Posted on 09/23/2005 6:20:18 PM PDT by blam
My naive husband was brainwashed at mosques, says bomber's widow
By Richard Alleyne
(Filed: 24/09/2005)
The widow of one of the July 7 suicide bombers believes that her "innocent and naive" husband was brainwashed into carrying out the attacks by extremists at the mosques where he worshipped.
Samantha Lewthwaite, 21, described Jermaine Lindsay as a peace-loving father who was always deeply upset when innocent people suffered in war zones.
But she said that just months before the attacks he became distant and moody and would spend days away from the family home after visiting mosques in London, Luton and the North.
At first the mother-of-one, who was pregnant with their second child at the time, thought he must be having an affair and ordered him out of their three-bedroom home and told him to "sort his head out".
It was only a few days later when police came to the house that she realised the truth. They showed her closed circuit television footage of the 19-year-old on his way to King's Cross where he blew up the Piccadilly Line Tube train.
Miss Lewthwaite believes that his mind was poisoned by radicals after the couple moved from Huddersfield, West Yorks, to Aylesbury, Bucks. "He was a peace-loving person who would harm nobody," she told The Sun newspaper.
"He began to visit mosques in London, Luton and up North on his own. His behaviour gradually began to change. He turned from the man that I married. In hindsight I can see exactly what was happening to him and why.
"How these people could have turned him and poisoned his mind is dreadful. He was an innocent, naive and simple man. I suppose he must have been an ideal candidate."
Miss Lewthwaite, who converted to Islam when she was 18, was studying religion and politics when she met Lindsay, who changed his name to Jamal, through the internet. They married in 2002.
She said: "The killing of innocent British civilians by Jamal was something I could never comprehend because he was always a peaceful man who loved people.
"He was so angry when he saw Muslim civilians being killed on the streets of Iraq, Bosnia, Palestine and Israel - and always said it was the innocent who suffered. Then he was responsible for doing the same thing - but to his fellow British people."
Lindsay blew himself up on a Piccadilly Line train between King's Cross and Russell Square stations in the worst of the suicide attacks on London on July 7, killing himself and 26 others. He was one of four bombers who carried out attacks on the capital that day.
But Miss Lewthwaite said she believed that her partner could not have left without saying farewell to their baby, Abdullah.
She told the newspaper she believes that she heard him on the stairs of their home just days before the atrocities. She said: "I feel sure he couldn't have gone through with it without seeing him one last time. He kissed our child goodbye and then crept off to blow up King's Cross.
"In the morning I found he'd left the keys on a table downstairs. He obviously had no more use for them."
She had assumed he was at a mosque that Thursday, but said when police interviewed her and showed her CCTV footage of her husband, her "world collapsed".
Note to Lewthwaite: well, honey....it is not just the mosques. Your husband was a muslim....that was his first mistake.
Why hasn't this idiot been deported as yet?
Brainwashed, eh? I don't see any indication that these mooslims wash anything.
The ultimate hypocrite- a murdering one.
I'd say his actions pretty much proved that untrue.
He was upset at Muslims killed in Israel, and Iraq I see but not at the innocent Jewish people murdered by his own kind?
"Why hasn't this idiot been deported as yet?"
She is obviously a born Britain, I think her husband was too, but that's not completely clear.
This woman needs to find Jesus, and I don't say that lightly.
Honestly, I think that is how a lot of these suicide bombers end up doing what they do. We have two enemies. Those like the suicide bombers who are brainwashed and think this will help them spiritually and those in power who don't believe such things, but keep people under power by fear and death.
She claimed that he was peace-loving before he started visiting those radical mosques. And those terrorism-supporting mosques resemble cults in some ways.
Yep.
The lady should convert back, change her kid's name to Bob and move on. This story is just too old. She's better off.
Hmmmm, his behavoir gradually began to change after he visited the mosques? Poor weak minded Lindsay. I just hope that he met his 72 virgins when he met allah! And that he doesn't miss his son Abdullah too much!
Point be taken, Muslim women should keep their weak-minded husbands away from the mosques. It seems that that is where they learn to blow themselves up or are targeted to be blown up by some one else!
I am not sure but I thought the suicide-maniac was a Jamaican convert or something along those lines.
B.c she is a British convert.
Religion of peace alert!! I can't imagine how even in the liberal UK there isn't enough public outrage to demand that every mosques be taken down brick by stinking brick to be totally erased off of British soil.
There is no such thing as a willing victim.
Ohh piff. Cry me a river. Your husband was a suicidal nutjob that believed his reward from allah far out weighed any attachment to you or your child, Miss Lewthwaite. If there are any powers that be he now burns in fire on the 7th ring of hell. And if there is any justice left in Britain, you, your child and every member of that mosque will be deported to enjoy the niceties of some third world crap hole where sub-humans kill each other indiscriminately.
I've been told by Muslims in this country that most mosques HERE are cults! For the most part individualism is not allowed, group think is demanded.
As much as our attention is on overseas muslims, the cultist on our own shores are the ones we should also be looking at.
Think CAIR
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