Posted on 08/25/2019 12:53:03 PM PDT by robowombat
Islamic State jihadi asks to be freed so he can keep other Muslims from “making the same mistake that I did”
AUG 24, 2019 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
“I accidentally joined a mafia in Iraq and Syria, maybe not a mafia, but a very bad group of people, thinking they are Muslims. If I had learned Islam properly, If I had understood I would have learned that these were a very bad group of people. I wouldn’t have been in the situation that I’m in.”
This kind of talk is music to the ears of Western leaders, but once again it is non-specific. Jack Letts joined the Islamic State in the first place because he thought it was living out Islam properly. What exactly convinced him that it was actually un-Islamic? He doesn’t say, and of course no establishment media “journalist” had the wit to ask him. Meanwhile, jihad recruiters still quote the Qur’an and Sunnah to potential recruits, in order to convince them that jihad violence is the pathway to pleasing Allah.
“Jihadi Jack: ‘Free me so I can fight against Islamic radicalisation,'” by Dominic Waghorn, Sky News, August 20, 2019 (thanks to Robert):
The Briton who ran away to join Islamic State as a teenager has told Sky News he wants to be released from jail to join the fight against Islamist radicalisation.
In an interview from prison, Jack Letts told Sky News he does not care about being stripped of his British citizenship, because he would not want to live in a country governed by Boris Johnson anyway.
“I’m being truthful when I’m saying I want to make a difference,” he told Sky News.
“I want to make up to the world that which I did against it.”
The 24-year-old, known as ‘Jihadi Jack’, said he wants to persuade other Muslims not to be lured into joining extremist terror groups.
He said: “If I could do something to help them from making the same mistake that I did, I would love to do that, I think that would be great.”
Letts was arrested as he tried to flee IS territory into Turkey. He claims he deserted the terror group because he decided they were not Islamic.
“I accidentally joined a mafia in Iraq and Syria, maybe not a mafia, but a very bad group of people, thinking they are Muslims.
“If I had learned Islam properly, If I had understood I would have learned that these were a very bad group of people. I wouldn’t have been in the situation that I’m in,” he said.
To sceptics who might suspect him of lying to try and secure release from jail where he is being held in Iraq, he said he had given up hope of being let out any time soon
Letts said: “I genuinely think I’m going to stay here for more years. I don’t think anything’s going to change soon.
“I don’t think Canada’s going to help, I don’t think Britain can help. So me lying is not really going to make a difference.”
Mr Johnson’s government has endorsed Theresa May’s decision to strip Letts of his citizenship. Canada condemned that decision as the UK “offloading its responsibilities”.
Letts said he was not bothered by the decision.
“I genuinely don’t care if they give me a piece of paper saying whether I’m British or not,” he told Sky News.
“I’m British because my mother’s British and her family have been British for 5000 years. It’s not something that comes on a piece of paper and can be taken, at any time.”
He told Sky News he would not want to live in the UK in the current political climate.
“I don’t want to live in a Britain that’s being governed by Boris Johnson and his private school group. I think Boris Johnson is ridiculous. I don’t want to live in his Britain to be honest. I don’t want your passport anyway,” he added
Good try. Next joke.
Nice try but no cigar, Jack.
I know a bunch of gangsters in prison who want to get out and teach the error of their ways :)
They had a WARPED idea of what the Mafia was :)
No, muslim book is a book of oppression and murder and hate.
he is right where he belongs.
Great post. Thanks. HOORAY Robert Spencer!
Which was: Getting caught ...
Very original! Now get back in your cell.
“If I had learned Islam properly, If I had understood I would have learned that these were a very bad group of people.”
Actually, it sounds like he DID learn Islam properly, at least the way it’s used in the 21st Century.
bttt
The mistake of getting caught?
Taqiyya
Let him rot.
The only good jihadist is a dead jihadist.
Getting caught?
BS....run his arse through a tree chipper!
head on post: message sent
Yep, let him preach it. Codename “Songbird” is available again...
Um, no, don’t think so.
Great...now sit down in this nice chair with electrodes attached!!!
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