A quiet, nervous young man with an interest in jihad literature. Decent Fellow Alert from Martyn McLaughlin in The Scotsman (thanks to David):
HE WAS the face of the foiled terrorist attack on Scotland, a man engulfed in fire who raged against police and members of the public as flames consumed his flesh and sealed his fate.The death of Kafeel Ahmed, after 33 days in hospital intensive care units is a blow to the authorities who have lost the opportunity to discover what drove a brilliant engineer to turn his car into a bomb and himself into a fireball.
Too ill to even be charged with his act of terrorism, Kafeel Ahmed, a 28-year-old Indian, was the driver of the Jeep Cherokee that smashed into the entrance of Glasgow Airport last month after he left a rented house in the village of Houston, a few miles from his final target.
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The son of Maqbool Ahmed and his wife, Zakhia, both doctors, he was raised in a home in the wealthy Banashankari area of Bangalore, south-eastern India. His parents have now retired after closing down a nursing home they ran for several years.
Kafeel and his brother, Sabeel, were born in Saudi Arabia, where their parents worked for a few years.
Sabeel Ahmed has been charged with withholding information that could prevent an act of terrorism.
Kafeel was revealed to be a doctor, but of engineering, not medicine, and possessed the knowledge with which to construct explosive devices.
He initially obtained a degree in engineering at a college in Davangere, about 300 miles north-west of Bangalore.
Fellow students remembered him as a nervous young man, painfully shy, and who rarely mentioned religion, but wept when mocked. "He was always very nervous during that time and once or twice he even started crying,'' said KV Arun, a former classmate. "But no-one can deny that he was brilliant.''
Ahmed provided false information for admission to the college, stating he was a Hindu rather than a Muslim.
His college record shows he ranked fifth in a graduating class of nearly 400, earning a degree in mechanical engineering in 2000.
He then travelled to Belfast where he completed a master of philosophy degree in aeronautical engineering at Queen's University in 2003.
He later specialised for a doctorate in computational fluid dynamics, gained at Anglia Polytechnic University, later renamed Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridge. A complex subject, it involves using computers to simulate the flow of fluids and gases over structures.
Professor Derek Sheldon, who supervised Ahmed during his time at Anglia Ruskin and was cited by the young man as a referee, expressed shock at hearing of his alleged involvement in a terrorist plot, but suggested he may have been radicalised in recent times.
Prof Sheldon said: "I can't believe it is the same boy. He was a lovely person when I knew him. I was in constant contact with him until last December, then silence."
During Ahmed's time in Belfast, where he lived in Hampton Place between 2001 and 2004, he was a member of the Islamic Student Society of Northern Ireland.
Jamal Iweida, of the Belfast Islamic Centre, also put forward the image of a friendly, polite student. He said: "He was a very pleasant, very placid, and friendly guy. He was very polite, intelligent, and intellectual. He was one of the main people in the society who organised very good activities about multiculturalism, inter-faith integration, and the like. They would invite speakers from other religions."
It is believed the fight to keep Ahmed alive involved a pioneering skin graft procedure, using a skin substitute made from shark cartilage and cow tendons. The implants cost an estimated £20,000....
It will now be more difficult to discover who and what converted a quiet, nervous young man into a radical terrorist who was prepared to sacrifice his life and that of many innocent travellers. There are, however, clues.
Police have already examined his computer and CDs seized from his house in Banashankari in India.
It is understood that information gathered so far from the hard disc and the CDs show that he was interested in Jihad literature and the plight of the Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya....
"...he may have been radicalised..."
OR
Maybe he just became a "good" and "devout" Muslim adhering to all that his religion required of him!!!!
http://www.realclearreligion.com
The article really humanizes him. I feel sorry for the people who truly cared about him.
It's too bad he decided to devote his life to Islam and murder people for Allah. I'd feel sorry for him if he had been in a terrible accident but this was the result of a deliberate attempt to murder. He wanted to do to others what he ended up doing to himself.
Islam is the opposite of The Golden Rule.
Assalaam Alaikum
hello everyone
this is leon the pig farmer
maybe the scots should hold a ceremony in memory of Kafeel Ahmed? or lay wreaths. ala princess diana style, outside glasgow airport. speakers could include ken livingstone, george galloway and Dr Muhammad Bari from the Muslim Council of Grreat Britain. they could use this opportunity to call on the british to accept that islam is a way of life for millions of britons and that to deny this is racist. They could also ask, as they did and they got, for funding of more islamic projects and the building of more mosques and community islamic centers, and to deny them this would be racist and could "inflame" the peaceful muslim community.
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/08/03/good-riddance-ahmed/
Glasgow terror suspect dies from burns
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070802/ap_on_re_eu/britain_terrorism
Note that he is described as a ‘terror suspect’- which supposedly means that nothing is proven. Then check who wrote it: By TARIQ PANJA, Associated Press Writer
* Wanna bet that Tariq Panda is an adherent of the Muhammedan faith?
* Wanna bet that Ahmed, the failed terrorist, will get a martyr’s funeral back home in Bangalore?
*A man critically burned after allegedly crashing an explosive-laden Jeep into Glasgow Airport died of his injuries Thursday, Strathclyde Police said.
* Tariq, tell us: ‘allegedly’- is that supposed to mean it only happened in our imagination? It never really happened, or was it the Jooozzz again who blame it on an innocent Muslim?
'authorities...have lost the opportunity to discover what drove a brilliant engineer to turn his car into a bomb and himself into a fireball.'
Oh for God's sake. What in the world, what in the world could possibly have driven him to the act? It's all so utterly perplexing. For the life of me, I can't think what would have made him do what he did. No wonder those marvellous 'authorities' are having such a tough time working it out too.
Do these people suddenly become radicalized, or are they just really, really good at acting like they're not religious? If they become radicalized at some point, how does it happen so quickly and so completely? How does a person suddenly go from highly trained engineer to suicide bomber?
In either case, the difficulty of separating jihadists from non-jihadists once again becomes apparent. Even a model citizen can suddenly go jihad on you.
It's not the least surprising that these middle class terrorists were medical doctors and an engineer. The rejection of infidel culture ( such culture being a product of the age of ignorance) among some strongly Muslim families is so great that the only subjects that they consider as respectable for a young man to study are medicine or engineering (not biology or physics - these may contain dangerous un-Koranic ideas). This parallels the Islamic'golden age' of science being concentrated mainly on the physical sciences because hard, physical, mundane material knowledge was the only intellectual apparatus Muslims could bear to steal off the unbelievers ( plus the neutral, value free, Aristotelian logic to make it all hang together).
I sometimes think that one minor, tragic consequence of this mode of thought was he Toronto massacre of 1989, when a lunatic indirectly influenced by Islamic ideas, gunned down a large number of female engineering students.
No 72 virgins for Kafeel Ahmed. He is in a Christless eternity.
I am rather sick of hearing about these "nice boys" who attempt mass murder for whatever reason. Many of those who served in extermination or concentration camps were seen by their neighbours, friends and relatives as equally "nice boys". But not by their victims.
BTW...legal question: if a citizen of a western country(eg the UK) is convicted of terrorism within that country and is a follower of an alien ideology which wishes to overthrow the government to replace the constitution, doesn't this constitute treason and in the UK, is treason still punishable by death?
While this certainly is not Robert Spencer's view I am starting to think that this may well be the best way to deal with them and if the above isn't correct, then perhaps it should be.
compassion to this sort of enemy is an exploited weakness.
stupid is as stupid does
You tried to kill Scots and yet they tried to save you.
The difference between Christianity and Islam.
Good Riddance.
MisIslamist, I regret to inform you that there is no more "treason" in the UK.
Dhimmi PM Blair had Queen E sign it away.
MisIslamist - I regret to inform you that there is no more "treason" in the UK.
Dhimmi PM Blair had Queen E sign it away.
The article sounds like a eulogy.
Will I and other minimum wage earners be footing the bill for his hospital treatment?
That should chuff Michael Moore!
"I sometimes think that one minor, tragic consequence of this mode of thought was he Toronto massacre of 1989, when a lunatic indirectly influenced by Islamic ideas, gunned down a large number of female engineering students."
Posted by: wallyUK
wallyUK -- Do you mean the Montreal massacre at Ecole Polytechnique?
I only learned recently that the killer, Marc Lepine, was originally named Gamil Gharbi, and his father was a Muslim. He took a French name after his parents divorced (his mother was French Canadian).
I live in Canada but do you think I read that in the newspaper at the time? Noooooooo (channeling John Belushi).
plight of the Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya....
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Ah yes... the media, once again, blames the West..
See it was all OUR fault that this POOR boy turned to radical Islam! (Sarcasm)
Raised in privilege, the sun of two well-to-do doctors, himself a well-educated, brilliant engineer. Plants a bomb by a night club. After it fails, launches a kamikaze attack in a car full of petrol and gas cilinders against airport crowds. When the car gets stuck in the doors, he pours petrol over his head, grinning broadly, then sets the car and himself on fire, and ferociously fights police who tried to put the fire out. And those deranged cultists threaten to take over Pakistan with its nuclear arsenal, with only Gen. Musharraf being on their way. The suicidal-homicidal-genocidal cultist Ahmadinejad is about to get the nukes and smuggle them to Hezbollah sleeper cells already pre-positioned here, in the US. All Muslim students must be banned from colleges in the West, and a brutal action must be taken against Iran.
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Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Raised in privilege,
and we are told it is poverty that creates terrorism.. NO its islam!
LMAO
"...a shy, nervous student..."
LMAO
SO WAS OSAMA BIN LABEN!!!!
LMAO
Sorry, Josephine , my blunder:it was Montreal, I seem to have a better memory for dates than places. Most of the reaction to the event was expressed in terms of why do some men hate women, or concerning fire-arms control. The fact that the driving force behind this event seems to have been Muslim misogyny was completely missed or at least discounted. The nearest parallel would be cases of schoolgirls being killed by the Taliban to discourage female education, although cases of killing infidel schoolgirls in Thailand and Indonesia could also be invoked.
wallyUK -- Your memory is probably still better than mine. ; )
Yes, for some reason, the connection to Islam was swept under the rug. And that was prior to 9/11.
Maybe the killer hated women solely because Lepine's father is said to have been a brute who beat Lepine's mother. But does it end there? Wouldn't it have been useful to examine the terrible treatment of women in Islam?
Why does the media think it has the right or duty to decide which information it will withhold from us?
Some well-meaning people think that wearing a certain colour of plastic bracelet on the massacre's anniversary will solve the problem and stop men from abusing women.
"Why does the media think it has the right or duty to decide which information it will withhold from us?"
Simple Josephine...
the media's politically correct (which is absolute opposite of common sense), and it's agenda is collaborationism with islamism. Our own MSM in the US is just as bad as the CBC...believe it.
Dang! They should have tried pig's bladder. Everyone knows that's much more effective...
"...Our own MSM in the US is just as bad as the CBC...believe it."
Posted by: jcom972
That is bad news, indeed.
Josephine,
Another reason the MSM withholds facts: they think we are ignorant mobs who cannot be trusted with the truth. They'd probably still be trying to tell us that the people who carry out these deeds are wayward souls, were it not for the suicide videos. The voice of the perpetrator glorifying allah cannot be written off.
As for "what drove a brilliant engineer to turn his car into a bomb and himself into a fireball", even the smartest people can find themselves afflicted with mental illness. That will be their out. He was most likely depressed, withdrawn, whatever. Anything to avoid placing the blame where it belongs: ISLAM.
Sheik,
Glasgow "terror suspect" didn't have to be written by a Muslim. The same could have been written by John Smith. Journalists will always call you a "suspect" until you're proved guilty. They refuse to make judgments. That's modern journalism. It doesn't matter who writes it.
Too bad it doesn't apply in all cases. Remember the guy who found, I think, a nail bomb at the Olympics? He was either called a terrorist or accused of planting the bomb to make himself a hero. His life was ruined. Can't make that same mistake again. The guy who pours gasoline all over himself and sets it on fire could just be having a seizure! Let's investigate! (barf)
"Another reason the MSM withholds facts: they think we are ignorant mobs who cannot be trusted with the truth."
PMK -- I think you hit the nail on the head there. They *are* elitists.
Michael Coren's column in today's Toronto Sun is about the John Doe legislation. He tells it like it is (and, of course, he gets his share of death threats).
http://tinyurl.com/33o6gz
Or go to:
www.torontosun.com
click on "Columnists"
and choose Michael Coren
(I have no affliation with Mr. Coren or any of his employers.)
pimf
affliation s/b affiliation
"... the authorities who have lost the opportunity to discover what drove a brilliant engineer to turn his car into a bomb and himself into a fireball."
hmmm ... hint hint: 5-letter word that starts with letter "i" and ends with letter "m"
Can't one really feel sympathy for this islamic puke ?
(doesn't sympathy fall between sh_t and syphillis in the dictionary ?)
The wonder is how such a 'smart'person can pass away in such a stupid fashion.
Thank you islam.
They lost me at "brilliant Engineer". Really. Give us a break. If what he ended up doing was the result of what some call a brilliant, then the educational standards have fallen more than has let on.
Unchecked Infidelobia rendering "brilliance" to the status of human candles raging at the Infidel machine. Cooked crisper than Pork Weiners on the 4th of July.
33 Days tending to a Charcoal Bricket.
For some reason I don't think Allah is happy with some one so "brilliant.
yeah yeah yeah.. they're all SOOO INTELLIGENT and brilliant... blablablallah..
Actually, allah,
there IS an element of truth in that...they DO have facets of intelligence, and brilliant-after all, 9/11, as horrid as it was, was also brilliantly executed...thus proving century-old adage irrefutable:
"...to educate a man in mind, but not in morals, is to educate a menace to society."
(Theodore Roosevelt)
How does a person suddenly go from highly trained engineer to suicide bomber?
Drugs? Stupidity? The devil made him do it? Brainwashed coo coo's? From the moment they born...it is in their brain to kill, kill, kill! So they think they live, live, live (in hell of course and not a paradise).
Any Muslims that read this..can you come forward to explain as to why this dude did that?
It doesn't take a mOslem to explain that one...
It's their ideology...ooops, I meant "religion".
"The devil made me do it" is still a valid excuse in their eyes...after all, we're the "great satan" (and sometimes substituted by such ludicrous terms as "white devils" depending on proximity to such locales as oakland or detroit), and since we're the "cause" of all evils in their eyes (it can't be "minds"-they don't have any if they believe such rot), then it's viable under such *ahem* "logic", that, yes...the devil really DID make 'em do it.
Thus, their conscience is clear...at least temporarily in THIS world, that is.
And you're right...hell is not a paradise, and Heaven is not a whorehouse.
They're in for one helluva rude shock.
Well, at least it's a start.
Actually, allah,
there IS an element of truth in that...they DO have facets of intelligence, and brilliant-after all, 9/11, as horrid as it was, was also brilliantly executed...thus proving century-old adage irrefutable:
"...to educate a man in mind, but not in morals, is to educate a menace to society."
(Theodore Roosevelt)
Posted by: jcom972 [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 5, 2007 1:29 AM
The British Prime Minister during the First World War, David Lloyd George, himself no saint in his personal life, put it another way:
"Education without God makes clever devils."
As a good Welshman, he was of course referring to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, not the moon-idol allah.
This 'shy, nervous student' needs to get over himself and take the stick out of his @ss. And anyone like him.