Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the idea that his new religion commands him to do violence against unbelievers. Who taught Stefan Aristidou about Islam? Where does he go to mosque? Why isn’t this being investigated?
“A video gamer who joined IS in Syria has been caged for two years and four months for sharing the extremists’ propaganda videos,” by Jack Newman, MailOnline, October 1, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A gamer who became radicalised online and travelled to Syria to join ISIS has been jailed for two years and four months after admitting sharing the group’s propaganda videos.
Stefan Aristidou, 27, from Enfield in north London, was arrested at Heathrow in February this year after being deported from Turkey.
The defendant, who is of a Greek Cypriot background, converted to Islam in late 2013 and became increasingly drawn to ISIS over the course of 2014 as it seized large swathes of Syria.
Aristidou, who was then just 21, was sharing the group’s propaganda videos with a Skype user based in Canada who went by the name of Mullins 1169.
Some of the videos depicted mass executions, sniper assassinations and beheadings.
In April 2015, having gone through an Islamic marriage, he left London with his new wife heading for Syria via Cyprus and Turkey.
Aristidou and his wife are believed to have spent two years in Syria, the Old Bailey heard, although it is unclear what they were doing while they were there.
The court heard the couple were arrested by the Turkish authorities at the Syria-Turkey border in April 2017.
His wife and their child were deported to the UK, but Aristidou was charged and convicted of being a member of IS in October 2018 and jailed for six years and three months by a Turkish court.
He was deported to the UK in February this year having served just less than three years of his sentence as part of the country’s efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 in prisons, the court heard.
Aristidou was not charged with being a member of ISIS by the UK authorities due to lack of evidence of his activities while in Syria.
But he was charged with seven counts of disseminating a terrorist publication dating back to before he left Britain.
It was alleged that between November 2014 and February 2015, it was alleged he sent messages with an electronic link to various IS-related publications.
In July he admitted four of the counts relating to IS propaganda videos over a five-week period between November and December 2014, while the remaining three were left to lie on file….
PMK says
Why was he allowed to reenter the UK? He was deported from Turkey but isn’t the UK allowed to refuse him reentry and force him to seek asylum elsewhere? How about Iran?
gravenimage says
Good question, PMK. The UK should never have readmitted him.
roberta says
What is meant by ”convert” in these situations?
Was he once a Christian or of other religion?
Is Islam his actual first attempt at having a religion? If so, then he is not a convert, just a nut.
Pray Hard says
Nothing like skewing off topic, huh?
gravenimage says
Roberta, you are mistaken. If one embraces a faith they are a convert–it doesn’t matter what, if anything, they believed previously.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
I did not know that, thanks for the info.
Infidel says
He is Cypriot and now a muslim, so why not send him to the Turkish North Cyprus and leave him there? He can entertain his Turkish neighbors w/ his beheading videos
GreekEmpress says
I agree, Infidel.
Leave him to the Turks—
tim gallagher says
Just another evil human being who must have joined islam, when he could have joined any number of far more pleasant and peaceful religions, because it fits in with his evil mindset. I’m sure that most of these maggots who choose to join Islam, as opposed to being born into the vile religious ideology, must have an evil streak in their nature, because Islam is quite obviously a very violent and very barbaric load of crap. I hope this maggot gets the treatment that he deserves to receive.
abu taleb says
Seems like the only converts to another religion who then killing (or support killing) are converts to Islam.
gravenimage says
Yep. New Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists are not doing this.
Pray Hard says
Just another devert.
Walter Sieruk says
He converted to Islam and now this. Jesus taught “By their fruits you will recognize them” Matthew 7:20. [N.I.V.]
gravenimage says
UK: Man converts to Islam, travels to the Islamic State, shares jihad beheading videos
……………….
Yet another pious Muslim devoutly practicing his new faith.
OLD GUY says
OH just another NUT, nothing to see here. And when he sees the light the UK will allow him to come home and once again become a productive citizen. You Think!