[ April 19, 2024 ]
Jihadi John was once a fun-loving ten-year-old who adored The Simpsons, Playstation games and eating chips, and dreamt of becoming a Premier League star, scoring goals for Manchester United by the age of 30.
So what happened? Islam.
Former schoolmates were yesterday struggling to believe that the quiet boy they knew had been unmasked as the world’s most notorious terrorist.
Story continues below advertisementIn a chilling twist, in a school yearbook from when he was 10, Emwazi lists his favourite computer game as shooting game “Duke Nukem: Time To Kill” and his favourite book as “How To Kill A Monster” from the popular children’s Goosebumps series.
He also lists his favourite band as pop group S Club 7, and when asked what he wants to be when he is 30, writes: ‘I will be in a football team and scoring a goal.’
Emwazi also listed his favourite colour as blue, his favourite animal as a monkey, his favourite cartoon as The Simpsons and chips as his favourite food.
So what happened to Little Muhammad? Piety.
Every premise and assumption American and European counter-terrorism programs are using must be tossed out. Their premise is false so their programs will continue to fail. Well-educated and affluent, the catalyst for jihad is a move towards the faith of Islam. Religiosity is the catalyst.
They will attribute jihad to poverty, illiteracy, culture — anything but its true origins. Law enforcement, FBI, CIA, M15
“BREAKING NEWS: First picture emerges of Jihadi John as an adult – wearing a baseball cap as a model student at the University of Westminster,” By Martin Robinson and Keiligh Baker for MailOnline, 27 February 2015
First picture of Jihadi John as an adult has emerged – wearing baseball cap as student at University of Westminster
Mohammed Emwazi was unmasked as Jihadi John yesterday and is believed to have beheaded several hostages
Today he is pictured for first time as a model student at university where he studied computer science until 2009
Records show he passed all but two of the modules in his Information Systems with Business Management degree
Also pictured as a six-year-old schoolboy with classmates at a west London Church of England primary school
Teachers who knew him say they remember him as ‘hard-working…everything you would ever want in a student’
Classmates say he was quiet, popular and more interested in football than Islam – but he changed at university
The University of Westminster has been linked with several proponents of radical Islam
Do you know Jihadi John? Please email [email protected] or call 02036 153448The first picture of British ISIS executioner Jihadi John’s face as an adult has been published – from his time as a model student at the University of Westminster.
The world’s most wanted man was named yesterday as Mohammed Emwazi, a British ‘known wolf’ who grew up in west London and fled to Syria under the nose of MI5 in 2012.
This afternoon this picture – the first of him as an adult – emerged from his time at the University of Westminster, where he studied Information Systems with Business Management from 2006 to 2009.
Wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap and sporting a goatee beard, the photograph shows eyes which clearly belong to the Islamic State’s executioner-in-chief.
But when this photo was taken he was a model student at a London university – his academic record shows he passed all but two of the modules for his degree, gaining a 2:2.
This is the face of Jihadi John, Mohammed Emwaz, ISIS’ British executioner and now the world’s most wanted manRevealed: This is the face of Jihadi John, Mohammed Emwazi, who is ISIS’ British executioner and now the world’s most wanted man
Mohammed Emwazi’s academic record from his time at the University of Westminster shows he passed all but two modules of his degreeThe record shows he passed the majority of his modules, including Introducing Mathematics, Gender, Ethnicity and Cultural Representations, Project Management, Business Organisation and Communication and Interactive Management, but was awarded a ‘condoned credit; retake’ status for modules in Business Information Systems and Managing Business Organisations.
It has also been revealed Jihadi John was once a fun-loving ten-year-old who adored The Simpsons, Playstation games and eating chips, and dreamt of becoming a Premier League star scoring goals for Manchester United by the age of 30.’When I am 30 I will be in a football team and scoring a…
Londoner Mohammed Emwazi’s handwritten entry in his primary school yearbook shows no sign he would go on to become the world’s most wanted man, believed to have beheaded a string of hostages in the name of Islam.Describing his ambitions, the Kuwaiti-born British citizen, who moved to the UK aged six, wrote: ‘What I want to be when I grow up is a footballer’, and said by the age of 30 he would be ‘in a football team scoring a goal’.
A decade later Emwazi had shunned British life and was a ‘known wolf’ to MI5 who had already taken the path towards becoming ISIS’ most notorious murderer at the age of 26.
Life’s ambitions: As a ten-year-old Mohammed Emwazi set out his dreams and passions in his school year book and said he loved chips and TV and dreamt of being a football staPictures taken of Emwazi as a schoolboy shows him smiling at the camera with his church school friends – and there is nothing to link this middle-class schoolboy to the merciless terrorist butcher Jihadi John.
It has emerged that secret services made several attempts to ‘turn him’ but he steadfastly refused to co-operate, eventually blaming MI5 for becoming a murderous extremist.
Where I’ll be when I’m 30: I will be in a football team and scoring a goal
Today Boris Johnson’s deputy mayor for policing, Stephen Greenhalgh, told the Evening Standard: ‘The security services and the police have to do all they can to protect the public. You can’t plea bargain with evil’.
Arriving in Britain when he was six years old, the Kuwaiti-born extremist appeared to embrace British life, playing football in the affluent streets of West London while supporting Manchester United.
Neighbours recalled a polite, quietly spoken boy who was studious at his Church of England school, where he was the only Muslim pupil in his class.
The son of a Kuwaiti minicab driver, young Emwazi arrived in Britain speaking only a few words of English, and appeared more interested in football than in Islam.
He went to mosque with his family, who spoke Arabic to each other, but wore Western clothing and became popular with his British classmates at St Mary Magdalene Church of England primary school in Maida Vale, West London.
Former schoolmates were yesterday struggling to believe that the quiet boy they knew had been unmasked as the world’s most notorious terrorist.
JIHADI JOHN’S SIBLINGS: BROTHER FOLLOWS HATE PREACHER AND SISTER WROTE OF HOODED KILLER
The younger brother of Mohammed Emwazi is a small-time criminal with hardline and outspoken Islamist views.
Student: Emwazi’s 19-year-old sister was a prefect and studied cinematography at A-Level
It emerged yesterday that the 21-year-old from London follows a radical Muslim cleric – while his younger sister is a media student who once made a short film about a ‘hooded serial killer’.
Emwazi’s brother – whom the Mail had decided not to name – is a member of the Woolwich Dawah group, who once harboured the killers of Lee Rigby.
The university graduate, who like his sibling has taken a keen interest in computer networks, listens to the teachings of radical preacher Khalid Yasin.
Several of his friends use images similar to those used by extremists online and last night at least one of his 68 friends on Facebook was displaying the black flag of Islamic State.
He has also commented on videos, supporting one in which a woman is mocked for praying in a clumsy manner.
He has at least two convictions, for handling a stolen police bicycle and a string of thefts at a shopping village – and has twice been hauled back for repeated breaches of community orders.
His 19-year-old sister, like Emwazi, went to Quintin Kynaston school where she was a prefect and studied cinematography at A-Level.
Her film, a ‘thriller’ depicting a hooded man chasing a girl through a school, was made as part of her coursework and contained themes about bullying.
Writing about her studies online, the teenager – whom the Mail is not naming and whose face we are obscuring to protect her privacy – said: ‘It gives out a hidden message about … how we humans shouldn’t stereotype people and pick on them because of what background they come from or the colour of their skin nor what they believe in. Also…that revenge is NEVER the right answer.’
She is now thought to be studying media studies at Middlesex University.
In emails to the campaign group Cage, Emwazi said: ‘He [Nick] knew everything about me; where I lived, what I did, the people I hanged around with.’
‘Nick’ then tried to recruit the 21-year-old, Emwazi claimed, and threatened him when he refused to cooperate.
Emwazi said the officer told him: ‘You’re going to have a lot of trouble…You’re going to be known…You’re going to be followed…Life will be harder for you.’
On his return to Britain, Emwazi said his family told him they had been ‘visited’, and he claimed a woman he had been planning to marry broke off their engagement because her family had also been contacted and were scared.
According to Emwazi, his family then began planning for him to travel to Kuwait to get him away from the ‘harassment’ he had suffered in Britain and he went to work for a computer programming company in the emirate.
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38 Comments
9 years ago
His eyes belie his smile even in the little boy group photo. In the photo as an adult, he has those dead, reptile, Islam eyes.
9 years ago
“Islam” “Piety”
Leftist so-called intellectuals would accuse you of “simplistic otherizing reductionist essentialism”, or whatever new pompous buzz terms they have cooked up. But after years of reading jihadi sources and news stories I can confirm both that the jihadis state, and the news stories confirm, that analysis.
Modern jihadism is, by its terms, first an foremost an Islamic authenticity movement. I am not saying what Islam is or is not, nor can I, they are.
I cannot possibly recall how many times I have read:
“Then he became increasingly devout…”
Followed by:
BOOM. (Here: “strike the necks”)
9 years ago
This is a case in point of “revival” of a Muslim living in the West.
And how many Muslims are living in Western nations today?
When “the bad things” start happening here on American soil and ISIS releases video footage of “the bad things,” how will Americans react? They will be forced to think about the threat of Islam.
For years now, when I’ve been telling people about the threat of Islam, the answer I usually get from these ostriches is “I don’t like to think about it.”
The day is coming when every one of them WILL have to think about it! IMO, that day isn’t far off.
9 years ago
Reply to
Always On Watch
“That’s what they said about Hitler” makes a suitable observation.
9 years ago
Reply to
Always On Watch
Pamela Geller prefaced this report with the following:
Every premise and assumption American and European counter-terrorism programs are using must be tossed out. Their premise is false so their programs will continue to fail. Well-educated and affluent, the catalyst for jihad is a move towards the faith of Islam. Religiosity is the catalyst. – See more at: http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/2015/02/first-pictures-of-jihadi-john-before-he-became-devout.html/#sthash.nRU2bn1S.dpuf
So your applying ‘revival’ is just right. Pamela Geller emphasizes that these jihadiis become ‘devout and pious’. Well, Americans can understand ‘revival’, that one can apply ‘revival’ to any belief, in this case Islam. This Muslim’s school life was British and his family life was Muslim, and as a adult we see that he experienced a Muslim revival and became ‘devout and pious’. Why can’t counter-terrorism Westerners understand this? Law enforcement cannot think that “dialogue” or college courses will neutralize jihad revival in Muslims.
9 years ago
Reply to
Clare
Clare,
Not sure where I picked up the term “revived” or “revival” in reference to what the media call “radicalized.” But my terms work — particularly for American Protestant audiences.
I witnessed with my own two eyes “the revival” of one of our neighbors — a Muslim — back in the late 1990s. I didn’t understand exactly what I was seeing, but I never forgot. I’ve written about the matter a few times, but ostriches don’t want to believe me.
I feel as if I am Cassandra!
9 years ago
Reply to
Always On Watch
“someone” is practicing in Sacramento,CA as they behead sheep-lambs and other small animals . Then leave them out as calling cards.
9 years ago
Reply to
Always On Watch
LIKE ME I was sending Pam email to some one and they ask me to stop thy couldn’t stand to know the truth. and another said don’t sen me any thing that will depress me them with 3 girls. another I don’t want to hear things like that I don’t believe it it is a bunch of lies I told them you better believe it. but the choice is yours. I can’t make you believe it. but I pray your eyes will be opened before it is to late. for you and yours.
9 years ago
Reply to
Betty4440
I have managed to convince some people. But others who have dug in their heels? Nope. No matter what I show them.
9 years ago
The perfect picture of a loser who turned to thuggery to get back at the world.
9 years ago
This is what poverty, no future, and no hope will do to everyone – EVERYONE – living in poverty, with no future, and no hope. Happens every time.
9 years ago
Universities in America are now preaching radical Islam and having Muslim payers then their parents wonder why their kids are taking vacationing trips to Syria to join ISIS.
9 years ago
So, why do we import these brown savages again? Well anyway you can thank Pammy’s “tribe” for that
9 years ago
“Empowering Jihad: The Deadly Myth of a ‘Root Cause'”
by Phyllis Chesler.
9 years ago
Hunt him down like the rabid animal he is, and take him out.
9 years ago
He is marked and basically a goner! (In case tis posting is deleted we know who did it).
9 years ago
Reply to
joker
If oblowboy captures him, he be made the prince of conservative reduction.
Hey! Look! a Goat!!!
9 years ago
obama DOES have a son!
9 years ago
Oh poor little jihad boy went wrong. How sad. Now that we know who he is, put a bounty on that POS savage, bring him back to Europe, thin skin the MFer alive in public. I would love to torture him until he begged for death!
9 years ago
SHOCK AND AWE
I think a key point is being missed.
Emwazi “dreamt of becoming a star”.
The fact is, he has fulfilled his dreams and has become a star (although not through football). Jihadis believe they are following the path to glory, and are prepared to die to accomplish their goals.
Emwazi knew exactly how we would react, and did his killing for that purpose.
We think because we have a rich country that we are smarter, but the Islamic leaders are very sophisticated in politics and the use of shock and awe.
We are underestimating the enemy.
9 years ago
Didn’t they say at one point he got into rap and had videos I don’t see none of that here.
9 years ago
The Brand Broadcasting Corporation has revealed that JJ had ‘anger management therapy’ while at school. Apparently, the school thought the intervention had been successful…
9 years ago
Asim Qureshi of the CAGE UK called Jihadi John “a beautiful man”…And he is still hailed as a human right activist and moderate by the appeasers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxhu0U9xj1E
9 years ago
“Fury over charities that fund ISIS killer Jihadi John apologists:
Calls for end to grants for ‘warped’ human rights group.”
“Campaign group Cage described Jihadi John as ‘beautiful’ person.
Lord Carlile, a former reviewer of anti-terror legislation said there are ‘serious concerns’ surrounding the group.
“Added that he would never advise donating money to organisation.
“Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has given £305,000 to Cage.”
[ Front-page story of Saturday’s U.K ‘Daily Mail’]
9 years ago
And this is the type of vermin we are importing in to the UK, for whom the taxpayer is paying for their education, housing and free healthcare. Nice to know they are showing their gratitude!!!
9 years ago
So how much inbreeding produced this piece of wasted savage? Most likely the imams and general evil nature of Islam commands them to commit savage acts as all their ideology that is filthy and disgusting from the start.” You’ve got to be taught from year to year” as the song goes as it reveals how evil and hate develop.Islam now is at the top of the list as it combines Nazism & Islam.
9 years ago
More on CAGE-
“Nauseating!
“An odious press conference, apologists for terror and the do-gooders who fund them.
“Cage held a press conference yesterday to discuss identity of Jihadi John.
“The group had been in contact with Mohammed Emwazi for three years.
“Its bosses did not express any regret for failing to prevent his barbarism.
“Instead, they called him an ‘extremely kind’ and ‘beautiful young man.’
9 years ago
Obama will certainly invite him to speak at the White House as a voice of peace and intercultural dialogue and tolerance.
9 years ago
We do not know him but we do know know his family now. If I was his family I would leave Britain rather yesterday than…. Lets see how he likes cutting off the head of his mother fucker Muslim mother. (In case this posting is deleted we know almost for sure the source).
9 years ago
I get agitated at the “he/she was just so nice and sweet before they became radicalized” repeated time after time when some Westerner is found out to be a Muslim terrorist. There is always something twisted in these people to begin with; good grief, it is no coincidence that his siblings are all like he is. Aren’t the patterns obvious?
9 years ago
Deport his family immediately
9 years ago
Jihadi John please turn yourself in at the nearest police station where you are. In Turkey or any please in civilised Europe. We know your family and please we do not want to harm them but if necessary you will see a nice video on youtube. Please as soon as possible turn your self in. (In case this message has been deleted we know the source). Jihadi John you are a goner.
