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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. Randyjet here something else to chew on when accusing my father of belonging to the Utashi. There were Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Lutherans in the region of Slavonia my family lived in. The Lutherans and the Catholics very rarely married each other. My mother’s aunt, not my aunt who married the Serb, my great aunt, who was Lutheran had a Ctholic boyfriend. They wanted to marry, but the families would not allow it. As it turned out they ended up having three illegitimate children before the families relented and let them marry. THATS how much Lutherans and Catholics stayed apart in Slavonia. It appears that there was far less brouhaha over the marriage of my aunt to my Serbian Eastern Orthodox uncle. I can tell you with certainty, my father would’ve had nothing to do with staunch Catholics.

  3. Nick, I do understand that. I am currently doing research in the French archives re my grandfather and the many stories I heard about him from family. I know however that until proven wrong, there is no reason to assume that those stories are untrue.

  5. And I seriously doubt the Utashi would have had a Lutheran in their midst. My father did not like Catholics, he wouldn’t even allow any crucifixes in the house as he considered it “Catholic idolatry”.

    http://www.reformation.org/holocaus.html
    This site seems a bit much but it has interesting info about the Catholic Church and the Ustashi. I’m pretty certain they would’ve hated my dad, lol.

  6. “The Ustaše were also fiercely Catholic. In the Yugoslav political context, they identified Catholicism with Croatian nationalism.[9] The Ustaše declared that the Catholic and Muslim faiths were the religions of the Croatian people.”

    Ok this is from Wikipedia. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustaše

    My father thought Catholics were “idolaters”. I seriously doubt he would’ve had anything to do with a bunch of fierce Catholics.

  7. randyjet, The cousins I’ve told about Eugene have been appreciative. As you might imagine, Eugene was a no account. He was a lovable guy, but had the Irish curse of alcoholism. He died in the 1980’s in Florida. Now, when you’re a PI, family and friends are always asking for favors. Word came Gene may have died, so the siblings called my mom and said, “Have Nick check it out.” I made some calls and found out he had died a week earlier and was in cold storage in Dade County. When the county found out there was family they wanted to ship the body, COD, to Ct. for burial. As you might imagine, the siblings did not want to pay. There were still 2 brothers who served bravely in WW2 still alive. I think you can figure out their position on Eugene’s burial! The folks in Florida called me a half dozen times, “Your uncle is going to be buried in Potter’s Field!!” My thoughts on death are after you’re gone, WTF does it matter? My mom felt bad. But, Eugene is buried somewhere in Dade County.

    As the years have passed, I have learned more about Eugene. He had 2 kids out of wedlock. I remember one of the kids, Gary, was raised by my grandma and went on to be a lifer in the Navy[irony]. He was ~10 years older than me. All us cousins thought Gary was just some orphan grandma adopted. But, the real shocker was a family reunion about 6 years ago where an outside marriage daughter showed up. Sadly, she had severe health problems and died a year or so after the reunion. There are MANY more stories, but I’ll leave it there.

    I have mentioned Eugene here and on other venues. I speak proudly of my Dad, his two bothers, and my moms brothers who fought in WW2. My Uncle Dom was severely wounded in the Battle of the Bulge and spent 6 months in a UK hospital. I am immensely proud of them. But, I am not ashamed one bit of Eugene. That was his life. You have an equally healthy attitude about your black sheep family. There are more warts in my family history. I’m not ashamed. But, Eugene is the blackest sheep. And, you know what I remember about Eugene personally. When he came to visit he was engaging, funny, and loving. And, he would always slip a ten spot in my and my 3 siblings pockets. My mother was the only one of his 7 living siblings who would acknowledge or show Eugene respect. All others ignored him. I learned a lot from my mom about unconditional love vis a vis Eugene.

  8. Randyjet, my father wasn’t particularily religious until he was converted by American Penetcostal missionaries in the DP camp. My entire family were Luherans for generations since the time of Martin Luther. Randy seriously I think your imagination is in overdrive, but hey its a way to pass a boring Saturday evening I suppose.

    1. Inga, the Protestant Churches have moved the Animus to Islam once again. All of the sick hate filled people out there get a kick out of the Occulty form of Islam they practice – its like Voodoo and Santeria and the LRA (Joseph Kony) Remember Rush Limbaugh and this? lol

  10. Happy, I never knew that Eastern Orthodox were anti Semites. I’m going to have to look do some research on that. Interesting and sad.

  11. Anyway, the Eastern Orthodox Church hated the Jews and were probably listening to all of that hateful anti Semitic rant about oyster stews and such

    Fuehrer of Croatia, Dr. Ante Pavelic’s] eyes shone with deep black fire in his pale, earthen-colored face. An undefinable air of stupidity was stamped on his face, perhaps steming from huge ears, that, seen closely, looked even more vast, ludicrous and monstrous than his portraits…When Ante Pavelic turned his face, offering profile to my eyes, those huge ears seemed to fit his head sideways, as if they were wings striving to soar into the air with that massive body… His hands were broad, thicky, hairy; and his knuckles knotty with muscles. One realized that his hands bothered him; he did not know where to put them…

    http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/u-eyes.html

  12. Randyjet,
    Most ethnic Germans either fled Yugoslavia or were ethnically cleansed. There were concentration camps and work camps that hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans died in IF they were caught by the Communists. The Communists got more than their fair share of blood revenge. What you want to think about my father is your business. It smacks of ethnic hatred and as liberals and modern thinking people I think we should be past that. As I said my father sponsored a Yugoslvian Serb immigrant who worked in his barbershop as an apprentice in Milwaukee. My father was a deeply religious man and IF he was the Nazi or Ustachi you suspect him of being, then he certainly put the past behind him. There was never ANY discussion of hatred for Serbs. Again my UNCLE was a Serb. My cousins, who live in Germany are half Serbian.

  14. Nick, On my fathers side, I found that my paternal side were traitors during the Revolution. Which is how they wound up in Canada and founded St Johns. I don’t think he was a traitor since he had just gotten off the boat in Boston and stepped into the Revolution and enlisted in the British Army. After the Brits fled from Boston, they took him to his future home in Canada, and cut him loose.

  15. Lets see your source that says the Western Church did not come from the Eastern Church

  19. I’m blown away by some people outrageous chutzpah in making allegations about other people’s familes. With what I read today, it’s no wonder we humans are still fighting age old wars with one another. It’s time to put down the spear.

  20. Inga (Annie)

    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.

    annie – What difference does it make – they all wrote down that gay people can’t get married and they are gay.

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