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| Ex-Saudi extremists: We were used as weapons against our own country |
| 2016-12-15 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Some of those who have received counselling and participated in training courses at the Prince Mohammed bin Nayef Counseling and Care Center in Riyadh shared their past experiences while being involved in terrorism, during a seminar during the second session of the intellectual awareness forum entitled ’Extremism: Between misleading theory and ominous reality’ at the Imam University Juhani: I had not found the right counseling and Fatwa Khalid al-Juhani, one of those who benefited from Prince Mohammed bin Nayef Center, spoke about his 10-year experience where he was lost and got involved in al-Qaeda as an electronics and remote detonation instructor. He used to provide training at that time, before the collapse of Afghanistan, under the leadership of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... at Tora Bora. Later he and some others fled to Pakistain where they were incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and handed over to the US authorities. He was held for five years in Guantanamo and came out psychologically broken due to what he had endured. When he got back to 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... , he was afraid because he did not know how the Saudi society and his family would welcome him. But he was well received and relieved of those concerns. At that moment, he regretted what he had been through. In prison, counseling sessions began. "Things got clearer and it is not as they had said for the victory of Islam. They brainwashed us to be a weapon against one’s own country, so don’t be fooled by these fantasies," he said. Life in Afghanistan is not beautiful and it is not true that they are very happy to have us there. They hate us and are surprised that we are engaged with them in their wars and the discord they fell into," he added. Al-Anzi: The instigators isolated us from our society Badr al-Anzi said that he initially was a young man who was excited for the victory of Islam. He was moved by scenes he was shown of massacre and despotism against Moslems in Afghanistan and many other neighboring countries. There were also some newspaper reports that mocked the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), so he was brainwashed and incited through speeches that dragged him to unbridled ideology. Yahya: My advice for young people is not to be influenced by emotional scenes Yahya bin Hassan spoke about his experience, saying that following up the news and seeing photos of the violations and abuses happening to Moslems drew him to those areas of conflict. Indeed, he went to those areas and found that all of the wars were purely political, where they are using innocent young people to achieve their ends. Hani: Openness to knowledge and cultures is the stronghold of the youth As for Hani al-Mulla’s experience with joining the fronts of combat, he said labeling the conflict zones as angelic societies would be a misnomer. He said that if it wasn’t for God, he wouldn’t have been aware of what he was going through. He described the openness to knowledge and diverse cultures as one of the most important things that would make young people immunized against bad boy groups. |
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