“Lyrical terrorist” convicted in UK Updated
posted at 2:52 pm on November 8, 2007 by Bryan
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She joined an al Qaeda propaganda group, wrote poems about terrorist acts, said her favorite videos were “the beheading ones,” and expressed her hope to be a “martyr.” So I’m guessing that waterboarding really doesn’t impress her overmuch.
Oh, and she worked at an airport.
An airport worker who called herself a ‘lyrical terrorist’ and wrote poems describing beheadings became the first woman to be found guilty under new terror laws yesterday.
Samina Malik, 23, penned poems calling for attacks on the West and wrote of ‘poisoned bullets’ capable of killing an entire street.
The Muslim shop assistant wrote of her desire to become a martyr and listed her favourite videos as the ‘beheading ones’…
Yesterday a jury found her guilty of possessing documents likely to be used for terrorism under the Terrorist Act 2000 by a majority of 10 to one after deliberating for 19 hours. Malik, who wore a black head scarf, wept as the verdict was read out.
Earlier she was cleared of a more serious offence of having articles for a terrorist purpose.
Judge Peter Beaumont told Malik she was an ‘enigma’ and granted her bail which amounted a house arrest. But he warned that a custodial sentence was inevitable.
She’s hardly an enigma. The same thing that motivates terrorists the world over motivates her, and that motivation isn’t the Psalms or the Proverbs. But at least as Robert Spencer says, she’ll have plenty of time to bang out some new lyrics.
I find it telling that for all the abuse we take over Gitmo and the alleged suspension of civil rights in the US, Malik could have lived in the US and done everything that she did in the UK and never feared anything more than maybe an FBI visit. Maybe. The NYT probably would have written up a nice profile story on her struggle to be a Muslim in Bushreich’s Amerikkka. She certainly wouldn’t have been arrested and convicted for her book and poetry collection, as she has been in the UK. Just ask North Carolina jihadist Inshallahshaheed.
Update: LGF has video of the lyrical lass.
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Yeah, here you got to yell Jihad in a crowded theater . . sometimes from the screen itself.
- The Cat
MirCat on November 8, 2007 at 2:55 PM
I think that she’s a perfect candidate for heading the “womens studies” programs at several American universities.
OhEssYouCowboys on November 8, 2007 at 2:56 PM
“Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.”
-Tom Lantos (D-CA)
And it’s true…
amerpundit on November 8, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Any chance we’ll see her hook up with Flava Flav? Public Enemy II?
jdkchem on November 8, 2007 at 2:59 PM
A lot of people don’t realize that the UK is a democracy and not a constitutional republic. When a democracy creates a law, there is nothing behind it to say that it can’t be done. In this case, there is no guaranteed freedom of speach to prevent Parliment from writing such a law.
Harpoon on November 8, 2007 at 3:02 PM
Hopefully someone will help her with her desire to become a martyr while she is locked up. It seems to me that the best possible outcome would be to have her star in her very own beheading video, seeing as how those are her favorites.
Honestly, I hope she spends the time she has been given to examine just how her soul got so corrupted.
Defense Guy on November 8, 2007 at 3:05 PM
And not the squishy mart?
Kini on November 8, 2007 at 3:11 PM
Cool…she can start wearing her burka all baggy an’ shiz.
Desert siiiiiiide!
James on November 8, 2007 at 3:15 PM
I’ve found one of her poems, online:
I remember the good old days - when we were all obsessed with stopping the Moonies.
The Moonies seem positively benign now.
We have a much more sinister, violent brainwashing cult to deal with.
uptight on November 8, 2007 at 3:24 PM
I just went to that site. It’s horrible. He should join the lyrical terrorist in jail. Maybe Britain can teach us a few things.
Esthier on November 8, 2007 at 3:26 PM
And a distinctly WEIRD one from Ummah.com
This poem calls on Muslims to grow beards.
uptight on November 8, 2007 at 3:28 PM
Two words. Bow wow.
bloggless on November 8, 2007 at 3:30 PM
…I am Jack’s eternal boredom…
Ochlan on November 8, 2007 at 3:30 PM
She uses the screen name “Bint_Al_Shaheed” (does that mean Martyred bint?).
Anywho, this name is fully Googlable and appears on many fora. She just seams like a complete jerk - too dumb to be a real terrorist (or maybe she’s perfect)
uptight on November 8, 2007 at 3:31 PM
It must suck being a jihadi poet laureate - nothing rhymes with (SWT).
Mindcrime on November 8, 2007 at 3:33 PM
If it’s pronounced “swat”, I can think of a word that rhymes. I can’t post it here, though.
uptight on November 8, 2007 at 3:36 PM
I actually laughed out loud at that, thanks :)
Mindcrime on November 8, 2007 at 3:43 PM
After reading her “poem,” now I’m convinced that she could be the head of “womens studies” programs at several American universities.
Did she write that crap in crayon?
OhEssYouCowboys on November 8, 2007 at 3:44 PM
Laugh, Yankees.
Dogs of world.
Sword come down, really hard.
Peace, no.
Not for you.
American dogs.
I hate.
You hate.
We hate.
He be.
She be.
We be.
They be.
Can’t stand to conjugate.
Dog, Yankees.
Cats hate.
How did I do?
OhEssYouCowboys on November 8, 2007 at 3:47 PM
Well, I thought it was kind of weak, up until I read “Can’t stand to conjugate.” Now I’m wiping french onion dip off my screen. Maybe someday Slick Willie will give a book of your poems to an intern.
trubble on November 8, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Like Tookie Williams, she’s one of the next Nobel prize nomination potentials…
Entelechy on November 8, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Does it seem wrong to anyone she was convicted for possessing some documents? I am incredibly conservative and this does not seem right to me.
dogsoldier on November 8, 2007 at 4:31 PM
I think it was wrong - like others have said, if she had been living in the United States, unless she was providing material support to terrorists, she wouldn’t have ever been brought up on charges.
Mindcrime on November 8, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Dhimmi is a girl’s best friend.
mymanpotsandpans on November 8, 2007 at 4:46 PM
Good God , that is an ugly woman.
TheSitRep on November 8, 2007 at 6:01 PM
What an arrogant little nothing.
NTWR on November 8, 2007 at 7:22 PM
Any broad so fixated with the concept of slowing carving through the windpipe of a human must be demon possessed.
T J Green on November 8, 2007 at 8:23 PM
I’d bet that even an Islamo-fash!thead would be scared to marry HER.
Rugged Individual on November 9, 2007 at 12:07 AM
Not long ago a college student got in trouble for publishing a rape fantasy on the internet about a classmate of his. There was an uproar.
His fantasy was not considered ‘hate’ speech. It was considered dangerous speech and a direct threat to the object of the story and an incitement to mental cases everywhere
Fantasy versus Planning Stage. In the rape fantsy case everyone assumed there was no difference
There were no candle light ceremonies in my local muslim population for the beheading victims and no protest marches to stop the beheadings.
This beastly female is the tip of the iceberg
entagor on November 9, 2007 at 1:59 AM
“I’m down with SWT…yeah, you know me.”
James on November 9, 2007 at 7:58 AM
Sounds like she has been deprived of oxygen too long.
Those Burkas do cause the wearer to inhale their own CO2 that can not fully escape into the real world.
Or maybe she forgot to take the Burka out of the plastic bag when she got it back from the dry cleaners and forgot to read the warnings. Unless she was intentionally checking the bag over her head for leaks.
MSGTAS on November 9, 2007 at 9:23 AM