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["Two men charged with terror offences for helping a 17-year-old boy travel to Syria,"]

The future of Britain is quite clear. And when it arrives, if any free people remain there, they will remember who brought them to their terrible present situation: David Cameron, Theresa May, Tony Blair, et al. "Two men charged with terror offences for helping a 17-year-old boy travel to Syria,"

"TWO young men have appeared in court charged with terror offences for helping a 17-year-old boy travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants. Kristen Brekke, 18, also known as Kaleem, and Forhad Rahman, 20, appeared in separate hearings at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with assisting in the preparation of an act of terrorism.

Rahman, from Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, is accused of assisting Aseel Muthana to travel to the war-torn country in February. He also faces two counts of possessing data on his phone that could assist terrorism. Brekke, from Grangetown, Cardiff, dressed in a grey suit and white shirt, is charged with assisting Muthana travel to Syria.

Both men were refused bail by District Judge Emma Arbuthnot and were remanded in custody to appear separately at the Old Bailey on December 19....

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/uk-two-muslims-charged-for-helping-17-year-old-boy-join-islamic-state

[Lee Rigby]

Lee Rigby murderer Michael Adebolajo will die in prison after having appeal attempt quashed

Michael Adebolajo, one of two Islamic extremists who butchered Lee Rigby on the streets of Woolwich, will die behind bars after an attempt to challenge his sentence was quashed. The murder's application for leave to appeal his whole-life sentence was rejected by Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas today.

Sitting at the Court of Appeal in London with Lady Justice Hallett and Mr Justice Openshaw, he threw out arguments made by Adebolajo's legal team. Members of Fusilier Rigby's family, who were in court for the ruling, gasped with relief and shed tears of relief as the decision was announced.

His fiancée, Aimee West, said: "I am relieved and thankful with the outcome of today's hearing. "I hope that this is the last we will hear from them both, so that I can focus on rebuilding my life and keeping Lee's memory alive."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lee-rigby-murderer-michael-adebolajo-will-die-in-prison-after-having-appeal-attempt-quashed-9900515.html

[Hundreds of British women want to be jihadi brides, warns Islamic State researcher]

Hundreds of British women want to be jihadi brides, warns Islamic State researcher

Kiran Randhawa | 2 December 2014

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/hundreds-lining-up-to-be-jihadi-brides-warns-islamic-state-researcher-9897560.html

https://cpnagasaki.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/hundreds-of-british-women-want-to-be-jihadi-brides-warns-islamic-state-researcher

Hundreds of young women in the UK are desperate to join Islamic State and become jihadi brides, a London-based researcher on radicalisation warned today. Melanie Smith, 22, is in direct contact with 53 women from Europe who have either made it to Syria or attempted to go there. But the researcher at King's College International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, who tracks women and girls who want to marry into the terror group, said soaring numbers of British citizens are being brainwashed by jihadists over the internet every day.

Miss Smith talks to these women on Ask.fm, the site on which IS fighters can often be found updating the world on their thoughts and activities. "There must be hundreds of girls wanting to go across," she said. "I come across girls every day who say, 'I'm so desperate to go over there but it's just so hard for me.' I saw someone say this morning, 'I want to come but I'm a full-time mum.' And someone said, 'Just bring your kids.' The proportion of girls who eventually make the transition from wanting to go to physically going is tiny. But there are so many people who want to go."

She said one girl on Ask.fm told her of "a thing called Jihad Matchmaker" on Twitter: "You follow it, it follows you back, you send a picture of yourself with your veil and the men choose from hundreds of headshots."

https://twitter.com/jihadmatchmaker

Miss Smith added: "I'd say 90 per cent of the Ask.fm messages to these jihadi men are marriage proposals. It's 'You're so attractive. Will you marry me if I come to Syria?'" Aqsa Mahmood, who tweets under the name Umm Layth, is one of the women Miss Smith is tracking. The 20-year-old radiography degree dropout from Glasgow married an IS fighter and has become one of the group's most hardline internet activists.

Miss Smith said that independence is a huge incentive. "There may be pressure from parents: 'You should study for your A-levels so you can go to university so you can be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer.' They say they have more freedom in IS." But once there, she warned, it is near impossible to leave. "The people around you and the entire state in which you live would probably kill you if you said you wanted to go home openly. Once you're there you're not supposed to leave. It's the rest of your life." The British researchers now believe the 16-year-old twins from Manchester who travelled to Syria earlier in the summer have split up and are living with their own male fighter husbands.

Salma and Zahra Halane, who have 28 GCSEs between them left Chorlton, Greater Manchester and arrived in Raqqa in June.

Miss Smith said a famous Dutch jihadi, known as Yilmaz, who married this week has 'broken the hearts' of scores of Western Muslim women who have all made marriage proposals in the last few months. A monitor of Yilmaz's internet accounts show that he received an astonishing 10,000 marriage requests during his time as a jihadi fighter up until his marriage. Miss Smith said: "it is clear that some of these women who have been travelling to Syria have since married jihadists and foreign fighters". Some, said Miss Smith, want to marry a martyr.

Umm Waqqas, the British woman with the al-Khanssaa brigade, recently tweeted: "The wives my husband will get in Jannah [paradise] are beyond perfecto In Shaa Allah.... Best co-wives any girl could ask for." There is evidence the women are bored in Raqqa, often confined to their houses. There is evidence some have asked to abandon their domestic work and switch to fighting. But last week such calls from women to be allowed to fight provoked a response from the al-Khanssaa: "Sisters take note that the battlefield is not for you unless Muslims are in dire need of both women AND men. You can benefit in other ways."

Aqsa Mahmood, the former private schoolgirl now working for the al-Khanssaa brigade, is typical of the impressionable young women who have turned to jihad and married a fighter out there. The move has left her parents heartbroken.

It's Time to Take Out the Trash!

In an interview with the American broadcaster CNN, her father Muzaffar Mahmood pleaded with her to return home. "Aqsa – my dear daughter please come back, I'm missing you so much. Your brothers and sisters miss you a lot. My dearest daughter, in the name of Allah, please come home. I love you." It is a plea that will likely fall on deaf ears. Before crossing the border into Syria, she made one last phone calls to her parents at home. She told them: "I will see you on the day of judgement. I will take you to heaven, I will hold your hand," before adding ominously: "I want to become a martyr."

ExaroNews – Nov 29, 2014  – They knew that there was something wrong Confidential files at the Home Office draw Buckingham Palace into the unfolding scandal of a paedophile network within the UK's establishment. One file was titled: "ALLEGATIONS OF PAEDOPHILIA AT...

http://nuzzel.com/story/11292014/exaronews/buckingham_palace_drawn_into_scandal_over_paedophile_ring

[376 French currently fighting in Syria]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11268208/Jihadists-in-Syria-write-home-to-France-My-iPod-is-broken.-I-want-to-come-back.html

French jihadists complain about the cold, not knowing how to fight and how their iPods are running out Letters from French jihadists home to their parents have revealed the misery, boredom and fear suffered by Islamist recruits as the gloss fades from their big adventure. In a series of letters seen by Le Figaro newspaper, some of the 376 French currently fighting in Syria have begged for advice on how to return.

Others have complained that, rather than participating in a noble battle, they have been acting as jihadi dogsbodies.  "I've basically done nothing except hand out clothes and food," wrote one, who wants to return from Aleppo. "I also help clean weapons and transport dead bodies from the front. Winter's arrived here. It's begun to get really hard."  Another writes: "I'm fed up. They make me do the washing up." One Frenchman whinged that he wanted to come home because he was missing the comforts of life in France.

I'm fed up. My iPod doesn't work any more here. I have to come back." A third wrote fearfully: "They want to send me to the front, but I don't know how to fight." Others were concerned, more prosaically, about the nationality of their baby, which was born in Syria and so not recognised by the French state.  And Le Figaro said that, among Islamist commanders, it had been noticed that some of the French were beginning to want to leave. One Frenchman was rumoured to have been beheaded when he explained to the emir that he wanted to follow his friend who had already left.

"Everyone knows that, the longer these people stay there, the worse it will be because having watched or committed attrocities, they become ticking time bombs," said one lawyer, quoted in Le Figaro. "But, when it comes to having a discussion about whether France is ready to accept repentants, no politician is willing to take the risk. Imagine if one of these ex-jihadis is involved subsequently in an attack?"

A group of lawyers in France are acting on behalf of the families of the young people to try and persuade the state to allow the jihadis to return. They told the newspaper that they are trying to make discrete contact with the anti-terrorist police, the directors of internal security and the office of the interior minister.

The lawyers said that nothing is ever agreed in advance, on behalf of the jihadis - and the advice is always: "Present yourself at the French consulat in Istanbul or Erbil (in Iraq). And then we will see."  Of the approximately 100 jihadists who have returned to France, 76 are in prison. And the report said that Britain was known as the global leader in reforming jihadists - so much so that some within the French system were asking to be seconded to MI5 - "famed for their art of debriefing".

"Within the secret services, it's said that British jihadis are more interesting because they have a higher intellectual level than their French colleagues, who are more often donkeys," one expert told the paper.  The story of the French jihadis has parallels with that of an Indian man who spent six months fighting alongside Isis in Iraq, before becoming disillusioned with his job cleaning toilets, and returning to Mumbai.  Majeed, 23, was one of four young Muslim men from Kalyan, a city east of Mumbai, known to have journeyed to the Middle East to join the extremist outfit.

"There was neither a holy war nor any of the preachings in the holy book were followed," Majeed is quoted as saying during his interrogation. Islamic State "fighters raped many women there," he reportedly said.