Umar Islam And The Comedy Jihadists’ Airline Bomb Plot
A PLOT to blow up jets over the Atlantic Ocean is foiled, and defendant Umar Islam is captured on video.
The Mirror says Islam is one of eight men accused of conspiring to murder thousands by detonating homemade bombs on aircraft flying from London to North America. All deny the charges.
Five of the would-be martyrs made videos explaining their actions, or trying to.
Mr Islam’s tape makes for chilling viewing, a damning indictment on the education system.
In the 19-minute video, Islam, born Brian Young, says how many people will die unless they do what he and his ilk want.
But the message is halting. He looks down and reads from a script.
He raises his hand and jabs a finger with so little menace future home-grown jihadists should consider the idea of sticking Rod Hull’s Emu on the end of their hand, or Lamb Chop.
The effect is like watching a video for Mr Islam’s GCSE In Media Studies: Martyrdom Module.
The comic properties of the rant do not go entirely unnoticed by the speaker, who says: “I say to you disbelievers that as you bomb, you will be bombed and as you kill, you will be killed and if you want to kill our women and children, then the same thing will happen to you. This is not a joke.”
Indeed it is not. But why are we smiling?
Posted: 11th, April 2008 | In: Tabloids, Terrible TV, War On Terror Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 11th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I feel so sad. I get the impression of a rather silly naive and manipulated young man who for all practical purposes has effectively ended his life.
Religion and nationalism, how many people have suffered and died through the ages due to these two obsessions. Why on earth don’t the masses who ultimately suffer at the hands of these two realise that neither are ultimately anything to do with morality goodness, its about power. Christians shouldn’t feel smug and self rightious either. I am a lapsed Catholic and I look in horror at the way the Catholic Church butchered its way to prominence throughout the middle ages terrorising torturing and killing in “the name of god”. I think it was professor Bronowski (hope the spelling is right) the author of The ascent of man” who on a visit to Auswitchz delared “this is the way people behave who have absolute truth with no test in reality”. Those words have stuck with me for most of my life and should act as a warning to all who think they have absolute truth.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:32 am
He didn’t look VERY scary did he? hahahahahaha!
April 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I don’t think it says much about blowing up planes, either
April 11th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Good job you said ‘Lamb Chop’ and not ‘Pork Chop’; you could have offended a few muslims otherwise.
I’m not sure what the Quran states about contact with emus, or old socks with eyes stuck on.