Sixteen-Year-Old at Islamist ‘Warrior Camp’ Said It ‘Felt Like Nasrallah Was With Us Again’

Teenagers as young as 16 attended a controversial “warrior camp” in the Peak District, where they received combat training and religious instruction, the JC has discovered. The JC previously reported that the “Spiritual Warrior Camp” at Darwin Lake in the Midlands is run by London-born Shia preacher and influencer Hussain Makke, who has previously mourned Hezbollah fighters and glorified martyrdom. . . . “It is deeply troubling that a minor who attended the ‘warrior’ camp claims the camp evoked feelings that the late Sayed Hassan Nasrallah—Hezbollah’s terror chief—was ‘with them again’, not least as the organiser of the camp has publicly documented associations to Hezbollah—a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK,” [Kasra Aarabi] said. Aarabi, who is the director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran (Uani), called on British authorities to “intervene and investigate without delay.” “The growing threat from homegrown Shia Islamist radicalisation is not being taken seriously. Meanwhile, both the Iranian regime and Hezbollah are intensifying their efforts to cultivate such radicalisation abroad, including here in Britain.”