Authorities wrangle over whether or not Abdalraouf Abdallah poses a threat, when it is obvious that he does. The decision-makers who are planning to free Abdallah do not understand what the jihad ideology is all about, where it comes from, how rapidly it can be spread, and the danger it poses to free societies. They still know none of this even after the catastrophic the Manchester Arena jihad bombing.
Jihadists are not an aberration in Islam, although they are often presented as such in the West. Violent jihad has been practiced by all too many Muslims over 1,400 years, and it persists. No matter how frequently Western authorities insist that “it isn’t the real Islam,” it will continue, and this denial is doing nothing to save innocent people or tackle the real problem.
Can Abdallah be “deradicalized”? Attempts at deradicalization have failed across the board for a reason. Jihadis are not like other Western criminals. They are indoctrinated into an ideology that rewards their “martyrdom” with a place in Paradise. Their convictions are unlikely to be shaken by appeals to lesser rewards.
“Manchester Arena Inquiry: Prisoner in touch with bomber to be released,” by Daniel De Simone, BBC News, November 25, 2020:
A convicted terrorist organiser, who has refused to tell an inquiry about his contact with the Manchester Arena bomber, is to be released from jail.
Abdalraouf Abdallah, 27, was jailed in 2016 after being found guilty of helping people travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
The Manchester Arena Inquiry heard he was in touch with bomber Salman Abedi in the months leading up to the attack.
The BBC understands he will be released on licence later this week.
A source said his licence conditions would be among the strictest imposed on a released prisoner.
The Manchester Arena Inquiry, which is investigating all aspects of the attack carried out by Salman Abedi in May 2017 that killed 22 people, has heard that Abdallah is a “witness with important evidence to give”.
But, when interviewed in prison this summer by inquiry lawyers, Abdallah refused to answer any questions in case he incriminated himself.
Abdallah, who moved to the UK as a child and grew up in south Manchester, was paralysed from the waist down while fighting in the Libyan revolution of 2011.
In July 2016 he was jailed for five years and six months, having been convicted following a trial, but time spent on remand and on curfew at home means that his custodial sentence expires this week.
When released, he will spend a further four years on licence.
His trial heard that, from his wheelchair and mainly using a mobile phone, Abdallah arranged for the movement of money and fighters to Syria.
When Abdallah was sentenced, the judge said “there was no evidence of indoctrinating of others”.
However, the Arena inquiry has heard that when Abdallah had been arrested in 2014, his phone contained correspondence with Abedi about suicide, martyrdom – including the death of a senior al-Qaeda figure – and “maidens of paradise”.
Those who knew Abedi considered Abdallah to be a radicalising influence on him….
Frank Anderson says
It is terribly unfortunate that US law does not apply in the UK in this case. If you take a few minutes to search and read the California Supreme Court case of Tarasoff v. Board of Regents, you will find where similar genius officials who released a man with every reason to know he wanted to kill Ms. Tarasoff were held liable for her death in a civil suit. In the UK, when this man kills again, he will probably get a bonus, as will the idiots who turned him loose to murder and continue the jihadi conquest.
Think about what happened in Germany when the Communists murdered millions in the Soviet Union and were making their moves to take over Germany, while law enforcement failed to perform its duty to protect law-abiding citizens. The hideous result that followed must be remembered and considered because it is possible again. What third choice existed then? And Now?
Walter Sieruk says
That heinous and evil Islamic terrorist bombing in the city in Manchester, England was totally evil. This not as some claim a result of a “hijacked Islam” but actual violent Quran based jihad Islam. This Muslim suicide /homicide bombing is on the Quran as ,for example , in Sura 9:111 it teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s cause they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed…” Furthermore, in Sura 47:4. it also instructs “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Let’s face it , setting off a bomb murdering young are who are not Muslims is a very effective way to “make greater slaughter among them.” In conclusion, the religion of Islam is actually a death cult.
Walter Sieruk says
This heinous Islamic of mass murder is so extremely evil , so evil , in fact, this is mass murdering of young people ,most of them girls also has a strong vicious element of misogyny to it. Misogyny, as most informed people do understand, is very much part of the essence of Islam. Along with the brutal deadly violence of this religion.
This Muslim /terrorist bombing is not as some claim as result of a warped version of Islam but hard core non-watered down Quran based Islam. For example, the Quran instructs in Sura 9:123 “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…” It’s thus very easy for a jihad minded Muslim show harshness to young girls who are not Muslims by exploding and bomb .This sure can be harsh This wicked action was the outcome of the deadly cruel religion which is Islam.
Frank Anderson says
Mr. Sieruk, thank you for writing in paragraphs, making your thoughts much easier to read and follow.
There is no crime involved in being a death cult. You and I, if we were so inclined could start a death cult with total impunity under US law.
There is a crime at least under US law in being a conspiracy. A few minutes search and reading the federal case from the Southern District of Alabama, United States v. Gary Greenough (available for free online), will give you what I suggest is one of the best explanations of the law of conspiracy that is easily available and followed. The judge, and probably his law clerk, wrote extremely well.
The basic legal elements of conspiracy are
1) An agreement
2) of 2 or more persons, human or legal, like a corporation or other entity
3) an unlawful purpose- to kill, loot and enslave the world
4) or to use unlawful means for an otherwise lawful purpose-murder, slavery, war, bombing,
5) and ANY overt act by ANY participant in furtherance of the goal- how about between 250 and 1000 MILLION murders in 1400 years, just for starters?
There is no maximum number of members of a conspiracy and no maximum time limit for it to exist. “The knowledge of one is the knowledge of all; The acts of one are the acts of all.”
Islam, in my opinion meets every requirement (element) to be considered, treated, prosecuted and convicted as a criminal conspiracy under US law.
I wish you well; and ask you to consider my thoughts.
Walter Sieruk says
We should not and must not forget that heinously wicked Islamic terrorist bombing in the city of Manchester, England is based on the “holy book” of Islam the Quran . As such brutal, vicious deadly violence is sanction and taught in the Quran. As found in, for example, Sura 5:33. 9:5, 111,123. 47:4.
There are some naïve Westerners who might be shocked to find this out and the wonder and then ask “Just who can those jihad –minded Muslim being so very religious ,also be so extremely heartless ,unfeeling, brutal and murderous to kill as to murder all those girls coming out of that concert in Manchester ?”
The answer that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible reveals there are some men who are so very cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron” First Timothy 4:2. [K.J.V.] The “hot iron” in this case is Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
That brutal and heinous jihadist /Muslim in the city of Manchester, England who murderous so many young girls coming out of the concert as completely demonic and murderous in his deluded and wicked Islamic quest of the jihad This his vicious suicide /homicide jihad bombing attack against those young people was actually behaving in accord to the instruction of the “holy book “ of Islam, the Quran. Which instructs in for example Sura 9:111. “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” After that murderous jihadist died he had discovered, to his shock and horror, the promise of a paradise with many houris , as the Quran teaches 44:54. 55:56. 78:31., for the dead jihadist was an outright lie and a total falsehood .
For that Muslim terrorist found this out the hard way because after he dies he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of hell .Such as the Bible describes in for example, Luke 13:28. 16:19-31.The Bible also teaches that a murderer “shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.[K.J.V.]
Furthermore, in the Bible book of Revelation in 21:8 it gives a list of the people who will end up terribly suffering without end . As in forever in that awful place , and one of those persons in that Lake of Fire are people on that list who are murderers. In short, that murderous jihadist is the real loser and he now understand that he was wrong. Very wrong and that he had committed the evil of mass murder because he place his faith in a false religion.
Dude says
Tell me again: why do our countries bring all these people in?
Have they overpopulated their homelands? Has their toxic society grown a criminal warrior class that has gone out of control? Are they incapable of feeding themselves?
It seems a terrible risk allowing this element to take root again and again in our midst. Leave the lions and jackals on the Serengeti where they belong, and let nature evolve from there.
mortimer says
Christine Douglass-Williams gets it. Parole board officials generally do not seem to know “what the jihad ideology is all about, where it comes from, how rapidly it can be spread, and the danger it poses to free societies.”
Without a solid understanding of Islamic PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS concerning jihad, parole boards are adjudicating without the requisite TOOLS to evaluate jihadists.
No one without such skills should be making any decisions about convicted jihadists.
b.a. freeman says
“…his licence conditions would be among the strictest imposed on a released prisoner.”
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what a joke. they can’t even keep track of the jihadis who haven’t killed anybody yet, so what makes them think that this a**hole isn’t going to disappear as soon as he can? ms. douglass-williams is correct when she notes that the officials treating him as an ordinary criminal completely miss the religious aspect of their belief system. yes, they are criminals, but they believe in their crimes RELIGIOUSLY.
of course, the elites know all about islam (NOT!), so they “know” that it’s just another stupid religion, just like the stupid christianity with which they are familiar … but not a SINGLE ONE of them could tell U *ANYTHING* about the cult’s beliefs. and we trust these people to protect us? here in the u.s., we have the same kind of morons running the show, and i’m ashamed to say that i used to be as unconcerned as they are. in my first attempt to learn about islam after 9/11, i was unable to learn about it because i didn’t understand that the quran was NOT like the bible, and that the sunnah and the sira are *vital* to the core beliefs of islam. “the idiot’s complete guide to the quran” doesn’t tell U what U need to know about *I*S*L*A*M*, so i didn’t learn. it took another 10 or so years of stumbling around before i found out for myself, and it was no thanks to the f***ing lying leftists who pretended to educate me.
gravenimage says
UK: Manchester jihadi’s unrepentant friend, a convicted jihad terrorist organizer, to be released from jail
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Utter insanity. If Abdalraouf Abdallah is not kept in prison, he should be deported.
Check Burry says
Deport to a suitable place, plenty of shiteholes to choose from. He will continue down the same path, on license will not affect his actions, he is happy to be in pris again, his aims will keep him well occupied whilst safe warm, fed at our cost. It is not acceptable.
Kathleen Walsh says
Should be deported end of.
OLD GUY says
If they don’t deport him I hope they watch him vary closely. Better to kick his angry hateful ass out. The old saying the DEVIL made me do it in his case is true except you substitute Allah for the device won’t stop his jihad!
infidel says
Once again free to roam amongst unsuspecting Dhimmi infidels and indulge in rapes and mass murders.. Let the show go on..