Source: rt.com - Saturday, February 28, 2015
The man's name has not been made public; he has only been described as a 20-year-old Kurdish male from Vienna, Austria, Press Agency reported. The man was among 13 people arrested by police at the end of November due to links with Mirsad O, and Islamic preacher from the Austrian capital who is accused of radicalizing youths and recruiting them to fight for the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria. Security was heightened around the courtroom during the trial; eight armed guards with balaclavas covering their faces were stationed outside. The young man was sentenced for posting images of decapitated and impaled heads and other atrocities committed by IS jihadists in Syria and Iraq on his Facebook page. The gruesome pictures were accompanied by approving comments from the owner of the account. READ MORE: Anti-Islamism PEGIDA rally gathers hundreds in Austria According to the man, he was born in Iraq and had “nothing to do with religion until the age of 15 or 16.” But then the realization that he was surrounded by unworthy people, like “drug dealers, gamblers and idiots” made him turn to Islam, he said. The young man acknowledged that posting Islamic State images online was "really stupid” of him. “Decapitating someone is really disgusting, I’m the kind of person who can’t even stand the sight of his own blood,” he told the judge, adding that by his actions he only wanted to “provoke” his former friends. The young man was
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The man's name has not been made public; he has only been described as a 20-year-old Kurdish male from Vienna, Austria, Press Agency reported. The man was among 13 people arrested by police at the end of November due to links with Mirsad O, and Islamic preacher from the Austrian capital who is accused of radicalizing youths and recruiting them to fight for the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria. Security was heightened around the courtroom during the trial; eight armed guards with balaclavas covering their faces were stationed outside. The young man was sentenced for posting images of decapitated and impaled heads and other atrocities committed by IS jihadists in Syria and Iraq on his Facebook page. The gruesome pictures were accompanied by approving comments from the owner of the account. READ MORE: Anti-Islamism PEGIDA rally gathers hundreds in Austria According to the man, he was born in Iraq and had “nothing to do with religion until the age of 15 or 16.” But then the realization that he was surrounded by unworthy people, like “drug dealers, gamblers and idiots” made him turn to Islam, he said. The young man acknowledged that posting Islamic State images online was "really stupid” of him. “Decapitating someone is really disgusting, I’m the kind of person who can’t even stand the sight of his own blood,” he told the judge, adding that by his actions he only wanted to “provoke” his former friends. The young man wasfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1K0cnp9
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