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Syrian Professor in Saudi Disappears, Joins IS
2014-10-21
[AnNahar] A Syrian professor at a Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
n university has disappeared and joined the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group fighting U.S.-backed forces in her homeland, a newspaper reported on Monday.

Al-Hayat quoted Ibrahim al-Khaldi, the front man for the University of Dammam, as saying Iman Mustafa al-Boga had resigned for unknown reasons.

It quoted from her Facebook page, which says she is "moving around in the north of Syria".

"I was Daesh even before Daesh existed," she says in another post, using the Arabic acronym for the group which has been accused of atrocities including crucifixions and beheadings.

"And I have always known that there is no solution to the problems faced by Moslems but in this jihad," Boga added.

The kingdom is seeking to deter youth from becoming jihadists after Syria's conflict attracted hundreds of Saudis.

King Abdullah decreed in February jail terms of up to 20 years for citizens who travel to fight abroad, and the kingdom's top holy man has called IS and Al-Qaeda "enemy number one" of Islam.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh has urged Moslem young people not to be influenced by "calls for jihad... on perverted principles".

Since September Saudi Arabia and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
, along with their Gulf neighbors Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, have taken part in or given support to U.S.-led coalition air strikes against IS, which has declared a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq.

Moslems around the world have denounced the myrmidons.

"I left my dear university, my fancy car, my big house and large salary", to be free from "sinful laws of the tyrants that suffocate the ummah", Boga posted on October 14.

She later added that she had traveled without assistance from anyone.

"We do not know the reason behind her resignation", Al-Hayat quoted the university front man as saying.

The university "is keen to protect its students from ideas and methods that could be a danger to them, and could question their beliefs, traditions and customs", he added.

Al-Hayat reported that Boga, who was known to have bad boy ideas, had spent many years at the campus teaching Islamic jurisprudence and economics.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  This professor is a rather dim bulb.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-21 16:48  

#2  Hopefully with a litte lead therapy he can be rehabilitated.
Posted by: gorb   2014-10-21 14:07  

#1  Probably a ploy to gain an H1b and future assignment as head of some Islamic Studies program at UCLA or White House Islamic culture advisor.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-21 01:40  

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