One would have thought that the Vast Majority of loyal, patriotic American Muslims would celebrate Mahmoud Omar as a hero. Why don't they? Why does a man who helped the FBI against jihadists say, "I lost my people. I lost my religion"? And why don't authorities ask that question, and seek answers to it? "From star FBI witness to ostracism, loss," by George Anastasia for the Philadelphia Inquirer, June 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):
This is not the way Mahmoud Omar thought things would play out.Omar, the Egyptian-born FBI informant who was the key prosecution witness in the Fort Dix terrorism trial, is sitting at the kitchen table in his two-bedroom apartment trying to make sense of what has happened to him.
He has an eviction notice for overdue rent, an application for welfare, a foundering export business, and an uncertain immigration status.
The South Jersey apartment is sparsely furnished. There is little food in the refrigerator.
Omar is living week to week, sometimes day to day, with his American-born wife, Jessica, who grew up in Maple Shade, and their two children, a daughter, 6, and a son, 3.
"How can this be?" he asks, his eyes flashing anger, dismay, and disappointment. "It was a good case. I help. Now I have what?"
His heavily accented voice trails off. "Nothing."
Chain-smoking cigarettes, Omar, 41, was talking publicly for the first time about his experience as an informant enlisted by the FBI as its point man in the Fort Dix investigation, and about the impact the case and its aftermath have had on his life.
Eighteen months after a federal jury in Camden convicted all five defendants, the star witness is unsure of his future and has doubts about his past. [...]
"I lost my people," Omar said during one in a series of rambling interviews over the last month. "I lost my religion. And I can do nothing about it."
Unless you come from his culture, he said, it is almost impossible to understand what that means.
For Omar, his ability to function in America was built around a network of friends, relatives, and associates in the Muslim community.
That network, he said, no longer exists for him.
He has been ostracized because of what he did.
No matter, he said, that the five men he helped convict were accused of plotting to kill American soldiers. In a twisted way, he said, their actions are understandable in the Muslim community.
"For Muslims, we are all brothers, and I betrayed a brother," he said.
Omar does not go to a mosque anymore, he said, because he knows he will not be welcome.
No one had told him that. But, he said, touching his chest, "I know in here."
"Muslim people don't believe these kids did anything," he said. "And they are never going to believe it. They don't want to believe it." [...]
To many of them, he said, he is a traitor.
Back in this country, relatives and former business associates want nothing to do with him.
"The people I did business with are gone," he said. "They say, 'You made your choice. You helped the American government. Why should we help you? Let the American government help you.' " [...]
The Inquirer hauls out a dhimmi professor who blames the U.S. for Omar's ostracism by the Muslims:
William Granara, a professor of Arabic studies at Harvard University, said it appeared Omar was experiencing a "conflict of loyalties" not uncommon in the immigrant experience.But for many Muslim immigrants, it is intensified because of "the sense of disempowerment and alienation" that the community feels.
That, Granara added, might explain how some Muslims would look at Omar and say, "How can you do this at a time when America is treating us this way?" [...]
What way, exactly? At a time when America is making you freer, more prosperous, and safe from physical danger than you would be in virtually any Muslim country on earth?
Harvard is full of useful idiots.
"William Granara, a professor of Arabic studies at Harvard University, said it appeared Omar was experiencing a "conflict of loyalties" not uncommon in the immigrant experience.
But for many Muslim immigrants, it is intensified because of "the sense of disempowerment and alienation" that the community feels."
This remark reflects either a desire to mislead Americans about Islam and what Islam inculcates, or reflects a deep unwillingness or inability on the part of William Granara, "professor of Arabic studies at Harvard," to grasp the nature of Islam.
Instead of calling what Muslims feel in this country a "sense of disempowerment" -- what a novel word, what an interesting idea -- he might better have said that Muslims in this country, especially those who come from Muslim-dominated laands, expect that they deserve power, are unhappy, and cannot ever adjust, to the idea that non-Muslims might actually hold power in lands founded and deveoloped entirely by those same non-Muslims, and that furthermore they might not agree that Islam has a right to dominate, or Muslim demands for changes in the legal, political, and social institutions should be met. As for "alienation" -- what an absurd word to use when the entire structure of Islam -- has Granara not read and thoroughly assimilated Qur'an, Hadith,and Sira, has he not read Schacht and Margoliouth and Jeffery and Lammens and Goldziher and Snouck Hurgronje (or does he get his knowledge of Islam from, say, Wiliam Graham, or Diana Eck's "pluralism project," or perhaps from Noah Feldman, the careerist who, after the fiasco -- the title says it all -- of "After Jihad" is now busily re=fashioning himself as a "scholar" (the ghosts of Paul Freund and Robert McCloskey need not worry)of American constitutional law, or from smiling Roy Mottahedeh, who in the fall of 2001 wrote a "disgraceful article" (Bernard Lewis's epithet) for the Op/Ed page of the Times, attempting to equate the Crusades, limited in time and space, with Jihad, that is unlimited in time and space.
Or is it perhaps kind Mr. Asani, the language teacher recently given tenure, a promoter and defender of Islam now chosen to lead one of those Harvard Alumni Tours where he will, in his liguid-brown-eyed soft-voiced way (the hysteria just under the surface kept carefully under control) offer a plausible misconception of Islam for the naive but well-pocketed alumni dumb enough to sign up for the tour in the belief that they will learn something.
Look, Muslims are taught that there is a permanent state of war, if not always open warfare, between Believers and Unbelievers, Muslims and Infidels. They are further taught that they have a duty to participate, directly or indirectly, in the "struggle" or Jihad to remove all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam. They are further taught, and do believe, that Islam has a right to dominate, and Muslims to rule, and it is maddening to have to feign acceptance, as long as Muslims still believe themselves not strong enough to do otherwise, of the rules and laws and attitudes of the Infidel nation-state -- any Infidel nation-state.
That is what constitutes their sense of "disempowerment."
That is what constitutes their sense of "alienation."
If William Granara is the best that Harvard can do in the way of enlightening would-be students of Islam, even at this point....well, at this point, why don't you summon up by googling the "MESA Nostra Contest" and read it, for comic or tragicomic consolation.
Unfortuntly the brotherhood of the death cult trumps all. a brother can never betray his own, no matter what crime to the infidals was done. This is the lesson that the head cult leader, muhammed, gave to his followers.
This snake, granara is in full damage control and is his providing the taqya for these media types.
Would that most every professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at American colleges and universities think as you do, Hugh. What a major help that would be. Instead, we have dhimmi apologists (John Esposito comes foremost to mind) or actual Muslims spinning their lies and half-truths about Islam. Well, the humanities section (and others too) at almost all American institutions of higher learning are pretty much shot all around. Another leftover, really hangover, from the 1960s.
"For Muslims, we are all brothers, and I betrayed a brother.."
Mahmoud Omar is a brother to all reasonable men who free from brainwashing do not betray their intellect or conscience in exchange for a loyalty to something evil and unjust such as the islam which has afflicted Arab lands for such a long and bloody period.
"What way"?
Well, it´s the sole rule of islam they are missing. They cannot do without it, they cannot imagine an existence not according to the right way, the islamic way, the only way.
I doubt their loyalties are that divided. Family, tribe, islam, old country, old language, culture and attitudes: I really believe their new chosen country is way long, long down the list.
But it is never their own fault! They are never to blame. And of course islam has nothing to do with it anyway.
I wonder how it's possible to live day to day, with little food, and still be able to chain smoke.
It would seem the Muslims in America are more loyal to continuing violent jihad than to step up and condemn it by doing what is necessary to combat it....
of course...we already knew that....
A muslim must never break the primary rule : "Being muslim comes before absolutely everything & everyone" or he/she will pay the price meted out by the enclave.
Therein lies the problem with muslim immigration.
And this from Al Arabiyal, 29 June 2010:
Fatwa specifies transferring food to military bases
US Muslim jurists forbid aid to troops
WASHINGTON (Ahmed al-Shiti)
The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) issued a fatwa prohibiting offering aid to foreign troops in Muslim countries whether on the personal or the business levels.
The assembly, made up of jurists and scholars in charge of issuing fatwas for Muslims in the United States and headed by Sheikh Salah al-Sawy, received several inquiries about the stance of Islam on business deals with coalition troops in Iraq or NATO forces in Afghanistan, especially companies that transfer foodstuffs and other supplies to military bases.
The question was posted on AMJA fatwa bank, reads: “Is it permissible to participate in taking food to the American and foreign soldiers working in Muslim lands?” and the answer is, “That would not be permissible, for that would be helping others in sin and transgression.”
The fatwa, number 3062 to be issued by the assembly, stipulated that Muslims are not to help foreigners on personal or business basis as long as their presence in Muslim countries is linked to occupation.
The statement was based on a verse from the Quran that said Muslims should only offer help in noble causes and should not take part in any kind of action that involves violence or damage.
“Muslims should help anyone involved in benevolent acts regardless of their nationality, religion, or political affiliation and whether they are civilians or soldiers.”
This, the fatwa added, is not the case with foreign troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and which are occupying those countries against the will of their people and, therefore, engaging in any type of interaction with them endows their presence with legitimacy and makes those who deal with them accomplices in the crime.
The assembly, which is considered one of the most respected Islamic authorities in the United States, added that the fatwa also applied to Muslims who are U.S. citizens.
The fatwa stirred controversy in the American media. Several critics warned that such religious edicts usually translate into violence against the troops in Muslim countries while others expressed their indignation that scholars who incite Muslims against American troops are, in fact, American citizens.
Another fatwa that sparked anger was issued by Muslim-American cleric Anwar Awlaki who warned Muslim Americans of serving in the U.S. military or supporting the trooping occupying Muslim countries in any way and declared American troops and military bases an open target for Jihad.
(Translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid).
"I lost my people," Omar said during one in a series of rambling interviews over the last month. "I lost my religion. And I can do nothing about it."
And this is bad news? This is the best thing that could have happened to this guy and his family, and all he can do is waste his time and money smoking and whining? My gosh, I wouldn't waste one more minute interviewing this namby-pamby.
Next ...
I must be missing something here...
The "moral" of this story seems to be "Don't Squeal." It would seem that this guy did the right thing, even with the knowledge that he would be ostracized for doing so. Now, (ostensibly) thanks to that decision he's down-and-out, family and friends have disowned him. Do the authorities, with whom he cooperated, owe him something for this? I think they do. Is it good PR that the honest / cooperative guy has misery for his reward? Is this a good message to others who would consider doing the right thing? I think not.
I didn't miss the other point in this story that muslims are nothing more than members of a global anti-American crime-family. All the rules apply--you snitch, you're screwed.
Anyone who's read my posts here knows that I'm not into defending muslims! I'm only asking these questions about THIS story and THIS guy, who, it seems, actually had a conscience and acted in accord with it. Does he deserve SOME kind-of support from SOMEWHERE?
I'll be happier to know that I was wrong about this--so please tell me what I missed...
"I lost my religion. And I can do nothing about it."
Maybe someone should send him a picture of the 'Leaving Islam' bus sign...
I'm with you! Sure, virtue should theoreticlly be its own reward, but I see nothing wrong with compensating those who sacrifice their family and friends in order to save American lives. Heck, I see nothing wrong with the $25M bounty on Osama's head, how is this any different?
If the Amercian gov't wants "moderate" Muslims to come forth with jihadist info, it better loosen its purse strings a bit.
If the Amercian gov't wants "moderate" Muslims to come forth with jihadist info, it better loosen its purse strings a bit.
The 'illusive', truly 'moderate' Mahoundian has never been found...
In theory, Mahoundians with information should submit it without thought of compensation...If I knew of a bomb plot, I would not think of selling it to authorities...It would not only be the patriotic duty thing to do, but it is the legal thing to do...If you know of a Federal crime, or a proposed Federal crime, it is a Federal crime not to report it...
But the gov does buy information from various snitches...Omar just neglected to cut a deal, now he's crying...He should now apostate and get a new life in kufr lands...
duhswami, you wrote:
"Maybe someone should send him a picture of the 'Leaving Islam' bus sign...".
Excellent idea.
Look at the name of the reporter. 'George Anastasia'. Now *there's* a good Greek-American name if ever I saw one.
Mr Anastasia should have tut-tutted and sighed and smiled in a friendly manner, and then said, "well, Mr and Mrs Omar, services at the friendly family-oriented Greek Orthodox Church [insert Saint's Name, and location] are at such and such a time and we'd be delighted to see you and the kiddies.
"May as well be killed for a sheep as for a lamb...the Mohammedan Mob has disowned you anyway, they've probably got a hit squad ready to strike; so why not just apostasise altogether and be done with it?"
For George,
I think what you said is completely correct and true. The fact that
very large numbers of Muslim immigrants pose endless dangers for
Western Europe and US, create a very bad situation for infidels that
would not be there without them, to paraphrase our fiend Hugh, does
not mitigate the fact that this guy acted honorably and heroically and
showed more bravery than huge numbers of modern Americans who would
feel they should just keep quiet on dangers taking place even when
they don't risk losing their business and friends as this guy did.
To that end posters who say Omar is whining over nothing, I feel, are
being very mistaken. Yes, we want to see more Muslims question the
wonderfulness of their belief system and follow along the likes of Ibn
Warraq, Walid Shoebat, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and others, or at least be more
critical of it, but that does not change the severity of what this
particular immigrant is facing. He likely has not had access to the
works of Ibn Warraq and Ayaan Hirsi Ali or anyone else cited by JW, so
he has never been given an opportunity to see that losing his religion
was a blessing to him. He may well have been taught, likely in a
misguided fashion of course, that Islam is about doing the right thing
for humanity above all else, and now is seeing it in a different light
for the very first time. Instead of ripping on him or insisting he
deserves it, the solution would be to help people like Omar have
access to Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and of course Spencer himself so
he can first learn why he lost his community support for doing the
right thing. You should always ask youself what can you do before
attacking anyone else for being part of the problem, including
Muslims.
All this soul searching started way back at a Circuit City with the clerk wondering if he should tell someone about the Allahu Akbar chanting & machine gun fire on a customer's video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnyPBnNXLi0
The mother of the ringleader goes off, calling the informants 'the real criminals and killers who got alot of money from the government' and she thinks the government hates muslims.
Champ, dda etc: I agree. He still has his family ( I presume his wife is a non-Muslim American) and can start again, without Islam. He will feel bad for a while - betrayal is never nice - but once through that stage can freely explore new options without the miserable cult he misunderstood so badly. He is better off without the Mafia-like "brothers" scenario. All he really has to do now is get over the inbred Muslim sookiness and start living!
Just to clarify a couple of points:
I never saw it suggested in the story that this guy Omar expected any compensation or tried to cut a deal. The story does refer to him, however, as the prosecution's "star witness," cooperating with the FBI, to convict the bad-guys. I'm only asking if, under the circumstances, he deserves support of some kind
for doing what muslims almost NEVER do: respected our laws, told the truth, cooperated with our law-enforcement, saved (non-muslim) lives. And I'm suggesting that his portrayal in the story as being a destitute loser for doing just that looks like a win for the bad-guys. Cooperate with the kufr? Do the right thing? You have EVERYTHING to lose and NOTHING to gain!
Hey, that's just what I took from it--still hoping to be convinced otherwise...
Well that could happen. It might indeed be 1,000 times better than what would happen otherwise. But he would first have to learn about the truth of Political Islam first. How do we presume he knows anythign at all of the posters I mentioned above and/or has even gotten a chance to read what they write. The vast majority of both Muslims and Americans have not. Concerned citizens would have to make the effort to introduce him to them so he can either become a secular humanist or at least go in a mor eliberal direction and be more critical of political part of Islam, if being a full apostate is not realistic at first (and even for many who are apostates now, it wasn't). One should take initiative about things like this first before criticizing people like Omar for whatever they do from here.
Even if the writer didn't intend it, the story is a huge indictment of the Muslim community as a whole. One of their members turns in jihadists, and the Muslim community ostracizes him? If that's how the Muslim community is going to play it, then it's time for the government to start demanding accountability from the whole Muslim community about what they are doing to stop jihad and teach against it.
You are absolutely right. And for the first time I think I fully support an assessment made by George.
...I love the fact that he's desperately poor, living day to day, with two children...
...and he's chain smoking.
Always money for the smokes, eh?
Well that makes him even more of a true modern American, sad to say. Many Americans like to insist they are in poverty or are struggling to make ends meet while having money for cigarettes along with alcohol, flat screen tvs, Ipods and who knows what else. Sounds like this guy now a genuine American in more ways than one.
Benjamin and Maxwell, that IS pretty funny about the smokes! But this guy is a Pariah to muslims! Think he might be a bit nervous?
Like anytime he gets a knock at his door? I'll wager he's not accepting any "candygrams..."
The quandary for this guy is to live like a human being and step on the other side of the Islamic mirror into a land of the possibility of tasting true freedom or staying put and living a life where you have to constantly pretend to be something you aren't, you don't feel and don't really want to be. And when that world gets a little too scary the natural inclination would be to retreat to the safety of the familiar comfort of family and friends. This guy doesn't have this anymore to fall back on, and it's a biggie. No wonder this guy doesn't know which way is up.
On one hand though, this guy had to know from growing up under Islam that if he did the right thing Muslims would hate him for it. What an awful lot of denial there must be, in EVERY aspect of Islam. I think though, that being true to yourself would have a lot of merit and once you walk through the really hairy stuff, be a source of comfort. It certainly would be a building block, a place to start if you wanted to build a life of making your own decisions and valuing your own opinions and beliefs. Islam is only easy for those who are too lazy to get over their fear of what might happen and who sell their souls to save their asses. It's more like a disease than anything else.
Not to worry I just emailed the Philly chapter of Cair and informed them of this man plight. I'm sure they'll help a brother muslim out.
Holding my breath...............
With most staff in Arabic centres in western universities from Tariq Ramadan down to Granara and so on it is the money trail that shows the way. The Harvard web site article of Feb 27, 2009 reads: Granara will be traveling to Morocco in January to discuss next year’s funding for the program at Université Mohammed V ... he is confident that people both at Harvard and Mohammed V are interested in seeing the program continue. That's a sure bet.
I feel sorry for this man but he had to know that his fellow muslims would consider him a traitor and that their only interest is in themselves and their 'community'. No crime is too egregious for a muslim to rat out another muslim, at least not to the infidel authorities. Muslims, with their delusions of superiority, think that every conviction of a muslim terrorist or terrorist wannabe is a set-up borne of bigotry and 'racism'. Seems that the poor, pitiful, persecuted muslims would encourage their kin back home to stay away from the evil Great Satan due to the oppression and islamophobia muslims suffer here, but that doesn't stop them from coming, and coming, and coming.
This guy might not know it, but he has been freed from the shackles of islam and the tribal, archaic absurdity of islamic culture and society. He can move to another place, make new friends, get a new job, and experience true freedom for the first time in his life. He should take advantage of this blessing in disguise and start enjoying life. In a few years, he will wonder why he didn't escape the misery of islam years ago. This experience should also open his eyes to the evil of islam and the hypocrisy of muslims, most of whom cannot and will not ever be true, loyal Americans.
The guy should be offered help, possibly similar to the sort offered to anyone who is a witness against organized crime - new identity, new home state/town, some bucks until a job, and a new religion if he wants to escape some deranged 'person' tracing him and etc etc.
This man has really put himself in harmsway; the huge economic and social price he and his family are paying, which we should be helping him with, may the least of his worries.
The Philadelphia Inquirer article says that the Family was offered witness protection plan,but did not take it ;probably they did not anticipate that the WHOLE MUSLIM COMMUNITY would turn against them.They,too,apparently believed that there are moderates such as themselves amongst Muslims.This guy has his head and heart in the right place ,though a little skewed from his Egyptian/Islamic Background.He had got his American born wife convert to Islam,but does not believe in the other Nasty things Islam usually spews at its followers.No problem drinking/smoking,a Happy family man,who as far as we can read into the story has good peoples skills,,and treats his wife nicely.He was aghast by the beheadings and the things that one of the Five Muslim Jihadis were saying and believing.He probably did not know islam as much as he ought,due to his limited Intellectual capacity and Learning Disabilities,which probably saved him from being a full blown Submitter.{His son is showing problems with reading and he could not read English fluently either,according to his wife.} He had to give up his business to help FBI and in return was paid to cover the cost of investigations and living expenses. He also has a house mortgage,and was made to keep his rented apartment under FBI instructions,also.The whole Family was living for 13 months in a house that was wired,used a car that was wired,so hardly any privacy.This man's smoking problems could also be his way of coping with the stress.He and his family need Help big time,with counselling,help to get a job as any other person who has handicaps would need,even if one would ignore the Service he has done to your Society and Community.They are now regretting that it was their lot to tie the proverbial bell to the cat.Natural ,I suppose.Hope he gets help soon.
I think it would be very helpful if any arab apostate living in his area would get in touch with him and atleast talk to him.It would help him immensely.
Absolutely brilliant Hugh. I wish I could write and express myself as well as you do. You are an inspiration to us all.
Equality, Muslim style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTpQ8zojm4&feature=related
Shahid Malik, an interesting forename in itself, was a British Government Minister, a member of the British Labour Party and promoted well beyond his intellectual and moral remit. He was also an expenses cheat, sacked for outrageous and illegal claims, then slipped quietly back by that dhimmi and undemocratic Party.
Here he is talking to an Islamic audience quite openly at the Excell Centre in London.
One day we will have a Prime Minister who happens to share my faith (inshallah). One day maybe all our MP's will be Muslim (inshallah).
And on and on he drones.
What actually will it take for the World to understand? Here we have a man who is openly and not so codedly talking of an Islamic parliament and Britain dozes on in its slumber of it couldn't happen here.
I've got news it is happening and Malik is a foretaste of what happens when an inclusive society allows this bunch of predators to get the toes in the door.
There's not much 'inclusivity' about an all Muslim Parliament is there?
This situation is really not all that complicated...Turning in fellow Mahoundians to kufr...is the essence of haram...
That's not just haram, it's major haram...He has joined those warring with Allah...He has turned his back on Allah and Allah has turned his back on him...That's why I recommend apostasy...He should call the number on the bus ad, and get himself some direction and help...
Although some Muslims may feel a "sense of disempowerment and alienation" in societies where Democracy and human mandated law are obstructng the prophesied earthly realization of Islam, they shoud take heart that Far Liberals, et al, are ministering to their distress by fufilling the prophesy of the now -not so loony toon -who shouted from his ambulance that on that same day of the month when 3.000 were given up as an offering to Allah, a mosque (or 'fort'as Turkey's waiting in the EU wings Prime Minister recently decribed them) would be built only debris distance away from Ground Zero. It can only get better than this.
Let's hope that his 'mischief in the land' is not met with a more traditional measure.
What has happened to this Muslim man is what generally happens to whistleblowers, unfortunately.
Despite his lamentation over being excluded from his erstwhile community, he is a man who did the right thing and is therfore to be respected. i certainly sympathise with him. Of course he misses his community, no matter what it was/is based on, and we certainly can't blame him for that. His family will suffer along with him.
It is frightening to be isolated, and this man, even though he was part of a community composed of actual and potential jihadists, will feel loss for a long time, simply from the loss of the familiar and companionable.
Whistleblowers from the police forces, from criminal gangs, even from standard businesses have found themselves isolated and even threatened by former coworkers simply because they are percveived as having betrayed their tribe.
Whether this tribe is based on the identification of all belonging to one type of job (police, politician) or on the basis of ideology (Islam, Communist defector, cult escaper), the inevitable departure from the mores of the tribe will always cause some trauma as the shock of sudden separation hits.
We can be grateful to this man for having chosen to do the right thing while still despising the cult he used to live in and while knowing of the danger it poses to society.
I agree absolutely with you RS about the questions the FBI need to ask. But since they too have been infiltrated by Msulims, it is no wonder these questions are ignored.
If this is a "conflict of loyalties" not uncommon in the immigrant experience then we have been welcoming immigrants who should never have come here. This isn't New Mecca.
What I find distressing is the idea that this man might never have come forward had he known what awaited him. He says he "betrayed a brother". What about the rest of us? We don't count? It means he doesn't have the courage of his convictions. It means he can't be trusted to do the right thing again, that this was just a freak occurrence.
The reaction of the Muslim community only strengthens the argument that NO Muslims should be allowed to immigrate to the US. Their belief system is not only incompatible with human freedom, it is antithetical to the American way of life. If they want to spend their lives in submission they have a choice: go live in a Muslim country.
What about a witness protection program?
"It means he doesn't have the courage of his convictions. It means he can't be trusted to do the right thing again, that this was just a freak occurrence."
Excellent point, PMK! ...hear, hear.
He was probably describing what he thought are the motives of his fellow Muslims for his being ostracized and he is without a doubt correct. And if a Muslim, any Muslim, helps another who has eschewed Jihad how do you think he or she will be treated by others in the Muslim community? Jihad is immutable to Islam ergo to Muslims. What is incomprehensible is that he apparently felt his Muslim brothers would treat him with compassion and respect. When he appeared on the Sean Hannity show Hannity appeared to be taken aback at his harsh criticism of Islam and Islamic Jihadists. It evidently did not fit the expected narrative.
He must come to the realization that what he's done amounts to apostasy and he now joins the ranks of so many others who've cracked the mantle of ignorance and now live under the threat of death as required by Sharia law. There are many. He should seek them out. I suspect they can provide him with helpful guidance but not if he expects to return to the open arms of his "brothers."