Posted on 11/21/2015 7:26:23 AM PST by Lera
19-year-old Yahya Rashid alleges he wanted to join 'Islamic Utopia' but not fight; jailed for five years.
A 19-year-old who spent his student loan traveling to the Turkey-Syria border and wanted to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group is behind bars in Britain, police said Thursday.
Yahya Rashid paid £906 (1,300 euros, $1,400) for himself and four friends to travel to the Turkish border town of Gaziantep in February.
He stayed in an ISIS safe house but shortly before he was due to cross into Syria, he changed his mind and returned to Istanbul.
Rashid, aged 18 at the time, was then detained by Turkish police and deported back to Britain, where he was arrested on his arrival.
Police believe his traveling companions did cross into Syria and are still there.
Rashid, whose family is originally from Somalia, was sentenced to five years in a youth offenders' institution Wednesday for terrorism offenses.
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Hope he gets a bang for his buck. ;)
He used a student loan to not fight with ISIS... he probably thought they had needs for basket weaving.
Douche.
Liberal answer to this: make it easier to get student loans. Define aborted trips to join ISIS as “educational.”
RIGHT! I call bullsh#t on his excuse.
He wanted to kill Christians and other innocent people, until he found out that life as a seventh century savage wasn’t as comfy as his life back in England.
Dunno.
This one had an attack of common sense. Might be that the Brits should take him back!
I would guess he didn’t change his mind. He changed the theater of terrorism to Britain. Hope he is dispatched in his youth prison.
You may be right. However I dont trust any of the Muslims, and always suspect there motivations. Young man, or not.
Agreed.
“....five years in a youth offenders’ institution ...for terrorism offenses”
YOUTH institution; he’s already 19, so till age 24, this perv will be in a youth institution, able to do more recruiting?
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