Fifth Isil runaway held on take-off

It turns out that one of the girls from Bethnal Green Academy who was made a Ward of Court to stop her defecting to ISIS/ISIL last week was stopped in her earlier attempt. She was following girl(s) from the private Muslim School(s) in the borough run by the East London Mosque. Also more about papa’s connection with the jihadist underworld.

From the Sunday Telegraph. 

A fifth girl from Bethnal Green Academy travelled to join Islamic State (Isil) and was only stopped after her plane was halted on the runway, it can be revealed. . . Her case is particularly concerning, however, since it took place in December, more than two months before the other girls left. 

It had been thought that four girls from the school – Kadiza, Shamima and Amira, plus another teenager who succeeded in reaching Syria in December, Sharmeena Begum – were the only Bethnal Green pupils to have tried to travel to Isil.

However, the 15-year-old is the fifth. All five children were friends. The 15-year-old who was taken off the plane is one of five girls remaining at Bethnal Green Academy who have been made wards of court and handed travel bans to prevent them from going to Syria.

Tower Hamlets council attempted to prevent journalists from revealing the further links to the academy, but a judge ruled that it was in the public interest to report it.

Amira Abase’s father, Abase Hussen, blamed police for his daughter’s disappearance, saying they had “terrified” his daughter and should have done more to warn him after Sharmeena Begum left for Syria. 

 emerged yesterday that a man appearing to be Mr Hussen and bearing a close resemblance to him attended an extremist rally with Anjem Choudary, former head of the al-Muhajiroun group which has radicalised dozens of convicted terrorists. Also present was Michael Adebowale, one of those who would later murder the soldier Lee Rigby.

Pictures of the event, in 2012, appear to show Mr Hussen chanting “Burn, burn USA” and attempting to hold a blazing US flag. Behind him, hundreds of jihadi sympathisers chant provocative slogans while holding black terrorist banners.Mr Hussen had claimed to the committee that he did not even know what Islamic radicalisation was.

As the Telegraph revealed two weeks ago, Mr Hussen’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee – who also gave evidence to the committee blaming the police – is an extremist with links to both al-Muhajiroun and Cage, the pro-terrorist lobby group which defended Mohammed Emwazi, “Jihadi John,” as a “gentle” and “beautiful” man who had been “radicalised by MI5.”

Mr Akunjee, also known as Mohammed Akunjee, attacked the Met for making a “cacophony of error” over the girls, saying: “One would hope the Met would have expended greater resources checking their facts and getting it right.” However, he has previously said that no Muslim should co-operate with anti-terror police, saying that Prevent, the government’s counter-terror policy, is “straightforward, paid-for spying on the community.” 

Mr Akunjee is based in Brentford, on the other side of London. The revelation of Mr Hussen’s apparent al-Muhajiroun links may help explain how he came to be representing families from Tower Hamlets.

One source involved in the investigation of the three girls said: “We are desperate to get Akunjee off the case but it doesn’t look like it is going to happen.”

Another London teenager who has travelled to join Isil attended a private Muslim school in Tower Hamlets run by the East London Mosque, an institution controlled by an extremist group, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), and which has regularly hosted hate preachers.

Zubair Nur, 19, went to London East Academy, one of six private Muslim schools identified by Ofsted in November as leaving children “vulnerable to extremist influences and radicalisation.” Nur was also a lead volunteer for the IFE’s youth wing, the Young Muslim Organisation (YMO), and attended private study classes with the mosque’s imam, Abdul Qayyum.

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  1. You would think the families would be pleased because if the girls are fortunate enough to be matyred, it will ensure their entire family a place in Paradise. It’s got to be worth it. Is it that they are vunerable to child negliect charges (like that’s going to happen!) and feel they have to pretend to be shocked and distraught?

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