School officials are not sure whether or not the Flight 253 jihadist went to an Islamic school in Houston. And in Nigeria, they've never seen al-Qaeda anywhere, no sir, nowhere. Nobody here but us moderates!
Everyone, in other words, is trying to make sure that no one gets the idea that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab learned jihad anywhere near them. "Nigeria: No Al-Qaeda in Country - Islamic Scholars," by Abbas Jimoh for the Daily Trust, December 29 (thanks to James):
Some Islamic scholars in Nigeria yesterday dismissed allegations that Al Qaeda exists in Nigeria following the alleged attempt by 23 year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to bomb a United States passenger plane on Christmas day.The scholars, who spoke to Daily Trust in separate interviews, said Nigerians are not terrorists, even as they urged the relevant security agencies to investigate the matter dispassionately.
Malam Abdulfattah Adeyemi, an Abuja-based Islamic Scholar, said, "I want to say confidently that there is no connection between the accused and any religious group in Nigeria. We are a nation that is focused. We are at the phase of rebranding and trying to move the nation forward."
"Rebranding," eh? Does Adeyemi mean by that that they're going to knock off the church-burnings and murdering of Christians?
On Farouk Umaru Mutallab's involvement, Adeyemi said: "We cannot say for sure what is responsible for the problem, but I will suggest that the matter should be thoroughly investigated and people should avoid passing comments that will bring disgrace to the nation and should equally refrained from wrongfully pointing accusing fingers to anyone when investigations have not been carried out or concluded."Dr Taofik Abdulazeez, the Imam of University of Abuja said Nigerians should take the news with extreme caution and asked the authorities not to rush into actions without sufficient information.
He said, "There may be a connection between extreme economic prosperity of some people and extreme poverty of some and certain tendency such as violence and other tendencies such as this may not be located among the poor...."
How's that again?
"There may be a connection between extreme economic prosperity of some people and extreme poverty of some and certain tendency such as violence and other tendencies such as this may not be located among the poor...."
Perhaps what he is attempting to express is this:
The "deeply religious" Nigerian boy was the son of a prominent banker. In Nigeria, that means to everyone that the father was part of the corrupt ruling elite, and certainly pictures of his house in Kaduna, and even more of his house in London, suggest the usual dismal story, of vast sums pocketed while the people live in indescribable squalor. His son perhaps was offended by the life his father and other family members led --I'm still attempting to decipher the confused and halting words of Dr. Taofik Abdulazeez, the Imam of University of Abuja still -- and this led him to seek solace, to seek The Answer, in Islam and Even More Islam. That is, he was vulnerable to the Arabs who manipulated him (they surely regarded him not as brave warrior but as a useful abd -- the word in Arabic for both a black African and for a slave -- who could be persuaded to do their bidding, just as other Arabs had done with Richard Reid.
Well, if it's not here, and it's not there, and it's not anywhere, it must just be in the Qur'an, because the only thing they all agree on is that the scum was devout.
How does one go from being "devout" to being a "scum"? Hmmmm...
the imam lies. as if he says: there's no SHARIA in the north; no dihmminitude in the south; no braindrain and exodus of peoples attempting to escape the various "kindnesses" of the Muslim overlords. a bit and not all: he glosses over Jos and the division and separation there, and his words hardly mention the economic slavery of the folks who walkabout Lagos.
the scholar (Adeyemi) apparently hasn't studied the relationship between emulating Muhammad through thorough study of the sunna and living and working where the air is polluted with Islamic sentiment, whether that be in Kaduna or London.
It kind of seems like Al-Qaeda is taking the blame for this in order to attain more fear from the public. He's not even doing real Jihad. How in the world is he "fighting for the cause of Allah (SWT)" if he's killing innocent people?? This is the story so far that I've found on http://OurIslamic.com :
Story:
http://ourislamic.com/forums/23-news/1281-sad-terror-story-christmas-day.html#1281
Humza wrote:
"He's not even doing real Jihad. How in the world is he "fighting for the cause of Allah (SWT)" if he's killing innocent people??"
What is the real jihad, Humza? And what's with the "story so far" being three poorly typed blog sentences on what appears to be your brand new blog?
Malam Abdulfattah Adeyemi, an Abuja-based Islamic Scholar, said, "I want to say confidently that there is no connection between the accused and any religious group in Nigeria. We are a nation that is focused. We are at the phase of rebranding and trying to move the nation forward."
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Of course, what "moving the nation forward" seems to mean to many Nigerian Muslims is the ever more savage imposition of Shari'ah, accompanied by murder and terorizing of the country's Christian and animist population.
Humza wrote:
It kind of seems like Al-Qaeda is taking the blame for this in order to attain more fear from the public. He's not even doing real Jihad. How in the world is he "fighting for the cause of Allah (SWT)" if he's killing innocent people??
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Al Qaeda is not "taking the blame"—they proudly *claimed responsibility*.
Humza, what do you consider "doing real Jihad"? Does it include violence against unbelievers?
In addition, do you consider the passengers of flight 253 to be "innocent people"? Many of your co-religionists—clearly, including the would-be Christmas bomber—consider a planeload of American and Dutch Infidels to be—categorically—anything but innocent, no matter how decent they may be.
"He's not even doing real Jihad."
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I take it, Humza, you don't mean the "greater" Jihad, one's struggle with inner demons, when you question his efficacy in doing "real" Jihad. I assume you mean he is being counterproductive in spreading global Islam by slaughtering innocents?
If that's your meaning then I am in agreement. IMO, the biggest contemorary blow to global Lesser Jihad was 9/11. I'm sure that OBL et al looked at recent history and assumed the Americans/West would fold like cards and "take the next chopper out of Saigon". It turns out targetting of innocent civilians is something the West ablsolutely will not tolerate, WHATEVER the cost. Sadly (for Islam AND the rest of the world) there are enough hate-filled young men dreaming of sex heaven to not care about global strategy or Mohammed's second coming.
RIGHT....and no history of Islamic extremism among the Hausa
and Fulani..
And I guess the Ibo desire (quite wise in my estimation) to succede from Nigeria (the Biafran Succession) in the 1970s was out of fear of Yoruba cellphones and Ponzi schemes...
If you look up COGNITIVE DISSONANCE in an Arabic-English Dictionary, you will find the synonym 'ISLAM'.
"Al Kyder"?, "Terry Wrist"? No one here of like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FkYPV7Iwu4
Another spammer trying to advertise his site as if it's a third party.
I took a look at your forums, and frankly from the stuff you post there I think you have a skewed idea of the world.