Brainwashed Muslim children aged five think Christmas is banned, warns Scotland Yard commander
- Mak Chishty said children have branded it 'haram' - forbidden by Allah
- Children refusing to shop at Marks & Spencer, mistakenly perceived to be Jewish owned, could be early sign of radicalisation, said Mr Chishty
- Islamic State claim to have funds to buy a nuclear weapon within a year
- Former army chief Lord Dannatt called for David Cameron to 'think the previously unthinkable' and draw up plans for sending troops to Iraq
Muslim
children as young as five have become so indoctrinated by Islamist
propaganda they believe Christmas is sinful, Britain’s most senior
Muslim police officer warned yesterday.
Scotland
Yard commander Mak Chishty said children had voiced opposition to
marking the festive holiday – branding it ‘haram’, which means forbidden
by their god Allah.
He said that parents need to address ‘all the ugly bit of the problem’, and ask how children had come to that view.
Mr
Chishty also warned of a need for parents to spot early signs of
radicalisation, which could include their sons and daughters refusing to
shop in certain places, such as Marks & Spencer.
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Scotland Yard commander Mak Chishty
said children had voiced opposition to marking Christmas – branding it
‘haram’, which means forbidden by their god Allah
Bethnal Green
schoolgirls Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana - three of
around 700 British Muslims thought to have been lured to Syria by IS
propaganda
The
store is mistakenly perceived to be Jewish-owned and in the past, Lord
Sieff, the founder of M&S, reportedly made several statements in
support of Israel’s military policies in relation to the Arab state of
Palestine.
Mr
Chishty said that Islamist propaganda should be countered with
intensified monitoring to detect the earliest signs of anti-Western
sentiment.
Refusing to shop at Marks & Spencer could be an early sign of radicalisation, according to Mr Chishty
These could include sudden negative attitudes towards alcohol, social occasions and Western clothing.
He
said there was now a need for ‘a move into the private space’ of
Muslims to spot views that could show the beginning of radicalisation
far earlier.
‘We need to now be less precious about the private space,’ he said.
‘This
is not about us invading private thoughts, but acknowledging that it is
in these private spaces where this [extremism] first germinates.
‘The
purpose of private space intervention is to engage, explore, explain,
educate or eradicate. Hate and extremism are not acceptable in our
society, and if people cannot be educated, then hate and harmful
extremism must be eradicated through all lawful means.’
Asked
to define ‘private space’, Mr Chishty said: ‘It is anything from
walking down the road, looking at a mobile, to someone in a bedroom
surfing the net, to someone in a shisha cafe talking about things.’
He
said what is new about Islamic State is the use of social media to
spread its message and urge those of the same extreme views to join the
terror group or stage attacks in their home country.
And
in a stark warning, he said there was no end in sight to the number of
British Muslims, around 700 so far, being lured to Syria by IS
propaganda.
The
comments come after a Daily Mail investigation revealed how easy it was
for British schoolgirls to be enticed into fleeing to Iraq and Syria to
become ‘jihadi brides’.
An
IS plot to lure a 16-year-old to Syria to marry a jihadist was foiled
after the Mail passed on evidence that she was planning to run away to
counter-terror officers.
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They
swooped on the girl’s home after it emerged she was being lured by her
older sister, a prolific IS recruiter who fled London last year to be a
jihadi bride.
The
plot had been laid out in extraordinary detail in secret online
messages, with timings and prices planned for every train, flight and
hotel she was set to stay at on the way.
Mr
Chishty, head of community engagement for the Metropolitan Police in
London, said IS propaganda is so powerful that he has to be vigilant
about his own children.
Directing
his comments at other Muslim parents, he told the Guardian: ‘I am not
immunised. If I feel the need to be extra vigilant, then I think you
need to feel the need to be extra vigilant.’
Mr
Chishty said friends and family of youngsters at risk of extremism
should be intervening much earlier, watching out for subtle, unexplained
changes, because those closest to them are best placed to do so.
He
said they should challenge and understand what caused such changes in
behaviour and seek help, if needs be from the police, if they are
worried.
Mr Chishty said it did not make someone an extremist if they criticised ‘British values’, but friends and family should ask why.
He
added that more work is needed to understand why young people are
attracted to IS: ‘Some are bored, overqualified, underemployed… It is
not a holy war.’
BRITISH SUICIDE BOMBER FATLAM SHALAKU WENT TO 'SOCIALIST ETON'
A
British suicide bomber who helped jihadis take the Iraqi city of Ramadi
was from a top London state school nicknamed the ‘socialist Eton’.
Ramadi was the first major city seized by insurgents in Iraq since paramilitary groups began pushing them back last year.
Over
the weekend it emerged that former Holland Park School pupil Fatlum
Shalaku was among six ‘martyrs’ who blew themselves up as IS surged into
the town 60 miles west of Baghdad.
Fatlum Shalaku was among six ‘martyrs’ who blew themselves up as IS surged into the town of Ramadi
The
20-year-old was following in the footsteps of his brother, Flamur, 23,
who is believed to have died on the battlefield in Iraq in March.
Flamur
is thought to have been studying at Greenwich University, the same
place as Michael Adebolajo, one of the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
Both
brothers came from a non-devout Muslim family of Kosovan-Albanian
descent and lived on the top floor of a 20-storey council tower block in
Ladbroke Grove, west London.
Yesterday a neighbour said their parents has been ‘very upset’ by their sons’ increasingly hard-line beliefs.
At least three other former pupils at
Holland Park School in Kensington and Chelsea (pictured) have also been
killed in Syria and Iraq
According
to one of his school friends, Fatlum was ‘friendly’ and liked to post
pictures of his ‘honed physique’ on social media.
They
added: ‘Fatlum was competitive when it came to exercise and posting
pictures on Facebook. He was very popular – always surrounded by a large
group of friends.’
Another said: ‘We have to ask why a person full of talent, dreams, possibility and potential would blow themselves up?’
At
least three other former pupils from Holland Park School in Kensington
and Chelsea – where a number of high-profile socialists have sent their
children – have also been killed in Syria and Iraq.
One
sixth-former is still fighting on the front line with IS, while another
has been jailed for funding jihad, according to The Sunday Times.
IS: We have enough cash to buy a nuke
Islamic State jihadis claim to have enough money to buy a nuclear weapon within a year.
The
terror group claimed it had billions of pounds, enough to make their
growing arsenal of ‘tanks, rocket launchers and missile systems’ even
deadlier.
An article in terrorist magazine Dabiq claimed corrupt Pakistani officials would be willing to sell the nuclear weapon to them.
Entitled
The Perfect Storm, it was supposedly written by British hostage John
Cantlie. It read: ‘Let me throw a hypothetical operation on to the
table.
British hostage John Cantlie
supposedly wrote The Perfect Storm, claiming corrupt Pakistani officials
would be willing to sell a nuclear weapon to ISIS
ISIS raised their flag over a citadel in the ancient ruins of Palmyra, having reportedly killed 400 civilians in the town istelf
‘The
Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on
their wilayah in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons
dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region.’
Photojournalist Mr Cantlie has been held hostage by IS for more than two years.
He has regularly been used in propaganda videos – including presenting the YouTube series Lend Me Your Ears.
His
latest message came as IS slaughtered hundreds of women, children and
elderly civilians in Palmyra, leaving their bodies strewn across the
streets of the ancient Syrian city.
As
they carried out their latest sickening atrocity, militants raised the
black flag of IS over an historic citadel, increasing fears of the
imminent destruction of 2,000-year-old ruins and priceless artefacts in
the World Heritage site.
Yesterday Syrian state television reported that 400 civilians had been killed, many of whom were found decapitated.
State
employees seem to have been targeted, including the head of the local
nursing department and all her family. Thousands of other residents were
trapped in the city as IS militants seized their properties.
Members of the Syrian army crouch before cameras after they were seized by ISIS during the takeover of Palmyra
Islamic State militants overran the famed archaeological site at Palmyra, just hours after seizing the central Syrian town
Meanwhile
in Iraq, security forces fought to regain territory from IS after
losing control of Ramadi, a strategically important provincial capital
60 miles west of Baghdad.
Iraq’s
government, along with Iran-backed Shi’ite militiamen and locally
recruited Sunni tribal fighters, launched a counter-offensive on
Saturday. It followed a wave of airstrikes in the region over the
weekend which took out IS positions.
Yesterday
a police major and a pro-government Sunni tribal fighter in the area
said they had retaken the town of Husaiba al-Sharqiya, around six miles
east of Ramadi.
But
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter accused Iraq’s army of abandoning
the city to a much smaller enemy force. In a sharp criticism, he told
CNN: ‘The Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They vastly
outnumbered the opposing force, and yet they withdrew from the site.’
But
Hakim al-Zamili, head of the Iraqi parliamentary defence and security
committee, hit back and called for more support to effectively battle
IS.
The US said it was sending anti-tank weapons to the Iraqi military.
EX-ARMY CHIEF: SEND UK TROOPS NOW
A
former head of the Army has urged the Government to ready 5,000 troops,
spy planes and Apache attack helicopters to fight Islamic State in
Iraq.
Lord
Dannatt, the former chief of the general staff, called for David
Cameron to ‘think the previously unthinkable’ and draw up plans for
sending troops for a ‘fight to the finish’.
Writing
in the Mail on Sunday, Lord Dannatt said he feared the need for British
‘boots on the ground’ was increasing due to the failure of air strikes
to thwart IS and a lack of political solutions.
Former head of the Army Lord Dannatt
has called on the Government to 'think the previously unthinkable' and
consider sending ground troops into the battle
And he warned the IS caliphate could advance into southern Europe, leaving Britain to face ‘a far bigger problem later’.
But
his dramatic call to arms was rejected yesterday by Business Secretary
Sajid Javid, who said there was a need for troops on the ground – but
not British troops.
Mr
Javid told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show: ‘We need to see what more can be
done in terms of providing the help we already are...But the answer to
this is not going to be British troops on the ground.
‘This
has to be won by the people most affected – it’s the Iraqis, the
Syrians and we’ve got to provide them help with our allies as we’re
doing.’
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