The Blue Pill.

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From the Blue Pill-takers' well-thumbed editorials...

My son was brainwashed in his bedroom, says father of grammar school jihadi from High
Wycombe who travelled to Syria to fight for ISIS.

*Shabazz Suleman, 21, went from High Wycombe to Syria to join ISIS in Raqqa
*His father Afzal said his son was brainwashed in his bedroom using Twitter
*Shabazz underwent weapons training and was a guard but denies fighting
*Former grammar school boy now says he wants to come home and face justice
*Minister has said that the majority of Britons who went to Syria should be killed 

No sir, YOUR son was allegedly brainwashed in a room in YOUR house, to join a group that has no connection with
the country he grew-up in. You allowed it and possibly funded his travel to Raqqa -or at least, knew of his plans, in
my view.

'The father of a young Briton who fled to Syria to fight for ISIS has warned about the dangers of being 'brainwashed'
through the internet - and that he feels sympathy for those who join the death cult.
Shabazz Suleman joined Daesh three years ago but is now desperate to return to the UK to face justice.
His father Afzal Suleman, 46, said he regretted buying a phone for his son who he claims was radicalised on Twitter...'

Well editorial bull-shitting aside, one doesn't 'flee' from safety, a person deliberately and with intent moves
towards peril. The colour of skin shouldn't be a reason to give the lad a pass on his reasons.

'...Suleman went missing on a family holiday to Turkey three years ago and has spent three years in northern Syria.
He claims that he has renounced its twisted doctrine and wants to return to Britain.

.His father, who works as a mechanic, said: 'I feel sympathy for the people that go there... this is what young kids do
[when they] see people being killed, being gassed. On his own son's choice to join ISIS, Mr Suleman said: 'I don't think
people knew what was behind the doors [at the time].'..'

Sly one, huh Daily Mail...? You make sure any racial-biasedness is negated with the explanation that Shabazz's father
is a working man (purely formulaic journalism?!)... and the idea that young kids are naturally drawn to 'others' being
gassed is a bit of a disingenuous comment.
Shabazz went there because he felt some affinity, didn't he Daily Mail...? but you don't want to comment on that.

'...He was held by the Turkish secret service before being exchanged with 180 others for 49 Turkish hostages
captured at the embassy in Mosul, northern Iraq.
Mr Suleman said that he had intermittent contact with his son during the three years and he believed that Suleman
had not killed or tortured anyone...'

Oh, so he hadn't gone missing in a sense, the three years his father had 'intermittent contact' seems to be a lengthy
time that Mr. Suleman Snr. and possibly other anti-terrorism assistance failed to stop him from this internet-causing
quest. Assuming such agencies were contacted in regards of concern for his son.

'...'If he has seen that side of things he wouldn't have joined them. He was thinking of going there and helping people.'
He said that his son always had a keen interest in politics but that he had increasingly spent time alone in his room
on his mobile phone...'

It's not the gun... it's the one who pulls the trigger.

'...'The biggest mistake I made was buying a phone for him. He was in his bedroom on it all the time.
'You don't really keep an eye on their phone. I believe [his radicalisation] was through Twitter. 
The former grammar school pupil said he wants to come home and be punished for joining the terror group having
become a 'disillusioned jihadi'...'


Shabazz Suleman wearing a typical 'just-another-teenager' T-shirt.

But you left your 'home' in favour of fighting someone who was oppressing someone else. Are you now bored with
your noble crusade...? Did the three years taint your religious yearnings to free people you had never known?

'...It came days after a minister suggested the only way of dealing with British fighters who have gone to Syria or
Iraq will be to kill them in almost every case.

Rory Stewart, an international development minister, said UK citizens who had travelled to the war-torn country were
a 'serious danger' to Britain. Suleman, a former pupil from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, told The Times that he
had become disillusioned with jihadism and chose to desert the terrorist group...'

Oh well, no problem. Don't let the recent threat of officially killing Syrian-loving terrorists sully this sudden request for
a safe return to the country he 'fled'.
Maybe a 'FFS' should be inserted here.

'...Via encrypted messages he told the newspaper he went through 'intense' indoctrination by the group, adding:
'I never thought I was being brainwashed until I saw the way they treat other Sunnis.'
He also revealed jihadis are killing deserters...'

Aaah, finally. The Daily Mail reveals that there's been a clandestine conduit between Mr. Suleman and the newspaper.
A smart military guy could've used this link, but I digress.
Sadly, the down-side is that Shabazz comments that jihadis kill deserters and he was one of the former.

'...Suleman, who is thought to have left ISIS-controlled territory and be in the hands of a Turkish militia, reportedly admits
undergoing weapons training and carrying out guard duties, but denies taking part in killings...'

He's a religion-cultured kid that got caught larping in Syria by the Turks and doesn't like the prison food, would that be
nearer the situation here? By the way -and taking into consideration The Daily Mail's 'encrypted ' conversations with
Mr. Suleman, what does 'reportedly admits' mean in this particular context?!

'...His father, Afzal Suleman, 46, said he knew 'for a fact' that his son had become a civilian and had not been on the
battlefield for two years. '(He) never killed anyone or anything,' Mr Suleman told the newspaper.
'At the end of the day if he has committed a crime he should go to court. We just want him home.'...'

Well done, Mr. Suleman Snr.

'...The 21-year-old teenager, who was described by his old school as 'a valued, hardworking student', had achieved good
A-level results last summer and had a place lined up to study at Keele University, where he had wanted to study International
Relations.

Former pupils at his old school include Secretary of State for Justice Chris Grayling, comedian Jimmy Carr, England rugby
players Nick Beale, Matt Dawson, and Tom Rees, golfer Luke Donald and singer Ian Dury...'

Thanks Daily Mail, for a moment there I thought the above was just filler.

'...Suleman, who had travelled to Aleppo, Syria with an aid convoy in 2013, is believed to have been radicalised by jihadis
he met on Twitter...'

Careful D.M... remember he was holidaying in Turkey three years ago and it's 2017 at the time of writing.
This 'innocent-victim-wanting-to-come-home' narrative took a bit of a hit there and I still have another 'FFS' in my bag.

'...He is also thought to have attended the Muslim Education Centre in High Wycombe, where one of the British men convicted
in the 2006 transatlantic liquid bomb plot also attended. It is around the corner from the £400,000 detached family home he
grew up in...

Mechanics make good money in Britain -brought to you by The Daily Mail. Please ignore the coincidences in the sentences.

'...His parents had reported him missing to both British police and the Turkish authorities, and the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office had also reported him missing. Suleman, who received weapons training at a two-week Sharia training camp, said he had
been caught by security services at the Syrian border. He said he was visited twice by Turkish intelligence agency MIT, fined, and
told he was going to be deported...'

And still never came back to the country he 'fled' from...? These different agencies were never contacted by the poor man taking
part in a war he had come to hate and yet... yet The Daily Mail managed to create a line of clandestine dialogue to get him to
reveal his heart-felt story.

'...He said he was held along with 35 other ISIS fighters at an 'open' prison in Sanliurfa, around an hour from the Turkish-Syrian
border. Suleman said he had been given the choice of being deported, or being part of the ISIS exchange.
He then went to Raqqa where his duties involved being on sentry guard...'

Damn...! There were his opportunities to get back to place Shabazz loves and re-enter a society where guard-duty isn't required.
Damn and blast, indeed.

'...This week Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, called for a focus on 'reintegration' in cases where
authorities have decided individuals who return should not face prosecution.

Mr Hill said it was right that security services have left space for those who travelled out of a sense of naivety, at a young age
and who return in a 'state of utter disillusionment' to be diverted away from the criminal courts...'

Forgive and forget, that's the Christian way, eh -Mr. Hill?

'...A report released this week said Britain has one of the largest populations of returning fighters and others who travelled to
join Islamic State.

Around 850 UK-linked individuals 'of national security concern' made the journey to engage with the conflict in Syria, with just
under half of those believed to have come back. The figure of approximately 425 returnees is the fourth highest for individual
nations in an analysis published by the Soufan Centre and the Global Strategy Network...'

The Daily Mail:

As Butch Cassidy said when laid-up in a shack near San Vicente in southern Bolivia...
"Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble."