How is it that this convert to Islam wasn’t taught all the true, peaceful, tolerant teachings of Islam that Barack Obama and so many others assume are there?
“Muslim convert Andrew Ibrahim made explosives and suicide bomb vest,” by Sean O”Neill for the Times Online, June 4 (thanks to Axel):
A Muslim convert made high explosives and a suicide vest with the intention of blowing himself up in a terrorist attack, a court was told today.
Andrew Ibrahim, 20, a sixth-form student from Bristol, converted to Islam in 2006 and became increasingly radicalised during 2007 before attempting to build his suicide bomb in early 2008.
He changed his first name by deed poll to Isa and became increasingly fascinated by the July 7 bombings in London, the teachings and preachings of the jailed cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and the ideology of al-Qaeda.
When police raided his flat in the suburb of Westbury-on-Trym in April last year, they found high explosives in a biscuit tin in the fridge, a detonator under the kitchen sink and the suicide vest, fitted with pockets to carry the bombs, hanging on the bedroom door….
Around Christmas 2007, Ibrahim is said to have told one classmate of his admiration for Abu Hamza while expressing forthright anti-American views and praising suicide attacks. A student in his chemistry class was told that the Pentagon should be bombed and that nuclear weapons were “cool”. He asked a visiting biology lecturer which bacteria were best for killing people.
At the same time Ibrahim began intensive internet research into radical Islam, which escalated over the next few months into learning online how to manufacture explosives….