Moral Collapse
I'm not a religious person in any way, but if I were a practising Muslim I would be very worried about the moral collapse amongst certain members of the Islamic faith which is highlighted in the following report from The Sunday Times.
Now teenage years can be notoriously difficult for young people and their parents to cope with successfully, yet I still find it difficult to understand how an educated young woman can celebrate and glory in such barbaric behaviour towards fellow human beings.
Isis girl posts image of severed heads on Twitter
By Dipesh Gadher - The Sunday Times
The 18-year-old’s Twitter posts include this picture with a Kalashnikov Photograph: Not Known
A TEENAGE British girl who has joined Isis terrorists in Syria has gloated about her experience by posting on Twitter a depraved image of the severed heads of opponents impaled on railings.
The 18-year-old joked about the decapitations by referring to them as street decorations for the Muslim festival of Eid.
She has also used social media to describe Jews as “parasites”, calling for them all to be put “back into gas chambers”.
The teenager’s postings mark a new low in the savagery displayed by Britons allied to Isis, also known as the Islamic State.
Last week Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, raised concerns about the return to the UK of an influx of jihadists who had become “desensitised to violence” abroad.
At least half-a-dozen women and girls are believed to be among the 500 British Muslims who have travelled to Syria.
The 18-year-old — who uses the alias Umm Khattab al-Britaniyya, which means “Mother of Sermons from Britain” in Arabic — uploaded the image of the severed heads barely six weeks after arriving in the country.
She is not thought to have played any part in the beheadings, but her decision to post the photo online and her other Twitter comments suggest a worryingly rapid descent into depravity after joining Isis.
The photo depicts the heads of seven men — believed to be Syrian soldiers — impaled on railings on a roundabout in the centre of Raqqa, a city which is Isis’s main stronghold in the region. It is too graphic to publish in a newspaper.
Tweeting the image on July 25, Umm Khattab asked two other British women in Syria: “Who likes our eid dicaration [sic]”.
One Twitter user, calling himself Abu Hamza, was full of praise: “This is part of sharia [Islamic law], it deters the audience from following the footsteps of the sinner!”
However, most others were repulsed, with one user replying: “You guys are barbarians. Absolutely sick in the head.”
Umm Khattab is based in Manbij, an Isis-controlled town in northern Syria, but appears to have made visits to Raqqa.
Her neighbour is a Muslim convert from south London with two young sons, including a toddler who has been photographed brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle.
Umm Khattab arrived in Syria in mid-June and started posting comments on Twitter a fortnight later. One of her first public statements was a pledge of loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Isis leader now considered to be the world’s most wanted terrorist.
On July 1, she said: “Like George Bush said your [sic] either with us or with the terrorist, hmm i’m definitely with the terrorist lol.”
Two days later she railed against Britain: “i’m not returning to ur dirty society which has no moral values, y’all r all uncivilised and need islam to liberate u.”
After Israel launched its military offensive against Hamas in Gaza last month, Umm Khattab embarked on a vile anti-semitic tirade: “If I could I would probably put all the yahuds [Jews] back into the gas chambers, they are nothing but parasites.”
Moments later, she betrayed her youth and immaturity with the tweet: “I miss my ummi [mum].”
Umm Khattab has also used Ask.fm, the controversial teen chat site, to encourage British girls as young as 15 to join her in Syria.
More recently, she has taunted America for launching airstrikes against Isis in neighbouring Iraq. “No one in dawlah [Isis] fears US invasion, in fact we are all pretty excited — more shuhadah [martyrs] and more slaying kuffar [non-believers],” she tweeted on August 8.
In a reference to her severed heads photo, she also warned Barack Obama, the US president: “ur head gon b on Raqqa roundabout soon.”
Last Thursday, Umm Khattab appeared to denounce her upbringing in the UK: “Best thing i’ve done in my 18 years in this world is come to the blessed land of shaam [Syria] and leave Britain the land of kuffar [non-believer].”
Yesterday she posted a photo of herself carrying a Kalashnikov rifle while covered up in a niqab. “Lool the khalash [sic] is so big on me,” she tweeted.
Eight out of 10 people believe that Islamist terrorism poses a domestic threat and 40% of the public would now back British bombing raids against Isis, according to a recent poll in The Times.
Last week Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, a rapper-turned-Isis fighter from west London, posted an image of himself clutching a severed head in Syria. It was accompanied by the caption: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him.”
A jihadist from Australia also drew global condemnation by tweeting a photo of his seven-year-old son holding the decapitated head of a Syrian soldier alongside the comment: “That’s my boy.”
A TEENAGE British girl who has joined Isis terrorists in Syria has gloated about her experience by posting on Twitter a depraved image of the severed heads of opponents impaled on railings.
The 18-year-old joked about the decapitations by referring to them as street decorations for the Muslim festival of Eid.
She has also used social media to describe Jews as “parasites”, calling for them all to be put “back into gas chambers”.
The teenager’s postings mark a new low in the savagery displayed by Britons allied to Isis, also known as the Islamic State.
Last week Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, raised concerns about the return to the UK of an influx of jihadists who had become “desensitised to violence” abroad.
At least half-a-dozen women and girls are believed to be among the 500 British Muslims who have travelled to Syria.
The 18-year-old — who uses the alias Umm Khattab al-Britaniyya, which means “Mother of Sermons from Britain” in Arabic — uploaded the image of the severed heads barely six weeks after arriving in the country.
She is not thought to have played any part in the beheadings, but her decision to post the photo online and her other Twitter comments suggest a worryingly rapid descent into depravity after joining Isis.
The photo depicts the heads of seven men — believed to be Syrian soldiers — impaled on railings on a roundabout in the centre of Raqqa, a city which is Isis’s main stronghold in the region. It is too graphic to publish in a newspaper.
Tweeting the image on July 25, Umm Khattab asked two other British women in Syria: “Who likes our eid dicaration [sic]”.
One Twitter user, calling himself Abu Hamza, was full of praise: “This is part of sharia [Islamic law], it deters the audience from following the footsteps of the sinner!”
However, most others were repulsed, with one user replying: “You guys are barbarians. Absolutely sick in the head.”
Umm Khattab is based in Manbij, an Isis-controlled town in northern Syria, but appears to have made visits to Raqqa.
Her neighbour is a Muslim convert from south London with two young sons, including a toddler who has been photographed brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle.
Umm Khattab arrived in Syria in mid-June and started posting comments on Twitter a fortnight later. One of her first public statements was a pledge of loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Isis leader now considered to be the world’s most wanted terrorist.
On July 1, she said: “Like George Bush said your [sic] either with us or with the terrorist, hmm i’m definitely with the terrorist lol.”
Two days later she railed against Britain: “i’m not returning to ur dirty society which has no moral values, y’all r all uncivilised and need islam to liberate u.”
After Israel launched its military offensive against Hamas in Gaza last month, Umm Khattab embarked on a vile anti-semitic tirade: “If I could I would probably put all the yahuds [Jews] back into the gas chambers, they are nothing but parasites.”
Moments later, she betrayed her youth and immaturity with the tweet: “I miss my ummi [mum].”
Umm Khattab has also used Ask.fm, the controversial teen chat site, to encourage British girls as young as 15 to join her in Syria.
More recently, she has taunted America for launching airstrikes against Isis in neighbouring Iraq. “No one in dawlah [Isis] fears US invasion, in fact we are all pretty excited — more shuhadah [martyrs] and more slaying kuffar [non-believers],” she tweeted on August 8.
In a reference to her severed heads photo, she also warned Barack Obama, the US president: “ur head gon b on Raqqa roundabout soon.”
Last Thursday, Umm Khattab appeared to denounce her upbringing in the UK: “Best thing i’ve done in my 18 years in this world is come to the blessed land of shaam [Syria] and leave Britain the land of kuffar [non-believer].”
Yesterday she posted a photo of herself carrying a Kalashnikov rifle while covered up in a niqab. “Lool the khalash [sic] is so big on me,” she tweeted.
Eight out of 10 people believe that Islamist terrorism poses a domestic threat and 40% of the public would now back British bombing raids against Isis, according to a recent poll in The Times.
Last week Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, a rapper-turned-Isis fighter from west London, posted an image of himself clutching a severed head in Syria. It was accompanied by the caption: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him.”
A jihadist from Australia also drew global condemnation by tweeting a photo of his seven-year-old son holding the decapitated head of a Syrian soldier alongside the comment: “That’s my boy.”
