Mother jailed for Jihadi Facebook rants

A radical Muslim mother-of-six who urged her Facebook friends to become suicide bombers has been jailed for more than five years.

Runa Khan, 35, was determined to radicalise her own children and friends into fundamentalist Jihadism in a campaign of hate on the internet and at home.

When she was arrested police found a photo of her two-year-old son with a toy assault rifle and a jihadist book on her phone, as well as images of her and her older children holding a sword.

She daydreamed about sending her eight year-old to fight jihad when he grew up.

Khan also posted a picture to her 241 Facebook friends of an explosive vest on the social media site with the message: ‘Sisters, if you love your sons, husbands and brothers, prove it by sending them to fight for Allah.’

She posted a copy of an article called ‘Sisters role in Jihad off the battlefield’ which included a detailed programme in rearing children to be ‘mentally and emotionally dedicated and physically prepared to conduct armed Jihad’.

She was branded highly dangerous by a judge at Kingston Crown Court, after boasting about her devotion to suicide bombing and terrorism.

Khan was jailed for five years and three months.

The judge added her guilty plea had saved her from a longer prison term.