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| A meat cleaver that the 'Three Musketeers' plotters planned to use in their attack (West Midlands Police). Source: INDEPENDENT |
Usman Khan, perpetrator of the latest Islamist terrorist atrocity in London, will have expected to be greeted by 72 virgins as his reward for being 'martyred' for his faith when he was shot dead by police.
The two young people Khan killed were taking part in aprisoner rehabilitation program. Khan had been invited to participate but the hand of friendship was of no consequence. Whatever good work his victims were doing to help Khan and other ex-prisoners, they were still classed as infidels in the ideology to which Khan subscribed.
He would have regarded himself as a martyr because he, along with many other Muslims, was waging war on the kafir. The fact that his targets were innocent was irrelevant. In their book non-Muslims are regarded as 'unbelievers' deserving punishment, as do erring Muslims who can be sentenced to death for theirapostasy .
Khan was sent to prison as a convicted terrorist. He entered a 'breeding ground for Islamist extremism' where he lied about his de-radicalisation as permitted under his ideology thus earning early release from prison.
The Independent reported following an earlier terrorist incident in 2018 that three prisoners, the 'Three Musketeers', mingled with fellow extremists they met in jail. They reinforced their beliefs there before turning their attention to "wreaking bloodshed" in the UK.
The lead commissioner for Countering Extremism told the Independent at the time: “Experts and those working in prisons have raised significant concerns with me about the spread of extremist ideas and behaviours among serving prisoners. This includes the risk that individuals are becoming more extremist in prisons. There are also fears about what happens when prisoners who advocate extremist beliefs and behaviour – whether Islamist or far-right supporters – are released into our communities.”
After the latest killings outraged commentators again demanded answers to some "difficult questionsdanquot; about early release and de-radicalisation but what drives a desire to kill and maim innocent people who do not share their beliefs?
That is the most difficult question but it will not be addressed for fear of attracting accusations of Islamophobia, a label concocted to ensure that, unlike other faiths, Islam is beyond question.
Postcript [04.12.2019]
Five boys and pastor among 14 Christians shot dead in Burkina Faso church massacre
"An Islamist extremist attack on a church in Komondjari Province, south-east Burkina Faso, during Sunday morning worship on 1 December." -Barnabasfund
Far away from London and one of many Islamist attacks abroad which are seldom mentioned in the British media.
These are not about historical events. Christians today are being persecuted all around the world.
From theInterim Report of the Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians:
"Violent persecution exists in many forms. Firstly there is mass violence which regularly expresses itself through the bombing of churches, as has been the case in countries such as Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia, whereby the perpetrators raise levels of fear amongst the Christian community and attempt to suppress the community?S appetite to practice its right to public expression of freedom of religion and belief. State militaries attacking minority communities which practice a different faith to the country?S majority also constitutes a violent threat to Christian communities such as the Kachin and Chin people of Myanmar and the Christians of the Nuba mountains of Sudan. The torture of Christians is widespread in the Democratic People?S Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Eritrean prisons, and beatings in police custody are widely reported in India."
If Islam became dominant in this country why would Christians here be treated differently to Christians abroad?
Postcript [07.12.2019]
Islam has three political strategies; immigration, population and violence. Reflections on Usman Khan...
"There is a precondition for rehabilitation -- you've got to want it ... It doesn't just happen through educational programmes
Facts of 'terrorist' killings are clear but our society is divided by the meaning" -Bishop Gavin Ashenden
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