No thanks. I'll study my broads all by myself.
Posted on 03/10/2010 5:00:47 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Study abroad with Al Qaeda
To understand radical Islam, American writer Theo Padnos pretended he was a Muslim and settled himself into Yemen’s radical mosque scene. Years later, his cover has finally been blown.
By David Case — GlobalPost
Published: March 10, 2010 10:22 ET
BOSTON — The dorm — a long corridor lined with shoebox rooms shared by roommates — was just like any other student dwelling, aside from the stained glass windows, the ornate woodwork and loudspeakers blaring with Islam's predawn call to morning worship: “Prayer is better than sleep.”
It was like any other student dwelling — aside from the absence of music. Or posters. Or women. Contact with the opposite sex was strictly banned.
When he wasn’t studying the Quran, Theo Padnos — barefoot, and usually dressed in a flowing white robe — says he would wander down the hall, to see who was around.
Living several doors away was the dorm’s requisite quiet kid, who shared a room with one of Padnos’ good friends. Back in Memphis, the kid’s name had been Carlos Bledsoe. In Sanaa, Yemen, everyone knew him as Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad. Although he was nice to his friends, who were mainly other black Americans, he was suspicious and rarely spoke when Padnos was in the room.
“Abdul Hakim was taciturn, withdrawn, maybe depressed,” Padnos recalls. “He didn’t like me very much. He was an ‘are you with me or are you against me’ kind of guy. And he felt I was against him.”
“He felt that I was a fake Muslim,” Padnos says.
In June 2009, the quiet kid pushed through the doorway of a U.S. military recruiting center in Little Rock, Ark., and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, killing one soldier and wounding another.
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No thanks. I'll study my broads all by myself.
Why not? It worked for Obama in Indonesia.
Only when their quest hits a brick wall, they could change. That is, general population get tired of them for bringing in unending misery, based on deluded perception, and enemy not wavering.
Cracking true believers requires more than nice persuasion.
WORLD Vision has suspended its operations in Pakistan after six of its aid workers were executed at their office by Islamist rebels,,,,,,
Religion of Peace
According to this article, they don’t want aids from the Western country. They believe it is a sinister move to corrupt their religious ways.
“A Saudi-sponsored center in the valley...” So, why are the Saudi’s sponsoring this? They sure won’t stop and they won’t tell us. But it is part of the bribes they pay to various Wahabbist centers to keep them from supposedly taking over Saudi Arabia. While Saudi’s royalty rule from Geneva. Answer is not what this naive lefty writer thinks... to make friends with their religion. The answer is to take them out. The reward for jihad is death, especially an unclean death to a muslim... involving pig protein or fat or psyops that tells them this is so. Break them, stop them.
Very informative. Aside from the basic beneficial commonalities of religion, humility, self-denial, etc,. the critical issue is who defines morality. Islam has to borrow from the Bible to gain authority, but it radically denies it. But youth who are raised in the post-Christian west, and who only see a worldly Christianity, and have a resentment towards parents and authority, esp. that of the white race, can be more susceptible to the structure, purpose and self-righteousness of the Islamic ethos.
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