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35 year old Runa Khan from Luton, has been jailed for five years and three months, after being found guilty of promoting terrorism over Facebook. The mother of six was found to be disseminating information on secretive routes into Syria, as well as owning a phone containing images of children and others holding weapons like rifles, swords and even a grenade. She however maintains the fact that does not support the killing of innocent people.
Some of the more incriminating actions Khan took over the past couple of years, involve posting positive messages about Jihadists on what have been described as “extremist” websites, as well as saying that she one day hopes that her son will become a jihadi. She also shared an article on Facebook called “Raising Mujahid Children,” aimed at Muslim mothers, which the court took as evidence that she wanted to encourage women to carry out their own jihads.
Ultimately Khan was brought to the attention of the police, when she began a conversation with an undercover police officer whom she sent details about a route into Syria. It turned out that she had acquired the map of the route from Mohammed Nahin Ahmed, a British man who was sent to prison last week for joining an offshoot or the terrorist group Al Nusra.
After her home was raided, Khan's mobile phone was found to contain images of her two year old holding a toy assault rifle and other children from Syria holding real weapons.
The Metropolitan Police's counter terrorism unit said that this was a positive result in the fight against terrorism, and that they hoped to make the internet a “more hostile environment for terrorists. Today's sentence supports that aim.”
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KitGuru Says: Understandably, this woman is distasteful and is trying to stir up trouble, but let's play Devil's Advocate for a second. Should she have been given a five year jail sentence for talking to people on Facebook? Regardless of what's said?
It's a difficult moral quandary, as the West's most defining characteristic are its freedoms of thought, speech and expression. [Thanks BBC]
This just sounds like a story designed to make the GCHQ and similar organisations along with all the governments spying on civilians sound like a good idea. Not KitGuru’s fault as they probably scan the usual news outlets for anything tech related.
Facebook is public information. When you agree to the TOS, you agree to let them look at everything. Its not a story “designed” for anything.
You sound very confident in your last statement, how do you know that for a fact ? And yes I agree about facebook and know how it works.
Promoting terrorism and helping people get to Syria to join up with said terrorist organisations is quite clearly wrong. It doesn’t matter if you do it face to face, by handing out pamphlets in the street or over the internet – it’s still wrong.
Freedoms of thought, speech and expression are one thing, but aiding and abetting terrorists by recruiting people on their behalf is another. I just hope they make sure this woman doesn’t have access to the internet while she’s in prison or otherwise what’s the point…
Probably the same way you “know” for a fact. Oh wait, neither of you know for sure -_-
Actually I said it “sounds like” which would normally mean ‘in my opinion’
I see you worked that out in the end though.
I was referring to your intuition leading you to the conclusion, hence “know” vs know. I guess you didn’t work that out in the end though..
Freedom of thought, speech, and expression do NOT CONSTITUTE FREEDOM FROM RESPONSIBILITY.
There’s no need to play Devil’s advocate because the response she got was commensurate to her potential actions.
At this stage, writing like this is proof on why people are playing Devil’s Advocate with the idea that we should start thinking of other forms of government beyond Democracy and why right-wing and nationalist groups of any measure of the bar scale are trouncing liberals day in and day out.
So no Jon, don’t even try. Because way too many spineless liberal dipshits already have.
How do I know what? That its not a “designed” story? How about the fact that nothing like “designed” stories would ever be kept secret. You have this ridiculous theory that a major story, which needs hundreds of people to be circulated, is fabricated. Something that would need the cooperation of literally hundreds of people.
Keep in mind, we had a governor of a tiny state block a road for some legal, but less than legitimate DUI inspections, and that story broke nationwide immediately, less than a day after the event. This sort of thing has happened countless times with anything sketchy the people in charge do. Look at the recent hate on police. All caused by Kneejerk reactions to legitimate situations.
Media is biased for sure, but it isn’t designed or manipulated by higher ups to indoctrinate people. You wouldn’t be able to get opposing stories if that were the case, stories wouldn’t be quashed, the quashing wouldn’t be ousted, and someone somewhere would speak up about it. Conspiracies like this are idiotic.
That’s fair enough you have your right to your opinion, however you can not state it as ‘fact’ just as I can not state as fact I know this story has another agenda.
I do know for fact though that major news agencies tell outright lies as do politicians ! I have seen the proof with my own eyes. So all I can say is don’t be so quick to dismiss anything as untrue or idiotic.
I wasn’t saying it didn’t happen I was just saying there is probably another agenda behind it.
No. There isn’t another agenda behind it. A terrorist-enabler/supporter was caught through public information. You don’t participate in a globally hated and scorned activity without some consequence.
You’re half right on Media. They don’t “lie” really, but they do omit the truth. IE: Eric Garner died after being put in a chokehold. That is true, but its not what happened. Eric Garner, who had 33 altercations with police before, said “This ends here” when police tried bringing him in peacefully, resisted arrest, was taken down with a chokehold that did no damage to his neck, then died of a heart attack shortly after. Most of what I said is available freely to find, but its not what will be reported.
That is what media does. They don’t lie. Politicians lie, media twists the truth. Media wants ratings, ratings boost advert income. Its that simple. They don’t care who is in charge or what they’re doing, as long as people watch.
There is a fine line between lying and bending the truth. I spent 14 years within the industry and from my point of view, a lot of lies pass by unnoticed or even questioned.
Anyway to each his own as they say. Good day to you.