He has no regrets because he doesn’t think he did anything wrong, and by the lights of Islamic law, he didn’t. 

The question for Britain, which British officials will certainly not consider, is how many other Ali Harbi Alis are there in the country now — people who have no regard for British law, but are concerned only for Islamic law? 

And what are the implications of their presence for the future of the country? British authorities wave away such questions and smear those who ask them as “Islamophobes,” but the day is coming when those Muslims themselves will force authorities to confront such issues.

Meanwhile, how many of David Amess’ colleagues in the British Parliament did indeed get the message, and will not vote in the future for something that someone like Ali Harbi Ali might regard as an attack on Muslims? Probably quite a few, given today’s pandemic of cowardice in Britain and all over the West.

“I killed David Amess to save Muslims, Ali Harbi Ali tells jury,” by Kieran Gair and Duncan Gardham, The Times, April 7, 2022:

The alleged terrorist killer of Sir David Amess has told a court that he wanted to kill a politician to stop him from “harming Muslims” in Syria.

Ali Harbi Ali, 26, told the jury at the Old Bailey that he wanted to “make hijrah”, to travel and fight for Islamic State, but he found it too difficult to get there.

He is accused of stabbing Amess, the Conservative MP, more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on October 15 last year. The prosecution alleges that he had planned an attack for years and considered other MPs including the cabinet minister Michael Gove and Mike Freer, the Tory MP for Finchley & Golders Green.

Giving evidence on Thursday, Ali said he decided to kill Amess because of his voting record on foreign policy including airstrikes in Syria.

“I decided to do it because I felt that if I could kill someone who made decisions to kill Muslims, it could prevent further harm to those Muslims,” Ali said. “He voted previously in parliament, not just him . . . I decided if I couldn’t make hijrah, if I couldn’t help the Muslims [in Syria], I would do something here.”

Asked what difference killing Amess would make, Ali said: “For one, he can’t vote again. If he had previous for doing votes like that he won’t do it in the future, and perhaps send a message to his colleagues.”

…I thought if I couldn’t go join Islamic State, I should try and do something here to help Muslims here.”

Earlier Ali told the court that he was contacted by police in 2014… The alleged terrorist said he was interviewed by police who asked him about Twitter accounts and how he felt about the government. “I [would just] nod, say yes and they’ll leave you alone afterwards and they did,” Ali said.

He told the jury that he was supposed to have two meetings but “they [the police] were happy with the first one”….

Asked whether he regretted stabbing Amess to death, he said: “No.”