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Denmark: Muslim who fought for the Islamic State to be tried for high treason, first such charge in over 70 years

Aug 7, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

If Western countries insist on bringing jihadis back, this is the way they should be handled, rather than being allowed to walk the streets freely and without surveillance, as in Britain.

“Denmark Tries Returned Jihadist for High Treason in Historic Case,” Sputnik, July 20, 2020:

Should 29-year-old Ahmed El-Haj be found guilty, he would become the first Danish citizen brought to justice for high treason in over 70 years, since Nazi collaborators were tried in the aftermath of World War II.

Ahmed El-Haj, a 29-year-old Danish citizen-turned-jihadist has been arrested for high treason, the newspaper Berlingske reported.

El-Haj went to Syria in 2013. After four years in war-torn Syria, the man was wounded in a bomb attack. With the help of smugglers, he managed to get to Turkey with his wife and two children. Once in Turkey, he was arrested and served a year in prison for joining terrorists and extradited to Denmark two years later.

The 29-year-old was previously suspected of terrorist crimes and used photographs of Danish politicians Naser Khader and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, and the anti-Islamic debater Lars Hedegaard as “enemies of Islam” in a video that surfaced later….

The 14 Daesh* returnees who have been prosecuted and convicted in Denmark since 2015 received between three and six years in prison, with the law having no retroactive effect. El-Haj’s case is different as he apparently stayed with Daesh until 2017. He is now facing a life sentence….

Ahmed El-Haj was born and raised in the Gellerupparken district of Aarhus and was a member of the notorious Grimhøj Mosque that produced a number of jihadists….

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  1. Antiislamicman says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 11:16 am

    Let’s hope they lock him up and throw away the key. Islam is evil sick and barbaric, not from God

  2. PRCS says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 11:21 am

    Enemies of Islam!

    How does one become the ‘enemy’ of an ideology?

  3. Frank Anderson says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 11:29 am

    Denmark for all its current apparent surrender to islamic invasion, continues to deserve praise for its protection of Jews upon the Nazi invasion. I appreciate correction of any of my errors. It is my recall there were about 8,000 Jews in Denmark when the Nazi’s ordered their arrest. Instead of complying, the King of Denmark put on a Star of David and said there are no Jews here; only Danes. In a matter of days, papers were prepared and every Jew in Denmark was transported to Sweden and safety, except for 400 who died of age or infirmity. NOT ONE Danish Jew died in Nazi hands.

    As much as I have read and studied about WWII I did not know of this until about 15 years ago. I hope more people in Denmark will see the muslim invasion for what it is: The continuation of the Nazi conquest.

    “It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” Denmark could be a candle to other countries surrendering to invaders.

    • Rarely says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 12:20 pm

      Agreed. The Danes certainly stand out in how they helped their Jewish citizens in WWII. No other country came close — to their shame..

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 9:56 pm

      There were a handful of Danish Jews who died at Nazi hands–but very few. Frank, you are right that most Danish Jews were ferried to freedom and safety in Sweden in a single night. There were not enough Danish ships, so almost the entire Danish fishing fleet joined in.

      I’m not sure why this amazing and heartening incident is not better known. I’ve mentioned it here several times myself. Something for the Danes to be very proud of.

      • Frank Anderson says

        Aug 7, 2020 at 11:08 pm

        GI, according to the law of large numbers, that which is not prohibited is required. When the Danish evacuation was discussed at the local Temple, it was said not one single Danish Jew died in Nazi hands. I cannot testify yes or no to the question. I defer to those who know more on the subject.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 7, 2020 at 11:18 pm

          Frank, here is more information:

          “Why 90 Percent of Danish Jews Survived the Holocaust”

          Denmark is the only nation in Western Europe that saved most of its Jewish population from the Nazis.

          https://www.history.com/news/wwii-danish-jews-survival-holocaust

          Those who were not saved were mostly those comparitively few Jews who lived further inland, who could not be ferried to Sweden in time. Some Danish Jews were indeed deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto.

          But this large-scale rescue is still a remarkable achievement, and took at great deal of courage on the part of ordinary Danes–and the Swedes who aided them.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Aug 7, 2020 at 11:23 pm

          GI, better information is always appreciated. Denmark is in sharp contrast with many other countries who joyfully aided in deporting their Jews. Now, many will watch as muslims repeat on their families what happened then. Jorge Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them.”

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 8, 2020 at 10:20 pm

          So true, Frank.

      • john smith says

        Aug 8, 2020 at 9:33 am

        Thanks for that information about the Danish Jews,and the additional information you posted Frank. I was totally unaware this.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Aug 8, 2020 at 9:50 am

          J.S. as much horrible reports surround us, with more deserved, I think it is good to have a few good, encouraging thoughts to remind US, all of US, that good has been done and is still possible, IF we will do it.

          “Pray as though everything depends on God. Act as though everything depends on us.” We are God’s eyes, ears and hands. There is no point in allowing evil to win.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 8, 2020 at 10:21 pm

          Great quote–and very salient for today.

    • john smith says

      Aug 8, 2020 at 9:37 am

      Thanks for that Frank.

  4. elee says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 12:19 pm

    Imprison and isolate forever.

  5. RonaldB says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 1:47 pm

    The old Vikings knew how to handle traitors and turncoats. It wasn’t pretty. I fantasize about a recrudescence of the old Viking spirit. The traitor should be executed, and his body left on display as an object lesson. The manner of death need not be long and lingering, although that was the mode of the old Vikings. That would serve to make any would-be jihadi have second thoughts.

    • Frank Anderson says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 3:22 pm

      R.B., do you really think anything an infidel can do will make any jihadi have second thoughts? You must have first thoughts in order to have a second. Thinking is not permitted in islam. It is rebellion, reform, apostasy, all punishable by death, which is the goal of islam from the beginning.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 7, 2020 at 10:08 pm

        +1

    • Keith O says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 7:19 pm

      RonaldB
      With you 100% on those sentiments.

      • Idol and Icon says

        Aug 8, 2020 at 5:43 am

        Ditto.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 10:04 pm

      Unfortunately, Ronald, the Vikings were slavers who often sold their victims to Muslims. Not really something to want to see return.

  6. DRH says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 3:44 pm

    Life in a Danish prison is probably a pleasant experience.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 10:12 pm

      You aren’t wrong–here are some prisons in Sweden, Norway, and Germany, many of which are far nicer than your average dorm room:

      https://www.scoopwhoop.com/most-luxurious-prisons-in-the-world/

      • James Lincoln says

        Aug 8, 2020 at 8:30 am

        gravenimage,

        Wow!

        When I think of prison, I think of places like ADX Florence…

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 8, 2020 at 10:22 pm

          I know–unbelievable.

  7. Kesselman says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    The current Democrat Socialist government of Denmark is reluctant to take measures effectively stopping the mozzies daily harassments of Danes. The government is backed by and dependent on communists and other left-wing parties. Fascists embrace each other until the day the game has to be devoured.—Today the country is “mild” occupied like it was under the Nazi-German occupation 75 years ago. The influence of Islam is the continuation of a racist and genocidal ideology.

  8. ElderlyZionist says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    “Ahmed El-Haj was born and raised in the Gellerupparken district of Aarhus and was a member of the notorious Grimhøj Mosque that produced a number of jihadists….”

    A Danish subject by birth, now a traitor, murderer and enemy combatant. Get a rope.

  9. Donovan Nuera says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    Why is the Grimhoj mosque still standing?? I am just praying for black mold to infest it AC duct-work so it has to be razed due to causing allergies. I will take anything.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 7, 2020 at 10:16 pm

      It should be shut down.

  10. Donovan Nuera says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Deport his parents and relatives as an example. If they refuse, just make the default deportation country Congo.

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 7, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    Denmark: Muslim who fought for the Islamic State to be tried for high treason, first such charge in over 70 years
    ……………….

    *Good*. This is much better than treating these as crimes–and much, much better than just releasing these Jihadists back into the populace, as all too many nations in the West have done.

  12. David says

    Aug 8, 2020 at 5:31 am

    Denmark, along with all other non-Muslim majority countries, needs to restore the death penalty for treason.
    If this traitor is given a so-called life sentence, how long will this prison sentence actually be in practice?
    Probably no more than twenty years at best at which point he will be 49 years old and free to commit treason again.
    In the meantime, Danish taxpayers will be paying hand over fist to keep him locked up.
    Much cheaper to hang him which ensures he cannot commit treason for a second time and of course
    execution would be justice for all the civilians he may have murdered when fighting for ISIS.

  13. Giacomo Latta says

    Aug 8, 2020 at 10:21 am

    Amazing! I didn’t think any Western democracy had the foggiest idea that treason still existed. Just as no country seems to think that groups of people in foreign countries trying to disrupt state or private websites is an act of war. Apparently such people must be wearing shiny uniforms and be situated in our territory. I have my own website which Russian, Belarusian and Kazakh entities have been trying to destroy for about a decade. Government only wants to know when they succeed.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 8, 2020 at 10:24 pm

      Giacomo, I think you are right about the modern Western understanding–or lack of same–about treason.

      Sorry to hear about your site–glad you are persevering.

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