Khairi Saadallah’s cousin said: “He started going to church and had tattoos all over his body including one of a cross on his arm. I haven’t had contact with him since that time.”
In the only available photo at this point of Khairi Saadallah’s arms, there is no cross tattoo, but maybe it’s on one of his forearms or on a place that doesn’t show up in the photo.
Anyway, maybe Khairi Saadallah did convert to Christianity, and since converts to Christianity have not emulated many converts to Islam in going on stabbing sprees or committing other acts of violence, his attack is a manifestation of mental illness, as British authorities have suggested.
But the cousin, the only source for this conversion claim right now, says he hasn’t seen him in two or three years. So it isn’t an open-and-shut matter that he is still a Christian now; he could have returned to Islam and decided to do what Muhammad called the greatest deed — jihad — in order to make up for his past sins, both of not being a religious Muslim and of converting to Christianity.
Another possibility: in January 2016, the Islamic State (ISIS) issued a manual entitled “Safety and Security Guidelines for Lone Wolf Mujahideen.” It told jihadis in the West to pretend to be Christians, and stated: “It is permissible for you to wear a necklace showing a Christian cross. As you know, Christians – or even atheist Westerners with Christian background – wear crosses on their necklaces.” According to a hadith, Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” (Bukhari 4.52.268).
It is not clear which one of these possibilities, if any, are right. And given the abysmal state of Britain’s investigative and law enforcement apparatus, we may never know.
“Reading terror suspect who ‘killed three’ fled Libya seven years ago and was granted refugee status because he feared Islamists – before being jailed in UK and ‘converting to Christianity,'” by James Robinson, James Fielding, Harry Howard, Ian Gallagher, Michael Powell and Abul Taher, Mail on Sunday, June 21, 2020:
A terror suspect accused of stabbing three people to death and seriously injuring three others in an attack in Reading fled Libya seven years ago and was granted refugee status in the UK because he feared Islamists, and later converted to Christianity, MailOnline can reveal.
A relative of Khairi Saadallah, 25, says the terror suspect arrived in the UK as a tourist in 2012 before claiming asylum because he was at risk from Islamic extremists due to him not leading a ‘strict religious life’ in Libya.
He then converted to Christianity three years ago, according to his cousin, and is said to have a tattoo of a cross on one of his arms.
Speaking after the attack, which took place in Forbury Gardens, Reading, on Saturday evening, the cousin, who lives in Libya and did not wanted to be named, said: ‘I cannot believe this. I can’t believe he’d do anything like this or be involved in anything to do with terrorism.
‘Khairi had been to the UK a number of times but at the end of 2012 he travelled there as a tourist and decided to stay and claim asylum.
‘He was at risk of extremists in Libya because he liked to drink and socialise and didn’t really lead a strict religious life at all.
‘He did get in trouble in England and could be aggressive but I can’t ever imagine him getting drawn into something as serious as this.’
Speaking about his conversion to Christianity, the cousin said: ‘It might have been why about two or three years ago, he converted from Islam to Christianity.
‘He started going to church and had tattoos all over his body including one of a cross on his arm. I haven’t had contact with him since that time.
‘He lived in Manchester first and now lives in Reading. I think the authorities in Britain have tried to send him back to Libya but he doesn’t want to go back. He’s been in the UK for about seven years so is practically British now.’
Earlier today it was revealed the 25-year-old has previously been jailed for minor non-terror related offences, according to reports.
The revelation came as counter-terrorism police declared yesterday’s attack in Reading as a ‘terrorist incident’….
terry sullivan says
taqiyya
Julie Morgan says
War is deceit.
Apathy Rules the World says
The only reason he would say he converted to Christianity would be to help his asylum claim.
Martin says
“The only reason he would say he converted to Christianity would be to help his asylum claim.”
Playing the system for all it’s worth and paying the country back by committing a triple murder.
Jayell says
I would bet anything that it’s a deliberate pack of lies.This cousin is probably just a typical muslim making up stories to deflect attention and whitewash muslims in general (and no doubt himself in particular) by throwing the usual islamic dirt over everyone and everything else and attempting to drag Christianity down to the gutter level of islam. I wonder if we’re now going to get any vast demos and riots over ‘White Lives Matter’.or ‘Christian Lives Matter’ or something? Criminal damage to masques? Can’t do that, it would be ‘racist’ and ‘islamophobic’ even though there’s now been easily enough murder, depravity and destruction by these people in recent times alone to warrant it! No, the riot police would be out there ready with their offensive weapons and Thought Police getting ready to knock on peoples’ doors if the ‘M’ word (muslim) or ‘I’ word (islam) is ever used. Interestingly, however, the media have used the word ‘jihadi’ (not ‘muslim’, of course) in relation to the specimen involved here. Maybe that’s because he’d already acquired that label on MI5 files and they can’t get out of that one easily; and they probably think that people are too ignorant to realise that Jihad is an integral part of islam (you’re liable to arrest if you even suggest it).
By the way, Gravenimage (below) is right, of course. The word ‘Christian’ doesn’t help anyone as far as the Marxism-soaked Champagne-Socialist mafia that runs the UK now is concerned. More to the point, it upsets a certain minority, as poor Ashia Bibi and those four persecuted middle-eastern bishops discovered – not good for ‘cohesion’, you know! The ‘C’ word doesn’t even appear on a huge banner that a ‘Highly respectable’ Parish Church near me has draped along a fence outside its very pristine grounds. Apparently, it’s a ‘welcoming, inclusive community of faith’ – what ‘faith’ exactly, they don’t seem to say. Next thing we know, they’ll be so ‘inclusive’ that there’ll be an even bigger banner proclaiming ‘Friday Prayers’ – perhaps I shouldn’t mention replacing their bells in the tower with a multi-megawatt PA system, that might give them ideas.
R Thomasson says
Why is he out of jail? In the good old day’s he had lived in ‘The Green Mile’.
terry sullivan says
and already been in prison here for violence–he should have been deported
gravenimage says
Actually, in Britain today I doubt that saying he was a Christian *would* help his asylum claim. Muslims seem to be the favored ones; not persecuted Christians.
R Thomasson says
@Apathy Rules the World. And to live as a parasite on your tax money as long as possible. These people share the same mentality as teaks in our dogs fur, and suck happily his blood. Even if the dog doesn’t share the same religious belief of his unwelcome parasites, they still stay and take whatever they can get.
Jan Disher says
I think it is easier to get in when a muslim. Christians are usually rejected.
gravenimage says
All too true, Jan.
S simba says
That could be also right But I think by saying he converted to Christianity, he/cousin thought people will say look this crime is commited by a Christian and NOT muslim. NEVER EVER trust a muslim in your life.
Templer says
He did not convert to chirstaintey he’s Muslim
Lisa says
“Practically British now”….priceless.
Jayell says
The term ‘British’ is absolutely meaningless these days. Those of us whose forbears actually built the place here over the centuries call ourselves ‘English’, Scottish’, Welsh’ or Irish’.
R Thomasson says
@Jayell. You are right. The term ‘British’ is absolutely meaningless these days. The same as the ‘term’ Dutch, French, German or Scandinavian. It will get it’s meaning again, when the people belong to those ethnicities will fight for their rights on the countries they belong to and being again English, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch etc. Nothing would be granted them for free.
Rufluc says
In years to come, thousands more Innocent non Muslim lives are going to be taken by these Satan worshippers in the most horrendous of ways
imaginable. They have been allowed into our countries to live amongst us, in a way that people would be forced to live in the middle of a mine field.
Despite his claim to have converted to Christianity, it was clearly a ploy to discredit Christianity. His evil heart was clearly still entrenched deeply in the murderous cult of Islam!
Islam even teaches it’s followers to lie and deceive to further its murderous cause, and this was a typical example of that evil in action.
Our PC obsessed politicians really need to grow a pair and ban Islam from the West completely, and send it back to the arid desserts of the middle East where it belongs! Otherwise atrocities like this will never end!
CogitoErgoSum says
Did he become Anglican, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist or what? Wouldn’t the church where he was baptized have his baptismal records? It would not be too difficult to find out if he went through the motions of becoming a Christian. It would be harder to prove whether or not he did it just to take advantage of Christian generosity … unless he outright admits to it.
CogitoErgoSum says
BTW, you’d think a half-way decent journalist would check this out before spreading hearsay.
gravenimage says
True, CogitoErgoSum.
Jake2169 says
Unfortunately for us CogitoErgoSum there are no half decent journalists in our country anymore. Many news rags and some TV companies have Middle Eastern money invested, so have to tow the line. Reporters just live for their monthly salaries and they don’t bother to find out the truth, they simply go with the Islamic instructions put upon them by their employers. Money means more to them than life or the safety of young girls ravaged by members of the cult of Islam. Basically, they couldn’t give a toss, just as long as they get their money!!
mortimer says
Journalists aren’t thorough sometimes, are they? Many know little about Islam or their editors don’t want those details. I’m constantly disappointed when journalists go to Ahmadi Muslims for a comment after Sunni Muslims have bombed or stabbed.
CogitoErgoSum says
I guess the “mentally ill” canard is losing its effectiveness so now Muslim terrorists will be assumed to be converts to Christianity … because mental illness would also naturally be involved if a Muslim did that.
And yes, the people in charge at most news organizations probably have no idea how Ahmadi Muslims differ from any other kind of Muslim.
Jerry says
The BLM crowd has been converting to the Loot and Run Church.
The Mozzies were converting to refugees, and getting the Qataris, Turks and Saudis to build Mosques for them all over the UK, Europe and the USA, where Quranic hate speech is disseminated unpunished under the misguided notion that it worthy of protection as it pretends to be a religion while in reality it is a Satanic murder, rape, plunder and labour and sex enslavement cult.
mortimer says
The cousin of Kairi is apparently mistaken about the tattoos or they may have been temporary ones.
There have been cases of converts like Reza Aslan returning to Islam, but Aslan returned to a subjective, self-created, new-age style of Islam that has nothing to do with reality. Islam is highly codified, however, and Muslims have no right to merely make up their own version of it.
Divorced from a familiar community in Libya, and culturally adrift in secular England, the young man may have been more confused than ever.
Seven years in England makes him ‘English’ … no, I don’t think so. Joining a new community and being accepted is in itself a full-time job if you are a person who tried it. He reverted and took revenge because he was not assimilated and probably lonely.
golem2 says
+1
Mo says
Oh, that’s rich! What a load of garbage. No follower of Christ does such a thing.The Bible neither commands nor condones such actions.
Is that going to be the accepted narrative now, that these attackers are Christians? I wouldn’t be surprised. Anything to detract from the teachings of Islam.
gravenimage says
Not statistically impossible, but let’s just say *not bloody likely*.
Does anyone know what denomination he converted to? The Church? His pastor? Proof of his cross tattoo? I very much doubt it. Just more Taqiyya.
British in 7 years? says
7 years an dhis British haha…Germans in Romania lived 700 years there and were more German than the Germans in the Motherland.
Greeks live 2000 years outside Greece and are still Greeks!
gravenimage says
There are lots of Greeks who are good citizens of other nations–as well as Germans.
Muslims, not so much…
Wellington says
As vague here as Islam is rotten.
Accept nothing as conclusive minus incontrovertible facts.
It’s the best way to deal with Muslims (they’re so deserving here, aren’t they?). Best way to deal with evil. Best way to deal with most anything.
After all, being a skeptic (not a cynic, mind you, because cynicism kills something deep inside that often has a lasting, negative effect on appreciating the wonders of existence) is eminently defensible. Best of all possible approaches, I would argue, being a life-long skeptic, and preferably while listening to a great piece of music, admiring a great piece of pictorial art, enjoying the banter between you and the finest of your friends (alas, such friends are few) and all the while, optimally here, imbibing a great alcoholic drink of your choice. Yes, this is where I stand.
But again I digress.
Michael Copeland says
“What a fantastic contribution muslims make to this country!”
David Cameron
Twila Anders says
Islam is a satanic cult disguised as a religion. They want to take over the world with their religion. The United Nations is helping them. They passed a religious decree stating that Islam will be the ruling religion in the United Nation’s. I have a copy of it will find and post ASAP.I got it from the United Nations web site after digging for a long time.
Jake2169 says
Even if every single Muslim were to tattoo, “I am deceiving you” across their forehead, the British authorities wouldn’t believe them. They’d probably label them as being mentally disturbed. The truth is out there, but they simply cannot find it! Every attack brings out the same response,but nothing is ever done to combat the real reason for them and that is the “religion of Islam”. As is the case more and more, we find that the killer was already known to MI5 but was not considered a threat. I see a pattern emerging here, it’s basically MI5s way of denying any responsibility for allowing this man on our streets. The government will see this as a temporary setback to their multicultural agenda being forced upon the British people, they don’t appear too concerned that it is ordinary citizens taking these attacks and dying in the process. We are simply a National Insurance number to those in Whitehall, we don’t matter! The Muslims are a protected species in Britain today, the ordinary citizens being killed and paying the bills for extra security that isn’t working or for benefits for Muslims who don’t or won’t work matters little to those who prefer to stay in power rather than upset their Muslim voters. All we get from government is lies and deceit, and as for the MSM, they really are treacherous and combined with cowardice are a disgrace to their “profession”. All far too scared to run the story, all too scared to mention the word Muslim. I hate the direction my country is going, I hate the treacherous bastards who have sold us out to Islam, and I sincerely hope that the people come to understand how much deception and downright lies are being put out by the Main stream media.
Tim Heydon says
It’s most likely her;converted; to Christianity so as to be able to claim asylum in Britain. Once there, he shed this pretence.
Owen Morgan says
Yeah, everything about this saint simply preaches “Christianity.” It’s not as if there is anything about his behaviour which recalls any particular passage from the koran, is it?
R Thomasson says
Maybe had Khairi Saadallah’s placed his Christian tattoo’s on his ass and genitals. A favourable place for people of his kind. Yesterday, I watched on Dutch TV part II of Steven Spielberg’s production ‘Why They Hate?’ It was full of crocodile tears, and a smooth lefty manoeuvre to convince us how wrong we are. I can accept his point of view concerning America. But at the moment he started to view things in Europe, I had had enough of it. He portray’s people as the Dutch Geert Wilders, French Marine Le Pen and the Hungarian PM Viktor Orban as evil against humanity. Steven Spielberg does not need to ask Why Europeans hate. They hate in order TO SAVE THEIR LIVES, THE LIVES OF THEIR CHILDREN AND THEIR COUNTRY from the zunami invastion of (98% fake refugees) from Muslim countries and Africa.
terry sullivan says
spielberg is a jew yet supports islam–dobs roche same
why
all semites?
gravenimage says
No, not all Jews support Islam. And those who do are more likely to be in denial than they are to be pro-Jihad.
DC says
Jeez… when the Leftists get hold of this one you just know what their line of efence (attack) is going to be. The world truly is mad.
wpm says
A unnamed cousin who has not had contact with Khairi Saadallah in two to three years and lives over a thousand miles from the crime scene (in Libya ) is a only witness that Khairi Saadallah is a Christian convert!His arms from all covered in tattoos not seen any photographs of Kahari Saadallah according to the “unnamed ” cousin .These British journalist only used the best sources for their “investigative journalism”,next up they will interview his mother what a sweet child he was growing up she can not understand what lead him to go on this violent rampage.
gravenimage says
Yep.
roberta says
Qaddafi knew the beast he ruled over. He knew the force it took to herd them. It was what was best for them, and most certainly best for the rest of the world. Thanks hilary and barrak, job well done by 2 stupid satanic shtheads.
gravenimage says
Qaddafi was himself a Jihad terrorist.
Giacomo Latta says
It’s a sad day when we have to interview a muslim cousin of a murder suspect instead of, say, police investigators or news agencies, in order to try to determine the truth of a matter. If, indeed, this suspect has a tattoo of a cross on his body, I suspect it is on his face. As far as being ”British now”, is the cousin referring to modern standards or when the country was last civilized?
Michael Copeland says
“We will learn from this”, say Boris Johnson, Home Secretary Priti Patel, and leader of the opposition, Sir Kier Starmer.
That is the one thing that is very unlikely to happen, such is the fixity of outlook.
Michael Copeland says
Remember when an American tourist was knifed in Russell Square, London? Darlene Horton died of her wounds in February 2017, inflicted by a teenage muslim jihad killer, who also knifed several others, who survived. Here is what the Guardian reported:
“In police interviews Bulhan said he did not know why he had committed the offences.
One officer said he could hear him muttering “Allah, Allah, Allah”, while others found a pamphlet entitled “Fortress of the Muslim” in the pocket of his tracksuit trousers. The judge was told that these two details were not considered relevant to the attack.”
Maybe, just maybe, police know a little more now than they did then. Maybe Allah is relevant to this attack.
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unbeliever1 says
If he did indeed”convert to Christianity”, that was only to facilitate his chances in obtaining refugee status.
Don Ameche says
I have a different view. I wonder if his supposed conversion to Christianity was an example of Stealth Jihad….. using one or more of these: Taqqiyah, Tawriya, Muruna and Kitman. All ways for muslims to lie and attack and undermine nonwestern cultures.