Interestingly enough, his half-brother is a public relations officer for Pakistan's prime minister. Headley seems to be quite devout, and yet somehow seems to have misunderstood Islam thoroughly, somehow getting the idea that jihad terror and mass murder in Mumbai would please Allah. And none of the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims seem to have taken him aside to explain to him how he was getting Islam wrong, wrong, wrong. "Portrait of Mumbai attacks terror suspect David Headley takes shape," from AP, December 8 (thanks to Choi):
[...] "Call me old-fashioned, but I feel disposed towards violence for the offending parties," Headley allegedly wrote on a Web site, referring to people he believed had defiled the sacred name of Islam. He was angered by a Danish newspaper that featured a series of cartoons, one showing the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban."They never started debates with folks who slandered our Prophet, they took violent action," Headley wrote, according to federal court documents. "Even if God doesn't give us the opportunity to bring our intentions to fruition, we will claim ajr (a religious award) for it."
Headley was charged Monday with conspiring in the planning of the November 2008 attacks. Prosecutors accused him of scouting out targets, including the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, the Leopold Cafe, a landmark called Nariman House and a large railroad station, all of which were struck by terrorists. [...]
Headley also is charged with planning an armed attack on the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, which published a dozen cartoons in 2005 that depicted the Prophet Muhammad and set off protests in the Muslim world.
According to the government, Headley dubbed the cartoon-related attack "the Mickey Mouse project." His attorneys have declined to comment.
Headley grew up both in the United States and Pakistan, the son of an American mother and a Pakistani father. By his teen years, he already had developed strong feelings about Islam, according to Lorenzo Lacovara, who helped Headley's mother open a bar in Philadelphia in the 1970s.
"He was all full of himself and thought that Islam was the greatest thing since sliced bread. He was full of contempt," Lacovara says. "He was fully convinced that it was the 14th century and that it was time for Islam to take over the world.
It sounded a lot like teenage bravado, but I think he became a lot more serious."
Headley's interest led him to terrorist training camps operated by Lashkar-e-Taiba -- Army of the Pure in Urdu -- a group focused on the decades-old friction between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Prosecutors say Headley repeatedly attended the camps to learn terrorist tradecraft.
Prosecutors say Headley got marching orders from Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2005 to do surveillance for the group in India. Soon after he was given the assignment, he changed his name from Daood Gilani to David Coleman Headley to "present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani," according to court documents.
Headley took photos and made videotapes of the targets that were attacked in Mumbai by 10 terrorists trained by Lashkar, prosecutors say. [...]
Headley was born in 1960 in Washington, where his Pakistani father, Syed Saleem Gilani, worked for Voice of America, according to Headley's half-brother, Danyal Gilani, a public relations officer for Pakistan's prime minister. The family moved to Pakistan soon after Headley's birth. [...]
Both Rana and Headley occasionally worshipped on Fridays at Jame Masjid of Chicago, sometimes heading around the corner to Zum Zum, a sweet shop where men in the neighborhood often gather to talk politics and cricket over samosas and chai.
What kind of Pakistani name is Headley.
Did I miss something?
Reread the article.
I'd say Headley is his American non-Muslim-origin mother's surname.
His Muslim father's name is Syeed Salim Gilani and at birth he (half-Pakistani, half-American) was named Daood Gilani.
He thinks sliced bread is better than Islam? I agree.
He thinks sliced bread is better than Islam? I agree.
Chicago jihadist "thought that Islam was the greatest thing since sliced bread"
Well, I guess that sliced heads are ALMOST better than sliced bread ... except sliced heads don't slice anywhere near as cleanly; AND they're a whole lot messier and nowhere near as nutritious; unless, of course the jihadi is protein deficient ... which I guess is likely, coming as jihadists do, from the bowels of humanity.
"It sounded a lot like teenage bravado, but I think he became a lot more serious."
yep...a pious Muslim....
a pious Muslim who repeatedly attended the camps to learn terrorist tradecraft....
a pious Muslim who was fully convinced that it was the 14th century and that it was time for Islam to take over the world....
a pious Muslim who felt disposed towards violence...
a pious Muslim looking for the opportunity to kill.....
Islam....feel the love?
“Call me old-fashioned, but I feel disposed towards violence..." Headley quote, from the article.
Now where could he ever have got the idea that this was "old-fashioned?" Oh yeah, I forgot...Old Mo set the example 1400 years ago, and it has since been reaffirmed repeatedly over the centuries, thereby giving every Muslim a license to commit violence in defense of Islam or Muslims. I wonder if the prosecution will even include a reference to such a motive rooted in his ardent belief that Islam deserves to rule the world -- it being considered by the PC police running the Juice Department as likely to hurt the feelings of all the peaceful Muslims in the world by even mentioning such a connection.
I meant to say "Justice" Department above, but perhaps "Juice" isn't such a back characterization after all...
Sounds to me like this young fellow grew up carrying the "Islamic psychopath" mentality . In court cases involving psychopaths it is generally pointed out that a psychopath will continue his or her behavior based on an upbringing that inclines that person to evil thoughts and deeds. If a child grows up seeing his father commit violence against his mother or other family members then, chance are, that child will be inclined to commit similar acts later on in life. It is also possible that Headley was subjected to the same Islamic indoctrination that many other Islamic-raised children undergo in the formative years of their lives. After his father left, which he no doubt did, marrying another woman and abandoning his mother, that the mother may have changed their names to protect them from his threats of kidnapping the child.
So Headley grew up, in the protective arms of his mother, with early Islamic brainwashing embedded inside his mind, and wondering why he was predisposed to violent thoughts, even suicidal thoughts.
He was as screwed on sideways as any other Islamic child.
We have a lot to worry about the future generations of these children. We are facing an uncertain future for sure. "We will know them by their seeds."
These are evil seeds being planted in in our society in the name of Allah.
It makes one wonder if Obama may have encountered the same or similar upbringing?
Oh,
Another illegitimate child from a Muslim baby daddy becomes a societal problem trying to emulate the father he never really knew. Sounds familiar. Somebody could get famous writing a book about that.
...he changed his name from Daood Gilani to David Coleman Headley to "present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani...
Here's a picture of "David Headley":
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:1bFHfgxr4FF_9M:http://static.ibnlive.com/pix/sitepix/11_2009/davidheadley_let3.jpg
from a Google Images search, and confirmed by this Indian news website:
http://tiny.cc/KS9xt
Doesn't look much like a white guy to me.
He looks not only middle aged but also like one of the so-called moderate Muslims. And he changed his name to make it seem that he's Christian. This could make a lot of nonwhite nonmuslims in N. America very nervous when they learn about the case.
Recall also the First Principle of Islamic Friendship: Pretend to be a friend of the nonmuslim. Make plans to slit his throat.
Excellent post, al-Kidya, which seems to get to the heart of a lot of the problems with Islam and how it raises its children. Images and emotions imprinted on their young minds of what happens in their household and sermons from their masjid, attitudes toward women, the dirtiness of the outside world of the kuffar and cultivation of hatred for it and a sense of victimhood, are fertile nutrients for developing psychopathic personalities. If they are naturally unstable to begin with, then they can become walking time bombs.