[ April 19, 2024 ]
A judge in the United Kingdom spared the mother of five children from a lengthy prison sentence over pro-ISIS statements she made on social media because, as he told her: You need to get back to your children.
Look at what this lady did, though.
Farhana Ahmed, 40, went above and beyond to express her support for ISIS.
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She basically wanted to link terrorists around the world.
From the Daily Mail:
She praised the Paris attacks and posted tips on ‘how to carry out a stabbing’ as well as links to a library of terrorist publications with videos and images of IS fighters.
In 2015 she made 19 Facebook posts that ‘directly or indirectly encouraged terrorism both within the UK and abroad,’ the Old Bailey heard. Ahmed had been in custody since July last year as she awaited trial. Her five home-schooled children, aged between six and 16, were cared for by relatives.
Judge Christopher Moss QC yesterday said he was ‘moved’ by a letter from her daughter and ruled that she could return to her children.
He handed her a two-year suspended jail sentence after she pleaded guilty to encouraging terrorism and three counts of disseminating terrorist documents.
Judge Moss told her: ‘In your exceptional case, the sooner you are returned to your children, the better for all concerned. Since you were charged and remanded in custody this has plainly had an extremely adverse effect on your children who have been looked after by family.
‘You express remorse for your actions which I regard as completely genuine. It’s quite clear to me that you regret in the strongest possible way your criminal conduct.’
Judge Moss said Ahmed made the posts at a ‘very difficult time’ in her life. He added: ‘You have devoted your life, apart from this abhorrent behaviour, to the care of your children.
‘There is no realistic danger of you returning to the mindset evident of your conduct of two years ago. You want nothing more than to return to your family and your family want nothing more than you to return to them. They have suffered greatly by your period in custody.’
As she left the dock, Ahmed, who wore a headscarf, quietly said ‘thank you’ to the judge.
Last night Conservative MP Philip Davies reacted to the decision with fury, saying: ‘It is completely outrageous that this woman hasn’t been jailed.
People will rightly wonder what you have to do to be sent to prison by the courts these days.’Former Tory MP Angie Bray added: ‘I wonder if the judge has also considered the suffering of so many children deprived of their parents by the wicked actions of terrorists inspired by the depraved stuff they pick up on certain social media?’
The court heard that the self-described ‘pro-IS’ Facebook group, called Power Strangers, grew from 721 members to 1,480 in the two months after Ahmed joined. The group’s name is a play on the superhero series Power Rangers.
Using the alias Kay Adams, Ahmed expressed her approval for the Paris terror attacks and published speeches by IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his deputy, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, between September and November 2015. Ahmed described them as amazing speeches and called on Allah to ‘preserve and protect them both’. Her posts also included calls for attacks on the West.
Prosecutor Ben Lloyd said: ‘It is clear … that she shared the group’s ideology and aims.’ The British national, of Wembley in north-west London, travelled to Turkey with her husband Muhammed Burmal Karwani and their children in November 2013.
Ahmed and the children returned here while her husband stayed behind. When she tried to travel to Turkey in August 2015 she was refused entry. Mr Lloyd added: ‘It may be that following this, she decided to begin her campaign on Facebook encouraging terrorism.’
Ahmed had been charged with two further counts of funding terrorism, but these were dropped after the prosecution offered no evidence.
It was alleged she transferred more than £3,000 to a Turkish bank account in the name of her husband in September 2014 and sent him £4,300 in February 2015.
Turkey and was acquitted, is now back in the UK.
The case follows a growing row over how to deal with British jihadis who have tried to return from Syria to the UK.
A recent report found that Britain was home to more jihadis who have returned from Syria than almost all other countries. Only Turkey, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia are home to more people who travelled to fight for IS.
Around 850 Britons travelled to the Middle East to fight and around half are thought to be back here, meaning more than 400 are still at large.
But Britain’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Max Hill QC, sparked fury last month by calling for ‘naive’ teenage jihadis to be spared prosecution in the UK.
It was then reported that terror suspects including returning jihadis could be offered taxpayer-funded homes, counselling and help finding jobs to stop them carrying out attacks in Britain.
It also comes after several cases where a female defendant has been spared jail.In August, accountant Natalie Saul, 37, who stole £350,000 to feed her gambling addiction, avoided jail after a judge said she was ‘not the general stuff of which the prison population is made’.
Judge Catherine Newman QC was going to jail Saul for at least three years but had been persuaded that she was unfit for prison. She handed her a two-year suspended sentence and 250 hours’ community service at Southwark Crown Court.
And Oxford University student Lavinia Woodward, 24, who stabbed her boyfriend last December, was spared prison in September after Oxford Crown Court judge Ian Pringle said she had an ‘extraordinary’ talent for medicine.
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36 Comments
6 years ago
I know, lets put her under house arrest and only let her out with a male companion???
6 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Better Idea! Lets strip the bitch naked and run her thru a bullwhip gauntlet!
6 years ago
How shariah, a judge grovels to islam in court. No wonder the britishstinian people are the new laughing stock of western europe. Why did face book not discipline her? Because in englandistan, she did not violate community standards by calling for the death of non muslims.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Indeed you cannot make it up, however that is the reality of today. Britain indeed became the laughing stock and not only Britain also Germany and the rest of whimpish Western Europe.
6 years ago
Reply to
pipo
Western Europe, and particularly Britain and Sweden, really does seem to be decaying quite rapidly.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
You hit the nail on the head. While the rest of Europe, like France, Germany, Austria, Poland and others have swung to the right and to anti-immigration parties, only Britain and Sweden refuse to abandon the fantasy of multiculturalism, the absurd notion that all cultures are equal and can co-exist peacefully. Not surprisingly, they are the two destinations of choice for the millions stacking up in North Africa, Greece and Italy. Remember the camps in Calais? 28 countries in the EU to choose from to apply for asylum, but all 10,000 were determined to get to Britain, and only Britain.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Wolff
Still waiting to see where France, Germany and Austria have swung right. All we can now see is the hell they are still putting their people through.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Wolff
I haven’t been to London in years, but someone who knows that city far better than I – the English actor and comedian John Cleese, said that during a recent trip, he found London to be unrecognizable.
It’s hard to understate the tragedy that Europe, and Britain in particular, from which this country sprang, is being dismantled and destroyed – from within.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Wolff
To Britain and Sweden I would add the Netherlands and Belgium, both of which have Islamic political parties with parliamentary representatiion.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Mabou Shoujo,
Well and pithily put!
As is usually the case, I find myself somewhat in agreement w|the meat of your comment!
Please pardon my saying so, ( …and I offer these two pence w|the best of intentions, I assure you…).
I do, however, have one slight disagreement (… and you know me: don’t I always… ;~)❱ )
Please allow me to explain.
Say, “Englandistan”, aloud or its use during conversation and I think you’ll find it comes uncomfortably off the tongue— at least, I find it so.
“Britainistan” — I have found, (and still find, btw) — falls more easily from the mouth and has the advantage of rolling naturally off the tongue.
This is of great benefit in conversion. In use I’ve found that the ease of it strongly contributes to a smooth discourse; which in turn, helps in the persuasion of those ‘somnolized’… if I might coin a word… by Our Betters™.
This, of course, is because when One’s able to give the argument smoothly, truthfully, and composed persuasively; the flaws in cadence and flow not presenting themselves, there are no “verbal speed bumps” to distract the logical processes of the mind.
This is so b|c there is no squirrel! in pronunciation to lend credence to the skeptic component of the Hearer’s mind, allowing that skeptical fragment of the Hearer’s consciousness to assess the arguments w|o distraction.
I have found that even great ideas and great arguments can be lost due to presentation… even a seemingly minor verbal stumble — and nonsensical ideas and fallacious arguments can win the day – i.e., approval and adherents – via good presentation.
Would that it was not so! However, such is the way of Mankind, so we must needs to account for human foibles it in our actions as we attempt to salvage the situation.
I hope you take the preceding in the spirit offered… and not as chiding, or even, Heaven forfend, objurgation…. I offer these comments hoping, rather, to be of some small aide to a fellow combatant in an adjacent foxhole.
My best to you and your!
In Haste,
Gordon
6 years ago
Reply to
Gordon TheGrumpus
Thank you for you assessment. Engrish is a second language for me, I have to work at it to get what I am trying to say in writing. Sometimes it goes down better than others.
6 years ago
I seem to remember two or three men being sentenced to jail for throwing bacon sandwiches in front of a mosque, I find it strange they did jail time but this sharmuta isn’t. I wonder if this kinda islamic judicial corruption isn’t already being implemented in North America?
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
One of those men died in jail, a death sentence for playing a joke…I’m so happy I live in the free country of U.S.A.
6 years ago
Reply to
Johndoe
Make sure you stay that way, free, because even in the US groups like CAIR and Black Lives Matter are getting more powerful and having more influence on government every day. As is the case everywhere in the West, higher birthrates mean that in time what are now minorities will become majorities – look at Detroit, with its 83% black population, and not just because whites are moving out.
6 years ago
Reply to
Johndoe
Best enjoy it while we can. It ain’t gonna last much longer the way things are going.
6 years ago
Reply to
Johndoe
Look up the Zombie Muhammad incident in Pennsylvania and know that some reports of this incident have whitewashed away the fact the judge was and is a f’ing muslum convert.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
“My Bacon has a first name, its Oscar, my bacon has a second name, its Mayer.” This is the battle cry, to replace Allahu Akbar!
6 years ago
This is Britain’s future. No country in Europe is more politically correct, more obsessed with multiculturalism and “diversity”, or more afraid to stand up to the unacceptable behaviours of its two biggest ethnic groups: Muslim and black African. A perfect example is female genital mutilation – while neighbouring France has made more than 100 successful prosecutions, in Britain, despite being illegal for more than 30 years, there have been NONE. It’s generally accepted that this is out of fear of “offending” the two groups reponsible by targeting them: Muslim and black African.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jeremy Steering
If these Muslim/Islamic, female genital mutilators, enjoy this act, let me be the first to introduce all male Muslims to my 18 inch Bowie Knife!
6 years ago
Disbar this judge and lock them both up in the same cell. Hope he’ll get from her what he deserves.
6 years ago
What a moronic idiot! Must be a relation of the royal family who was inbred for centuries.
6 years ago
Do they really still wear those dumb wigs on their heads?
6 years ago
2 years ago a UK man was jailed for 1 year because he left a bacon sandwich outside a mosque. He died in Jail.
This savage spawns 5 (to date) potential terrorists teaches them (and many others) how to destroy infidels. The
The so called Judge says go home and teach them and others more extreme Islam.
PC and Islamic protectionism is driving the West towards Islamic governance. Maybe thats the plan?
6 years ago
The judge failed to mention the adverse effects on us if her actions caused deaths, which they eventually would encourage another mad man or woman to do. Time to go judge. Talk about get home free, just plain daft. What a plonker.
6 years ago
Reply to
Generalpatern
Laws must be introduced to hold judges responsible for their actions. Especially if their actions result in injury and or death of an innocent person! If you or I make a mistake that causes death/injury, we are held accountable. So why is a “judge’ any different? Surely they are not “superior.” They are flesh and blood the same as you and I! You can’t try an automobile for manslaughter, but you sure as hell can the driver!
6 years ago
Dark eyes, dark soul, if she has one.
6 years ago
Sickening.
6 years ago
So this judge might be referred to as a “motherphucher!”
6 years ago
Note also that she is a mother of five, whereas the average decent, hardworking British family has what it can afford, one or two children. Since presumably she and her husband are too busy plotting and travelling to be able to work, it’s almost certain that they and their five children are being subsidised by those hardworking families. With such a birthrate, it doesn’t take a mathematician to work out what Britain will look like in the future.
6 years ago
Islam is a “Racist Cult?” They are prone to murder anyone that is not Muslim! So therefore, we must gather from their actions, that they are a cult and not a religion! The “Bombay Stranglers” were similar in their beliefs and were considered a blood thirsty cult, not a religion! Then let us declare and decree Islam is a murdering, racist cult to be exterminated from the face of the earth just as the “stranglers” were!
6 years ago
What do you need to do to get sent to jail in the UK? Put bacon on the door handle of a mosque!
6 years ago
Reply to
clearsighted
In the USA, the Federal Bureau of Islamization offered a $10K reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever put a couple strips of uncooked bacon across the door handles of a mosque in Las Vegas, NV, but when someone caused thousands of dollars in vandalism to a Jewish cemetery they did nothing.
6 years ago
Wow, mental illness is rampant in the UK…..these judges are mentally defective as well. Time to send these judges to prison as well…… or better yet send them off to live with the inbred uncivilized Muslims for several years to see how they fare…
