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May 30, 2007

UK: Woman Urged Husband To Die As Islamic Martyr

News from Daily Mail, BBC and Telegraph.

A Muslim woman of Dutch origin sent a letter to her husband, urging him to become a martyr, the Old Bailey was told today. 24-year old Bouchra El Hor had written to her 28-year old British-born husband Yassin Nassari: "The moment has come where you and I have to separate for the cause of Allah. I am so proud, my husband, and I am happy for you that Allah had granted you this chance to be a Mujihad in the cause of God. I am writing to let you know that you have my support and to remind you to be strong and do not let Satan influence you... to remind you that jihad is now compulsory and we are now obligated to protect Islam, to help our brothers and sisters to fight the kuffar."

"I really wish I could go with you because I too feel obliged to do all this and look to participate in any way I can. God willing, I will do anything in my power to raise our son the best way I can so he can be a righteous Muslim. I will also tell him all about his father so he can be proud of him and follow in his footsteps."

The letter was written partly in English, partly in Arabic. The letter was found in the couple's luggage after they entered Britain at Luton airport in Bedfordshire on an Easyjet flight from Amsterdam on May 13, 2006. The prosecutor in the trial, Aftab Jafferjee, claimed the letter's significance became fully apparent when Nassari's computer hard drive was examined. There instructions on manufacturing a missile were found.

Jafferjee said: "It is the prosecution case that they are not merely radicalised Muslims, but that Nassari was going to engage in what he and others like him would call a jihad - but what the law describes as terrorism. He held both the ideology and the technology with which that could be achieved. His wife was not only aware of his intention, but positively encouraged it - despite the fact that his actions would almost certainly result in his death in some form of combat and would also result in their son being without a father."

Nassari and his wife lived in Ealing, west London, and had been married in Britain in March 2005. The couple's son was five months old when they were arrested. Nassari had been a student of cognitive science at Westminster University in 2001, when he had been described as someone who accustomed to "enjoying a drink". He had taken a break from his studies. When he reappeared in 2003, he was radicalized, wearing long robes and headgear. "He claimed he was the leader of the Islamic Society at the campus in Harrow," said the prosecutor.

Nassari never achieved his degree. He had been teaching in Syria, and his wife had gone back to the Netherlands to have her baby. They met back in the Netherlands at the end of April, and in May had taken the flight to London.

The material from the hard drive included videos of beheadings, suicide bombings, and also articles entitled: "Virtues of martyrdom in the path of Allah" and "Islamic Ruling on the Permissibility of Self-Sacrificial Operation - Suicide or Martyrdom?"

Nassari is charged with "possessing an article for the purposes of terrorism and possession of a document of record likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism" and his wife is accused of "failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism."

Both parties deny the charges. In court, Bouchra El Hor wore a black hijab.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 30, 2007 7:30 PM

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