Loyalty to the Crown.

Inner struggle; outer butchery.

This aardvark has pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier. He intended to seize the serviceman, take him to a garage, and cut his head cut off.

The highlight of this operation — and ultimate goal — was to have been the release of film footage of the killing to the public (read "Al Jazeera").

The prosecutor told the jury that Khan "had been 'a fanatic' at the centre of an Islamist terrorist 'cell' based in the Birmingham area" and that he "had gathered computer hard drives, range-finders and night-vision equipment, which was to be sent to terrorists operating near the Afghan border in Pakistan."

Kahn was also "enraged by the idea that there were Muslim soldiers in the British army, some of them Muslims from The Gambia in West Africa." The intended victim was a Muslim soldier in the British Army.

According to the Koran this contemptible prick apparently reads, no Muslim may honorably serve in the British Army. No Muslim, in short, can give his allegiance to Britain.

Kahn is a Pakistani or of Pakistani origin. The idea of his giving his allegiance to Britain was obviously anathema to him. Yet he resided in Britain, a place that was apparently not at all disagreeable to him as evidenced by his failure to return to Pakistan.

The BBC's report is interesting for the fact that the BBC itself never identifies Khan other than as "a man" and an "unemployed charity worker." The fact that Khan is a Muslim is something you will learn only from the reported remarks of the prosecutor, the fact that Kahn spoke a Pakistani dialect, and the fact that Kahn had associates with popular Muslim names (Mahmood, Iqbal). The BBC showed no curiosity about the citizenship status of this freak, how long he'd been in Britain, what mosque he went to, who his imam is, and whether he had the benefit of a fatwa somewhere purporting to authorize him to play the Lone Avenger.

It's clear too that some of his associates knew about what Kahn was intending to do and did not help him. Nonetheless they did not report Kahn to the police. What they did do was remain silent and support their brother even though they knew he was planning a horrific crime. And what mattered to Kahn — the only thing that mattered to him — was to be Muslim qua stateless Muslim and do all that he could to advance the cause of Islamic terror.

Oh, those night vision devices and range finders? He bought them out of his own funds as a charity worker.

Right?

"Man admits plot to behead soldier." BBC News, 1/29/08.

UPDATE (1/31/08):

Koran 5:51): "O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors; they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust."

It's in the Koran then. You become an infidel if you render allegiance to infidel society. Having been a Muslim, you then become a non-Muslim, an infidel. If you leave Islam, you are an apostate and can be killed.

Kahn's doctrinal footings in Islamic doctrine are completely sound.