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It’s all about Allah and guns. Not poverty, literacy, disaffection, mental illness, or any other of the pathetic excuses apologists assign to jihad. It’s about redemption through violence, in other words — the two symbols of Islam, the Quran and the sword.
‘They think they can get an AK and get forgiven by God at the same time’: Channel 4’s Extremely British Muslims reveals how young Asian men want to join ISIS because it’s ‘the biggest most baddest gang in the world’
- Episode followed young men around Birmingham, offering insight into their lives
- Waseem and friend Naveen, turned their backs on crime and re-embraced Islam
- Pals explain many young men who join ISIS are used to gang-life on the streets
- Earlier this week think-tank claimed that Birmingham was a ‘terrorism hotspot’
- Latest episode of Extremely British Muslims will be screened tonight
By Alex Matthews and Natalie Corner For Mailonline, 9 March 2017:
Story continues below advertisementScores of British Muslims are joining ISIS because they think they can ‘get an AK and get forgiven by God at the same time.’
The startling revelation is made by two young Muslim men, best friends Waseem Iqbal and Naveed Ahmed, on tonight’s episode of Channel 4’s Extremely British Muslims.
Many recruits come from a life of crime and see Islamic extremism as a chance to regain status and feel a sense of belonging, claims Waseem.
He reveals: ”You’ve got people that are sort of like ex-bad boys that still have that gang mentality. And if you want to be in a gang, what’s the biggest gang in the world right now? It’s ISIS.’
Pictured: Extremely British Muslims follows best friends Naveed Ahmed and Waseem Iqbal around Birmingham and offers an insight into the life of a young Muslim man in Britain
This week’s show focuses on what life is like for young Muslim men in Britain and follows Waseem and Naveed around Birmingham, their home city.
The cameras accompany them visiting their friends, their favourite fish and chip shop and their place of worship, the Birmingham Central Mosque.
But while the opening scenes offer an interesting insight into their lives – the most compelling moment comes when the pair, who turned their backs on a life of crime, are asked why they think young men in their community are attracted to joining ISIS.
Waseem explains: ‘ISIS is the biggest most baddest gang in the world right now. They [recruits] think you can get an AK and get forgiven by God at the same time.’
He adds: ‘And for a lot of these guys, I’ll be honest with you, it’s that they don’t have friends or they’ve had a messed up childhood and they think ”finally I can be part of something. I can be part of something powerful and I can be part of this gang.
Pictured: Waz (left) and Nav (right) turned their backs on a life a of crime to re-embrace Islam
‘Yeah, brotherhood and yeah, nobody can mess with us and yeah, I can go to Syria and Iraq” and they’re just trying to get a sense of purpose in life.’
However Waseem and Naveed are keen to point out that Birmingham was not a breeding ground for terrorists and that attacks like those in Paris, in November 2015, were just as concerning for the Islamic community.
Waseem reveals: ‘Generally, when people ask a Muslim person ”how do you feel about ISIS or about what happened in France?”
‘The answer is quite simple really, we feel exactly the same as the rest of the British public and we do feel a bit alien when the public distinct or separate us from everybody else.
‘Like we should feel any different, obviously we feel unsafe like everybody else.’
Although now devotees of Islam, Waseem and Naveen did not always embrace the religion.
They admit they shared time on the wrong side of the law but are reticent to talk about it.
Asked by a producer on the documentary ‘What were you up to?’ Naveen replies: ‘No comment.’
Providing an insight into his run-ins with the law, Waseem recalls: ‘I remember a lot of the time back then I would be getting in to trouble with the police. I remember them coming to my house to my parents, knocking the door and coming in and they were just searching the house for whatever… It happened a few times, getting into trouble.’
The pair turned back to Allah to find happiness and direction
Waz tells cameras that he believes many young Asian men are attracted to ISIS because it offers them the chance ‘get an AK and get forgiven by God at the same time’
Earlier this week a report from a government think tank claimed that Birmingham was a ‘major terrorism hotspot’.
Findings by the Henry Jackson Society said Birmingham and London have produced the most terrorists in the UK.
Out of the 269 Britons convicted of Islamist terrorism offences or killed as suicide bombers, between 1998 and 2015, 49 came from the West Midlands.
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21 Comments
7 years ago
It’s true! If they murder infidels this puts them back in the good graces of Allah. Much is forgiven. If you are killed doing this, then you go to “paradise”. Others follow the good deeds path and hope when they die their good deeds outweigh their bad deeds.
The truth is they don’t fit into western culture. As they stated, going back to Islam gives them purpose and it is like a gang that can REDEEM them.
7 years ago
Separate hospital kitchen to be built for Islamic patients.
Where else, but in england? 22nd century england, would be a quasi-islamic england.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4297774/Separate-hospital-kitchen-built-Islamic-patients
7 years ago
Well there is also sex slaves, pedofilia and war looting. All sanctioned by Islam.
7 years ago
Drugs, sex and prayers 5 times a day, two out of three ain’t bad.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
It’s not all fun and games. The drugs and sex takes a lot of dedication. Knowing what type of drug to take, the proper dose, how to use a needle, these are all very complicated things. Then, there’s scheduling all that in with the constant praying 5 times a day.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Would that be “sex” or rape sex? Considering it’s the United Kaliphate, why should I even bother asking at all?
7 years ago
I guess I don’t get the reluctance to let them travel away from the UK to get themselves killed. It would seem to be far better than if they explode locally.
7 years ago
Losers!
7 years ago
This all started when a decision was made by British politicians to allow millions of muslim migrants into the UK over the last 30 years.
If the politicians simply said “no” to the mass migration it would have changed the course of history for the better.
7 years ago
What? Even posts here get detected as s.p.a.m? It is not s.p.a.m, it was a psychological analysis why some turn to radicalism…in short, they want to be someone. I never use bad language, never threaten, Who does this? And it was immediate too.
7 years ago
What goes around, comes around, look at old muslims of former jihad, see the hulls of empty men who spent a whole life believing a lie, killing for it, then realizing that they have only prepared themselves a hell worse than the lie they forced themselves to live.
Prophet Mohammed’s confession:
“I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken.”
— Al-Tabari, The History of Al-Tabari, vol. vi, p. 111
‘Then Gabriel came to the apostle and said , “What have you done, Muhammad? You have read to these people something I did not bring you from God and you have said what He did not say to you.”‘
— Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah, p. 166
7 years ago
After the Civil War the government offered the destitute newly freed slaves “40 acres and a mule”. Sound familiar?
7 years ago
7 years ago
These b — tards will never be British along with the rest of them, they are moslim first and hate the host nation except for its welfare and NHS and free housing. The first generation came for a better life 2nd and 3rd have reverted to wahabism and want a caliphate in the UK and are out breeding us at an alarming rate funded again by our generous benefits.
They bring nothing good except for kebabs.
7 years ago
Couple of virgin losers that can’t figure out their sexual orientation. So let’s join the ISIS Boys Club and maybe we will get lucky.
7 years ago
Would Channel 4 like to confirm anything else that ISIS has already told us.
