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Jihadi John Unmasked

jihadi-john-split-without-credit-1-762x428Jihadi_JohnWe finally have a face to go with the name of the infamous Islamic State murderer known as “Jihadi John.” He is Mohammed Emwazi and is shown here in a Pittsburgh Pirates hat from his time at the University of Westminster. He turns out to another militant from a well-off family and someone who seemed successful in society as we have seen in other cases. This will make it easier for the United States which, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, has made capturing or killing Jihadi John a priority.


The 26-year-old now beheads people for not believing in his extreme view of Islam.

When this picture was taken he was completing his Information Systems with Business Management degree at the London’s Cavendish campus.

Cases like Emwazi tend to undermine the image of IS militants as coming from people left without jobs or a future in the West.

276 thoughts on “Jihadi John Unmasked”

  1. For the “historian” around here, WW2 started in 1939. My father spent two years in the Croatian Army, starting in 1935 or 1936. Now tell me what numbers song don’t add up. Math not your strong point?

  6. Randyjet, my father was an ethnic German as I said. He served in the Croatian Army during his 20’s which would’ve been around 1935 or so, he was born in 1950. My father was out of the Croatian Army by the time WW2 started. Since he was an ethnic German, the German army tried to induct him. He was anti Nazi and basically moved from region to region to evade the German army, they would’ve killed him as a draft dodger.

  7. http://christianityinview.com/comparison.html

    Ok I will not make the mistake of calling them Orthodox “Catholics”, but they do have quite a few things in common with Roman Catholicism. Also some major differences. My family were ethnic Germans, but citizens of Yugoslavia and were mostly Lutherans. They lived in Slavonia for generations in peace with the Serbs and Croats and some Muslims. My aunt married a Serb, my uncle Vlado was a wonderful man, I have very fond memories of him.

    1. Inga, Your family did NOT live in peace with their neighbors for generations because there was a little thing called WWII. Which side did your family fight on in that war? My guess would be that more than likely, they fought for the Nazis and were part of the genocidal Ustashi regime. The only decent folks in WWII in that part of the world were the communists of the Partisans. They preached and established a multi-ethnic nation trying to keep peace between them. They were rather successful until the Western interests intervened.

      The best man in Yugoslavia was the former number two man in the Partisans, Milovan Djilas who wrote a number of books that were banned criticizing the Tito regime. He was also the bravest man I have ever heard of. He had the guts to criticize Stalin to his FACE and in PUBLIC in Moscow! He only survived because Stalin needed the Partisans to help in the fight against the Germans. I suggest you read about him and you might find his book Wartime quite interesting. His other books such as The New Class is more theoretical.

  8. Randyjet,
    Is Eastern Orthodoxy not based on Catholisim in any way? I thought they considered themselves sister churches. Randjet I am very familiar with the region, and the differences between Croats and Serbs. My family lived in the region since the 1720’s. My father served in the Croatian Army and spoke fluent Croatian. Randy, did I say that any ethnic cleansing was a good thing? I think you have gone off the deep end here. 100,000 Bosnian Muslims were not just ethnically cleansed, they were killed. And Randyjet since you are so well versed in the area, who “cleansed” who first?

    1. Annie wrote: “Is Eastern Orthodoxy not based on Catholisim [sic] in any way?”

      Not really. It depends upon whose history you accept. Eastern Orthodoxy does not consider themselves one church. They teach that the Roman Catholic church came into existence in the split of 1054 when they separated and considered themselves to be the one true church.

      1. davidm2575

        I don’t think it matters what order you put the quotes of someone like Hitler in when he has obviously been influenced by Christianity. Not everyone on this thread agrees with me, but it is a pet theory of mine that Hitler is was a Classical Narcissist and he had delusions of Grandeur and actually might have had breaks of psychosis at times. I have studied this in depth. Not just done cut and paste. I find the man fascinating. I never underestimate your rational. It would be unwise to think I did not have an understanding of the unconscious mind since I am not the most rational person admittedly. This type of analysis is invaluable in depth psychology. And Hitler was deep if nothing else.

        I found that it was like throwing stones into a pond each one of these statements that he made. Especially the ones where he was comparing himself to Jesus and his way

        “My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice…For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.” [3]

    2. Inga (Annie)

      Randyjet,
      Is Eastern Orthodoxy not based on Catholisim in any way? I thought they considered themselves sister churches

      Eastern Orthodocy is considered Classic Christianity as the Western Church is the one that Split off and as usual, the West were the ones with the Stick up their butt

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism

  9. Nick – I would SO buy that bobblehead. It reminds me of that post 9/11 Onion article that “interviewed” the terrorists, who were surprised and distressed to find themselves in hell instead of heaven.

    I think we need to put a huge bounty on Jihadi John. Perhaps their own people taking them out will begin to act as a deterrent. Otherwise, I vote for Spec Ops. I’m sure they’re getting some great practice training to take him out right now.

    David – maybe it’s all 3.

    1. Karen S wrote: “… maybe it’s all 3.”

      How intolerant of opposing views does one have to be before you can label them a fanatic? Isn’t that term really just a meaningless term used by bigots to express their own intolerance of a different viewpoint?

  10. I feel that anyone that thought that the early 1960s were wonderful were not aware of what the minorities were going though in this country.

  12. Po, this virulent anti Muslim sentiment is truly disgusting. The Bosnian Muslims I worked with and became friends with were some of most decent, kindest people on the hospital staff.

  13. Happy, yep. It seems as if religion has sometimes been used as an excuse for genocide in past history.

  14. Happy
    Anyone who kills anyone else in the name of God has broken his covenant with Him. Anyone who denigrates another being for being another being has broken his covenant with God. Anyone who denies God’s message and messengers has broken his covenant with God.

  15. Annie, nice retort to David, his fallacy was too obvious to ignore, even if you wanted to.
    Seems like Nick is cracking, his islamophobia is showing the more he speaks.

    Karen, as usual is repeating the same things, in response to something someone never said. Am I right? I skipped over her posts.
    Karen, do you agree or disagree on the consensus ‘in knowledgeable parts that US and Britain helped create ISL as they did Al Qaeda?

    And as usual, they skip right over the points I make. Typical, can’t
    attack the message, attack the messenger.

    Tex, what/who is a Muslim? Short of you knowing that, whatever you just said is hogwash, no matter how many numbers you attach.

  16. I should clarify, in the 20th century. Actually 500,000 ethnic Germans were killed in the expulsion of 3 million of them from Eastern Europe, but I’m not counting them, as they were complicit in varying degrees in the Holocaust. It was wrong but they weren’t without guilt like the Bosnian Muslims.

  17. Happy, some folks didn’t want to be reminded that a genocide occured by Orthodox Catholics. It was the second largest genocide in Europe after the Holocaust.

    1. Inga

      I think the Genocides between the Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims were the worst in India.

      India-Pakistan Bangladesh Conflict 1947-71- some consider the movement of millions of Muslims from India to West and East Pakistan (Bangladesh) to be a forced march and a “genocide”. During the Bengali independence war between Pakistan and India, Muslims, Hindus, Pakistanis, and Bengalis engaged in mutual wars for independence. R. J. Rummel cites millions [10]. As much of the emigration was voluntary (albeit under immense pressure and discrimination), it is difficult to label this as ethnic cleansing. This is further complicated by the fact that over 100,000,000 Muslims remain in India and tens of thousands of Hindus in Pakistan, therefore indicating that neither India nor Pakistan intended to remove (or eradicate) the entire Muslim or Hindu populations, respectively.

      http://expelledgermans.org/genocidetable.htm

    2. Inga, The worst genocide after the Nazis was committed by the Croatian Ustashi puppet regime during WWII. They murdered about 800,000 at Jasenovic concentration camp and they were so brutal, that even the SS complained about them. The victims were mostly Serbs, Gypsies, and Jews of course. In fact,, the SS raised a battalion of troops in Kosovo whose first “battle” action was to purge Serbia of Jews in the areas they controlled. So the terrorists of the KLA were PROUD of that tradition and applied the same methods against the Serbs in Serbia.

      I am quite disturbed that your father was part of the war crimes in Croatia if he was in the Croatian Army. I wonder if your grand father was part of the Ustashi regime. Maybe you can explain to the rest of us why it was OK to do worse to the Serbs in Croatia.

  18. A good PR person can turn a negative into a positive. the Pirates need to have Jihadi John bobblehead night this season. Only, this bobblehead falls off, instead of bouncing, when you touch it.

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