Probably this American went to Yemen to study Islam, and ended up getting involved in jihad warfare. Yet the U.S. Government's official position is that jihad warfare has nothing to do with Islam, and that it is offensive to suggest otherwise.
It's sheer madness. We are ruled by madmen.
"Weeks of clashes in north Yemen kill 200," by Ahmed al-Haj for the Associated Press, December 21 (thanks to Wimpy):
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Nearly 200 people, among them 15 foreigners, have been killed in clashes over the past few weeks between an ultraconservative Islamist group and former Shiite rebels in northern Yemen, a military official and the leader of the Islamist faction said Wednesday. In Moscow, Russia's Foreign Minister said four Russian citizens were among those killed.The tension between the Salafi Islamists, who are Sunni, and the former Hawthi rebels, who are Shiite, escalated just as Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed in late November a U.S.-backed proposal crafted by powerful Gulf Arab neighbors, under which he transfers power to his vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution. He agreed to step down after a 10-month uprising against his 33-year authoritarian rule....
Salafi spokesman Surour al-Wadee said 71 Salafi fighters, among them an American and French, Russian, Algerian, Malaysian, Somalian, and Libyan citizens, have been killed in the clashes. A Yemeni military officials said more than 120 Hawthis have been killed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Many of the foreigners were studying in the Salafi Dar al-Hadith school in Saada, which has attracted students from around the world. It was set up more than 20 years ago as a learning center to counter Shiite Islam in the area. Its funds often flow from Yemen's neighbor to the north, Saudi Arabia.
What? Salafis studying in an Islamic school? But don't the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims take them aside and explain to them how they're getting Islam all wrong?
Salafism is a particularly hardline branch of Islam. Some Salafis follow a militant ideology similar to al-Qaida's, but the terror network operates separately. Salafi preachers in Saada have used the pulpit to argue that the killing of Hawthi Shiites is an Islamic duty.During Yemen's uprising, security has unraveled and al-Qaida and other Islamist militants have tried to exploit the vacuum to gain a firmer foothold in the impoverished country. The al-Qaida branch in Yemen is one of the most active in the world.
In the months leading up to Saleh's signing of the agreement to give up power, security forces appeared to have turned a blind eye to Salafis arming themselves and amassing in greater numbers in Saada province. The Saudi government pressures Saleh to step down as of the group of Gulf states that formulated the plan for him to go.
On Tuesday, the Hawthis and Salafis agreed to a cease-fire brokered by opposition tribesmen, politicians and religious figures. It collapsed less than 24 hours later in part of Saada. According to al-Wadee, eight Hawthis and two Salafi fighters were killed on Wednesday.
Al-Qaida fighters have not attempted a cease-fire with Hawthi Shiites. Instead, leading al-Qaida figures in Yemen have reportedly called on fighters in recent weeks to fight the Shiites.
Russia tracks its citizens who travel abroad for training in Muslim seminaries. The Russian Embassy in Yemen counted 36 Russian citizens living in Saada — students at Dar al-Hadith school for Islamic studies and their families....
Tired of widespread poverty and a government perceived as corrupt and abusive, many Muslims from the Caucasus have traveled to the Middle East and South Asia to study with radical Islamic leaders who challenge the Kremlin-backed Muslim clerics at home.
Study after study has shown that poverty doesn't cause terrorism, but AP will never admit that. And why should they? Just look at all the Haitian suicide bombers!
In 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Russia's Muslim leaders to join forces in an effort to keep young Muslims in Russia and quell recruitment by extremist groups abroad. In May, Alexander Khloponin, Medvedev's envoy to the Caucaus region, said authorities were planning to closely monitor young people who go abroad to study Islam.
Obama better take Medvedev aside and have a word with him: it looks as if he is on the verge of committing "Islamophobia."
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Seems the Russians, are as dumb and wishfull thinking as our own appeasement government, thinking they can control or buy off, the muslims-alias satan. You don't control satan-muslims, period. They are not gentlemen in suits. Not ever.
One thing I don't understand, is why these dim bulbs from various places, would go to such places to learn? They could learn more on the web, far more. For ill or good.
Maybe they are so habituated, so insecure in themselves and their capabilities, to being told by a teacher, as an excuse for learning, instead of seeking on their own, they are still in the brainwashed trance that the only way to learn is to be told or talked to by a human figure, as in the college/university model, instead of seeking, researching and learning from multiple sources of learning. Or maybe it's just plain lazyness, probably.
Whatever the answer, sounds like some deserving souls met their fates in an appropriate manner, self jihad against each other. Best way for little satans to destroy themselves, trouble is when they decide to nuke each other, it'll still be big problems for the rest of the world.
Trouble is the rest of the world can't quite look ahead to see the costly consequences of inaction, that they become allies in progress, and put an end to the thuggee's gang of nazi-islam, once and for all.