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2015-03-06 Britain
British Teacher Jailed for Trying to Join IS
[AnNahar] A chemistry teacher was tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for six years in Britannia on Thursday for trying to join Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadists fighting in Syria, against the wishes of his family who desperately tried to stop him.

Jamshed Javeed, 30, one of a group of radicalized Moslems from Manchester in northwest England, was incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
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."

The teacher pleaded guilty in October to two counts of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, but insisted he was not an Lion of Islam and had never supported the aims of IS "as now revealed and understood," the court heard.

But Topolski told Javeed he was "not satisfied that you reject its ultimate aims."

The judge said: "You had become sufficiently radicalized and committed to a violent jihadist ideology that you were part of a group of young men determined to travel to Syria to join ISIS (Islamic State) and to fight and die for them."

He said Javeed ignored the pleas of his wife and family and persisted even after they had hidden his passport and his equipment such as solar chargers.

"Even the prospect of becoming a father did not deter you," said the judge.

"You were not planning to return to this country... but rather to die, if you could, as a martyr.

"Whether you believed you were fighting in a just cause is irrelevant. The law is clear: this was terrorism."

The court heard how his wife's revelation that she was pregnant with their daughter did not deter Javeed.

In a text message, she had said: "Jamshed, you refuse to take on board anyone's opinion unless I've got a gun and I'm in Syria."

Police praised his family's "brave steps" in trying to thwart his plans.

Javeed was among a group of young Moslem men from Manchester who became radicalized in 2013.

His brother and two of the three other men he helped go to the Middle East have not been heard of since. The other one is confirmed dead.
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