Where did this boy convert to Islam? He converted when he was 14 and is now 15. From whom did he learn about Islam? British authorities show no sign of being troubled by the fact that this keeps happening among all too many converts to Islam. If their dogma of Islam being a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism is true, why do so many converts, who are presumably being instructed by pious, devout, knowledgeable Muslims, get the religion so drastically wrong, and all in exactly the same way?
“Eastleigh teen, 15, to stand trial over Islamic terror plot,” by Matthew Mohan-Hickson, The News, August 28, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
…The 15-year-old from Eastleigh…has pleaded not guilty to preparing acts of terrorism.
The child is accused of trying to make bombs containing shrapnel in an Islamic terror plot.
The teenager, who converted to Islam this year, is alleged to have developed an extremist jihadist mind-set.
Walter Sieruk says
Those are some of the demonic and destructive effects that the false religion of Islam can have on some people, Even more so on young and impressionable people
mortimer says
When will the people of the UK realize that this Death Cult is intrinsically hate-filled and highly dangerous? There are 164 jihad verses in the Koran that decree warfare against disbelievers. That also includes making war against atheists and agnostics. The godless British leftards are also hated by the Muslims, even though they believe they have an alliance with them.
gravenimage says
+1
abad says
Convert to Islam, be prepared to be sent to Syria. Moslems do not belong in the western world.
R Russell says
This is just the latest in a series of young men who convert to Islam and seek to kill innocent people.
Where are the Christians in the areas where these young men live? Why are they not telling these young men that the Bible Jesus died in their place? Surely it would be more attractive to know that the Bible Jesus gave up his life so they don’t have to die. Allah requires his followers to die for him. Jesus, YHWH, died for us. I know what is more attractive.
Wellington says
R Russell: I think part of the problem, but only part, is that so many Christians don’t even know that in Islam Jesus is a Muslim prophet (e.g., in Sura 19 when Jesus speaks from the cradle and announces he is a Muslim), that he was not crucified, to be found in Sura 4—and asserting that Jesus was crucified to Muslims might actually put you in mortal danger of your life—, and that Jesus, per Muslimthink, is coming back at the end of the world to throw all Christians into Hell for deifying Him.
I have met very few Christians over the past twenty years who really know what Islam has to say about Jesus and Christianity. Again I must assert that just abut the greatest ally of Islam is ignorance of Islam. And here a multitude of Christians stand quite guilty.
Shame on them for this. Absolutely inexcusable. A good Christian should be an informed Christian. Alas, so many Christians are not.
Alastair Tucker says
The Muslim “Jesus” is a parody of the historical Jesus of the Gospels. Its fallacious equivocation to bracket them together. They have nothing substantive in common. All a Christian needs to know is that the Muslim ‘Issa’ is a character of fictional narration theory based on gnosticism and apocryphal non canonical texts like the infancy gospel of Thomas. His is what Paul succintly puts it “another gospel” which Paul declares accursed (Galatians 1:6-9). They must never be confused.
FYI says
In koran 5:46 allah claims the following..
“We bestowed on him{‘Jesus’} the Gospel”
But of course Jesus Christ never had the Gospel!
And definitely Jesus did not have it whilst in the Crib;
“Lo!I am the slave of allah.he hath given me the scripture and appointed me a prophet”
Koran 19:30
{If you look at the context of this statement koran 19:23-34 you might note this this statement is not coming from an adult:it is from an infant in crib as is clear from koran 19:29 and note too how he tells us allah gave him the ‘scripture’..}
In reality,the Gospel came AFTER the Time of Jesus and was written down by others:allah seems to think he wrote it personally and then gave it to this ‘Jesus’.
{In koran 2:87 allah insists he gave the Torah to Moses{the muslim one}in which case one would have expected the Torah to have been revealed in Arabic{since allah’s words come only via Arabic koran 41:44}and yet it was in…. Hebrew}
If anything the Gospel{the Wisdom to write it down}was bestowed on Matthew etc.
The responsibility to write the Gospel was NEVER given to Jesus Christ so it could not have been ‘bestowed on him’:The Wisdom source behind this{the Holy Spirit as christians call it} is missing in islam as is clear from koran 5:116 where allah reveals his epic misunderstanding of the Trinity which he thinks is{allah,jesus the muslim and allah}and koran 4:171.The author of the koran obviously heard of the Trinity but he gets it wrong:and he missed the Holy Spirit.
It is obvious the author of the koran is pretending to be the Biblical God and is making false claims about how he is responsible for the Torah and Gospel when this cannot be true
allah is also anti Jewish{koran 2:65} and goes to great lengths to discredit them and yet..Jesus Christ says..
“We Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
John 4 v22
allah seems to have missed that{along with the Golden rule,The two chief commandments,the point of the Exodus 20 decalogue laws,the role given the Jews..}
FYI says
Typo..
allah’s EPIC misunderstanding of the Christian Trinity is {allah,jesus the muslim and MARY}
“And when allah saith:O Jesus,son of Mary!Didst thou say unto mankind
Take me and my mother for two gods beside allah?”
Koran 5:116
allah thinks Christians have MARY in their Trinity.
Jesus NEVER said MARY was to be worshipped as a godess alongside Jesus and ‘allah’:besides, MARY is not even in the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity{which is a monotheistic theology anyway ,not a polytheism of 3 gods}
If allah is all wise and all knowing surely he would be expected to understand Christian Theology :and yet we see allah gets it all wrong.
You often hear muslims laugh “look at these polytheist Christians with their 3 gods” which is absolutely ridiculous: but not surprising given that their god allah himself has difficulties understanding Theology.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington. Worse even than the points you cite is that the Muslim “Jesus”–(“prophet Isa”) is supposed to slaughter all Christians in the last days per Islamic eschatology.
Roger Woodhouse says
Wellington makes great sense.The people who really need ‘educating’about Islam are the people in government here in the UK.They continue in their blind ignorance assuming that no one is really interested in knowing the ‘true’ Islam and hoping that we ,like them will keep turning a blind eye to it in the (forlorn)hope that Islam will ‘convert itself’into a kind of Christianity in which we can all get along together.
john smith says
I live in the UK and for years now we’ve had the likes of Theresa May and David Cameron telling us, how wonderful Islam is, and what a great contribution Muslims make to our society.
Are they really that clueless to Islamic doctrine, or are they just a load of cowards.
David Shammai says
I have had a British Government study of the radicalization of Mosques by Imams that were funded by Saudi Arabia. This study is available and is probably well known. Both Christianity and Islam are considered by some to be “daughter” religions of Judaism, but in effect reject the Torah, its prophets and its moral teachings. Almost 2,000 years of anti-semitism is in effect a rejection of Judaism and its moral teachings! In Judaism no one died for anything, but G-d’s law, which includes do not commit murder. So, pious Christians must look almost 2,000 of murder in the name of Jesus and understand that Moslems simply replaced Jesus’ name with Mohammed’s name! Same acts, just different name. Neat trick eh? Almost 2,000 years of murder resulted in the Holocaust. Now, it is Islam’s turn to ignore morality as explained in the Torah. That is why Christianity is a dying religion. But, a religion that teaches murder in the name of whoever will also eventually become a dying religion. The real question is whether it will murder human kind?
FYI says
@David Shammai
1}Christianity accepts the Torah and ALL the prophets.The foundational Law system given to Moses{Chief Law#1 Deut 6:4-9,Chief Law #2 Lev 19:18+the Exodus 20 Decalogue+Golden Rule} is the SAME as in Judaism as it was carried forward into Christianity and not in any way changed.
Christians and Jews are supposed to follow these foundational laws.
The koran denies the Biblical prophets were even Jewish and its teachings do NOT conform to the commandment system revealed in the Torah although muslims don’t get that:islam has no equivalent of the 2 chief commandments and it seems allah MISSED the Golden Rule.
2}Christians who break the law are condemned in the Gospel.
The Exodus 20 Laws are the SAME in Judaism as in Christianity.
A Jew who commits murder is no different to a Christian who commits murder on the basis of ‘Thou shalt not murder’;the Law is the same.
The koran in contrast,is an instruction manual to BREAK these laws:just read the koran.
3}”Christianity is a dying religion”
Nope.
The apparent decline in Organised Religious versions of Christianity was predicted..
“Many will give up their faith at that time”
Matthew 24 v 10
Institutional forms are merely giving way to the authentic version.
4}As for antisemitism:I have never personally encountered hostility to religiously observant Jews.Authentic and sincere Christians are not likely to be antisemitic at all.
I suggest complaining Jews pay close attention to Lev19:17-18 .
And as far as islam is concerned:Go read Sahih Muslim 6985.that is islam’s plan for Jews.
There is no such plan in Christianity.
gravenimage says
Spot on, FYI.
Jayell says
The Christians in the UK in ‘conventional’ churches are simply keeping themselves to themselves and not promoting themselves much because ‘religion’, (not just Christianity) is not fashionable at the moment and in any case Christianity would be bracketed with all the the rest of the ‘evil’ traditional ‘Britishness’ that the Woke Establishment (especially the BBC) want to wipe out. State schools don’t push it anymore largely because a lot of teachers are politically-correct raving Lefties and even the Church of England (‘church’?) tries to pretend that it’s actually one of the social services (e.g., a large banner outside a very elegant, upmarket Parish Church in a ‘posh’ part of east London advertises itself as a ‘caring community of faith’ but avoids saying WHICH ‘faith’). The young man in this story was probably targeted at his school by muslims who proselytise in the playground and aren’t stopped by the school authorities because that would be ‘racist’; these are the same muslims whose big brothers wait outside the school gates in their Mercedes cars to ‘befriend’ the girls and recruit them into their ‘hospitality industries’ – and aren’t stopped by the police because that also be ‘racist’. The trouble is that the islamic rot is all over the UK now, even in unlikely, apparently uncontaminated places like Eastleigh.
Roger Woodhouse says
+1.Britain is lost because its people gave up on Christianity helped along by the BBCand ‘trendy Arch bishops.
Rufolino says
When the generation currently being educated by raving Lefties in most of the schools and universities, reach maturity, the situation in the UK will get infinitely worse.
You aint seen nothing yet !
In 20 years time, when the last statue standing in Parliament Square falls (probably Churchill), felled by overwhelming mobs of Marxists and Moslems, and the Cenotaph in Whitehall has been obliterated by insulting graffiti, you will know it’s all over and the UK has been cancelled.
gravenimage says
You aren’t wrong, Rufolino:
“Boris Johnson says it’s ‘shameful’ Churchill statue is at risk of attack”
https://www.ft.com/content/3b728ba9-38e5-4020-8921-93bc9ccb71cb
This is appalling–but given today’s insanity, not entirely surprising.
Rochelle Opseth says
R Russell, you are so right! Jesus is a much better deal!
DavidR says
Too bad Islam doesn’t have a closed book entrance exam.
“Where are the 5 pillars of Islam?”
“How old was Aisha when Muhammad consumed their marriage?”
“Is Inner Jihad a movie, hip hop song, or a lie?”
“Name one award winning Muslim scientist.”
“When did you stop beating your wife?”
etc.
Wellington says
Surely there must be a mistake here. Shouldn’t the title of this article read, “15-year-old boy converts to Christianity, tries to make bombs…..”
gravenimage says
UK: 15-year-old boy converts to Islam, tries to make bombs containing shrapnel for jihad massacre
…………………….
Oh, great–another pious Muslim convert. Who were his associates? I doubt he thought this up on his own.
Giacomo Latta says
I believe the official line is that he was self-radicalized. He did not visit any websites that were overtly trying to convert non-muslims to muslims, only possibly websites that were totally neutral to Islam. Therefore there was no active second-party radicalization taking place.
gravenimage says
I know, Giacomo–but he had to have learned about Islam from someone. The idea that he didn’t go to Jihadist websites or have any associates teaching him what Islam is really all about and just accidentally happened to become “radical” in exactly the same way as any other pious Muslim strains credulity.
elee says
Search his telephone and investigate whoever fed him this poison.
gravenimage says
+1
Willem van den Heuvel says
What strikes me is that, despite what the muslim in general is trying to say, this boy immediately understands that Islam, jihad, is not about peace. But that it’s all about sowing death and destruction around the unbelievers.
OTTER says
The virus of Islam.
Mount Zion says
It’s simple police work , find out where he converted and than take it from there with further investigations , the article is completely right when it claims that it’s not the first time a convert feels compelled to blow up people and it’s also not the first time police investigation isn’t functioning as it should in these cases .
James Lincoln says
And if this 15-year-old boy had converted to Jainism…
gravenimage says
Or Judaism or Hinduism or Christianity or Sikhims or Buddhism….probably not a problem.
Vipeka says
Mr Spencer
You are surprised? Don’t please.