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Muslims groups around the world are crying Islamophobia and playing the victim card as horrific Islamic-motivated crimes, such as grooming and rape-gangs, rage on with impunity throughout the Western world, especially in Europe. Rape or grooming gangs, which are almost entirely Muslim, are committing a crime that is religiously mandated in Islamic doctrine.

Muslim grooming gangs have been operating unchallenged in Europe for over 20 years, especially in the UK, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, and France. These widespread and highly organized gangs continue to rape and pimp non-Muslim underage schoolgirls who are used as sex slaves and sometimes tortured or killed. Just recently, in mid-2013, British police arrested 45 mostly Muslim men (mainly Pakistani and Bangladeshi) in West Yorkshire belonging to the largest grooming gang uncovered in the UK.

Throughout Europe, gang members are being described as "Asians", and not Muslim. Governments, police forces, social services, childcare agencies, the mainstream media, and even academics fear being falsely accused by leftists and Muslim groups of Islamophobia or "racism" if they were to publicly identify the gangs as Muslim. In Britain, a detailed and comprehensive report will be issued next year illustrating the failure of the government to stop Muslim grooming gangs.

Canada and Australia are also seeing their fair share of Muslim 
grooming gangs. But as with Europe, government agencies assume the politically-correct approach in insisting that Islam has nothing to do with this crime, and the mainstream media fails to report these gang members as being mainly Muslim. In doing so, the rape and exploitation of thousands more vulnerable schoolgirls are being facilitated. Also, many Muslim gang-rapes go unreported because the victims are too scared or embarrassed to report these crimes.No country with a Muslim population is immune to grooming gangs. America is on the same path as Europe and trailing not too far behind. In fact, Muslim grooming gangs (mainly Somali) have already found their way to the streets of America. These gangs have been operating for over 10 years in Minnesota, Tennessee, Michigan, and Ohio. The largest grooming case in U.S. history was from Somali immigrant communities in Minneapolis (MN) and Nashville (TN), in which 29 Somali Muslims were indicted in 2010 for kidnapping, raping, and selling underage girls between 2000 and 2010.



Why is this horrific global crime of child grooming a phenomenon that occurs mainly amongst Muslim immigrants from Islamic countries? As it turns out, this crime is religiously and politically motivated by Islamic doctrine, which calls for the capturing, raping, and prostituting of non-Muslim women and children after battle, as well as keeping or selling them as sex slaves. Mohammed himself was a slave-owner, and had sex slaves whom he captured in battle. He advised his male followers to imitate his example. In Islam, everything that Mohammed did must be emulated, as he is considered to be the exemplary leader, the perfect man.

Is it any wonder why many Muslims see nothing wrong with grooming or possessing sex slaves? Nor do they see anything immoral or illegal in committing other Islamic-motivated crimes, such as honour killing, female genital mutilation, mosque preachings that nourish homegrown terrorists, street prayer that blocks public streets, street killing of non-Muslims, suicide bombing or martyrdom, as well as homophobia and Jew-hatred.

All these acts are religiously mandated in the Koran and other Islamic doctrines that include the most venerated and reliable legal text Reliance of the Traveller. All acts are instances of Islamic or sharia law in action. There is no revulsion, shame, or guilt involved on the part of the perpetrator, because these actions are entirely acceptable and encouraged in Islam. They run contrary to Western culture, and go beyond merely disrupting the society's public order and public peace that are essential for any civilized nation to survive.

Sharia acts such as grooming are part of a wider strategy to subjugate and destroy western civilization from within, and to establish Islam as the dominant world power. This is referred to as a "civilization-jihadist process" in the Muslim Brotherhood's 1987 Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America. Subjugation of non-Muslims is what Mohammed intended when he ordered Muslims in Medina not to integrate into society after immigrating to their new place, but to form a separate body, to keep their own laws, and to make the host country comply with them. Immigration, too, is a religious obligation to expand Islam into new territories and establish its supremacy over all other religions through the enforcement of sharia acts on the host society.

Hence, Muslim grooming and other Islamic-motivated acts constitute sedition, treason, or acts of war, as they are carried out with the intention of eventually overthrowing the government and creating a global Islamic caliphate (or unified Islamic nation-state). The preservation of Western countries in which groomers have been made citizens is being threatened by their seditious acts of sharia. The Muslim grooming gangs, along with other perpetrators of sharia acts, need to be identified in the terms that define them -- religion.

As the West continues to ignore the fact that most of the groomers are Muslims who view the West as the enemy to be conquered, sharia acts continue to chip away at European values with conviction and impunity. The strategy of undermining the West is operating at full speed in Europe. 

Americans, also in jeopardy of losing their traditional and cultural values, need only look across the pond to get an idea of what's to come in their own country. There is a lesson to be learned from Europe: identify the gang-rape assailants in terms of their religion and suppress sharia now, or reap the consequences of sharia being enforced as a way of life, as evidenced in parts of Europe.


Psychologist on Muslim rape gangs: Psychology of sexual abuse is ingrained in their religion and culture


Rotherham sex abuse monster flies to Pakistan and says: I'm living the high life

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Sick Umar Razaq – released from jail after appealing the length of his sentence – posted a picture of himself in sunglasses on Facebook

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Worst in gang: Vile Umar Razaq on Facebook

One of the abusers at the heart of the Rotherham child sex scandal today boasted he was “living the high life” – leaving his victim distraught.
Sick Umar Razaq – released from jail after appealing the length of his sentence – posted a picture of himself in sunglasses on Facebook as he flew off to Pakistan.
Earlier he had boasted: “Can’t wait... Roll on to the lifetime holiday.”
He added: “Three days and I’m outta this country for a very long time. Feeling happy.”
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Taunt: Razaq’s online boast sickened victim
The 28-year-old sex attacker, one of the ring leaders of the child grooming gang, also whinged about women crying rape in a disgusting dig at his victim.
The taunt left the girl – now 19 and named only as Lizzie – in tears.
She sobbed: “This is beyond disgusting. How can he be allowed leave the country?
"He shouldn’t have a passport or be on Facebook. This man beat me, strangled me and abused me.
"He has stalked me since he got out.”
She went on: “Umar was the worse one. He was really violent. He strangled me twice and threatened to kill me.
"It’s disgusting he can do this to us. It’s horrible.”
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Monsters: Zafran Ramzan, Umar Razaq, Adil Hussain, Mohsin Khan and Razwan Razaq
Umar – who lived close to a park where the Asian gangs preyed – left the message online just hours after police revealed there were 173 live investigations into grooming in South Yorkshire.
Lizzie, who described the men as “pure evil” said she was 12 the first time she was raped and she was “abused hundreds of times”.
She said: “I was abused by all five of them. They passed me around.”
She added: “Not one of them has ever given us an apology.
“They dragged people in to cars and drugged them. They damaged my body and they took away my virginity.
"None of their sentences were long enough. They told me my family hated me and didn’t want me but they did and they would marry me.
"At first I believed it all and then they turned nasty.”
 
She said they threatened to set her house on fire and pour petrol down their throats.
Lizzie also claimed her family begged social workers for help but said: “They used to make me feel bad about it – one of them kept saying ‘Those men you’re seeing – do you know that’s wrong?’
"They never told me it was them that were wrong – they made me feel it was me.”
Reliving her first attack in an alleyway when she was 12, she said: “I felt disgusting. When one of them strangled me I thought I was going to die.
"He was strangling me so tight I couldn’t breathe. They put me through hell.”
At Sheffield crown court, Umar was jailed for four and a half years in November 2010 for sexual activity with a girl of 13. His sentence was cut to three-and-a-half years and he is now free.
The other men in the gang were Zafran Ramzan, his cousin Razwan Razaq, Adil Hussain and Mohsin Khan. Ramzan, then 21, was jailed for nine years for raping a 16-year-old girl and two counts of sexual activity with a child.
Razwan Razaq, 30, was jailed for 11 years, while Hussain, 20, and Mohsin Khan, 21, were sentenced to four years in prison. It is believed only two are still behind bars.
 
Khan hid his life of depravity behind his middle class background. The mortgage adviser lived in a £300,000 house in Moorgate, a favourite choice of doctors from the nearby hospital.
The final gang member Hussain, was recalled to prison last year. It is believed he breached his licence agreement by going to a children’s play area.
It also emerged Ramzan had links with a bogus bride network. His dad Mohammed Ramzan, 59, was jailed over a wedding plot in which women were preyed on before they were given £300 to pose as brides in fake ceremonies abroad.
Today Umar Razaq’s family confirmed he had gone abroad to join the “family business”.
The relative said the family home was pelted with eggs and added: “Our family just want to get over it, we just want to be able to move on.
“Umar applied for a million jobs. I saw how depressed he was getting.
"Now he has gone to Pakistan for the foreseeable future I don’t think he will come back to be honest.”
 But today locals spoke of the arrogance of the sex abuse gang, with Umar boasting to cops before fleeing to Pakistan: “You can’t touch me.”

Laughing pervert Umar Razaq was seen by neighbours arrogantly strutting before he left the UK after serving his sentence.
One of Umar’s former neighbours said: “He has always been cocky and arrogant and didn’t show any shame for his crimes when he arrived back here.
“Recently couple of police cars arrived and Umar just strolled along the street with his rucksack on his back, without a care in the world.
“A neighbour, angry at his release, shouted: 'Have they come for you?’
"But Umar was just laughing with his head in the air and shouted loud enough for everyone to you: 'No they’ll not come for me - you can’t touch me.'”

UK: Islamic supremacist Fiyaz Mughal complains of “Islamophobia” after Muslim Convert Beheads Woman in Her Garden

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Here it comes, the second wave in an Islamic attack on the non-believer is followed up by Islamic supremacist admonishments about “backlash” and the sharia-propaganda club “islamophobia.” The faked hate narrative is full-on, kuffar.
Faked hate, phase two of any terror attack. The Islamic supremacists and their apologists have this down cold. I am beginning to believe that they look forward to terrorist attacks so that they can begin the beatdown (and the accompanying shakedown).
Kill — then cry. That’s the jihad credo. Kill in the cause of Islam, then cry, ‘islamophobia!”
Pamela Silva, an elderly Italian woman, was gardening in her yard on a sunny day on a quiet residential street outside of London when her Muslim convert neighbor beheaded her with a machete. He lived a couple of doors down from her in this heavily populated Muslim neighborhood.
Horrifying savagery.
And the response from self-proclaimed Muslim leaders in the UK and beyond is to step on her head and decry imaginary “islamophobia”?
UK: Islamic supremacist Fiyaz Mughal complains of “Islamophobia” Thanks to Robert Spencer, September 7, 2014
FiyazMughalTaqiyyaThe dishonest and discredited Islamic supremacist victimhood propagandist Fiyaz Mughal of Tell Mama is crying about “Islamophobia” instead of doing what he should be doing, if he really is what he claims to be: confronting the texts and teachings of Islam that justify violence and supremacism and working to reform them in a genuine and sincere manner, so as to remove their capacity to incite people to violence. The hard-Leftist World Bulletin reported:
Fiyaz Mughal, director of Tell Mama, told The Guardian newspaper that the think tank recorded a sudden spike in the number of threats made against Muslims and mosques on social media as well as in the streets of Britain.
“The assumption is that ‘beheading equals Muslim.’ The association, for some, is an automatic response,” Mughal said.
In this case, however, the culprit was not a Muslim.
Oops.
“Nick Salvadore, suspect for beheading of Palmira Silva, is would-be cage-fighter and Muslim convert,” by Patrick Sawer, Gordon Rayner, Keith Perry, Tom Whitehead and Tom Brooks-Pollock, the Telegraph, September 5, 2014:
The man accused of beheading a great-grandmother in her back garden is a would-be cage fighter who converted to Islam five years ago, it has emerged.
Nicholas Salvadore, 25, was charged late on Friday with the murder of 82-year-old Palmira Silva, who was hacked to death in an apparently random attack on Thursday afternoon. Mr Salvadore was also charged with assaulting a police officer.
Mrs Silva is understood to have been attacked by a suspect who had argued with his flatmates minutes earlier, prompting them to flee in terror in a car as he smashed one of its windows. The killer then beheaded two cats, ranting as he did so, before targeting Mrs Silva.
A neighbour said the suspect had told her a week ago: “The police are looking for me, but they can’t find me, I’m going to hide.”
Neighbours said Mr Salvadore had been living with friends a few doors down from Mrs Silva in Edmonton, north London, for several months and was well known in the area, where he was nicknamed “Fat Nick”.
An hour before Mrs Silva’s murder, Mr Salvadore had been involved in an argument at the local Nightingale Café, where he ordered a takeaway burger and left without paying.
Fatima Altun, 20, who works in the cafe, said: “I went after him and said ‘You haven’t paid’. He gave me the money, it was £3, but he was a bit angry about it. To me he seemed a bit depressed or upset about something.”
He was also involved in a row with a local taxi firm last year. A shopkeeper in Nightingale Road said: “I don’t know what the argument was about but it ended up with him breaking a window.”
Khairul Islam, 40, who runs an Internet cafe close to Mrs Silva’s home, said: “He’d come over quite a lot and search the internet for things like cars. He was one of these people that just hangs around, a bit of a ruffian but never violent to me. He seemed OK, just a loafer.”
Lewis Young, 24, a tattoo artist who attended the local Nightingale Academy secondary school with Mr Salvadore, said: “At school he was just a normal bloke. He has seemed pretty cool. I just can’t believe he could have done something like this.”
Mr Salvadore had ambitions to become a cage fighter, but had gone off the rails and was known locally for dealing drugs.
Another acquaintance of Mr Salvadore said: “He was having problems at work. He’s just been sacked. He’d had problems with drink and drugs in the past.”
Dave Jensen, 52, a builder who once employed Mr Salvadore as a labourer, said he had converted to Islam five years ago.
However he added that he had never behaved aggressively regarding his religion or beliefs.
Mr Jensen said: “Nick told me in passing he’d turned to Islam, about five years ago. But he wasn’t in your face about it. He didn’t try and convert others or talk about religion and politics at all.
“He worked for me off and on, labouring and clearing rubbish in houses round here.”
Police disclosed that it took almost half an hour to arrest the suspect after the first 999 call was received at 1.07pm on Thursday. A police helicopter was overhead by 1.12pm, by which time it is thought Mrs Silva was already dead, and officers on the ground “contained” the suspect as he roamed between back gardens before he was finally cornered in a house and arrested at 1.35pm.
Witnesses said two young boys were in the house where the suspect was held, and described police smashing a window so their mother could hand them to officers and then scramble clear of the house herself.
The alleged killer was shot with a Taser during his arrest, and spent Thursday night in hospital being treated for injuries sustained in a struggle with police, but was discharged on Friday morning and taken to a police station for questioning. Scotland Yard said the murder was not related to terrorism….
After arguing with his housemates and chasing them into the streets, the killer is said to have grabbed a machete and shouted: “Where are the cats?” and “The cats have stolen my lighter.”
Witnesses said he went from his own back garden into the next door garden, where he beheaded a cat before going into the street and butchering another cat. He then ran through the front door of a house that had been left open, got into the back garden and from there went into Mrs Silva’s garden….
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/09/uk-uk-islamic-supremacist-fiyaz-mughal-complains-islamophobia-muslim-convert-beheads-woman-garden.html/#sthash.oZs9W2WH.dpuf

Britain's supermarket jihadi: ISIS fighter who plans to 'bomb the UK' is unmasked as Morrisons security guard who was arrested on way to Syria - but LET GO by police

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A British jihadi who has threatened to ‘bomb the UK’ is today unmasked as a former supermarket security guard – who travelled to wage war in Syria despite being known to police.

Less than two weeks ago, the anonymous extremist known only as ‘Awlaki’ gave an extraordinary interview to the BBC where he boasted about fighting with the terror group Islamic State (IS) and laughed about the beheading of soldiers.

But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that this fanatical Muslim who claims to ‘hate the UK’ is 27-year-old Omar Hussain, who grew up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

Execution witness: Omar Hussain has told friends in the UK that he watched the beheading of James Foley
Execution witness: Omar Hussain has told friends in the UK that he watched the beheading of James Foley

Astonishingly, he is still in contact with friends in this country and has told them he witnessed the execution of American journalist James Foley.

According to community leaders in High Wycombe, police knew of his extremist views and had arrested him at Heathrow last year on suspicion that he was trying to travel to Syria. Despite this, he managed to leave Britain for the war-torn Middle East earlier this year.
Lord Carlile, the Government’s former adviser on counter-terrorism, last night called for an investigation into how Hussain managed to leave the country.

‘It would be extremely troubling if it emerged that he was allowed to leave the country without a travel document. I would like to know what steps were taken given the knowledge of his intentions,’ he said.

The revelations come after Prime Minister David Cameron claimed the prospect of fighters from IS returning to Britain now poses the ‘greatest and deepest’ security threat in the country’s history. On Friday, the UK terror threat level was raised from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe’, meaning the risk of an attack is ‘highly likely’.

In his BBC2 Newsnight interview this month in which he disguised his true identity, Hussain said: ‘I hate the UK, the only reason why I would intend to return to the UK is when I want to come and plant a bomb somewhere.’

When asked if IS beheaded a number of people after taking towns around Aleppo a fortnight ago, he laughed and said: ‘Yeah, we did. I believe there were three or four guys we beheaded.
‘We then put their heads, as usual, in the middle of the town centre.’

Execution: Less than two weeks ago, Hussain gave an interview to the BBC where he boasted about fighting with ISIS and laughed about the beheading of soldiers. Above, Mr Foley is seen moments before his execution
Execution: Less than two weeks ago, Hussain gave an interview to the BBC where he boasted about fighting with ISIS and laughed about the beheading of soldiers. Above, Mr Foley is seen moments before his execution

Former classmates from Cressex comprehensive school in High Wycombe yesterday recalled Hussain as a ‘weird, social outcast’. ‘He would tell girls to dress conservatively and put their hair up, otherwise they would be punished by God,’ said one former pupil.

After leaving school, he worked for Morrisons for a number of years as a security guard. Last night, staff at the High Wycombe store recognised his photo.

 He had worked there three years ago, one colleague said, but left after vandalising a manager’s car.

Hussain travelled to Syria in January after telling his family he was going to Friday prayers at his local mosque. 

Lord Carlile, the Government¿s ex-adviser on counter-terrorism, has called for an investigation into how Hussain managed to leave the country
Lord Carlile, the Government’s ex-adviser on counter-terrorism, has called for an investigation into how Hussain managed to leave the country
It is thought he went first to France, then overland to Turkey and over the border to Syria. Hussain has since been actively involved in fighting around Aleppo in northern Syria.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that he contacted a friend in High Wycombe in the days after Mr Foley’s execution, saying he witnessed it.

According to an informed source, Thames Valley Police are aware of his claims and know the identity of the individual he contacted. 

Police refused to answer any questions relating to Hussain, saying they cannot comment on individual cases.

Hussain, who is British-born and of Pakistani heritage, is the youngest of three sons and lived at a semi-detached house in High Wycombe with his mother and brothers.

Community elders said he became radicalised two years ago after he started mixing with a group of hardline Muslims known as salafis at his mosque in the Totteridge area of High Wycombe run by the Wycombe Islamic Society (WISE). Zahid Jawed, a spokesman for WISE, said Hussain did worship at the mosque but denied it had radicalised him.

One of Hussain’s neighbours, who asked not to be named, said that in June last year, he was detained at the airport as he tried to leave for Pakistan as police had suspicions that he might travel on to Syria.

As Hussain was questioned at Heathrow the police came and raided his house, the neighbour added. Hussain was also re-arrested a few weeks later outside his house, but released the next day without charge.

Mohammed Khaliel, a family friend and Muslim leader, said: ‘His mother is extremely distressed. She is crying a lot. They are a good family.’

Isis fighters must be allowed back into UK, says ex-MI6 chief

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Britain should encourage jihadis fighting in Syria and Iraq to "come home", the former global counter-terrorism director of MI6 has said.
David Cameron outlined new powers last week for police to seize the passports of terrorist suspects and stop British extremists from returning to the UK. Others, including Boris Johnson, the London mayor, have called for British jihadis to have their citizenship removed.
However, Richard Barrett, a former counter-terrorism chief at MI5 and MI6, said repentant fighters needed "to know that there is a place for them back at home".
His comments follow reports that dozens of disillusioned British jihadis are looking at ways to return to the UK, but fear being imprisoned. Barrett, who also led the UN mission to track down Osama bin Laden, said returning fighters could prove an invaluable asset in dissuading potential jihadis from travelling to fight with Islamic State (Isis).
"Many of the people who have been most successful in undermining the terrorist narrative are themselves ex-extremists," said Barrett, adding that such people can "explain why going abroad to fight is a very bad idea".
He said: "It would seem sensible to encourage British and other foreign fighters who have joined the Islamic State or other extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, and now realise this was wrong, to come home.
"These are the people who can expose the true nature of the Islamic State and its leadership. Their stories of brutality and the motives behind it will be far more credible and persuasive than the rhetoric of men in suits.
"These repentant fighters need a way out, and although the law must take its course, they need to know there is a place for them back at home if they are committed to a non-violent future."
Researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College London have recently been contacted by jihadis who say that they are despondent about the situation in Syria and that, although they fear lengthy custodial sentences, they would be happy to enrol on de-radicalisation programmes.
"These ex-fighters could help the authorities to understand better than they do now why people are still going to Syria and Iraq and what needs to be done to slow the flow to a trickle or stop it altogether," said Barrett.
Pressure for a fundamental reappraisal of Britain's de-radicalisation programme is mounting among experts and politicians. Hazel Blears, a former Home Office minister, echoed the need to use the experiences of extremists to prevent other Britons following in their footsteps. "Provided you start from a sceptical point of view and you can find some who are genuinely remorseful, for whom it's been a terrible experience, and who are prepared to join a programme talking to other young people, then absolutely you should be trying to work with them. It's a very powerful narrative."
Senior Liberal Democrat figures are also understood to be open to the notion of offering jihadis a way back home, so long as they renounce violence. Sir Menzies Campbell, a former party leader, said: "I don't think we could give them a total amnesty, but we could treat them leniently in return for completing a de-radicalisation programme."
The threat posed by Isis will be the subject of a day-long Commons debate on Wednesday. Conservative whips have begun to take soundings at Westminster over Tory MPs' attitude to military action, indicating that the backbench mood was "hardening".
However, Blears added: "There's no point taking military action if you continue to have a supply chain of people ready to go here in Britain and across the world."
More than 500 British citizens are believed to have travelled to the region since 2011. In today's Observer, the controversial British Islamist Anjem Choudary acknowledges Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the self-declared Islamic State, as "the caliph of all Muslims and the prince of the believers".
His support of Baghdadi comes days after a video was released showing the beheading of the American journalist Steven Sotloff, apparently by the same British jihadi member of Isis who had taken part in the decapitation of Sotloff's fellow hostage James Foley.
It also follows a succession of atrocities perpetrated and disseminated by Isis fighters, including massacres of captured Syrian soldiers and reported genocidal attacks on the Yazidi minority. Human Rights Watch says it has identified sites of Isis mass killings in the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
Choudary, who has had links with a number of Muslims convicted under UK anti-terror laws, dismissed the allegations against Isis as propaganda, expressing his admiration for the jihadi state and claiming that Christians were voluntarily returning to Isis-ruled Mosul because they wanted to live under sharia law.
Meanwhile, a French journalist held hostage for months by Isis in Syria has revealed that one of his abductors was Mehdi Nemmouche, the Frenchman suspected of killing four people, two of them Israeli citizens, at the Brussels Jewish Museum this year. French magazine Le Pointquoted its reporter, Nicolas Henin, saying that he had been tortured by Nemmouche, who is now in custody. Henin was held for a time with Foley and Sotloff and was released in April.

Two more men are charged with child rape after huge raid by police investigating sex abuse in Buckinghamshire town

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  • Harmohan Nangpal, 40, and Faisal Iqbal, 31, to appear before magistrates
  • Nagpal, from Hayes in Middlesex is accused of raping a girl under 13 
  • Iqbal, from Aylesbury, charged with conspiracy to rape a girl under 16
  • Police say alleged offences were committed between 2005 and 2008
  • Last week officers carried out dawn raids on 11 properties
  • Eight men already charged in connection with alleged sex exploitation

Two men have been charged with child rape offences after a huge police raid by police investigating sex abuse in a Buckinghamshire town.

Harmohan Nangpal, 40, and Faisal Iqbal, 31, will both appear before magistrates today charged in connection with alleged child exploitation around Aylesbury. 

Nangpal, of Hayes, Middlesex, is accused of raping a girl under 13, while Iqbal, of Aylesbury, faces one count of conspiracy to rape a girl under 16.


Police said the pair were arrested over alleged offences committed in the Aylesbury area between 2005 and 2008.

    Last Tuesday police carried out a series of synchronised dawn raids, in which up to 120 officers stormed 11 properties across Buckinghamshire and Middlesex.

    Following the raids, eight other men, aged between 28 and 45, were charged in connection with alleged child sex exploitation following the raids as part of Operation Articulate.

    Allegations: Police said the pair were arrested over alleged offences committed around the town of Aylesbury between 2005 and 2008 (file picture)
    Allegations: Police said the pair were arrested over alleged offences committed around the town of Aylesbury between 2005 and 2008 (file picture)

    Police said the raids had been prompted by information received 'earlier this year', and related to two female victims with the alleged abuse carried out between 2005 and 2012. 

    Speaking after last week's raids, Acting Superintendent Olly Wright said: 'The police action taken today comes as a result of information given to the police earlier this year. We have been working closely with other agencies to investigate these matters, and to provide support and care for the victims.

    'The aim of this operation is to protect victims, bring offenders to justice, and to offer help to any others who we are encouraging to come forward. We will continue to work alongside our partner agencies to offer any support victims need as we carry on with the investigation.'

    Officers said they were not linked to recent high profile sex cases in Rotherham and Oxford. 
    Nangpal and Iqbal have been remanded to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates’ Court later today. 

    The other eight men, who face accusations of rape against teenage girls, forcing them into prostitution, ABH and drugging them, were arrested following the execution of police warrants last Tuesday, and charged the following day.

    Arshad Jani, 32, from Aylesbury, is charged with one count of conspiracy to rape a girl aged between 13 and 15, one count of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 and one count of raping a girl.


    Vikram Singh, 45, also from Aylesbury, is accused of four counts of raping a girl under 16, three counts of raping a girl under 13 and one count of administering a substance with the intent of committing a sexual offence.

    Asif Hussain, 32, from Milton Keynes, has been charged with three counts of raping a girl under 13 and one count of arranging/facilitating the prostitution of a child, while 35-year-old Jerome Joe, from Buckingham, is charged with one count sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15.

    Sohail Qamar, 40, from Aylesbury, is charged with one count of assaulting occasioning actual bodily harm, one count of causing or inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity and one count of raping a woman aged 16 or over.

    Akbari Khan, 35, Aylesbury, is accused of two counts of rape of a girl, one count of conspiracy to rape a girl and two counts of administering a substance with the intent of committing a sexual offence.
    Taimoor Khan, 28, from Aylesbury, is also charged with two counts of raping a girl, one count of conspiracy to rape a girl and one count of administering a substance with intent of committing a sexual offence.
    And Sajid Ali, 34, from Chesham, is charged with one count of raping a girl, one count of conspiracy to rape a girl, one count of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 and one count of administering a substance with the intent of committing a sexual offence.

    They all appeared before a judge at Amersham Crown Court on Monday.

    Three other men, aged 30, 40 and 30 arrested in connection with the inquiry were released without charge.


    Rotherham sex abuse victim: I told police names of 250 men who raped me but they did NOTHING

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    Shocking: Asian gangs carried out abuse over 16-year period


    Scrawled on two sides of A4 paper are the names of 250 men. They are the attackers of Emma, who was raped every day for two years.
    As a teenager, she was passed from one monster to the next. She was gang-raped, had her virginity taken and had her tears laughed at following a mock execution.
    After suffering such unimaginable horror, Emma just wanted to torture to end.
    Tonight she told how she gave police and council officials her “list of shame”. They did nothing.
    Tragically, Emma – now 25 – was just another victim of the Rotherham child sex scandal.
    It said the victims were ignored by South Yorkshire authorities and that the number of those abused could be higher.
    “A lot of them need to face facts,” said Emma, which is not her real name. “They have failed us.”
    Emma now fears that her handwritten list of attackers – along with clothing she gave to detectives as evidence – has been lost.
    Despite this she hopes to finally get justice after her harrowing case was reopened.
    She said of the authorities: “They should be jailed for what they’ve done. Police Commissioner Shaun Wright should resign.
    Emma told how she was first groomed aged 12 by a boy of 17 who came from a wealthy family with Pakistani heritage.
    A year later she was raped at an outdoor market while her friend was forced to watch.
    Emma, who was a virgin at the time, recalled: “I told him I was cold so he put his arms around me and said he’d warm me up.
    "He then dragged me round the corner and was on top of me taking my clothes off. There was another man too holding my arms behind my head.
    "Then all these other men came out of nowhere. Two were holding my friend, forcing her eyes open and making her watch.
    When she got home Emma hid her clothes in a drawer. She said from then on she was controlled.
    Her abuser raped her once a week and then passed her around his friends and relatives, including his brother-in-law and cousins.
    “We would be in Rotherham town centre and a car would pull up,” explained Emma. “They’d tell me to get into the other car. I was driven to the park and then locked in with a man.
    “He unzipped his trousers and I said ‘no’. He told me no was not an answer. He got violent, grabbing my throat and hair – then he pushed my face on his penis.
    “They also locked me in a bedroom flat, took all my clothes off and sent in man after man. I was there for about six hours.”
    In another shocking ordeal, a man with gold teeth grabbed a gun from under his car seat, putting it to Emma’s head.
    She told how he ordered: “You need to count down because you’re going to die in three seconds.”
    He then counted before pulling the trigger – laughing as she sobbed in utter fear.
    If Emma believed she would be killed if she tried to escape. Her original abuser tried to set her face alight after spraying it with an aerosol after she threatened to speak out.
    Eventually, her mum asked what was happening and Emma blurted out: “I’ve been raped!”
    Emma said they went to the police and were told it was her word against her abuser’s and that the case “probably wouldn’t go to court”.
    And the horror continued as the rapists began circling her estate and making threatening calls, saying they would gang-rape her mother and make her watch.
    “They gang-raped me, so what stops them from doing the same thing to my mum?” said Emma.
    The only way her parents could keep her safe was to move abroad.
    Emma added: “I slept in Mum’s bed until I was 18.”
    Despite the petrifying abuse she suffered, Emma explained: “I feel more anger towards the authorities than I do the perpetrators. They were supposed to be protecting us. They were happy to take their wage and not do anything.
    “Now is the time for other women need to come forward to have justice.”

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    Another victim of the Rotherham child sex scandal who went to the police repeatedly was Jessica. She was groomed at 14 for two years by an Asian man, 25.
    Mum-of-two Jessica, which is not her real name, said the man she thought she was in love with tried to kill her at least 30 times.
    She said: “I was so used to the violence – he punched me, he headbutted me. That was normal life. He knew I was terrified of heights and used that to scare me.
    “He would threaten to drive off a cliff with me in the car. So many times he sped up to 90mph and skidded to a halt just before the edge. He’d then say he was going to throw me off the cliff.
    “He actually drove through two cars and into a church during one attempt to kill me. I was 15 and pregnant at the time. I was rushed to hospital.
    “One time he saw me chatting to a boy at school. When I got in the car he smashed my face into the dashboard. I’d say he tried to kill me between 20 and 30 times.
    “We went to the police every other day and spoke to some senior officers but nothing happened.”
    She said she wept after hearing the report: “I can’t believe Rotherham Council has been allowed to get away with this. I think it was a cover up.”

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    Jailed monsters: Zafran Ramzan, Umar Razaq, Adil Hussain, Mohsin Khan and Razwan Razaq

    Meanwhile, the mother of a teenager murdered by her abusers said her daughter would still be alive if Rotherham Council and the police had listened to her cries for help.
    Laura Wilson, 17, was stabbed to death in 2010 and drowned at knifepoint by her abusers.
    The teenager, who was identified as at risk of sexual exploitation five years earlier, was killed because she had fallen pregnant and threatened to tell the man’s family.
    Ashitaq Asghar admitted killing Laura Wilson and was jailed for 17-and-a-half years.
    Her mum Margaret Wilson said she first contacted the authorities about the grooming a decade ago.
    She said: “There’s social services and the police as well, who have kept things quiet for so many years. Too many people getting away with things. If they had acted all those years ago my daughter would still be alive today.”
    South Yorkshire Police said: “Officers are currently speaking to a number of people as part of Operation Clover, which is an ongoing live investigation.”



    Birth defects are the biggest killer of children in the Bradford district

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    OPEN DEBATE: Councillor Debbie Davies, with a copy of the report into child deaths
    OPEN DEBATE: Councillor Debbie Davies, with a copy of the report into child deaths
      THE sheer scale of Bradford's birth defect problem has been laid bare in a new report on child deaths.
    The report shows that two in every five child deaths in the district are caused by genetic anomalies - the most common cause of death among under-18s.
    And further analysis suggests around a third of these deaths involve parents who are related to each other and carry the same faulty gene.
    Councillor Ralph Berry, executive member for children's services at Bradford Council, said each death of a child was "a great loss" for the family affected and the figures had to be brought down.
    Consanguineous relationships - those between blood relatives - are particularly common in the district's South Asian population, where they make up around 60 per cent of all marriages.
    The report describes the latest work done by the district's Child Death Overview Panel, which aims to analyse all child deaths to try to prevent similar deaths in future.
    It says: "Although most babies from consanguineous relationships are born healthy, it is more likely that the same rare gene is carried by both parents in communities where this practice is common.
    "If this occurs the baby may be affected and if a serious disease, the baby may die."
    Over the past six years, 187 out of 459 child deaths analysed (41 per cent) were caused by genetic, chromosomal or congenital anomalies. In comparison, the national rate is currently 24 per cent.
    The second most common cause of a child death in Bradford was a 'perinatal or neonatal event', for example, a baby born very prematurely.
    A closer look at 95 of the child deaths caused by genetic anomalies showed that around a third - 29 cases - involved parents who were related to each other and carried the same faulty gene.
    The findings tie in with major research published last year by the Born in Bradford project, which found that the risk of a child being born with a genetic anomaly rose from three per cent to six per cent if they were born to blood relatives.
    The latest study is included in the annual report of the Bradford Safeguarding Children Board due to be discussed by councillors tomorrow.
    Professor Nick Frost, the independent chairman of the board, said: "It is an important issue, which is why we included it in our report."
    He said work was being done locally to educate people about the issue, and that he had personally been on an awareness-raising course aimed at health professionals, social workers and those working in education.
    Bradford Telegraph and Argus:
    Cllr Berry said the district was at the cutting edge of research into the field, through the Born in Bradford project.
    He added: "We live in a free society and we can't tell people who they will or will not marry, but I am a believer that this programme will provide the sort of evidence and the facts that make people reflect and think about the decisions they make in life."
    Councillor Debbie Davies, Conservative spokesman for children's services, called for a more open and clear debate around the issue and said schools had a role to play to make sure young people knew the risks when deciding whether to marry a blood relative.
    She added: "We just need to be more open about it and make sure people do understand the risks to their children and the impact on their own lives as well."
    Dr Mohammed Iqbal, chairman of the of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in Bradford, said efforts to raise awareness among South Asian communities had started, but there was more to be done.
    He said seeing it as a question of whether relatives should marry each other was "too bold a brush" to use, but that work should be concentrated among those families at greatest risk of passing down genetic anomalies.
    Dr Iqbal said in particular he wanted to see people given more information about the types of testing available.
    He said: "Maybe this could be targeted through GP surgeries or maybe through mosques or schools. Those are the three areas which we can do a lot more about."
    And he praised the "high level of maturity and respect" there had been in the debate over the issue in Bradford.

    Gang caught with £5.5m of drugs jailed for more than 60 years

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    SIX members of a gang involved in heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine with a street value of more than £5.5 million have been jailed for a total of more than 60 years for conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
    A flat in Lister Court, Cunliffe Road, Manningham, was raided by police on February 12 last year where a haul of 29.8 kilograms of heroin, at varying levels of purity, was found, alongside 78 grams of cocaine and £116,000 of crack cocaine.
    Mohammed Dawood Aslam, 35, of Knightsbridge Walk, Holme Wood, described as the "directing hand in this conspiracy" was jailed for 17 years at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.
    Jamal Mahroof, 23, of Karam Close, Barkerend, Bradford, was jailed for nine years.
    Samir Ali, 23, of Daleside Avenue, Pudsey, Leeds, was sentenced to seven years and three months.
    Mohammed Khan, 41, of Glendevon Place, Whitefield, Manchester was sentenced to eight years and seven months.
    All six defendants who were sentenced yesterday had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs, apart from Mahroof who was convicted after a trial at Bradford Crown Court in June this year.
    Mohammed Masood Aslam, 26, of Ederoyd Mount, Stanningley, had his sentencing adjourned at Bradford Crown Court until November 7, as he is due to stand trial for a separate case of possession of class A drugs with intent to supply in Manchester next month.
    He was remanded in custody until that date.
    The eight defendant in this case, Naveed Ahmed, 31, of Byron Street, Barkerend, who was found guilty by the jury in June this year, did not appear in court for yesterday's verdict of the other six defendants. Instead, he is due to be sentenced at Bradford Crown Court this Tuesday.
    Police used camera surveillance at the flat rented by Nawaz and also tracked the gang using mobile phone activity, which began on January 29 last year.
    The gang were traced around a host of locations including Bradford, Harrogate, Barnsley and Manchester.
    They also uncovered visits by the gang members to the Lister Road flat on several occasions and recorded shopping trips to buy food mixers and a large blue plastic container.
    The operation continued until around 11pm on February 12 last year when Aslam, Ahmed, Nawaz and Ali were arrested by officers at the flat.
    Earlier that night, two members of the group, Ali and Nawaz, had driven from Bradford to Manchester to pick up five kilograms of "high purity" heroin to add to their operation.
    They picked this consignment up from Khan, who was described as the "courier" in the operation.
    Aside from the drugs, the police raid on the flat uncovered a list of drug dealers.
    The other members of the group were arrested at later dates.
    Jailing the gang, Judge Peter Benson said: "In my view, this was the most substantial quantity of drugs to unleash on the streets of West Yorkshire, including a very, very substantial amount of heroin.
    "Most of the defendants were arrested at the same time as the flat was raided."
    An order was also made for the destruction of all drugs and equipment seized in the operation.

    7-Year-Old Shot by Father After Mother Rejects Islam -

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    Another non-Muslim woman marries a Muslim man, and the result is more savagery, more murder, more death because of Islam. But remember what Obama and Kerry and Cameron and May and all the other British authorities would say: this has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam.
    “Face of a killer: Father who shot his seven-year-old daughter dead when her mother rejected Islam then killed himself is pictured for the first time,” by Paul Bentley, James Tozer and Tania Steere, Daily Mail
    This is the first picture of a father who shot and fatally wounded his seven-year-old daughter amid a bitter custody battle with estranged wife.
    Yasser Alromisse, 46, who was born in Egypt, wanted custody of his daughter Mary Ann Shipstone after becoming estranged with his wife Lyndsey.
    After shooting his daughter, Alromisse took his own life inside a silver Toyota on the driveway of his ex-wife’s home in Northiam, near Rye, East Sussex on Thursday.
    Yasser Alromisse shot and fatally wounded his daughter before taking his own life in Rye, East Sussex
    Mary Ann Shipstone, pictured, died of her injuries yesterday after being shot twice in the head by Alromisse
    A mother's love: Lyndsey Shipstone, 42, with her daughter Mary, who died in hospital yesterday after being shot
    Yesterday afternoon, the little girl died in hospital after being gunned down by her ‘jealous’ estranged father.
    She was shot in the head by Alromisse after his English convert wife rejected Islam and him.
    The youngster had returned from school and was excited about celebrating her eighth birthday next week.
    Her mother, Lyndsey Shipstone, 42, screamed: ‘He’s got a gun’ before her estranged Muslim husband shot Mary Ann and then killed himself.
    She raced outside, gathered her daughter in her arms and laid her on a sofa inside.
    Neighbour Helen Barber, 38, said: ‘I ran out up to the house and went in. Mary Ann was on the sofa. There was blood everywhere.
    Seven-year-old Mary Ann Shipstone has died of her injuries after being shot twice in the head by a man believed to be her estranged father, Yasser Alromisse, in the quiet East Sussex village of Northiam
    Seven-year-old Mary Ann Shipstone has died of her injuries after being shot twice in the head by a man believed to be her father
    Neighbours in the quiet village of Northiam, near Rye, East Sussex, described Mary as a ‘lovely little girl’
    Scene of the attack: Residents who heard the shots said they thought someone was shooting pheasants
    Scene of the attack: Residents who heard the shots said they thought someone was shooting pheasants
    Villagers spoke of their shock at the horror in what is a leafy, quiet village near the border with Kent
    Villagers spoke of their shock at the horror in what is a leafy, quiet village near the border with Kent
    ‘I couldn’t feel a pulse. I’ve done first aid before and she was showing no signs of life. Lyndsey was hysterical.’
    Her husband, Stuart Barber, 46, added: ‘The car stopped. There were two shots. No one went to the car. Within minutes armed police turned up and surrounded the car.’
    Miss Shipstone has an older son, Stephen, 21, who has autism and was with a carer when his sister was killed.
    He arrived home 15 minutes after the shooting and was taken away from the scene by Mr Barber.
    The estranged couple were involved in a bitter custody battle and Alromisse had spent a week trying to locate the home the family had moved to.
    It is thought he also staked out their £300,000 house in his Toyota Rav 4 car.
    One villager said he had heard the man had gone to his former partner's home and shot the youngster
    One villager said he had heard the man had gone to his former partner’s home and shot the youngster
    This aerial shot shows the gunman's car, circled right with open doors, and his body covered by a blanket
    This aerial shot shows the gunman’s car, circled right with open doors, and his body covered by a blanket
    Yesterday, Miss Shipstone posted the picture online of her daughter.Last night she was being consoled by her parents and siblings.
    In a statement the family said they were trying ‘to come to terms with what has happened,’ adding: ‘We are today grieving the death of our beautiful and loving Mary.’
    Miss Shipstone’s Facebook post came as it emerged the family had been hiding from Alromisse for several years.
    The couple married in Liverpool in 2005 after Miss Shipstone converted to Islam, friends said.
    But she later rejected the faith and left him, prompting a bitter custody dispute over the children.
    Further legal action had apparently been planned in the past few weeks. While together, their daughter had been known by the traditional Islamic name Maryam. After her mother moved she started calling her ‘Mary Ann’.
    Locals said the little girl and her mother had moved to the quiet village of Northiam, near Rye, last April
    Locals said the little girl and her mother had moved to the quiet village of Northiam, near Rye, last April
    Drone view of house where man ‘shot daughter then killed self’
    A police spokesman said: 'At this stage we are not in a position to confirm the relationships of all those involved but we can say that the girl and the man knew each other'
    A police spokesman said: ‘At this stage we are not in a position to confirm the relationships of all those involved but we can say that the girl and the man knew each other’
    Police confirm man was found dead at scene of Sussex shooting
    Miss Shipstone had also started a relationship with a new man, who Mary is seen clinging to in another photograph uploaded on to a social media site.
    Miss Shipstone married Alromisse after they met in Skelmersdale, her home town in Lancashire.
    Having been a practising Catholic, she converted to Islam and quickly became devout.
    ‘She started wearing long robes and only eating halal food,’ a family friend said. ‘Her son Stephen began using the name Adam.’
    The couple had a daughter named Yasmin Miriam in September 2001, but she died eight months later.
    Mary was born in 2006 but according to former neighbours, social services had to intervene, with orders barring Alromisse from being alone with either child.
    Fear: A man who lives close to where the incident took place said the village was 'on lockdown'
    Fear: A man who lives close to where the incident took place said the village was ‘on lockdown’
    Peaceful village: Cavix Field in Northiam, close to the scene of  yesterday's shooting 
    Peaceful village: Cavix Field in Northiam, close to the scene of  yesterday’s shooting
    ‘He used to hit Stephen,’ the family friend said. ‘Stephen used to say “He’s a bad man”.’ In a tweet posted on December 24, 2009, Miss Shipstone wrote: ‘We loved the snow. Our garden was amazing, covered in thick white snow. We can leave the house without worrying about my husband bothering us.’
    Alromisse became a Community Safety Officer for Uttlesford District Council in Essex.
    His job involved helping with projects to try to reduce crime. Police were last night at an address in Broomfield Avenue, Worthing, West Sussex, where Alromisse was thought to be renting a flat.
    Detective Chief Inspector Jason Taylor of Sussex Police said: ‘We are trying to establish Mr Alromisse’s movements over the last few days and are keen to hear from anyone who may have seen or heard from him.’
    The force said a suspect had been identified and 'is contained', and officers were not looking for anyone else 
    The force said a suspect had been identified and ‘is contained’, and officers were not looking for anyone else.
    - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/09/uk-7-year-old-shot-father-mother-rejects-islam.html/#sthash.cOQbOFN2.dpuf

    British jihadist medical student, 21, is pictured holding severed head while wearing her white doctor's jacket

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    • Woman calling herself Mujahidah Bint Usama posted image on Twitter
    • Also wrote 'dream job, a terrorist doc' with smiley face and love hearts
    • Woman has also posted images of 9/11 attacks and mutilated soldiers 
    • Has been linked to all-female al-Khanssaa brigade based in Raqqa, Syria

    A woman believed to be a British medical student who left the UK in order to join ISIS has posted an image on social media of herself holding a severed head.

    The woman, who goes by the Twitter name of Mujahidah Bint Usama, claims to be a doctor for the terror group based in Raqqa, Syria.

    In the image, which was used as her profile picture but has since been removed, she can be seen wearing a full burka and white lab coat while holding the head of a man.

    A British medical student calling herself Mujahidah Bint Usama, 21, posted this image online of her holding a severed head while two children look on (censored by MailOnline)

    To the left of the image, two children can be seen standing beside her.

    Her name reflects her jihadi convictions, with Mujahidah appearing to be the female version of mujahadid - meaning soldier of God.

    Bint translates as 'child of', while Usama likely references Osama Bin Laden.

    The gruesome image appears alongside the message 'Dream job, a terrorist doc,' followed by images of smiley faces and love hearts. 

    According to The Sunday Telegraph, she is a 21-year-old British medical student.
    Bint Usama, who has more than 800 followers on the social media site, has previously tweeted images of dead soldiers and the 9/11 terror attacks, alongside information on how to treat an injured knee and insomnia.

    GCHQ and MI5 are known to be monitoring the accounts of around 60 female British jihadis who are believed to be in Raqqa in order to put together a picture of their activities.

    The Government has previously stated that those who take part in atrocities such as beheadings and massacres will be prosecuted for war crimes and terror offences if they return to the UK.

    In other online messages Bint Usama praised Anwar al-Awlaki, an extremist Yemeni preacher who became an Al-Quaeda spokesman and is believed to have inspired hundreds of Western jihadis.

    She also praises women to push their husbands into fighting for Islam, and shared images of the execution of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff, who was beheaded by ISIS earlier this month.

    Sixty female British jihadis are now thought to be with ISIS, including Aqsa Mahmood, 20 is believed to be leading the al-Khanssaa brigade in Raqqa,
    Sixty female British jihadis are now thought to be with ISIS, including Zahra Halane, 16, who fled the UK with her twin sister
    Sixty female British jihadis are now thought to be with ISIS, including Aqsa Mahmood, 20 (left), who is believed to be leading the al-Khanssaa brigade in Raqqa, and Zahra Halane, 16, who fled the UK with her twin sister

    Bint Usama has been linked through her Twitter account to the al-Khanssaa brigade, an all-female group of jihadists who are charged with punishing 'un-Islamic' behaviour by women in Raqqa.

    The name likely derives from Al-Khansa, a famous 7th-century female poet and contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad who converted to Islam and wrote elegies for his brothers, father and children after they were killed in battle. 

    This week members of the brigade, which is thought to be led by British extremists, were reported to be acting as madams running brothels filled with captured Yazidi women, according to the Mirror. 

    As many as 3,000 women and girls have been taken captive from the Yazidi tribe in Iraq as Isis militants continue their reign of terror across the region.

    The think tank MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institution) released a report saying that IS had taken many Yazidi women to be sold and used as sex slaves.

    The al-Khanssaa brigade is a female-only militia set up by the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria, with a key figure believed to be Aqsa Mahmood, 20, of Glasgow, who fled to the country last year. 

    Academics at King's College London have identified three other British females as members of the group - and say there are about 60 UK women who have gone to Syria on jihad.

    Most of these women - including privately-educated Mahmood - are aged between 18 and 24, with al-Khanssaa said to be seeking out people engaging in Western culture in Raqqa.

    It is believed that US hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff were both beheaded in the desert near Raqqa - and therefore the British women in al-Khanssaa could know who killed them.

    All of the women are thought to be based in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria (pictured), where the female al-Khanssaa brigade has been established to punish un-Islamic behaviour among women
    All of the women are thought to be based in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria (pictured), where the female al-Khanssaa brigade has been established to punish un-Islamic behaviour among women

    Rotherham child-sex victim confronts her alleged abuser in the street... but SHE is arrested by a van load of police

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    • Victim saw man she says abused her walking the town's streets
    • The now 28-year-old challenged him over claims of grooming and violence
    • But when police arrived, she was handcuffed and arrested by officers
    • She was 'shoved into van' by two officers in 'thuggish' arrest, witness says
    • Police later realised they had been hoping to interview her over claims
    • She refused to speak to them after she was reportedly pushed against wall

    A victim of Rotherham's child sex abuse scandal confronted a man she says groomed her - but was left shocked when she was the one arrested.

    The woman was shocked when she saw the man walking through the town's centre on Friday and decided to challenge him over the allegations.

    But she was tackled by two police officers and pushed up against a wall during her 'thuggish' arrest, a witness has said.

    A victim of child sex abuse was arrested in Rotherham town centre on Friday after tackling a man she accuses of abusing her when she was younger. File photo

    A damning report released last month detailed how 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the area over a 16-year period.

    The Times reported that a woman whose case is being investigated by authorities - but has not yet been interviewed - was arrested after tackling a man she says groomed her when she was 15.

    A witness accused the police of 'acting like insensitive thugs', telling the paper: 'A police van came and six male officers piled out.
    'Two of them dragged her away, handcuffed her, put her against a wall and then shoved her into the back of the van.'

    South Yorkshire Police told today how they had been hoping to interview the woman in the weeks before the arrest, after they were told of the historic allegations by another organisation.

    But they only realised that she was the woman they had been trying to speak to after her arrest, and have now released her on bail.

    After her treatment at the hands of officers, the woman has been reluctant to talk to police and her complaint against the man is therefore yet to be officially recorded.

    The police force, which has come under fire in the wake of the recent scandal, insists it does take sexual violence seriously and will continue attempts to investigate the woman's claims.

    A spokesman said: 'Specialist officers from South Yorkshire Police had been making efforts to trace a 28-year-old woman who had made allegations to a partner agency.

    'The allegations related to child sexual exploitation. Efforts to trace the woman were unsuccessful.

    'Later that day, officers from a neighbouring force who were providing support to South Yorkshire Police, were approached by a passerby who made complaints about the behaviour of a woman who they believed had been drinking.

    'The woman was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences.

    'She was taken to Main Street Police Station where she was detained and later released on police bail.'

    The spokesman added: 'Whilst she was in custody officers realised the identity of the woman and made sensitive enquiries with her regarding her previous allegation.

    'The woman chose not to speak with the officers at this current time but plans are in place to find an appropriate way to work with the woman and offer her the support she needs to come forward.'

    The arrest comes after an inquiry into long-running child abuse in the area revealed families who tried to step in were in some cases themselves detained by police.

    The Jay report into the scandal stated: 'In two of the cases, fathers tracked down their daughters and tried to remove them from houses where they were being abused, only to be arrested themselves when police were called to the scene.'

    Police flooded the town this weekend ahead of a protest over the scandal by supporters of the English Defence League (EDL), at which four men were arrested.

    Public anger over the abuse has been fanned by the refusal of Shaun Wright, who was Rotherham’s councillor in charge of children’s services during the scandal and is now the area's Police and Crime Commissioner, to resign.

    Sex attacker who assaulted student, 18, on train is caught after she managed to take a picture of him with her phone

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    • Raja Hussain, 39, from Rotherham, given suspended eight-month jail term 
    • He pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an 18-year-old girl on a train 
    • Hussain touched her leg and grinned at her as he looked at naked photos 
    • The University of Sheffield student secretly took a picture of him on train
    • He was arrested and given an Asbo banning him from trains for three years

    A man who groped an 18-year-old girl's leg on a train was caught after she covertly snapped him on her mobile phone.

    Raja Hussain, 39, from Rotherham, was given a suspended eight-month jail term after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a University of Sheffield student on a train in South Yorkshire.

    He was arrested by the British Transport Police and taken to court after the photograph was released.

    Raja Hussain, 39, from Rotherham, who sexually assaulted an 18-year-old girl on a train from Sheffield, was caught after she took this picture of him
    Raja Hussain, 39, from Rotherham, who sexually assaulted an 18-year-old girl on a train from Sheffield, was caught after she took this picture of him

    The 18-year-old student was waiting for a train at Sheffield Midland station on October 29 last year when Hussain started 'grinning' at her, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

    Catherine Duffy, prosecuting, said that the victim felt 'intimidated' after Hussain sat down next to her and started looking at pictures of naked women on his mobile phone.

    She said: 'The defendant was looking at pictures of naked women on his mobile phone.

     He moved closer to the complainant and began to take off his jacket. As he did so he touched her.'

    The student edged away but his body remained in contact with hers and he touched her leg while 'grinning'.

    Hussain got off the train at Rotherham station (pictured), South Yorkshire, after assaulting the teenager 
    Hussain got off the train at Rotherham station (pictured), South Yorkshire, after assaulting the teenager 

    She pretended to text a boyfriend to get Hussain to stop and also sent messages to her mother.
    One read: 'I think this man is trying to stalk me, I actually feel sick.'

    Miss Duffy added: 'As he got off the train in Rotherham she managed to take a picture of the defendant on her mobile phone.'

    Police issued an appeal with the picture of Hussain and he was arrested.

    Sarah Smith, defending, said there was no premeditation and Hussain was suffering from poor mental health at the time.

    He had lost his 'highly respectable' job due to his mental health problems which included depression with psychotic features, hallucinations and delusional beliefs.

    Judge Paul Watson QC, said: 'She is to be commended for the fact that she stuck to her guns and brought this to the attention of the authorities.

    'People who randomly sexually assault members of the public must expect custodial sentences.
    'What makes it serious is the element of fear this causes others.

    'She was brave enough and alert enough to report you and give the police information which eventually led to your arrest and eventual plea of guilty.'

    Hussain was also given an Asbo, banning him from trains for three years.
    The train was travelling between Sheffield and Doncaster.

    “Isis should be called the ‘Un-Islamic State': British Muslims call on David Cameron to stop spread of propaganda,”

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    “Using the group’s preferred name could help it radicalise yet more Britons, the signatories wrote.” So apparently they would have us believe that David Cameron calling the Islamic State “the Islamic State” will make young Muslims in Britain think that it is an Islamic State, and that they must go wage jihad on its behalf. And that makes sense, since David Cameron is such a renowned imam, his word on Islam commands singular respect among Muslims.
    But what are the Islamic Society of Britain, New Horizons in British Islam, the Association of British Muslims and the Association of Muslim Lawyers doing to teach young Muslims that the Islamic State’s understanding of Islam is wrong? Are they taking any steps at all in that direction, or are all their efforts aimed at keeping the kuffar ignorant and complacent?
    “Isis should be called the ‘Un-Islamic State': British Muslims call on David Cameron to stop spread of propaganda,” by Andrew Griffin, the Independent, September 14, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
    Calling the terror group that today claimed to have killed another aid worker the Islamic State legitimises it, and politicians should stop using its preferred name to help halt the radicalisation of British Muslims, leading groups have said.
    A group of prominent Muslims has written to David Cameron to ask that he uses a different name for the group, and to lead a national debate on what it should be called.
    “We propose that ‘Un-Islamic State’ (UIS) could be an accurate and fair alternative name to describe this group and its agenda – and we will begin to call it that,” the letter says.
    Signatories to the letter include Sughra Ahmed, the president of the Islamic Society of Britain. Members of New Horizons in British Islam, the Association of British Muslims and the Association of Muslim Lawyers also signed the letter.
    Using the group’s preferred name could help it radicalise yet more Britons, the signatories wrote.
    “We need to work together and make sure that these fanatics don’t get the propaganda that they feed off,” the letter says.
    “This isn’t going to fix the problem of some young people in our community being radicalised by extremists. There’s more we need to do, together, to tackle that.
    “But confronting this falsehood, that it’s somehow ‘Islamic’ to go off to Iraq or Syria and murder people, is a step in the right direction.”
    Security services believe as many as 500 Britons have gone to the Middle East to fight, and British politicians have raised fears about jihadis returning to Britain.
    The letter was released just before Isis released a video claiming to have killed a British aid worker.

    ‘Imams promote grooming rings’, Muslim leader claims

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    The Oxford grooming ring was promoted by imams who encourage followers to think white women deserve to be “punished”, an Islamic leader has claimed.

    Oxford sex gang: girls as young as 11 'forced into prostitution'
    The guest house was linked to the Oxford sex gang. Left to right, top: Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Kamar Jamil, Assad Hussain. Bottom: Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar and Zeeshan Ahmed Photo: PA
    Dr Taj Hargey, imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation, said race and religion were inextricably linked to the recent spate of grooming rings in which Muslim men have targeted under-age white girls.
    Earlier this week seven members of a child sex ring from Oxford were found guilty of forcing under age girls to commit acts of "extreme depravity".
    Their victims, aged between 11 and 15, were groomed and plied with alcohol and drugs before being sexually assaulted and forced into prostitution. They targeted "out of control" teenagers.
    Dr Hargey said that the case brought shame on the city and the community and is a set back for cross community harmony.
    But worse still is the refusal to face up to its realities, he wrote in theDaily Mail.
    That attitude has been promoted by religious leaders, he believes. “On one level, most imams in the UK are simply using their puritanical sermons to promote the wearing of the hijab and even the burka among their female adherents. But the dire result can be the brutish misogyny we see in the Oxford sex ring.”
    People tiptoe around the issues and refuse to discuss the problems exposed by the scandals such as those “from Rochdale to Oxford, and Telford to Derby”, he wrote.
    In all cases the perpetrators were Muslim men and the victims were under age white girls.
    To pretend it is not a problem is the Islamic community is “ideological denial”, Dr Hargey said.
    “But then part of the reason this scandal happened at all is precisely because of such politically correct thinking. All the agencies of the state, including the police, the social services and the care system, seemed eager to ignore the sickening exploitation that was happening before their eyes.
    “Terrified of accusations of racism, desperate not to undermine the official creed of cultural diversity, they took no action against obvious abuse.”
    The men were allowed, he said, to come and go from care homes by the authorities, and if the situation had been reversed with gangs of white men preying on Muslim teenagers ”the state's agencies would have acted with greater alacrity.”
    True Islam preaches respect for women but in mosques across the country a different doctrine is preached - “one that denigrates all women, but treats whites with particular contempt,” the Imam said.
    The men are taught that women are “second-class citizens, little more than chattels or possessions over whom they have absolute authority," he claims in the column.
    “The view of some Islamic preachers towards white women can be appalling. They encourage their followers to believe that these women are habitually promiscuous, decadent, and sleazy — sins which are made all the worse by the fact that they are kaffurs or non-believers.
    “Their dress code, from miniskirts to sleeveless tops, is deemed to reflect their impure and immoral outlook. According to this mentality, these white women deserve to be punished for their behaviour by being exploited and degraded.”
    Such cases can only be prevented in the future if Britain abandons the blinkers of political correctness, he concludes.

    London children as young as ten being 'trained to be junior jihadis,' warns Deputy Mayor, as extent of extremist threat in the capital is revealed

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    London children under the age of ten are being “trained to be junior jihadis” in a disturbing new sign of the growing extremist threat in the capital, City Hall’s policing supremo warned today. 

    Deputy Mayor Stephen Greenhalgh said that the way some children were being radicalised was  “horrendous” as he revealed that both he and Boris Johnson have been briefed on cases in which primary pupils have been subjected to propaganda and “extremist ideology” by their families.

    His comments, ahead of a counter-terrorism summit at City Hall today, came as a new report added to the concerns about terrorism by warning that at least 40 British fighters involved in the conflict in Syria and Iraq are likely to attempt “blowback” terrorist attacks when they return to this country.

    Mr Greenhalgh insisted that Londoners should not be “panicked” by the increased danger, but said that he was deeply concerned about the indoctrination of children and its potential to fuel the jihadi problem for years to come.

    “The Mayor and I have seen case studies which are quite shocking,” he said. “Some of them are very young. We are talking about under the age of ten. It starts very young with them being subjected to propaganda, extremist ideology, and being trained to be junior jihadis.

    “It’s pretty horrendous when you hear how some of these children are being radicalised. The threat of radicalisation of young people is real and this is a problem that is going to be with us not just for a couple of years, but for the next generation.”

    Concerns: Mr Greenhalgh says that children as young as ten are being subjected to propaganda and extremist ideologyMr Greenhalgh, who oversees policing in the capital, said that he was unable to disclose further details of the children affected, but confirmed that they were from London and that the information had been provided in confidence by Scotland Yard and the intelligence agencies to allow him and the Mayor to understand more fully the impact of radicalisation on the young.

    He said that to combat the problem City Hall wanted to ensure that teachers, social workers, and other child protection staff knew how to spot the signs of radicalisation and that the problem was treated as seriously as other forms of abuse.

    He also warned of the need to be alert to Birmingham-style “Trojan Horse” plots targeting London schools and added that the problem of radicalisation was so severe that London was likely to face terrorist threat for a “generation” or more.

    Mr Greenhalgh’ comments came as he hosted a counter-terrorism summit at City Hall attended by police and crime commissioners from other major cities, including Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. The event was also attended by Scotland Yard counter-terror chief Commander Helen Ball and the government’s former terrorism watchdog Lord Carlile.

    The aim of today’s meeting, which follows earlier warnings from the Prime Minister David Cameron and Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe about the growing terror threat to this country posed by the conflict in Syria and Iraq, was to share methods used in each city for tackling violent extremism and preventing attacks.
    Mr Greenhalgh said that a key aim of today’s meeting was to ensure that clear “referral paths” were provided for those who worked with children to report any case in which they suspected that a child was being indoctrinated with extremist ideology. He said other methods, incuding the use of “informants”, were also needed and that the radicalisation of children by adults was child abuse.
    In a further warning, Mr Greenhalgh said that London schools also faced a “Trojan Horse” risk  - in a reference to the recent row over an alleged Islamist takeover of some schools in Birmingham - and that advice on how to identify the “warning signs” would be prepared.

    Today’s comments by the Deputy Mayor follows the arrest of several teenagers over alleged terror offences linked to the Syria and Iraq conflict. Another indication of the problem came earlier this year when a girl, aged no more than 12, was photographed carrying a black “jihadi” flag associated with al Qaeda on a London street.

    Meanwhile,  a new report published today warns that at least 40 Britons fighting in Syria and Iraq will seek to carry out “blowback” terrorist attacks in this country after their return.

    The report, by the Henry Jackson Society think tank, says that there is “significant evidence” from previous plots in Britain that involvement in conflict overseas can prompt extremists to engage in terrorism here.

    It points that 41 per cent of the 37 terrorists involved in eight major bomb plots in this country between 1999 and 2010, including the July 7 London bombings, had foreign fighting experience and warns that Britons who have fought overseas are “disproportionately involved in some of the most serious offences” carried out here.

    The report states: “Previous terrorist behaviour in the UK shows that the threat from returning fighters and the ‘blowback’ from foreign jihadist conflicts should not be underestimated. Allowing for deaths in the battlefield, a conservative estimate would suggest that approximately 40 returning fighters will seek to re-engage in terrorist activity.”

    Hannah Stuart, the report’s author, added: “All the evidence suggests that some of those who come back will try to mount attacks in this country.”
    The report says that measures such as “selective use of the treason law” and the suspension of benefit payments could be used to deter people from travelling to fight for the Islamic State or other terror groups.

    The findings follow a warning from the Met Commissioner that 500 to 600 British residents have so far taken part in the Syria and Iraq conflict and that close to 200 have already returned to the capital.\

    The official terrorism threat level has also been raised to “severe” – meaning that an attack is  highly likely – in response to growing concern within the intelligence agencies and police about the danger faced by this country.

    The woman who dropped out of Cambridge PhD to enter into polygamous marriage to Muslim businessman with two other wives

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    • Nabilah Phillips dropped out of Cambridge to marry Hasan Phillips
    • She is one of three women married to the businessman and charity worker
    • There are as many as 20,000 polygamous Muslim marriages in Britain

    Studying for a PhD in engineering at one of the world’s leading universities, she might not seem like a prime candidate to enter into a polygamous marriage.

    But that is exactly what Nabilah Phillips has done, dropping out of Cambridge to become one of three women married to businessman and charity worker Hasan Phillips, 32.

    And yesterday it emerged that Nabilah, 35, is among thousands of Muslim women entering into such relationships, illegal in the UK but allowed under Sharia law, which permits men to have four wives.

    Nabilah Phillips dropped out of Cambridge to become one of three women married to businessman and charity worker Hasan Phillips, 32
    Nabilah Phillips dropped out of Cambridge to become one of three women married to businessman and charity worker Hasan Phillips, 32
    Hasan Phillips and his three wives Nabilah 35, Sakinah 33, and Anub 41. Having already been through a divorce, Nabilah, originally from Malaysia, signed up to a similar matrimony service specifically looking for a married man
    Hasan Phillips and his three wives Nabilah 35, Sakinah 33, and Anub 41. Having already been through a divorce, Nabilah, originally from Malaysia, signed up to a similar matrimony service specifically looking for a married man
    Nabilah, 35, is among thousands of Muslim women entering into such relationships, illegal in the UK but allowed under Sharia law, which permits men to have four wives
    Nabilah, 35, is among thousands of Muslim women entering into such relationships, illegal in the UK but allowed under Sharia law, which permits men to have four wives

    A new documentary, The Men with Many Wives, exposes the rise in these unions – there are believed to be as many as 20,000 in Britain– and the dating agency, Muslim Marriage Event, responsible for setting many of them up.

    Having already been through a divorce, Nabilah, originally from Malaysia, signed up to a similar matrimony service specifically looking for a married man.

    She told the programme: ‘I was looking for someone who had been married or was already in a marriage.

    The couple were interviewed in this week's Radio Times
    The couple were interviewed in this week's Radio Times
    ‘I was married before and having gone through one divorce, you kind of know what you want in marriage, so I wanted someone who already knows how to be a husband.

    ‘I really enjoy being in a polygamous relationship. If people can see what the greater benefit is, we are not stupid people who are forced into this type of relationship.’

    It was through this service that she met Mr Phillips – also divorced but re-married to City worker Sakinah, 33 – and decided to abandon her studies to become his second wife.

    The wives occasionally meet, when Mr Phillips – who also works for a charity aiming to spread the word of Islam – organises family outings and Nabilah admits the green-eyed monster does rear its head - and her husband is usually to blame.

    She said: ‘I’m not the jealous type of person, if I do get jealous it’s usually his fault.

    If any problem happens between co-wives it’s usually his fault.

     Praising somebody too much. “Why don’t you be more like her, she’s this, she’s that. If he didn’t say that, we would all be happy.”

    Nabilah has two children with Mr Phillips – who has six in total – and now helps run his import-export business but abandoning her academic career was not her only change after she married. She also began wearing the Muslim veil, the niqab.

    She told The Radio Times: ‘I wanted to wear one before I got married – being married to Hasan has given me the opportunity to wear one and be steady at it. The only prejudice I have met so far has been from other Muslims.’

    During filming, Mr Phillips, who converted to Islam from Christianity when he was 16, marries a third woman, Somalian-born Anub, 41 – who had also never worn the niqab until Mr Phillips requested she do so – who said: ‘A brother who has a wife is already more responsible than one who hasn’t.’

    Nabilah has two children with Mr Phillips - who has six in total - and now helps run his import-export business. But abandoning her academic career was not her only change after she married. She also began wearing the Muslim veil, the niqab
    Nabilah has two children with Mr Phillips - who has six in total - and now helps run his import-export business. But abandoning her academic career was not her only change after she married. She also began wearing the Muslim veil, the niqab

    He did not invite his other two wives to the small ceremony, held at the local mosque, saying: ‘I don’t think it would be right to invite them. Even though they are accepting of polygamy, you don’t want to really rub it in their faces, “Look, I’m getting married”, and expect them to be happy and have a party about it.

    ‘You’re doing it not for them, you’re doing it for the greater benefit of yourself and the person you’re marrying.’

    THE RISE OF POLYGAMOUS MUSLIM MARRIAGES IN BRITAIN 

    Polygamy is illegal in the UK but allowed under Sharia law, which permits men to have four wives.
    Polygamous marriages, largely confined to Muslim families, are only recognised in Britain if they took place in countries where they are legal. 
    There are believed to be as many as 20,000 Muslim polygamous marriages in Britain, with the number ever increasing. 
    For some women being involved in a polygamous marriage is fraught with problems. 
    Because polygamy is illegal, the relationships are not officially recognised and they therefore do not have the same rights as a normal wife, especially when it comes to divorce.
    Each wife lives in a separate house in London and Mr Phillips splits his time equally between them all, spending three nights in each home before moving onto the next.

    The programme also speaks to Mizan Raja, who claims to have more than 50,000 clients on the books of Muslim Marriage Event, which appears to facilitate polygamous marriages.

    He said the popularity of such arrangements is ‘driven by the women’ who are having difficulty finding a husband, he admits that while these women are looking for ‘security’, many of the men have baser motives.

    He said: ‘Men are more drawn to polygamy. Even though there are some who sincerely want to help, those are few, most men who want to do polygamy, probably 80 percent, it’s a sexually driven thing.’

    The problem for some women is that because polygamy is illegal, the relationships are not officially recognised and they therefore do not have the same rights as a normal wife, especially when it comes to divorce.

    As a result, mother-of-eight Shaheen Qureshi is shown in the programme having no choice but to apply for a divorce from a Sharia court after her marriage breaks down.

    The show, which will be broadcast at 10pm next Wednesday on Channel 4, also looks at life inside other polygamous relationships, including Mohammed, 43, who has three wives – including one in Morocco – and eleven children but has been unemployed for two years after losing his job in the restaurant trade and must rely on benefits to support his large family.

    Gang who murdered teenage rapper and sliced off friend's nose with £2.99 meat cleaver in row over YouTube video is jailed for 107 years

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    • Youths hired white range rover and bought two meat cleavers for £2.99 each
    • Day before attack amateur music video 'Go Missing' posted on YouTube
    • Video saw alcohol sprayed over name 'Raz' that had been painted on a wall
    • Aspiring rapper Isaac Stone, 19, died after he was stabbed in his left lung
    • Friend Shajidur Rahman, 20, was left permanently disfigured in fight

    Four gang members who murdered a teenage rapper and left his friend severely disfigured after they had been mocked on a YouTube video have been jailed for a total of 107 years.

    Mohammed Hussain, 22, Rubel Miah, 19, his brother Javed Miah, 21, and Fahim Khan, 20, drove around Bedford in a hired white Range Rover armed with knives and meat cleavers.

    Their victim, aspiring rapper Isaac Stone, 19, was chased and trapped by the gang, before being punched, kicked and stabbed repeatedly, with a wound which penetrated his left lung proving fatal.

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    Mohammed Hussain (left), 22 and Rubel Miah (right), 19, are part of the gang guilty of the murder of Isaac Stone
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    Javed Miah
    Fahim Khan (left), 20, and Javed Miah (right) 21, were also convicted of murder at Luton crown court

    His friend Shajidur Rahman, 20, was left permanently disfigured with deep scars to his face and head after an attack carried out by Rubel Miah and Fahim Khan. His nose was amputated and he suffered four deep slashes to his head and face.

    Prosecutor Vincent Coughlin QC told Luton crown court that the motive for the 'murderous attack' at 6.20 at night on Saturday January 25 this year was not entirely clear.

    But the day before, an amateur music video called 'Go Missing' was posted on YouTube in which Isaac Stone, Shajidur Rahman and others appeared. 

      In the course of the film, alcohol was sprayed over the name 'Raz' that had been painted on a wall. 'It upset someone,' said Mr Coughlin.

      The prosecutor described how 'perhaps for show' a white Range Rover had been hired from Luton for £150 and in Bedford two meat cleavers were bought for £2.99 each from a hardware shop.

      Aspiring rapper Isaac Stone was murdered by the gang of four in January this year
      The group encountered Isaac Stone, who was driving a white Corsa with Mr Rahman and two others as passengers.

      The jury was shown CCTV which showed a fast-moving street brawl ending with Isaac being cornered behind a parked car.

       By the time he arrived at Bedford hospital there was no sign of a pulse and he was pronounced dead at 7.15pm.

      Giving evidence, Shajidur Rahmah, who has been permanently disfigured, said he had seen two defendants, Rubel Miah and Fahim Khan, earlier that night in an alleyway.

      He said they told him they had not got a problem with him, but had a problem with Isaac and another youth.

      Mr Rahmah added that he thought there was to be a fight with no weapons. He went on: 

      'Everyone froze. We said 'we have got to sort it.' We never anticipated it would lead to what happened. 

      'It happened so quick. We stopped. We did not think weapons were involved. We thought it was a fist fight. Isaac said "They have got something in their hands."'

      Mr Rahmah went on to say they got out of the car and Rubel Miah and Fahim Khan came towards them. 

      'Fahim came up to me,' he said. 'I thought he had a hammer. It had a blue wrapping over the handle. I got hit by Fahim. I didn't know at the time that it was a meat cleaver.'

      He tried to defend himself but after the second or third blows he felt 'dizzy'. His nose was sliced off with a meat cleaver and left at the scene.

      The four youths all denied murder, attempted murder and two counts of possession of an offensive weapon.

      Isaac Stone, 19, was punched, kicked and stabbed several times, with a wound to his left lung proving fatal
      Isaac Stone, 19, was punched, kicked and stabbed several times, with a wound to his left lung proving fatal
      Shajidur Rahman, 20, said he tried to defend himself but after the second or third blows he felt 'dizzy
      Shajidur Rahman, 20, said he tried to defend himself but after the second or third blows he felt 'dizzy

      But the jury convicted all four of Isaac's murder.

       The youths were cleared of the attempted murder of Shajidur Rahman, but Rubel Miah and Fahim Khan were found guilty of causing him grievous bodily harm with intent.

      All four were convicted of two charges of possessing offensive weapons.

      In June 2012, Rubel Miah and Fahim Khan were sentenced for their part in a shooting of a car dealer at the Peri Peri restaurant in Bedford.

      Each received three years for possessing a shotgun with intent to cause fear of violence. Rubel's uncle Aktar Miah, then 25, was found guilty of attempted murder and received a life sentence saying he must serve a minimum term of 12 years before being considered for parole.

      Isaac's mother Yvette Lendore said: 'Everybody loved Isaac and Isaac loved everybody.

      'He was no angel but he was not a horrible or vindictive person.

      'He used to play for Bedford Town, which is where he got the name Dynamic because he was so quick.

      'Then he got into his music and just loved it. I am not going to lie, it is not all positive things in that music but some people take the words literally but they are just lyrics'.

      She said he was the first pupil to be made a prefect at Harrowden Middle School and that between 800 and 900 people turned up at his funeral.

      Leading Muslim academic calls on Irish Catholic schools to allow wearing of hijab

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      A leading Muslim academic is calling for Catholic schools in Ireland to allow Muslim students to wear the hijab in class and for religious symbols to be removed from school crests.
      One of Ireland’s leading Muslim academics has clashed with a Catholic commentator on the wearing of hijabs in Irish schools.
      Trinity College professor Dr Ali Selim has called on all Catholic schools to allow their Muslim pupils to wear the hijab.
      He also wants Catholic schools to tailor uniforms to suit the needs of Muslim students.
      The Sunday Independent reports that David Quinn, a leading voice on Irish Catholicism, is as odds with Dr Selim’s request.
      And even the Islamic Foundation of Ireland (IFI) and the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland have taken issue with Dr Selim’s remarks.
      Speaking at the launch of his new book on Islam and education in Ireland, Dr Selim said: “The hijab for Muslims is an essential aspect of character. Depriving Muslims of the right to wear hijabs is very threatening to their identity.
      “Although there is no legal ban on the hijab in Irish schools, wearing the headscarf is a divine obligation for Muslim girls. I urge schools to be more flexible about incorporating it as part of their uniform.
      “In today’s society we need to apply a more pluralistic approach when it comes to the school uniform.”
      A former Secretary General of the Irish Council of Imams and resident in Ireland since 1999, Dr Selim has also called for religious symbols to be removed from school crests.
      He added: “It is not dangerous to wear a hijab in class, some may argue that they are dangerous in PE, but there is a special sports hijab that Muslim women wear in the Olympics.
      “Sometimes our school uniform might have a religious identity. If I don’t believe in this religious identity does this put me in a difficult situation with regard to my faith values. In order to provide children with an inclusive educational environment these obstacles need to be removed.
      “And admission policy is a practice of discrimination in my understanding.”
      Leading commentator and Iona Institute director David Quinn, who attended the launch, told the Sunday Independent that he has ‘issues’ with Dr Selim’s views.
      Quinn told the paper that while Muslim parents have the right to send their children to Catholic schools, the ethos and identity of the school should not be compromised.
      He said: “A faith school is by definition set up to mainly cater for children of the faith of the school.
      “Muslim students should be allowed to wear their traditional headscarves, as long they do not cover their faces.
      “Covering the whole face acts as a barrier between the person, the rest of the class and the teacher . . . it is going too far in the other direction.”
      Ireland’s Department of Education and Skills said uniform guidelines are specifically set by individual schools.
      A statement from the department said: “School uniform policy is a matter for each individual school, preferably in consultation with its own stakeholders . . . parents, students, and any other relevant parties.”
      Over 60,000 Muslims now live in Ireland and is the fastest growing community in the country.
      Some 91 percent of the country’s 3,165 primary schools are under Catholic patronage with just two Muslim primary schools in Ireland, both based in Dublin.
      The Islamic Foundation of Ireland (IFI) and the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland (ICCI) - the official body for Islamic education in Ireland – have both rejected Dr Selim’s views.
      In a statement to the Sunday Independent, the IFI said: “As patron of the Muslim National schools in Ireland since 1990, we can confidently assert that such opinions are neither shared by the IFI, the ICCI nor the majority of participating members in the Islamic community here.
      “We have found that Catholic school managements have made wonderful efforts to make their schools as inclusive as possible without losing their own ethos.
      “We acknowledge that there is always pressure on schools and on parents of all denominations and no faith seeking places, which sometimes results with many parents not receiving their first choice.”
      But the report adds that Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson agreed with Dr Selim that Catholic schools in the Republic need to be more tolerant of students from other religions.
      He said: “Those who are not of a tradition can actually learn and share their childhood together and will be able to stand for respect, integrity and tolerance if situations become aggressive . . . if you learn about that at an early stage it will continue to inform your reactions as an adult.”
      Michael Nugent, chairperson of Atheist Ireland, said Dr Selim’s version of inclusivity is ‘not practical.’
      Nugent said: “If he wants schools to promote specific beliefs of other groups then he should recognize that the Islamic schools should also openly respect atheism and other religious views.
      “The only realistic way you can have proper inclusivity in education is to have a system that is neutral rather than one than manifests all beliefs.”    

      The changing face of Britain: A child in Birmingham is now more likely to be a Muslim than Christian

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      • Statistics from 2011 Census show more Muslim children than Christian growing up in Birmingham 
      • Of 278,623 youngsters, 97,099 were registered as Muslim compared with 93,828 as Christian  
      • A similar trend has emerged in the cities of Bradford and Leicester
      • Experts said more must be done to ensure that society does not become polarised along religious lines 

      There are more Muslim children than Christian growing up in Birmingham, figures show.

      The latest statistics, extracted from the 2011 Census, give an insight into the fast pace of demographic change across Britain.

      They pinpoint several parts of the country where traditional religious beliefs are being eclipsed for the first time.

      The figures show that there are more Muslim children than Christian growing up in Birmingham 
      The figures show that there are more Muslim children than Christian growing up in Birmingham 

      In England’s second city of Birmingham, of 278,623 youngsters, 97,099 were registered as Muslim compared with 93,828 as Christian. The rest were of other faiths such as Hindu or Jewish, or none.

      A similar trend has emerged in the cities of Bradford and Leicester, the towns of Luton, in Bedfordshire, and Slough in Berkshire, as well as the London boroughs Newham, Redbridge and Tower Hamlets, where nearly two-thirds of children are Islamic.

      Last night experts said more must be done to ensure that society does not become polarised along religious lines.
      Professor Ted Cantle, of the ICoCo Foundation, which promotes community cohesion, said: ‘What we are seeing are several trends running together. 

      There is a long-term decline in support for the established religions, notably Christianity; continuing immigration from the Asian sub-continent; and higher fertility among the Muslim population, which has a considerably lower age profile.

      ‘There is also deepening segregation exacerbated by the loss of white population from cities and more intensive concentration of black and minority ethnic groups as a result of replacement.

      ‘This is the real problem, as residential segregation is generally compounded by school and social segregation.
      ‘Nothing surprises me about the pace of demographic change.

       What does surprise me is that the Government has no policy to combat segregation because it inevitably reduces understanding and tolerance on both sides of the divide.

      In England¿s second city of Birmingham, of 278,623 youngsters, 97,099 were registered as Muslim compared with 93,828 as Christian (stock image)
      In England’s second city of Birmingham, of 278,623 youngsters, 97,099 were registered as Muslim compared with 93,828 as Christian (stock image)

      The figures show that Christianity is still the dominant religion in every local authority area in England and Wales, even in the most culturally diverse towns and cities.

      Of the 45.5million participants, 27.9million subscribed to Christianity, compared with 1.8million Muslims, the second largest grouping.

      However, among dependent children – defined as those aged up to 15, or between 16 and 18 and in education and still living at home – the gap is narrower.

      Of 12.1million youngsters, 6.1million were Christian and 1million were Muslim. And in some places, the balance has now tipped towards Islam.

      In Bradford, 52,135 children are Muslims (45 per cent) next to 47,144 Christians; in Leicester the figures are 22,693 and 18,190 respectively.

      The widest gap is in Tower Hamlets where 62 per cent of children are Islamic, outnumbering Christians by 34,597 to 8,995.

      Sughra Ahmed, president of the Islamic Society of Britain, said: ‘Britain’s Muslims make up just 5 per cent of the population but have a younger demographic profile than other faiths, as these figures show. It matters to us all that this next generation of young British Muslims develops a clear and confident sense of their British identity alongside their Muslim faith.

       It’s important that schools teach all of our children the values of respect and tolerance.

      ‘Britain is doing better at this than many of our neighbours. A major new study this week showed that most people think the children of immigrants are integrating well.

      ‘This is one of the most tolerant countries in the world. It will continue to be so, provided we all understand how that depends on respect for the beliefs of others too.’

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