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Terrorism - Reading woman behind bars 23 years
Topic Started: 17 May 2016, 12:37 PM (239 Views)
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Top judge cuts Reading woman's sentence for terror crimes

Sana Khan was told she'd face 25 years behind bars but that has now been cut to 23 due to her "previous good character"

A Reading woman who was jailed for her part in her Jihadi husband's plot to attack London with a fertiliser bomb has had her sentence cut by the country's top judge. University graduate, Sana Khan, 24, bankrolled Mohammed Rehman's plan to detonate a device around the time of the 10th anniversary of the July 7 attacks last year. The pair were convicted last year of preparing terror acts at the Old Bailey and each were handed life sentences.

Khan, of Hutton Close, Earley, was ordered to serve at least 25 years behind bars before she could even apply for parole. But the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, today slashed that to 23 years in the light of Khan's previously law abiding lifestyle. Khan and Rehman had been through a "secret" Muslim marriage ceremony before she started to finance his bomb-making plans.

She had a good job and he used her money to buy chemicals and lab-style equipment, London's Appeal Court heard. Khan claimed she believed Rehman was spending her money on drugs, but he sent her a video of a test explosion carried out in his back garden. Rehman claimed that it was she who had radicalised him and that he had wanted to be caught so that he could escape from her malign influence.

Copies of the Koran were found at Khan's home, with passages highlighted which she believed justified terrorism. The judge who jailed her said she had "played a full and active part" in encouraging and planning the bomb plot.

On appeal, her lawyers pointed to her good behaviour behind bars and said that she had not embraced all radical aspects of Islam. She was a drug-user, which is almost unheard of amongst radical Muslims, and had continued to dress in western style, the court heard. But Lord Thomas, sitting with four other senior judges, said she had "a propensity to deceive and lie" in a bid to paint herself as non-extremist. Cutting her sentence, however, he ruled: "Taking into account her previous good character, and her role in contrast to that of Rehman, the appropriate minimum term should have been 23 years"
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So prior drug use was presented by the defense for consideration as a mitigating :O factor in her sentencing? That must have been a first!

And since she wore Western-style attire rather than a hajiib should be a reason for a reduced sentence? But we must not go the other way...
Edited by Owlish52, 17 May 2016, 01:56 PM.
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Its bonkers Bill, and the same all over Europe. Trump might be seen as something of a megalomaniac by many, but when considering the problems radical Islam has brought to this continent, problems which have largely been self inflicted by decades of appeasement and turning a blind eye, its understandable why he wants to try and avoid similar problems spreading across America.
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Mmm... that IS a ridiculous defense.
Not sure I would go so far as to say Islam is to blame. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that it's cultural beliefs that hide behind religious beliefs. Take genital mutilations, they happen regardless of religion in certain parts of the world. Whichever religion does it, they use religion to justify it, but it's really just a form of oppression. Same as hijabs and other sexist practices. They're just forms of oppression that people pretend are religious. If all the Muslims in the world suddenly became Christian overnight, the same people would still find parts of the Bible to justify terrorism, they'd still be saying and doing the exact same things, just the Christian counterpart.

We, in Britain, say how wonderful Christianity is by comparison, but it's not Christianity that has earned the plaudits, it's the British public and their general moderateness. Not to sound imperialistic, but our cultural history has led us to where we are now, and part of that was religious identity, but that's not to say we are a moderate country because of Christianity. We are moderate for who know why. Perhaps it's to do with our history of integration (following colonization) where we were forced to live alongside those with major differences. We learned a certain tolerance for other ways of life and so we focus more on that aspect of Christianity (and other religions or non-religious beliefs).

When Britain was riven with territorial disputes, religious disputes went hand in hand. It's the same in the middle east. They're still so insecure about their borders, so many different nationalities living within borders that are almost meaningless. So many peoples fighting for what they see is their land. So many minorities who fear their ways of life, their practices (religious or otherwise) being forced away from them. This is but one cause of conflict.

Of course, all that is meaningless. It doesn't matter. As long as there are people who are willing to do terrible things for what they believe (cultural or religious), it doesn't matter where they are from or what they believe. I have no love for Islam, but I wouldn't want to prevent Muslims from living here as the very fact that they want to live here says a lot for their spirit. However, if they want to live here just to tear us apart from the inside, that is another matter, and a shockingly difficult one to address. This is why Trump's 'plan' has caught so much favour among tired, tired poeple.
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I chose my words carefully 'Radical Islam'. And it wasn't meant as a defence of anyone, or anything. But I accept that it could be considered ridiculous when taken in context with everything mentioned in your post. Not that you missed much out.
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