This woman’s reaction to learning Jihadi John is her neighbour is important
The woman in this recording learned today that Jihadi John is reportedly a member of a family she knows in her neighbourhood. Natasha John, 25, heard that the ISIS terrorist, who murdered James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, Alan Henning and Kenji Goto, had been named as 26-year-old Mohammed Emwazi. Emwazi lived with his mother, father, brother and two sisters at this house in Queen’s Park, west London after moving to England from Kuwait when he was six. Ms John, who is also a Muslim, says firmly that the family would never ‘have allowed that sort of stuff in that house’. But while many neighbours expressed their shock at learning their neighbour was a terrorist – this young mother, who works as a youth worker for the council, took a different view. She sees the revelation through the eyes of someone who has suffered prejudice. She rejected there being any kind of jihadist behaviour in the area. She quite bluntly denied there being any ‘issues’ with her nei