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Shahzad May Have Received Online Education in Jihad
2010-05-09
The jihadis hate all things made by infidels, but they aren't above using them to their best advantage ...
Of course. They are entitled to benefit from the work of our hands. The infidels are sheep to be sheared, fields to be harvested at the whim of our masters. It is so written, somewhere.
The 30-year-old Pakistani-American accused of trying to blow up an SUV in the heart of Times Square may have been poring through the Internet for years to gather information on jihad. FoxNews.com has uncovered several dozens of postings by a man named Faisal Shahzad on radical Islamist Salafist websites devoted to a variety of different jihadist sects.

The 30-year-old Pakistani-American accused of trying to blow up an SUV in the heart of Times Square may have been poring through the Internet for years to gather information on jihad.

FoxNews.com has uncovered several dozens of postings by a man named Faisal Shahzad on radical Islamist Salafist websites devoted to a variety of different jihadist sects. Experts suspect this is the same Faisal Shahzad whom authorities have charged with plotting to explode a massive car bomb in New York on Saturday. If so, then he has been educating himself on the Internet for years on the legitimacy of holy war.

Shahzad visited numerous websites devoted to ideological discussion of Islamism and Shariah law. His apparent online posts date back to at least 2006 -- three years before the Times Square suspect became a naturalized American citizen.

"If the person on these websites is indeed the suspected bomber, the postings show that he was intellectually thinking about engaging in jihadism for a few years," said Dr. Walid Phares, director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "Knowing that, the ideology of jihadism often has inspired violence and terrorism....

"These can be coined as Islamist Salafist websites where lots of material is posted, including theological, ideological and political texts and blogs," Phares said, noting that he saw discussions about fatwas, jihad and other Islamist causes on these sites."

"Individuals do not become jihadists overnight or because of one major crisis or event, as some social scientists proclaim," Phares said. "They become jihadists over time, after a gradual change, consciously in a stable intellectual process."

An FBI spokesman said any possible online postings by Shahzad would be investigated.

An intelligence source initially provided Fox News with a link to what was believed to be an online posting by the Times Square suspect. Using details from that post, FoxNews.com found several dozen more on radical Islamic jihadist sites devoted to a range of Salafist sects. These other postings shared either the same IP address -- in Pakistan -- or e-mail address or partial e-mail address. (For example, in some cases the same user name appeared on both Yahoo and Hotmail accounts.)
various posts snipped; they're at the original.
In many of his posts, the man intelligence officials believe is the Times Square bomber appears to be an eager and inquisitive student, and he frequently engaged in discussions revolving around the ideological argument at the heart of different schools of jihadist thought.

He asked, for example, why a certain fatwa was issued in one instance while one was not in a similar situation. He asked about the specific differences in the beliefs of Salafists around the world, and the reasoning behind them.

He questioned the ideology behind a fatwa issued by the Deobandi school of thought in India. (Deobandi is an extremist South Asian form of Islam; major Taliban leaders attended Deobandi madrassas.)

In other posts, also uncovered by FoxNews.com, a user who also appears to be Shahzad inquired about how to obtain work visas in Italy and Canada. That same person was a member of a Google group that recently circulated a petition opposing a cartoon rendering of Muhammad that appeared in the Australian media.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  i am with you thing. any attempt to rationalize this POS as anything but a jihadi following an ideology of hate is off the mark.

'normal guys' dont do this.

shahzad was a silver spoon putz of the first order. if he didn't have a vagus nerve, he would be too lazy to have avoided suffocation thus far.
Posted by: abu do you love   2010-05-09 22:44  

#4  Second of all, I have been screwed lately worse than he has, and multiple times; I've never gotten to the point of owning a nice house in the suburbs to begin with. And somehow I have avoided a failed bombing attempt on Time Square or Viacom.

(Both of which sound like rather suboptimal targets to someone upset that the bank has screwed him over on his mortgage.)

This guy had the good job, he had the house, he even got the second mortgage, he got a lot more from this country than I'd get if I moved to Pakistan.

I find your arguments lacking.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-05-09 22:08  

#3  Redneck Jim, could you please outline to me how to take out a second mortgage on a house that was just seized in a foreclosure?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-05-09 22:03  

#2  Redneck Jim, I thought he lost the house only after he quit his reasonably well-paying job and then stopped paying the mortgage. In other words, I'm not clear how the country screwed him.

Did I miss something in the stories (quite possible ...)?
Posted by: lotp   2010-05-09 21:39  

#1  Yall are giving this asshole way more cedit than he deserves.
1. he lost his home to the bank
2 He took out a second mortgage aparently with NO intention of ever paying it back.
(Screwed the bank right back)
3 he tried to make a bomb (Poorly) and
4 He tried to Hurt the Nation which had legaly screwed him.

This is NOT a jihadist, it's a man pushed too far and fighting back.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-05-09 19:23  

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