Posted on 10/12/2007 8:58:15 AM PDT by xjcsa
WASHINGTON - Muslim terrorist Ramzi Yousef once bombed the World Trade Center for Allah, but now he purports to have found Jesus and converted to Christianity, according to new reports.
The Daily News recently learned that Yousef has shaved his beard, stopped reading the Muslim holy book, the Koran, and now eats pork, which is forbidden in Islam.
Yousef, the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was convicted and is serving a life term for detonating a truck bomb under the twin towers in 1993 and plotting to blow up U.S.-bound airliners over the Pacific.
But since his capture in 1995, the Muslim extremist has given up his religion, CBS' "60 Minutes" will report on Sunday.
The revelation came when the TV news show was allowed unprecedented access to the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colo., which houses hardened terrorists such as Yousef, Al Qaeda hijacking plotter Zacarias Moussaoui, shoe bomber Richard Reid and "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski.
Told of the alleged religious conversion, former New York federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wondered, "Does Christianity get a vote" on whether to accept him?
McCarthy, who put Yousef on the stand as a witness in the terrorism prosecution of the "Blind Sheik," Omar Abdel-Rahman, said the Pakistani thug has lived a "bad life of barbarity."
"It could be sincere. On the other hand, the Prophet Muhammed said war is deceit," he said.
Robert Hood, who served as warden from 2002 to 2005, told CBS that Yousef has a "Charlie Manson look," referring to the cult leader. If Yousef is playing Christian convert, "He's playing a game with someone."
"60 Minutes" also interviewed corrections officer Barbara Batulis, who said that when news of the 9/11 attacks spread among the terrorist prisoners, "We had a lot of them jump up and down,...scream and yell and clap and they were very excited."
The wardens also have administered 900 force-feedings on other Al Qaeda terrorists who went on repeated hunger strikes.
That said, even if true this obviously doesn't change the fact that he needs to spend the rest of his life in that prison (since the death penalty wasn't available).
Converted to Christianity...well, then he should be a more positive
influence in his prison environment.
LOL! Praise the Lord and pass the popcorn!
Oh, and put him in even more secure custody. - Muzzies are not allowed to leave the farm, under pain of death!
If he really found the way to the Lord, God will have mercy on his soul. But in this world he’ll rot in his cell.
One of their first rules...Lying is acceptable to Allah!!
No, Andy, we do not, nor should we. If he accepts Christ as his personal Savior that's all the vote he needs. If he doesn't, then God will deal with that at a later date.
Nope. It's God's job to sort this out.
Oh I'm well aware of that. I'm not sure what he would hope to accomplish in this case though, and I'm not aware of other Muslims going as far as eating pork as part of their taqiyya. I'm not sure what to think here, but I'm keeping an open mind.
I’m just not sure why he would lie about this. His fellow, ur past, Muslims would want to see him dead, then.
I agree. I hope this story is true, but color me a skeptic. I've heard, just recently, of muslims pretending to convert. Lets pray that he has seriously decided to turn his life over to Christ.
If his conversion is true then he’s extremely blessed to be able to glorify the LORD in HIS mercy rather than glorifying HIS wrath. Sounds like he made a wise direction change in the path he’s walking to eternity.
Now if (as the hard left would love) his sentence was ever commuted to time served and he was released, the death penalty awaits him by the hand of the nearest faithful follower of Mohammed (fleas be upon him).
Fortunately those are offered to all of us.
I hope for his soul he is sincere.
Whether someone has really accepted the Lord can be seen by his fruits (deeds). Muslims who convert to Christianity and live a Christian live are Christians. Think about Walid Shoebat. He was an islamic terrorist, but now he is an anti-terrorist Christian.
My wife is of Iranian birth, and was born nominally Muslim. But since 30 years she is an Evangelical Christian (although matter of factly she never was a practicing muslim but highly secular before embracing Jesus Christ).
As I understand it, he’s a nephew of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed.
Keep him in Supermax for the rest of his life.
While I wish his conversion were true, the previous warden said he had eyes like Charlie Manson.
To be broadcast from the highest minaret. I can’t wait to hear the reaction from them when they hear one of their heroes hsa left the reservation.
(glad they noted the KSM relation in the article)
While he could have converted...sitting in basically solitary confinement for 23+ hours a day for the rest of your life could cause anyone to crack. He probably realized he wasn’t getting his 72 virgins if died rotting in prison.
If he’s sincere about welcoming Jesus into his heart, then wonderful. God will forgive him for sins. However, God’s forgiveness does not mean you can avoid facing the consequences your of actions.
Praise the Lord! And pass the ammunition.
Exactly 100,000% dead on! In fact, he should EMBRACE the punishment that is coming to him if he is indeed sincere...
Andrew McCarthy’s an idiot.
I wonder if he thinks we should have taken a vote before letting Paul into the “religion”. After all, he killed a lot of Christians before his conversion.
That's right.
Christians everywhere should pray his conversion is genuine though, as we should pray for all to convert. After all, life in prision is nothing compared to an eternity in heaven (or hell).
Thank goodness! Now that he’s no longer in the protected Muslim class, the PC Police won’t mind if we execute him. Christians are killed all over the world and no one really seems to care.
/sarc
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One of their first rules...Lying is acceptable to Allah!!
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I agree. I hope this story is true, but color me a skeptic. I've heard, just recently, of muslims pretending to convert.
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While I wish his conversion were true, the previous warden said he had eyes like Charlie Manson.
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Islamic terrorists have their own terms: taqiyya (pronounced tark-e-ya) : precautionary dissimulation or deception and keeping one’s convictions secret and a synonymous term, kitman: mental reservation and dissimulation or concealment of malevolent intentions...
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If he lives the remainder of his life in prison, praying as a Christian and behaving as a Christian; and when he dies an old man - in prison, if - on his deathbed - he continues to profess his conversion to Christianity, I will believe him.
Not a moment before.
He may be a genuine convert, or he may be under the misapprehension that he will be treated more leniently if he converts.
I have read a number of prison conversion stories. Some of them are truly moving. But just because someone repents his crimes and converts and becomes a Christian and joins the Prison Fellowship and helps to convert others doesn’t mean that he is let out of jail. He still has to serve out his sentence.
There are many such cases, and that’s the way it has to be. Such genuine converts have the joy of Christ in their souls and the blessings of grace, not a get out of jail free card.
Probably, if they were let out of jail, they would not repeat their crimes, because their lives have been genuinely transformed. But too bad, they still have to serve out their sentences. God will reward them, and indeed rewards them even as they continue to live the sufferings of imprisonment, but justice must follow its course.
I don’t know if Yousef understands that. Maybe he is a genuine convert, but I’d need to see a lot more than this before I believed it.
Doesn’t Islam declare a fatwa on someone who abandons Islam? We may yet get that death penalty for him.
I’ll believe the conversion when he wipes his backside with a Quran and flushes it.
Yep, I hope he’s sincere. It would be great.
Nonetheless, he is so dangerous, and hoped to kill 50,000 at the WTC’s in 1993, so he should never, never, ever be let out of Supermax.
And, if he IS sincere, he’ll live longer that way, because his former associates would love to kill him if it is true.
yes it does by implicit definition - including a justification for burning people alive - which was also done to William Tyndale, but the New Testament provides for nothing like that at all, in contrast. (nor should it, of course)
It’s considered OK for a muslim to kill an infidel, even if it’s another muslim
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:283] Narrated Abu Juhaifa:
I asked Ali, “Do you have the knowledge of any Divine Inspiration besides what is in Allah’s Book?” ‘Ali replied, “...we have what is written in this paper as well.” I asked, “What is written in this paper?” He replied, “...the judgment that no Muslim should be killed for killing an infidel.”
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:260] Narrated Ikrima:
Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn ‘Abbas, who said, “Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, ‘Don’t punish (anybody) with Allah’s Punishment.’ No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, ‘If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.’ “
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [6:61:577] Narrated ‘Ali:
I heard the Prophet saying, “In the last days (of the world) there will appear young people with foolish thoughts and ideas. They will give good talks, but they will go out of Islam as an arrow goes out of its game, their faith will not exceed their throats. So, wherever you find them, kill them, for there will be a reward for their killers on the Day of Resurrection.”
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [9:84:64] Narrated ‘Ali:
Whenever I tell you a narration from Allah’s Apostle, by Allah, I would rather fall down from the sky than ascribe a false statement to him, but if I tell you something between me and you (not a Hadith) then it was indeed a trick (i.e., I may say things just to cheat my enemy). No doubt I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, where-ever you find them, kill them, for who-ever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.”
If that’s true, then he can start a prison ministry.
He still deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail.
But with faith in God’s endless Mercy, at least he can look forward to heaven.
In any event, even if it really is true, I'm not particularly moved.
Serve him a nice, big porkroast tonight. See what happens!!
According to the article, he’d eat it.
If he did, then alleluia! That said, he still needs to pay for his crime and as a Christian, he would understand that.
He may be a genuine convert, but I think someone was slipping pork fat into his meals.
Folks, they would never, ever for any reason do this. This might be real.
I’m glad he accepted Christ as his personal savior and I look forward to spending some time in Heaven with him trying to understand him.
In the meantime, he has some Al Jazeera evangelical videos to make, and he’s got to serve his sentence.
I would hope that Brother Andrew’s ministry, Open Doors, would be given access to him and the new message of Peace could be transmitted through the moslem world.
And Atta and friends were drunk and wh****** around.
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