Once again, the U.K. shows itself to be a safe haven for Islamic terrorists. According to a Feb. 14, 2021 report,
A terrorist who claimed asylum in Britain after he was sentenced to death in Egypt for a failed assassination plot is set to win the right to stay in this country.
Yasser Al-Sirri, 58, first claimed asylum in 1994 but was turned down and has taken the issue to court more than eight times at great cost to British taxpayers.
Al-Sirri, who was also charged in the US with assisting someone involved in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing, has appeared in several tribunals since.
And last week a tribunal decided he was entitled to remain in the U.K. as a refugee.
Among al-Sirri’s other jihadi bona fides, he was a member of Egypt’s terrorist organization, Islamic Jihad, and it was for his activities with that group—including a failed assassination attempt on the then Egyptian prime minister which instead killed a 12-year-old girl—that he was sentenced to death in absentia. One of the founding members of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad—which eventually merged with al-Qaeda—was Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of al-Qaeda. Its original mission was to overthrow and supplant the Egyptian government with an Islamic one—basically the same mission that was for a time realized by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The “Blind Sheikh” who conspired in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings that killed six, including a pregnant woman, and injured thousands, was also a graduate of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad.
Such is the jihadi background and terrorist affiliations and activities of al-Sirri, this man who was just granted “refugee status” in Britain. Of course, granting asylum and visas to “radical” Muslims is nothing new for the U.K.
For example, despite having no papers on him—and despite telling the Home Office that “he had been trained as an ISIS soldier”—Ahmed Hassan was still granted asylum two years before he launched a terrorist attack on a London train station that left 30 injured in September 2017. The Home Office also allowed a foreign Muslim cleric to enter and lecture in London, even though he advocates decapitating, burning, and/or throwing homosexuals from cliffs. According to another report, “British teenagers are being forced to marry abroad and are raped and impregnated while the Home Office ‘turns a blind eye’ by handing visas to their [mostly Muslim] husbands.”
If the U.K. is that lenient when it comes to handing out refugee status and visas, surely those who are truly persecuted are easily granted asylum. Not so. Consider the case of Asia Bibi—a Christian wife and mother of five who spent a decade of her life being abused on death row in Pakistan for challenging the authority of Muhammad; her story perhaps best sheds light on the immigration situation in the U.K. After she was finally acquitted in November, 2018, Muslims rioted throughout Pakistan; in one march, more than 11,000 Muslims demanded her instant and public hanging.
As Pakistanis make for the majority of the U.K.’s significant Muslim population—Sajid Javid, then head of the Home Office, is himself Pakistani—when they got wind that the U.K. might offer asylum to Asia Bibi, this innocent woman whose life had been ripped apart, they too rioted. As a result, then Prime Minister Theresa May personally blocked Bibi’s asylum application—“despite U.K. playing host to [Muslim] hijackers, extremists and rapists,” to quote from one headline. In other words, Britain was openly allowing “asylum policy to be dictated to by a Pakistan mob,” reported the Guardian, “after it was confirmed it urged the Home Office not to grant Asia Bibi political asylum in the U.K.…”
Indeed, while denying Asia Bibi, the Home Office allowed a Pakistani cleric who celebrated the slaughter of a politician simply because he had defended Asia Bibi—a cleric deemed so extreme as to be banned from his native Pakistan—to enter and lecture in U.K. mosques.
Incidentally, and as discussed here, the treatment Asia Bibi received from the U.K. seems to be par for the course when it comes to persecuted Christian asylum seekers and even visitors.
Discussing how “visas were granted [by the Home Office] in July [2016] to two Pakistani Islamic leaders who have called for the killing of Christians accused of blasphemy,” Dr. Martin Parsons, a human rights activist, expressed his frustration at this topsy-turvy situation: “It’s unbelievable that these persecuted Christians who come from the cradle of Christianity are being told there is no room at the inn, when the U.K. is offering a welcome to Islamists who persecute Christians.”
In other words, persecuted Christians need not apply for asylum in the U.K., whereas “radical” Muslims that only hate and seek to sabotage Britain are welcomed with open arms.
Have some friends who were hopeful about Boris. My stance was to wait and see…how he handles his…internal problems.
We see here he is an abject failure – nothing less.
Thanks Raymond
unfortunately Boris is another infidel without a spine he would rather have another attack than grant asylum to someone truly in need of asylum it sickens me as a Brit and a Christian to see Boris bending the knee to Islam whilst ignoring the extreme persecution of the Middle East’s Christians at the hand’s of Muslim’s
Thanks Raymond !!!
The High Commissioner in Islamabad should
have taken all his staff closed his office in Islamabad and come back to England instead of allowing this country to be held to ransom in this way? No other minority in this country behaves in this way. Why the special treatment? Is the government so afraid of them? Doesn’t the government know that the more they give in more and more will be demanded of them. This is blackmail.
We know the civil service is riddled with neo-Marxists who hate Christianity. Are you, Boris, going to let them rule the country now that you are Prime Minister? Where is your sense of British fairness gone? Show some spunk as you did with Brexit and allow all these persecuted Christians around the world to come to Britain. They will make good British citizens not like those jihadists who are here to destroy the country. They will never become loyal British citizens. We don’t need them here. Are you even listening?
I have a hunch Mary, that our friends have something on the Brit politicians at the highest levels, meaning some item of blackmail that will sink their ships if revealed.
What else could cause them to sacrifice their young daughters to the evil practice of this group, not to mention all the other assaults on our countries they perpetrate.
Hi Don,
For one thing we know the left allied with neo-Marxists want to eliminate Judeo-Christian values so they are trying to destroy Jews inside the country (anti-Semitism in our universties is no secret anymore) and then will come the turn of the Christians inside our own countries same as is being done to them now worldwide – with the help of those who are determined to destroy us who end up on our shores every day – all in the name of some crazy idea of global governance whose aim is to eliminate national borders and in time, with enough immigrants who don’t assimilate, also patriotism. A friend in the States told me to get David Horowitz ‘Dark Agenda: the war to destroy Christian America’ . Although I read it all in Leo Horowitz ‘Stealth Invasion’, especially chapter 4, I am also getting the Horowitz book tomorrow. As I see it, Don, this is not going to end well.
Agree Mary, madness on the Left’s part. You think they would have learned by the fate of the Iranian Communists who brought back the Ayatollah in 79.
Dangerous times ahead for the West. My hope in US is the Dems will be revealed for the completely insane policies they are pushing, civilizational suicide.
Rise of conservative leaders gives me some hope.
I’m suggesting a massive email petition campaign led by major conservative orgs in the states to fully investigate the election fraud.
My comment was Highlighted on American Thought Leaders channel and well received when I spoke to someone at Heritage Foundation, they are rated the #1 conservative think tank in the world, responsible for about 60% of conservative policy here in the states.
We can never give up Mary. Hope we live long enough to see a change, as you often say, “for the young ones, not so much for ourselves.”
I like your idea of investigating election fraud. After all, all you have to do is get the right – or maybe I mean wrong – computer programs. Easier even than blaming the Russians!
To Raymond Ibrahim I would like to extend my deepest thanks and appreciation for making us aware of what was happening to Christianity worldwide not to mention his books on the history of the past 1400 years. God keep him and his family safe.
Well … look on the bright side.
… He murdered a 12-yo girl … (I’m sure she’s fine btw – on the other side.)
… but he does not wear Lederhosen, dance polkas, have blue eyes, or worship Jesus …
… so he’s not a monster in Lefties book.
Now, if he came out against sexual predators in little girl’s bathrooms … then we might see some old-school justice.
*** God bless everyone here – and protect Raymond and his family.