituted the last stronghold of a cell that was hidden behind a legal network of companies that had been transferring money suspected of subsidising terrorist actions and the dispatch of dual-use technological material.

“He moved to Spain at the end of 2015 following the disarticulation by other police forces of branches of his companies in the UK and Bangladesh, used as a cover to hide the origin and true destination of the funds.”…

The court ruling said it had been proven £7,000 had been transferred from a firm Ataul ran in the UK to US-based Mohamed Elshinawy, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in March last year for conspiracy to provide material support to Isis.

The five transfers were disguised as payment for printers but Elshinawy admitted at his trial the money was going to be used to commit a terrorist attack in the US….

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Filed Under: Featured, immigration, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Spain, United Kingdom Tagged With: Ataul Haque, Siful Sujan


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  1. Captnhook says

    May 20, 2020 at 1:30 pm

    Israel needs to teach these countries how to rid themselves of this cult.

  2. Wellington says

    May 20, 2020 at 3:06 pm

    Lesson to be learned here though it won’t be by many: Never trust a Muslim anymore than you would trust a Neo-Nazi, a Marxist, an anarchist, a Satanist, a KKK adherent, etc.

    Those who adhere to a putrid ideology or organization, be it secular or religious, should NEVER be considered OK. Common sense demands this as does sheer self-preservation.

    The key is the ideology or ideologies a person claims adherence to. Many ideologies are inimical to such things as true freedom, real equality under the law, a sense of fair play and a true Golden Rule for all. Islam certainly, most certainly, can be included in this shameful list. Thus, don’t be taken in by “niceness” by a Muslim. Might as well be taken in by “niceness” by an anarchist, a Marxist, a Neo-Nazi, a KKK member, a Satanist, et al. Many people, after all, who embrace a malevolent belief system are in their daily life quite nice. So, to hell with “niceness.” It’s often times a “dead-ender.”

    Oh yeah, the ideology is paramount and not the individual personality. Proceed from this point in order to preserve freedom and many other good things. In other words, don’t be a sap.

    • James Lincoln says

      May 20, 2020 at 7:20 pm

      Wellington says,

      “Thus, don’t be taken in by “niceness” by a Muslim. Might as well be taken in by “niceness” by an anarchist, a Marxist, a Neo-Nazi, a KKK member, a Satanist, et al. Many people, after all, who embrace a malevolent belief system are in their daily life quite nice. So, to hell with “niceness.” It’s often times a “dead-ender.””

      100% true. There are some VERY bad people out there. Every day sociopathic criminals, criminal psychopaths., pedophiles, etc.

      Many people have not learned that simple lesson – and have actually ended up getting:

      1. Robbed.

      2. Beat up.

      3. Raped.

      or

      4. Murdered.

    • Janice Mermikli says

      May 21, 2020 at 5:21 am

      Agreed. It is not the individual him/herself, because, without the brainwashing and indoctrination by an evil ideology, they would be O.K.

  3. gravenimage says

    May 20, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    Spain: Muslim migrant who ran successful computer business in UK jailed for funding the Islamic State
    …………..

    Gee–and here I thought all “extremists” were poorly educated, poverty-stricken members of the underclass who only turned to Jihad because they felt so “disenfranchised”? You hear this claptrap all the time.

    • James Lincoln says

      May 21, 2020 at 8:37 am

      Spot on again, gravenimage…

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