Happily, the floods of British jihadis are sometimes channelled where they belong: prison.
Jamshed Javeed is the latest. He didn’t even make it to Syria.
A chemistry teacher who was poised to travel to Syria to fight with the group that became widely known as Islamic State has been jailed for six years.
Jamshed Javeed, from Manchester, was “determined to fight jihad” despite pleas from his family not to, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
……Judge Michael Topolski said he was “not satisfied” Javeed had rejected “Isis’s ultimate aims” and believed he remained “adherent to a violent jihadist mindset” and considered him “dangerous”.
He said by autumn 2013 he had “become sufficiently radicalised and committed to a violent jihadist ideology that you were part of a group of young men determined to travel to Syria to join Isis and to fight and die for them”.
Judge Topolski said: “I find that you were not planning to return to this country… but rather to die, if you could, as a martyr.”
He said Javeed played an “important role” in enabling his younger brother and three other men to travel to Syria to fight.
“One of those young men is now dead. The other three are effectively missing.”
What an awful trail of destruction.
The online record is typical of people drawn to the mass murderers of Islamic State.
It was found Javeed had made extensive internet searches for material relating to violent jihad including videos and sermons by a number of violent hate preachers including Abu Hamza, Jabat Al Nusra and Abu Qatada.
He had also searched terms like ‘Al Qaeda path’. ‘lover of jihad’, ‘martyrs in Islam’, ‘Osama Bin Laden’, ‘Jihad is compulsory’ and ‘Royal Marine murder’.
There were files containing photographs of persons dressed in battle clothing, carrying firearms, ISIS banner and flags and scenes from area of conflict, including some images of people parading severed heads.
In fact, Javeed was so bad that his own family did indeed turn against him, strongly. There’s an interesting and dramatic account of all this in the Manchester Evening News.
He does have one supporter, enlisted by his defence team. It’s a man Javeed reportedly “befriended” when both were locked up in Belmarsh. No prizes for guessing.
Moazzam Begg, the former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was held in Belmarsh prison last year for charges which were later dropped, said that he had met Javeed in prison. He was one of the “most thoughtful and least dogmatic” prisoners he had encountered, he said.
This is the Cage pattern. Hatred is inspiration. Horror is beauty.
Javeed the jihad freak and family wrecker is “thoughtful”.
Mohammed Emwazi, the Head Chopper in Chief of Islamic State, was “a beautiful young man” and “extremely gentle, kind”.
Bilal Abdulla, who hoped to murder scores in London and Glasgow, is “unbelievably warm, kind, gentle, loving, unextreme to the maximum”.
In earlier years, top al-Qaeda preacher and recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki was “inspirational”, even though his openly nasty and obviously dangerous record stretched back more than a decade in the times when Cage was promoting him.
Thankfully the pattern is now more widely known than it has ever been.
Andrew Neil was certainly well briefed for last night’s broadcast.
Do watch Asim “I am not a theologian” Qureshi on his reputational martyrdom operation.
