Terrorist's Wife Wants Victims' Benefits
Rebecca Camber writes in The Daily Mail/UK:
The widow of a July 7 suicide bomber yesterday launched a High Court bid to be represented at the victims' inquest - saying she had also suffered the loss of a loved one in the atrocity.Hasina Patel, whose husband was terrorist mastermind Mohammad Sidique Khan, is seeking legal aid to challenge the coroner's decision to exclude Khan's death from the hearing for the 52 victims of the 2005 London bombings.
If the mother of one's application is granted, October's long-awaited inquest could be delayed by months of legal wrangling, to the distress of those who have waited more than five years for it to take place.
Lawyers for Miss Patel claim there should be 'no material distinction' between her and the families of those killed, because she 'equally suffered the loss of a relative'.
Oh, did she? Like the old joke goes, "They blow up so fast."
Let's just hope some clever barrister finds a way to prevent mass murder from becoming mass murder for hire -- with the British citizens doing the compensating.







Simple answer - charge her as an accomplice before the fact, convict her of how ever many counts of conspiracy to commit murder, and hang her.
The claim for benefits goes away when her neck goes *SNAP*.
brian at August 27, 2010 6:23 AM
Ahhh! Playing the ever popular victim card. Touche! (Sarcasm!)
David M. at August 27, 2010 6:34 AM
Brian... I like the way you think. This is sick and knowing how these things go... will probably work.
sheepmommy at August 27, 2010 6:34 AM
You have to give it to these people, they really know how to make us look foolish. They're very good at playing us against ourselves. The same tactics are evident in the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, and in the way that they use anti-discrimination and 'diversity' policies to institutionalize their laws and culture.
And what's funny is that the Left never seems to get it. They're so wed to the idea that Islamists are a bunch of alienated primitives that they can't believe that they'd be able to develop a sophisticated psyops strategy.
Soon to be Ali at August 27, 2010 7:03 AM
Considering the status of women under Islam I doubt her dead husband ever discussed this with her but that doesn't matter -- The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim. Especially the incubators.
Norsefire at August 27, 2010 7:08 AM
@soon:
The problem with the left (and the progressives especially) is that they are stupid.
Industrial-strength stupid.
Weapons-grade stupid.
You should need to have a license to carry that much stupid around.
And these are the people who would rule us?
brian at August 27, 2010 7:27 AM
This is the definition of chutzpah.
kishke at August 27, 2010 7:35 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/08/27/terrorists_wife.html#comment-1747231">comment from NorsefireThe only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.
That's horrible thinking. We don't win here by emulating the commandments of Islam (to murder people who don't share their beliefs) but by maintaining enlightenment values and protecting our society. The best way to do this is to inform people about what Islam really is. About the two Islams -- the Islam that is a religion, practiced by Muslims who are clueless as to what's really in the Quran, and the Islam that is practiced true to the Quran (commanding the death or conversion of the rest of us), which is totalitarianism masquerading as religion.
Amy Alkon
at August 27, 2010 7:57 AM
I think I would rather be the widow of the innocent who got blown up, than the widow of the guy who blew himself and a bunch of other people up.
I'd rather not be a widow at all, of course.
If she really didn't know, if her husband didn't tell her all this then... wow. That really, really sucks, and I hope she and her kids get lots of therapy.
Of course, if she was in the know, it is another matter.
NicoleK at August 27, 2010 8:04 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/08/27/terrorists_wife.html#comment-1747235">comment from NicoleKThis woman, of all people, has a duty to educate herself about the realities of Islam, as Ayaan Hirsi Ali did after 9/11. Hirsi Ali didn't believe Bin Laden that the 9/11 was justified/commanded by the Quran, and read the Quran, and found, to her surprise, that he was right. From that day on, she was no longer Muslim, and began speaking out against the evil in the Quran, which is why she must now live under constant guard. (Apostates are to be murdered under Islam.) Spread the word.
Amy Alkon
at August 27, 2010 8:09 AM
Behind every stupid lawsuit is a lawyer.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Shakespeare
Dan Derrick at August 27, 2010 8:35 AM
that's funny, I didn't think that the widows of murderers got compensated for their deaths. This is the tack the court should take, but I dunno anything about Law in the UK. I hope they don't roll over on this.
SwissArmyD at August 27, 2010 8:56 AM
And comedy becomes reality.
Conan the Grammarian at August 27, 2010 9:09 AM
The UK is not totally nuts - and it didn't even take very long:
Suicide-bomber's widow loses legal aid challenge
bradley13 at August 27, 2010 9:42 AM
I'm pretty sure Norsefire is trolling. I doubt the reference to "V for Vendetta" is coincidental. For those who don't know the story, Norsefire solved the Muslim problem (along with the Gay problem, the Jewish problem, the Chinese problem, the Atheist problem and few other betes noires) in a fictional England with the brutality typical of collectivism.
Nevertheless, a lot of the rhetoric on the Internet does describe the conflict with Islam as a "war". See the Gates of Vienna as an example: "We are in a new phase of a very old war." That is not an entirely inaccurate description.
I hope you are right and this war (battle, conflict, whatever) can be kept cold with the fight managed in the information space. However, Islam is not noted for its rationality. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an exceptional woman who not only abandoned Islam but became an atheist which does not exactly endear her to a large segment of the anti-Islamic side.
parabarbarian at August 27, 2010 9:48 AM
In the US this would seem to fall under the same rules as families not getting compensated for the execution of death row inmates. Or life insurance policies not paying out to suicide victims families.
Unfortunately, the left's guilt over perceived injustices against Muslims seems to know no bounds. There is a very good chance that the case will be won in the UK and possibly here should such a case be opened. To bad for Timothy McVeigh's family that he wan't a Muslim.
Interestingly, chutzpah has a positive connotation in English, but In Hebrew, chutzpah is used indignantly, to describe someone who has over-stepped the boundaries of accepted behavior with no shame.
AllenS at August 27, 2010 9:55 AM
"But the move will anger bereaved families, who do not want the deaths of the terrorists included in the same inquest as the 52 innocents whose lives they took"
Gee, I wonder why?
She has pretty eyes, but they aren't expressive enough to really get that tragic Bambi thing going, and the veil just makes it harder.
I am so relieved that she failed, anyway. That kind of gall is just amazing.
Pricklypear at August 27, 2010 9:58 AM
Wouldn't it be funny if she won the case, and then when she went to collect in her burka the clerk said "but we just gave the money to another woman in a burka who said she was you!"
Eric at August 27, 2010 11:35 AM
The story of the man who killed his parents and then begged for clemency because he was an orphan is an old one here, but apparently new to the Middle East.
Steve H at August 27, 2010 11:44 AM
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an exceptional woman who not only abandoned Islam but became an atheist"
Well, if I was raised Muslim and renounced it, becoming an atheist would probably my logical choice.
Why free myself from Islam and then go to another religion that might treat me as slightly less inferior to men then the one I abandoned? (I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm not subservient, either.)
Then there's Wicca, which bores me, and Scientology just makes me think that L.Ron Hubbard is out there somewhere laughing his ass off.
Pricklypear at August 27, 2010 11:55 AM
Wicca would be an odd conversion... going from totally covering yourself up from head to toe to worshipping in your birthday suit... it would be quite a change indeed.
NicoleK at August 27, 2010 1:13 PM
Insurance companies generally don't pay out on suicides. That's the point that should be hammered home.
I R A Darth Aggie at August 27, 2010 2:06 PM
And these are the people who would rule us?
Not only that, but they believe themselves to be our betters.
I R A Darth Aggie at August 27, 2010 2:08 PM
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an exceptional woman who not only abandoned Islam but became an atheist which does not exactly endear her to a large segment of the anti-Islamic side."
I didn't know that she became an atheist. Nor do I care. The important thing is that she no longer believes in, and is willing to speak out against, an extreme eliminationist philosophy. As Tony Blair said, "We can argue about the direction of Western civilization later. First we have to make sure that it continues to exist."
Cousin Dave at August 27, 2010 2:16 PM
"Insurance companies generally don't pay out on suicides."
They generally WILL pay a suicide claim - there's just a 2 year suicide exclusion in most policies, beginning at policy inception.
Give ya time to get through that 'down period', ya know.
Pete the Streak at August 27, 2010 3:00 PM
Aren't those islamic people who opted out of their socalled religion practicing taqiya or just out to a make few bucks out of their highly publicised dramatic conversion? Alot of people convert in and out of their religion, privatelyor publicly. No big deal about it.
Speaking out and acting out against islamic people is just meaningless, if people of other faiths continue to support them in various subtle ways and that indirectly make it difficult for us nonbelievers to avoid their creepy horrible culture encroaching into our private nonbelievers life.
WLIL at August 27, 2010 7:30 PM
I didn't think that the widows of murderers got compensated for their deaths. This is the tack the court should take, but I dunno anything about Law in the UK.
Actually -- the solution here is to sue his estate for a wrongful death. Do it for multi-millions of dollars a'la O.J. civil suit. And make sure that the family is named in the lawsuit.
That might change her mind.
Jim P. at August 27, 2010 7:47 PM
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