Middle class daughter of magistrate who turned to suicide bomb plotter

More proof that “radicalisation” is not caused by poverty, ignorance or lack of  opportunity. But we all knew that. From the Telegraph. 

A middle class primary school helper spurned her concerned family to secretly marry an Islamist fanatic and planned to become Britain’s first female suicide bomber. The pair was yesterday convicted of planning to become Britain’s first suicide bombing couple and plotting a massive terror attack on the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 atrocity. 

Khan funded Rehman’s plans from her salary as a teaching assistant and by taking out payday loans. She now faces a lengthy prison term and her actions left a devastating impact on her parents and their work.

Just two days after her daughter’s arrest in May, Khan’s mother Saleen Ahmed-Khan resigned her position at the Elizabeth Fry Charity, which works with women offenders. Mrs Ahmed-Khan was also a senior manager at Reading borough council’s youth and community service, later joining a Reading-based company, Solutions4Health, where she was responsible for a department of 75 workers. 

Khan’s father Javed Khan, 54, works as a chauffeur and the family run two Mercedes cars from their home in a pleasant suburban street in Reading, as well as a Toyota Yaris “runaround”. 

Khan’s family had threatened to disown her if she did not leave Rehman, who had written to her parents from his prison cell apologising for dragging her into his plans. Her mother urged her to break off the relationship with Rehman but instead she secretly married him in 2013 at the Reading Islamic Centre. “I told her not to see him again. This guy, I didn’t want my daughter to have anything to do with him,” Mr Khan told the court

But from January 2014 Khan paid over £14,000 in to Rehman’s account, which included money from pay day loan companies and her small salaries as a primary school activity co-ordinator and a data entry clerk at a stop smoking firm. 

Like Roshonara Choudary, who was convicted of attempting to murder Stephen Timms MP for Newham, Khan studied English to degree level. These are not poor oppressed women. They have taken full advantage of all the benefits my country has made available to them.

The couple will be sentenced later today.