Manchester jihad mass murderer trained with jihad group in Libya, traveled in and out of UK with no problem
DEC 18, 2020 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
Salman Abedi should have been stopped from reentering the UK after he trained with the February 17th Brigade, but he wasn’t, no doubt for fears of accusations of “Islamophobia.” The Home Office some time ago banned Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone, Lauren Southern and Lutz Bachmann from entering, all for the crime of opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression, and thereby made it clear that it is more authoritarian and unwilling to uphold the freedom of speech than ever – at least when it comes to criticism of Islam, Muslim rape gangs, and mass Muslim migration.
The bannings of Sellner, Pettibone, Southern, and Bachmann were just part of a long pattern. Pamela Geller and I were banned in 2013, apparently for life, also for the crime of telling the truth about Islam and jihad. Just days after Geller and I were banned, the British government admitted Saudi Sheikh Mohammed al-Arefe. Al-Arefe has said: “Devotion to jihad for the sake of Allah, and the desire to shed blood, to smash skulls, and to sever limbs for the sake of Allah and in defense of His religion, is, undoubtedly, an honor for the believer. Allah said that if a man fights the infidels, the infidels will be unable to prepare to fight.”
And Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri’s preaching of hatred and jihad violence was so hardline that he was banned from preaching in Pakistan, but the UK Home Office welcomed him into Britain.
The UK Home Office also admitted Shaykh Hamza Sodagar into the country, despite the fact that he has said: “If there’s homosexual men, the punishment is one of five things. One – the easiest one maybe – chop their head off, that’s the easiest. Second – burn them to death. Third – throw ’em off a cliff. Fourth – tear down a wall on them so they die under that. Fifth – a combination of the above.”
Theresa May’s relentlessly appeasement-minded government also admitted two jihad preachers who had praised the murderer of a foe of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. One of them was welcomed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Meanwhile, the UK banned three bishops from areas of Iraq and Syria where Christians are persecuted from entering the country. The asylum application of a Christian family facing a death fatwa in Pakistan was three times rejected. But an ISIS bride was let back in and given a taxpayer-funded house, despite the fact that she has an ISIS flag on her Twitter account. No terror charges for her, of course.
The British government has long ago left behind any commitment to basic human decency.
“Manchester Arena inquiry: Salman Abedi ‘trained with Islamist militia,'” by Daniel De Simone, BBC News, December 9, 2020:
Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi trained or fought with an Islamist militia in Libya, an inquiry has heard.
His cousin Abderahman Forjani told police Abedi travelled to Libya during its 2011 revolution and “obtained a job locating Gaddafi supporters”.
Abedi had been involved in “raids during that period” and images showed him with weapons, rocket launchers and military vehicles, a court heard.
Twenty-two people were killed in the bombing at the arena in May 2017.
The inquiry into the attack was told police concluded Abedi had been involved with the February 17th Martyrs Brigade….
The inquiry heard that a UK counter-terror investigation into a woman associated with the February 17th Martyrs Brigade had – in January 2017 – seized an image of a person brandishing a rifle in Libya that bears a “strong resemblance” to Salman Abedi, but the likeness was only established in 2018.
The court was told three of the woman’s children have travelled to Syria and were associated with al-Qaeda aligned groups, with one of them dying there while fighting.
When officers searched the Abedi family home after the arena attack, a hard drive was found showing both Salman and Hashem Abedi in military uniform in Libya in 2011.
In his statement, Det Ch Supt Barraclough concluded it was not unreasonable to suggest that Salman Abedi had fought with the February 17th Martyrs Brigade, attended a training camp, or both.
But he confirmed that Abedi, who had been an MI5 subject of interest, was never stopped when travelling in and out of the UK between 2010 and 2017…. |
