The Education of ‘Jihadi John’

New York Times ^ | 3rd March 2015 | MAAJID NAWAZ

[the scotsman]

'LAST week, the man called “Jihadi John” by the world’s media was unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born Muslim and naturalized British citizen from London. Not only that, but the Islamic State’s most notorious Western recruit was identified as a graduate in computer science from the University of Westminster.

Many were shocked that the apparent executioner in videos made by the Islamic State, or ISIS, was an educated, middle-class metropolitan. In fact, academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity. The university’s Islamic Society is heavily influenced, sometimes controlled, by the radical Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir and regularly gives a platform to preachers of hate. On the very day of the Emwazi revelation, the university was to host a lecture by Haitham al-Haddad — a man accused of espousing homophobia, advocating female genital mutilation and professing that Jewish people are descended from apes and pigs. The event was suspended not by the university authorities, but by the Islamic Society, which pulled it only because of security concerns.

Islamist “entryism” — the term originally described tactics adopted by Leon Trotsky to take over a rival Communist organization in France in the early 1930s — continues to be a problem within British universities and schools. Twenty years ago, I played my part as an Islamist entryist at college.'

[Incorrigible]

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[Excellence]

It always surprises me when the NYT publishes actual truth.

[GOPJ]

MAAJID NAWAZ is one courageous man - or he's doing a ‘death by muslm’ form of suicide... Either way the New York Times should have edited this to protect him...

[Holdem Or Foldem]

“Jihadi John” sounds respectable, even cool. I like a name which will not give this poltroon any creds. How about “jihadi wilbur” or “homer”. Any name which brings a smile of contempt will do.