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UK: Muslim convert smiles as she is jailed for plotting jihad suicide massacre at St Paul’s Cathedral

Jul 5, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Good news (for now):

An unrepentant Muslim convert who was on course to become the UK’s first female homegrown suicide bomber has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years for plotting a terror attack at St Paul’s Cathedral.

But it is only good news for now, since Western leaders continue in their willful ignorance about jihad; jihadis go to jail and return to society unchanged or even more hardened in their violent beliefs than they were before. Jihadis use the prison system to spread their messages of jihad and Islamic supremacy. Anywhere they go, they view themselves as committed servants of Allah on the mission to expand and conquer, as per Islamic teachings. British prisons are now grounds for radicalization; Muslim prison gangs have even been caught beating prisoners who won’t convert to Islam. Female jihadis are no different from their male counterparts, although they are often presented in the media as victims. The reality is that they victimize as much as the men do, and if they have children, they train them to be hardcore jihad fighters.

It was also reported by the Voice of Europe back in March that this “unrepentant Muslim convert” Safiyya Shaikh was working with a  partner: a “23-year-old ‘Norwegian‘ from Skien who was born to migrant Somali parents.” But information about him is vague, including his name. The Voice of Europe report indicated:

He stands accused of having planned to bomb St. Pauls Cathedral together with a 36-year-old British woman whose name is Safiyya Amira Shaikh, but who was born Michelle Ramsden. Ramsden is said to have converted to Islam in 2007.

Shaikh wanted “to kill a lot” on “a day like Christmas or Easter.” She remains unrepentant. In November, she smiled as she appeared in court. And she was also smiling as her sentence was passed down:

Shaikh, who sat in the dock wearing a black hijab with her head bowed, showed little emotion as the sentence was read out. She smiled and raised her index finger – a gesture appropriated by the so-called Islamic State group.

Let’s just hope that Shaikh isn’t sent to some bogus “deradicalization” program while in prison. “Former member of al-Qaeda turned MI6 spy, Aimen Dean, warned that there ‘is no such thing as a rehabilitated jihadist’ and that efforts by UK ‘authorities to deradicalise convicted terrorists will not work.'”

“Muslim convert jailed for plotting suicide attack on St Paul’s Cathedral,” Worcester News, June 3, 2020:

An unrepentant Muslim convert who was on course to become the UK’s first female homegrown suicide bomber has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years for plotting a terror attack at St Paul’s Cathedral.

Safiyya Shaikh, a 37-year-old mother from Hayes in west London, extensively researched how to cause maximum carnage at the visitor attraction and place of worship, saying she wanted “a lot to die” before being killed herself so she could reach paradise.

Shaikh’s murderous plans came to fruition when she sought help from a bomb-making expert who she believed to be a willing co-conspirator – only to find it was an undercover officer.

She admitted preparation of terrorist acts and dissemination of terrorist publications on the internet.

Shaikh’s defence team said she had “doubts” over the plot. But moments before the judge was due to sentence her on Thursday, prosecutors disclosed details of a phone call to a friend from prison last week in which Shaikh said: “I didn’t get cold feet, yeah – I was ready to go through with it.”

Sentencing Shaikh to life with a minimum term of 14 years at the Old Bailey on Friday, Mr Justice Sweeney said: “I had already reached the sure conclusion in the original evidence that your claim of doubt to the police and others was a lie.

“Your intention had been – and remained throughout – strong.”

Shaikh, who sat in the dock wearing a black hijab with her head bowed, showed little emotion as the sentence was read out.

She smiled and raised her index finger – a gesture appropriated by the so-called Islamic State group – to members of the press as she was led from court after sentencing.

Police said heroin user Shaikh had never expressed regret or remorse for her actions, and had planned to leave a bomb at the London landmark before detonating her suicide vest on an Underground train moments later…..

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  1. Dude says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 8:06 am

    Send her to Mars.

    • FYI says

      Jul 5, 2020 at 9:35 am

      Venus might be more suitable:it is much hotter…

  2. munchenfez says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 8:16 am

    The only rehabilitation practicable for a committed jihadist is a Pb pill applied at speed.

    • Keith O says

      Jul 5, 2020 at 4:36 pm

      Yup, applied behind the left ear works pretty good.

  3. Templer says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 9:18 am

    The only rehabilitation programme is the chair then these daft Muslims will realise there Koran pedo mo do not exstites Koran is a lie islam is a lie Jihad dis BS

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 9:47 am

    The phenomena of females who are jihad suicide /homicide bombers is tragic, sad, yet t interesting in a negative sort of way. The reasons for the delusional and murderous behavior by brainwashed, girls and women is the mind programming inflected on them by the Muslims clerics, as the imams, who keep telling them lines and lies. Such as “We will honor you” and “You will go to paradise” and “We are doing this for Allah.” That’s some strange kind of “We.” For the reader might ,very well ,notice the those same Muslim clerics who so thoroughly mind indoctrinate them into actually wanting to become human bombs are never, ever, the ones who strap bombs vest on themselves and then go out and blow themselves up in a suicide bombing. Those Islamic clerics just mind condition and then manipulate them to become, literally, dangerous to self and others by engaging in murderous bombs attacks. Ten the same Muslim clerics sit home safe all the while the deadly bombing are going on. Therefore those Islamic clerics who use those girls and women as stooges for the jihad are both despicable and cowardly

    .

    In addition, Islam gives female be they girls or women, little to no value or worth because Islam because is, in essence, a religion of extreme misogyny. Nevertheless, the Muslim clerics and the jihadist leaders of different jihad organizations will not hesitate to use girls and women for the advancement of their jihad agenda for Islam. How Ironic. How unconscionable! How callous! They are so very wicked.

    The Bible informs its reader that “The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Proverbs 12:5. [N.K.J.V.]

    • Joss says

      Jul 6, 2020 at 6:30 am

      Wasn’t it No himself who said that hell is full of women? No paradise for women!!

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 9:55 am

    A number of young nave and impressionable girls of and in the West have been duped, beguiled and deceived brainwashed by the deceitful and lying wolfs of ISIS do awful and terrible harms to those girls they deceive, beguile and betray. Therefore, the old poem of wisdom should be given.

    “Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon you way. Never trust a stranger –friend; No one knows how it will end. As your pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise. Handsome they may be, and kind, gay, or charming never mind! Now , as then , ‘tis simple truth- the sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth .”

  6. Beverly says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 10:12 am

    The only good Islamist is a dead Islamist.

  7. Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 11:35 am

    Nice that they let her stand with two of her friends in the dock there.

  8. Keith O says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    This is just one more example of why the death penalty should be brought back.
    They want to die for Allah? fine, we’ll help you do just that.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    UK: Muslim convert smiles as she is jailed for plotting jihad suicide massacre at St Paul’s Cathedral
    ………….

    Of course she does–damn barbarian.

    This sentence is not long enough, but is stiffer than some we have seen handed down. Good to hear.

  10. Gourdhead says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 11:06 am

    She wouldn’t be smiling after mandated extensive shock treatment.

  11. OLD GUY says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    Put her in with the muslim men prisoners where she will be treated as a hero and raped daily according to islamic teaching of man power. As a convert to islam she was used by the islamic leadership, after all she was obviously a dumb women worth only half of that of a man.

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