| In which Islam eats its seed corn. |
Authorities say the teenager had hoped to "spread fear and terror in the population."
Prosecutors allege that he traveled to Syria twice to fight alongside Death Eaters. They say that the second time he took his then-15-year-old sister, Safia S,
| ... the German-Moroccan teen known as "the ISIS girl", who attempted to kill a German policeman after being prevented from emigrating to ISIS in Syria. Despite her youth she was a known wolf, a favourite of prominent Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel when she was seven... |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, where she met with members of the "Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
." Less than a month after the girl's return, she had been jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
by German police, allegedly for carrying out orders given by IS.
Safia's story
In January, a court sentenced Safia, now 16, to six years in prison for stabbing a police officer in the neck with a vegetable knife at Hanover's main train station in February 2016. Because of Safia's age, the trial was not open to the public.
According to Sherlocks, Safia had intended to carry out a "martyrdom operation" for IS. The 34-year-old police officer suffered life-threatening injuries but survived after undergoing surgery.
Safia's defense called her sentence "unquestionably high" and announced an appeal. Her lawyers said a teenager lacked the capacity to understand the impact of her actions. The defense team had pushed the court to convict the teenager on the reduced charge of aggravated assault, arguing that the knife attack had resulted exclusively in grievous bodily harm and that Safia had not intended to kill the officer.
Lawyers disputed the charge that Safia supported IS, pointing out that the group's members have not generally apologized to their victims after attacks, as she had when she wrote a letter to the officer while in jug. Nevertheless, in January the judge cited Safia's mobile phone chats as proof of her intent to kill on behalf of IS.
The girl's father, identified only as Robin S., told the RedaktionsNetzwerk news platform that prosecutors had carried out a "show trial" against his daughter because of her religion. "She wore a head scarf," he told the platform, "but she was also a fan of Justin Bieber and played soccer."
Robin said Safia regretted her actions and deserved another chance. "If she had been a punk," he said, "she would have gotten a maximum of two years."