LONDON: A chemistry teacher was jailed for six years in Britain on Thursday for trying to join Islamic State jihadists fighting in Syria, against the wishes of his family who desperately tried to stop him.
Jamshed Javeed, 30, one of a group of radicalised Muslims from Manchester in northwest England, was arrested in December 2013 as he was about to travel to the Middle East — after helping his younger brother and three others make the same trip.
At the high-security Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London, judge Michael Topolski said Javeed was “adherent to a violent jihadist mindset” and should be considered “dangerous”.
Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2015
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Dwaraka Nath
Mar 06, 2015 08:20am
Preachers and the teachers are same
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mimi
Mar 06, 2015 10:07am
Evidient from his looks. Must be south asian origin . I think these converts are more musims than original arabian muslims.
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irfan farooqui
Mar 06, 2015 10:07am
such snakes should be kill immediately before they start harming whole society.... i dont know what sort of islam they portraying.....islam is a religion of peace and harmony and such dirty snakes have totally destroyed the true essence of Islam...
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Dushyant
Mar 06, 2015 10:17am
Teacher of a progressive subject and object is like a brainwashed person.how it could be possible???
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R. Kalita
Mar 06, 2015 10:19am
few years in jail will let him find himself. It should be hard labour sentence.
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Hiru
Mar 06, 2015 10:26am
ISIS represents every think that Humanity does not agree to.Those who want to join this organization subscribe to their ideology, They will be a problem to the society irrespective whether they join or no.Their thinking will hardly change. It is best to allow them to get out of the country and cancel their credentials so that they do not return. UK has a good opportunity to get rid of this trash. By not allowing them,UK in fact is trying to meddle in to its citizen's life.
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M. Emad
Mar 06, 2015 10:35am
Pakistan-origin British teacher.
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Datta
Mar 06, 2015 10:38am
I cannot fathom why educated and obviously intelligent people are so keen to join a gang of brutal thugs and kill, rape and destroy others lives?? There must be som freudian explanation.
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joe
Mar 06, 2015 10:45am
After his Jail term just deport him to Pakistan..Let him do his religious duties there..
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Raaz
Mar 06, 2015 10:46am
One word "Misguided"
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Sandeep Singh
Mar 06, 2015 10:51am
@irfan farooqui Ha ha ha ha ha your comment on Peace is hilarious
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Ghostwriter
Mar 06, 2015 10:52am
Why to stop him......let him go......only make sure he is not coming back...
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Sandeep Singh
Mar 06, 2015 10:54am
Muslims should now accept that terrorism has nothing to do with poverty or discrimination.
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saima
Mar 06, 2015 11:00am
kill him
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ladies and gentlemen
Mar 06, 2015 11:03am
What's going on in England and France? Revoke their citizenship and kick out the whole family.
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irfan farooqui
Mar 06, 2015 11:21am
@Sandeep Singh its not hilarious its realistic comment...... well i respect all religions but islam is the only religion which has spirituality (Rohaniyath) as compare to anyother religion, it holds mental relaxation if you adopt it with true spirit....issue is that above brain wash militants have so much exagerated islam that they have totally destroyed its beauty....islam is a complete code of life bro like any other religion....you can't put finger on its direction regarding code of life but how it was actually took and adopted in your life that matters.....
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Khan-Haqiqi
Mar 06, 2015 11:23am
He should be thankful to court for saving his life
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Waseemoscow
Mar 06, 2015 11:39am
Raised up on social welfare !! Now showing teeth, Must be hanged
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Tan
Mar 06, 2015 11:45am
No need to keep him in jail and feed him. Simply hang him.
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joy
Mar 06, 2015 11:45am
i think one day europe wiil stop emigration from muslim countries or from asia....
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Truth
Mar 06, 2015 12:24pm
Any evidence present in front of Media.
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Sandeep Singh
Mar 06, 2015 12:33pm
@irfan farooqui To clear you misconceptions that only islam has spirituality, you must know India has been the land of Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, Bodhidharma, Mahakashyap, Subhuti, Atisha, Nagarjuna, Nanak, Meera, Kabir, Osho, Baba farid, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Vivekananda, Raman Maharshi and other many saints and sufis too....Sufism in Indian subcontinent has much with Hinduism than Islam otherwise where there are no Sufi in Arab world. So in India, Hinduism Bhakti movement bring spiritual effect to tyrant Islam.
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SP
Mar 06, 2015 01:03pm
@irfan farooqui Can you please tell me what spirituality is?
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ASH
Mar 06, 2015 01:07pm
@joe Wish we could deport him to Pakistan, cant do that he he British, neither in Law can you take their Passport away and make Stateless.
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Jude Allen
Mar 06, 2015 01:15pm
One word for all of them: "Deportation" if you have the will and common sense.
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Ramesh Krishnan
Mar 06, 2015 01:23pm
European countries are afraid to take strong action against radical preachers...People like Anjem Choudhary are openly supporting the terrorists and preaching hate and defying the law of the land...
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KrishnaKumar
Mar 06, 2015 01:36pm
@irfan farooqui : what do you know about other religion , sir ? there is one tought in a religion: WHOLE WORLD IN ONE FAMILY, can you quote an equivalent thought from yours ?Just for cuiosity sake
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irfan farooqui
Mar 06, 2015 03:18pm
@KrishnaKumar
@Sandeep singh
@sp
Truly, God is the One Who splits the grain and the kernel apart,
bringing forth the living from the dead,
and He is the One Who brings forth the dead out of that which is alive.
This then, is God: how then can you be so deluded?
He is the One Who causes the dawn to break,
and Who has made the night to be a source of stillness,
and the sun and the moon for reckoning
by the order of the Almighty, the All-knowing.
And He it is Who has made the stars for you so that you might be guided by them through the darknesses of land and sea:
clearly have We detailed Our signs for people of inner knowing.
And He it is Who has brought you all into being
out of a single soul,
and so designated for each of you a time-limit on earth
and a resting-place after death:
clearly have We detailed Our signs for people who can grasp the truth.
It is He Who sends down rain from the skies:
with it We produce vegetation of all kinds.
From some We produce green crops,
out of which We produce grain, heaped up.
Out of the date palm and its sheaths,
clusters of dates hanging low and near.
And gardens of grapes, and olives, and pomegranates,
each similar in kind yet different in variety: when they begin to bear fruit,
feast your eye with the fruit, and the ripeness thereof.
Behold! In these things there are signs for people who keep the faith.
[ Sürah al-Anªäm 6:95-99]
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