Another poor misunderstood misunderstander of Islam.
Planes, trains and automobiles.
Tube driver 'planned to take part in jihad' The Express
A London Underground Tube driver who is from Essex, planned to travel to Afghanistan or Pakistan with the intention to take part in a "violent jihad", a court has heard.
Amir Ali, who drove trains on the Bakerloo Line for five years, purchased a plane ticket to travel to Islamabad and wrote a farewell letter to his family telling them that "Allah and his prophet Mohammed" came first, jurors were told.
When police searched the 28-year-old's home they found pictures of him posing with weapons including two AK47 rifles and a self-loading pistol, prosecutor Duncan Penny said.
He said: "It is no coincidence that also in his possession were various forms of extreme literature and propaganda advocating the use of violence against the non-believer - or kuffar - in the name of Islam."
Mr Penny said that in March 2009 Ali paid cash towards a flight from Heathrow to Islamabad and planned to leave his wife and four-year-old daughter and three-year-old son behind.
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"He was to travel alone, leaving his wife and children behind him at their home in east London. He had written a letter to his wife in which he instructed her and his little boy what to do after he had gone.
"In the letter he told her not to be upset or depressed with him for not being there as, he claimed, he always would remember her and his children. He told her to tell the children that he loved them very much but that he had to go for the sake of Allah, because Allah and his prophet Mohammed come first."
Do you ever feel like Barbara Stanwyck in the film noir classic Sorry, Wrong Number? I know I do.
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