T-shirts bearing a quote from "White Widow" Samantha Lewthwaite are being sold online
It could be the perfect Christmas stocking filler for wannabe jihadists: a t-shirt with an ironic slogan quoting the world’s most wanted woman, British soldier’s daughter Samantha Lewthwaite.
The t-shirt, available on Amazon, has the line: “Jamal is accountable for his actions 100 [sic] and I condemn with all my heart what he has done” – Samantha Lewthwaite.
The quote is taken from an interview that Lewthwaite gave to a British tabloid newspaper soon after the July 7 terror strikes in London, in which her husband was one of the four suicide bombers.
At the time, she said that she condemned his actions.
His name was Germaine Lindsay, and it appears the American manufacturers of the t-shirt confused him with Fahmi Jamal Salim, a Kenyan Lewthwaite is said to have married.
She has been on the run from a series of international arrest warrants over her alleged involvement in an al-Qaeda plot orchestrated from Somalia to bomb Kenyan beach hotels popular with Westerners at Christmas 2011.
Since then, Lewthwaite, who grew up in Aylesbury and whose father was a British soldier who served in Northern Ireland, has been linked to a long list of Islamist terror atrocities, including the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall.
She has been painted as the poster girl for female jihadists in East Africa and beyond, despite there being no confirmed sightings of her since December 2011, no any evidence that she continues to be involved in terrorist activities.
The t-shirt is available in pink, blue, white and grey, and sells for £20 including shipping. It was not clear why the designers chose to produce the t-shirt now.
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