Non-Muslims know well that only greasy Islamophobes believe that Islam is anything but a Religion of Peace. Yet somehow a steady stream of converts to the religion keep misunderstanding it as enjoining them to wage war against infidels. Yet nary a single Islamic organization in the U.S., Canada or Europe has a program to prevent converts and other young Muslims from misunderstanding Islam in this way.
"The Canadian who converted to jihad: Boxer turned militant killed in Dagestan," by Stewart Bell in the National Post, August 20 (thanks to all who sent this in):
In the video he shot inside his hut in the mountains of Dagestan last winter, William Plotnikov narrated as he panned from the black flag of jihad to three bearded rebels and their assault rifles.Then he turned the camera on himself.
“I ask Allah that the next season he’ll give us the opportunity to kill as many kafirs [non-believers] as we can, just to shred them to pieces,” William said. “Allah is almighty.”
Watching the clip on the computer in his apartment north of Toronto last week, Vitaly Plotnikov looked both heartbroken and perplexed. It was hard for him to accept that this was his son.
“It’s just like a different person to me,” he said.
Russian security forces announced last month that they had killed William, a 23-year-old Canadian, during a gun battle in Dagestan. Since then, the Canadian government has been trying to verify the Russians’ account.
But in an interview with the National Post, Mr. Plotnikov confirmed William’s death and spoke for the first time about his son’s rapid transformation from Toronto teenager and champion boxer to Muslim convert and jihadist fighter.
What seemed to amaze Mr. Plotnikov most was how fast it all happened. His son only became interested in Islam in 2009, he said. Within a year, he had left Canada and by July he was dead. He had gone from convert to martyr in less than three years.
He is not the first radicalized Canadian to die under such circumstances, but he is believed to be the first Canadian convert to die fighting in the name of jihad— all the others having been born into their faith. His father said William became so radicalized he did not even consider the other Muslims he met to be true Muslims. He claimed that Canada and the U.S. were a source of evil for Muslims.
“How can the mind of a person be changed in such a short period of time?” Mr. Plotnikov asked inside the York Region apartment where he keeps William’s boxing medals in a copper trophy on a shelf....
How indeed? Intelligence and law enforcement officials are forbidden to investigate the true answer to that question, so they stumble along in the dark, muttering about how poverty causes terrorism. The consequences of this -- a catastrophic jihad attack that they were prevented from heading off by politically correct willful blindness about Islam -- have already come to pass at Fort Hood, and will again.
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One thing is for certain: As a parent, Vitaly Plotnikov is a failure. Shame on him for not stopping his degenerate son from becoming a Muslim. The moment that he heard his son utter the word "Islam," he should have turned the world upside down and inside out to make that POS understand right from wrong. It's one thing to be born into the filth that is Islam; it's another as a matter of choice. I have only four-letter words for his and his son's kind, and no shame to admit it.
“How can the mind of a person be changed in such a short period of time?” Mr. Plotnikov asked inside the York Region apartment where he keeps William’s boxing medals in a copper trophy on a shelf....
When one is destitute of a normal mental state, very easily--and that's not an excuse. Vitaly should collect everything that reminds him of his POS son and dump the heap in the incinerator--just get rid of any trace of his existence.
In any case, screw him and his son.
Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.