...as a youth I also wrote some rather savage poetry, most of it glorifying the death of morons, and I also spent a lot of time crafting horror stories involving serial killers and gruesome deaths...I also collected books on forensic psychology and analysis of evidence, and spent quite a lot of time fantasing about killing lots of ppl with bombs, instructions for which I kept in a book by the bed... this behaviour was pretty consistent between the ages of, say, 13- and about 17...
it did not mean I was a serial killer myself, or had leanings towards becoming one...yet...if I had, for example, met an older man who also shared the same leanings, I might have committed murder myself.
and if I had killed, and the police had been in my house and found such writings and such books it would be used against me in court as good circumstantial evidence- it would prove that I had the taste for murder, it would prove that I found it fascinating and worthy of further perusal...and then, this would be used as evidence of premeditation, surely?
however... the facts are: she's not 15, she's 23, she is British, born and bred, she has a job, so by this age her naiviety should have been tempered a little by real life and the world of work, that she says she does not know what extremists are, etc, must be fallacy, unless she's a complete moron, and also blind deaf and dumb, as most 23 year olds know what extremism is, especially if they are Muslim, as they are confronted with such themes every day because they are muslim...
... she did not really begin writing poetry until she was about 18-19, and then it involved the usual- guns and gangstas.. this might be offensive to some, but Tupak Shakur made a name for himself there, didnt he?... regardless...
it was only a few years later did she become Muslim, take up the Hijab, etc, and then become the Lyrical Terrorist... that she states she accidentally stumbled accross extremist Mujahadeen type sites sites is again, I think, a lie.
it sounds to me like she found it funny to pretend to be a terrorist and do her Jihadi thing, maybe she even thought she could make a name for herself in the process, but now the poo has hit the fan she is trying to extract herself from such, by feigning naviety...
however much I may find this behaviour worrying, knowing what I know about how weak and impressionable people, it is not a criminal act to write inflammatory lyrics, poems and prose.
You cannot police fiction, song lyrics, art- we do not live in that type of enviroment.
If these books- Terrorist cookbooks, etc (I had one called the anarchists cookbook, btw) are such inflammatory material, then they should be banned. But what happens when you start banning books? Can we ban the Bible? As a book it supports genocide, infantacide, homophobia, the burning of witches...
when will it stop?
She did not, in my opinion, commit a criminal offence by reading a few books. Nor by writing about the glorification of martyrdom and jihad, is she a criminal... however, under the terrorism act "incitement" or "possession" is enough for them to make you a criminal...
all muslims should note: do not buy Frederick Forsythes' novel, entitled "The Oddessa File", as within this you will find a neat passage which details
how to make a bomb!
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