{"id":7126,"date":"2014-12-11T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T11:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/11\/jailed-jihadis-sentence-condemned\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:14:30","slug":"jailed-jihadis-sentence-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/11\/jailed-jihadis-sentence-condemned\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Jihadi’s Sentence Condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Other families will be too scared to co-operate, claims terrorist’s father<\/h3>\n

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The father of a Birmingham Jihadi jailed for nearly 13 years for terrorist activities in Syria has condemned the length of his sentence, claiming it will discourage other families from co-operating with police.<\/p>\n

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Birmingham City University student Yusuf Sarwar and unemployed Mohammed Ahmed, both 22, spent eight months fighting in Syria alongside rebels, having travelled to the country via Turkey in May 2013. <\/p>\n

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The former Handsworth school were sentence to 12 years and eight months jail time in Woolwich Crown Court last week after admitting to engaging in the preparation of terrorist acts in July. <\/p>\n

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Ahmed’s father has claimed that, despite co-operating officers in their investigation and helping to persuade the pair to come back to Britain, they received no help from the police.<\/p>\n

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He said: \u201cWe told the police, we went to them for help but we didn\u2019t get any.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe surrendered them for justice but the police didn\u2019t help at all.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf anyone\u2019s children go to Syria now, no-one will tell the police because they will be too scared to tell them this.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy son lives in jail so what did I gain from going to the police?<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople go to the police for justice and help. No, I wouldn\u2019t go again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sarwar’s mother Majida echoed similar sentiments, claiming after the pair was sentenced that she felt \u201cbetrayed\u201d by both the courts and the police.<\/p>\n

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After realising her son had travelled to Syria in May of last year, Sarwar’s mother went to the police and was told they would aid her in bringing her son home.<\/p>\n

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Ahmed’s father blamed the influence of the internet on the change in his son, who he said had lived a normal life in the UK before travelling abroad.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe prayed just the way we do,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think maybe it was the internet that brought those kinds of thoughts to him, the internet brainwashes people these days.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut going to war without telling us was wrong. Going to war is wrong.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have spoken to him over the phone. He is feeling very bad.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf he had known he wouldn\u2019t have come back from Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Other families will be too scared to co-operate, claims terrorist’s father The father of a Birmingham Jihadi jailed for nearly 13 years for terrorist activities in Syria has condemned the length of his sentence, claiming it will discourage other families from co-operating with police. Birmingham City University student Yusuf Sarwar and unemployed Mohammed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}