Muslim Convert’s JIHAD Plot EXPOSED – UK Mosque Targeted!

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A Muslim convert from the UK was found guilty of preparing a terrorist act after threatening to “flatten” a mosque and plotting an attack against an Islamic cleric who was an outspoken critic of terrorism.

Video footage released by West Midlands Police showed 35-year-old Jason Savage filming reconnaissance near a mosque on Wright Street in Small Heath, Birmingham. The footage was released after Savage was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court on January 30th.

Savage, originally from Fourth Avenue in Small Heath, was remanded in custody for sentencing at Birmingham Crown Court on April 11th. On the video, Savage recorded himself saying, “That seems like the best way to get away – the police will probably come from that way.”

As well as charting different routes into the mosque, Savage, who had adopted the handle of a knife found at his home, was heard saying: “Just needs the means now. Ask Allah to give man the means, bro.”

Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court deliberated for 5 hours and 48 minutes before unanimously convicting on January 30th of a single count of engaging in conduct to prepare for terrorist acts on or before March 14 last year. 

The trial, which lasted for three weeks, told that Savage was arrested shortly after sending online messages to someone he did not know was an undercover officer, saying he was waiting for what "opportunities come to present itself.”

They also heard that Savage took screenshots of the West Midlands Police headquarters, police stations in Perry Barr and Stechford, as well as various military locations in Birmingham, and told the undercover officer he was putting his neck on a "chopping block.”

Prosecutor Peter Ratliff alleged that Savage had planned to commit and film an attack. He also told the court that the defendant converted to Islam at some point in the 2010s and followed an "extreme and violent" part of the Salafist movement, of which organizations such as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) were "particularly notorious" examples.

Prosecutors also alleged that Savage carried out reconnaissance intending to attack a cleric, bookshop, and mosque in the Small Heath area, whose approach to the Salafist movement was "entirely at odds" with his own.

The court heard the mosque, shop, and publishing house advocated a strand of Salafism that stressed the importance of non-involvement in social or political activism, while the cleric was an "outspoken critic" of Islamist terrorism, arguing that it was entirely incompatible with the true essence of Islam.

"A key feature of the defendant's words and writings was his real disapproval of 'disbelievers' - but particularly those he considered were false followers of Islam," Ratliff said.

Furthermore, the court heard that, by February 2024, Savage was referring to watching knife-fighting techniques and posted a video of Osama Bin Laden. Ratliff also said Savage claimed the mosque he filmed outside needed "flattening" and spoke about how his targets need to be "hunted down.”

Then, on March 11 last year, Savage went to the area around the mosque and recorded three mobile phone videos. Two days later, the jury heard, Savage made Internet searches about homemade firearms and ammunition, including pipe guns, nail guns, firing pin mechanisms, and shell casings.

His conduct also included research into the manufacture of components of firearms as well as the "lethal use of knives.”

Justice Farbey ordered pre-sentence and psychiatric reports of Savage to be prepared before his sentencing.

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