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| American jihadist Khan was prodigal son | ||
| 2011-10-02 | ||
| CHARLOTTE: FROM his parents' basement in a part of town where homes have lots of bedrooms and most children go to college, Samir Khan blogged his way into the highest circles of al-Qaeda, waging a media war he believed was as important as the battles with guns on the ground. His parents were worried about the increasingly radical nature of their son's philosophy and the media reports that exposed it. They turned to members of their religious communities to impress upon their son the perils of such thinking and behaviour. It didn't work. In 2009, he left his comfortable life in North Carolina for Yemen, started a slick magazine for jihadists called Inspire that featured political and how-to articles written in a comfortable American vernacular and continued to dodge government and civilian efforts to stop his self-described ''media jihad''.
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, al-Awlaki UndieboomerUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He and two other men. At the Islamic Society of Greater Charlotte, few of the several hundred Mohammedans gathered for Friday prayer wanted to talk about Khan. ''This is a very dangerous road when you go and kill someone like this,'' Ayeb Suleiman, 25, a medical resident, said. ''He was just an editor. He was just writing.''
But after the September 11 attacks, Khan's radical views grew to the point where his father intervened. ''He tried his best to make his son meet imams and scholars to dissuade him from those views.'' | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 B, go to your room. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-10-02 13:17 |
| #6 Ouais! D'rone place at d'rone time. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-10-02 11:35 |
| #5 He rode with a bad crowd and paid the price. Anwar al-Awlaki... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, al-Awlaki is was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. I heard an excerpt of al-Whacky's speech on T.V. He was preaching about the wonders of the 72 virgins. The guy was working himself (and his followers) into a lather. Like many narcissists the sound of his own wheels was driving him crazy. Honestly, one ought to question the sanity of those who listen to this silly little man. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-02 11:04 |
| #4 ''This is a very dangerous road when you go and kill someone like this,'' Ayeb Suleiman, 25, a medical resident, said. ''He was just an editor. He was just writing.'' Others felt grief for a family who had lost a son. Not much grief expressed for the Americans killed by those Inspired by Khan. Do tell, how Muslims in America are so integrated and loyal? |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-02 10:28 |
| #3 Yah, and now he is dead. He got the big pay off in the wages of sin lottery. The point of the biblical story of the prodigal son, is that were he to turn back to the path of righteousness his father would be encouraged to forgive him and restore him in the family. It is a beautiful illustration of the charity and forgiveness central to christian philosophy. Oh, wait his dad is not a christian, so that wasn't going to happen. No wonder he chose to hang with his homeys in Camelbutt Yemen and double down on his big bet on jihad rather than go home. Did I mention the wages of sin thing earlier? |
| Posted by: rammer 2011-10-02 10:26 |
| #2 ''He tried his best to make his son meet imams and scholars to dissuade him from those views.'' I really tried to get my son to stop drinking - why I took him to every bar in town! Of course the father lost this argument - the Jihadi 'views' are one of the central themes of Islam. It is islam (which means submission). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-10-02 09:47 |
| #1 "...worried about the increasingly radical nature of their son's philosophy"...you mean the original meaning of Jihad? |
| Posted by: jack salami 2011-10-02 09:39 |