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Posted on 12/11/2001 6:25:48 PM PST by Maxpowers
Internet Traces His Path to Taliban Turncoat Yank's switch from hip-hop fan to Islam
WASHINGTON
American Taliban John Walker left behind a trail of Internet postings that detail his transformation from a rabid hip-hop fan who posed as black to a Muslim fanatic who decided music was sinful.
Along the way, he sold off his music and comic book collections and traded in music synthesizers and drum machines for weighty tomes about Islam and freemasonry.
His last postings find him condemning American clothing, Disneyland, "modernists," homosexuality, the Nation of Islam and Zionists
As he sits in U.S. custody near Kandahar, Afghanistan, while the nation debates whether he is a traitor or a mixed-up kid, Walker's Internet writings open a small window into how he got there.
Walker, 20, published several dozen messages between 1995 and 1998 on Usenet discussion groups, which are archived at http://groups.google.com. He used several accounts, including his mother's. His main handle was "doodoo@hooked.net"
Over the years, Walker signed himself variously as John Lindh, John Doe, Disciple of the Englober, Hine E. Craque, Prof. J and Br. Suleyman Al-Mujahid.
His earliest posts were in music groups, where the affluent white California teen peppered his posts with gangsta slang.
"That whole rhyme was saying essentially that all black people should just stop being black and that'd solve all our problems," he scolded an amateur rapper in 1995, when he was 14. "Our blackness does not make white people hate us, it is THEIR racism that causes the hate."
Of the N-word, he wrote: "It has, for hundreds of years been a label put on us by Caucasians ...and because of the weight it carries with it, I never use it myself."
Many Questions
Many of his early postings were about buying and selling high-tech music gadgets.
"I don't know what a TalkBox is, or how it works, but I know what it sounds like and I want one. If it has pieces that fit inside your mouth, I don't care. I can find a way of cleaning it. I want a TalkBox. Sell me one. Thank you," he wrote in March 1997.
But Islam was quickly becoming his main focus.
In July 1996, he asked: "I've heard recently that certain musical instruments are forbidden by Islam. There is nothing in the Qur'an that I can find relating to this matter. ... My question is this: are in fact certain musical instruments haram, and if so, which instruments or types of instruments are they?"
He also wanted to know: "Are drawings of living things (besides plants) forbidden altogether? Is it alright to have clothing with pictures resembling living things? Is it alright to watch cartoons on TV?"
By May 1997, he was turning on the rap scene he once admired, questioning the "sin and wrongdoing" of smoking, drinking, having sex and pursuing happiness. "I have never seen hapiness myself," he wrote. "Perhaps you can enlighten me as to what it looks like."
Two months later, he listed an impressive collection of more than 200 funk, rap and soul records for sale.
By August 1997, he was getting into political arguments, calling Zionists "devils" who are ruining Judaism.
The following month, he posted a long list of books about Islam that he wanted to buy. The list also included works on Palestine, Freemasons and brainwashing. The effect of his studies showed. His posts became longer and more tangled, with many references to Koranic law.
Growing Hostility
He also was becoming bitter about America.
"The more we try to imitate and please the kaffir, the more they laugh at us. 'Look at them stupid Mozlems, trying to be like us! Gee wheeyiz, I shore am glad Ize an Amuricayin Chrishchen! Hee haw,'" he wrote.
He disapproved of a Muslim convention being held "at a theme park owned by Disney, whose productions are full of kaffir mythology, magic, occultism, sexism, racism and homosexuality."
To a poster asking for recognition that there are gay Muslims, he wrote: "Please stop attempting to justify what you know is wrong."
In February 1998, he wanted to know what the Prophet Muhammed would have worn. "I've considered this carefully and decided that I can no longer imitate the dress of the American/European kaffirun," he wrote.
By April 1998, Walker's transformation was complete. When someone asked the same question he had posed two years earlier — does Islam ban music? — he jumped right in.
"Not long ago, I found myself in the same position you are now in with regard to music. Being as addicted as I was at the time, it was very difficult for me to come to terms with this matter and act appropriately," he wrote.
Music is indeed forbidden, he said, quoting all four Sunni schools of law. "Arguments to the contrary are ...not worth the time it takes to read/listen to them."
The hip-hop fan with the great record collection was no more. Within weeks, Walker was off to Yemen and then to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban.
Original Publication Date: 12/11/01
Johnny Bin Lately belonged to a group that sanctioned the flying of jets into skyscrapers, the murder of civilian Jews and Christians worldwide, and the torture of any Muslim unfortunate enough to commit the crime of shaving. I can see how evil Disney is when stacked up against the niceties of Talibisney.
Maybe the convention should have been held at the Suicide Bomber Theme Park in Palestine-- the one with the body parts splattered against the walls with the Sbarro Pizza.
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"The more we try to imitate and please the kaffir, the more they laugh at us. 'Look at them stupid Mozlems, trying to be like us! Gee wheeyiz, I shore am glad Ize an Amuricayin Chrishchen! Hee haw,'" he wrote.
I am sure that Walker realizes now what a cushy life he lived in this country.
His last thought, when they strap him down to the gurney, will be along the lines, "gee, I guess I screwed up".
Naturally the beard covered most of his face....however, I'm sitting there going is he white
I agree with your analysis completely.
Johnny Walker Black! Johnny Black!
A little off topic..........Can anyone explain to me how the news media got this guys E-Mails? *and* What does it say about internet security if years later someone can post your opinions? Am I paranoid here?
Just a passing thought, but..........inquiring minds want to know.
Is there some "law" that a newbie can't post?
You should get out more...instead of playing god.
The article on Darkstarmag keeps you on their website, when the article is here.
The post should be pulled.
I'm not REALLY paranoid...........although people ARE out to get me. LOL.
Instead of brainwashing, it could just be that he's very, very impressionable. Look at the stuff he wrote--he runs the gamut from being a black man to a muslim (anything but himself). The kid obviously had no direction in his life whatsoever. Johnny Walker isn't a free spirit, he's a discarded plastic shopping bag flailing in the wind.
Its not E-Mails that are being published, but public news group postings.
Me, too, but I'm not paranoid either.
Me too! They said he was estatic when he heard about the attacks on Sept. 11th. does that qualify as "happiness?"
(c)RAP song for araFAT@$$:
hey you schmuck
hey you schmuck
do the goats all run
when you want to f**k?
BUMP for Post of the Day nomination....he spoke English with a pronounced accent. It sounded Middle Eastern to my ears.
Instead of brainwashing, it could just be that he's very, very impressionable. Look at the stuff he wrote--he runs the gamut from being a black man to a muslim (anything but himself). The kid obviously had no direction in his life whatsoever. Johnny Walker isn't a free spirit, he's a discarded plastic shopping bag flailing in the wind.
I don't think Johnny Walker is a Democrat. After all the Taliban are Pro-Life, Pro Religion, and do not support equal rights for women. However, I do know that the kid who flew his plan into the building in Florida was a member of the Young Republicans and a supporter of bin Laden.
According to articles posted on Yet Another Froup, John-Boy "Caliban" Walker, our own home grown Islamist, was at one time a patron of/poster to UseNet, as long ago as 1995, primarily using an account apparently belonging to his Mummy Dearest, Marin Marilyn.
Caliban Johnny seems to have posted to assorted computer and music froups, using the singularly appropriate nom-de-net of "DooDoo." [1] In at least one article to a "hip-hop" group, he accused another poster of being a young teen-aged white boy wannabe-rapper, implying that he, J Walker, was black, and an accomplished rap artist.
He also apparently posted to soc.religion.islam, calling himself "Prof J" - which may or may not be of interest to Jdot.
"DooDoo's" articles may be dejagooed by searching for the following authors:
doodoo@hooked.net
doodoo@tuna.hooked.net
doodoo@also.hooked.net
doodoo@webe.hooked.net
Caliban Johnny signed several of these articles as "J O H N D O E" -
note the spaces, if you choose to run a dejagoogle using that.
Most of the articles seem to have been posted between 1995 and 1997.
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