My baby cheated on me, so I plotted to blow up the Fed
Many people of all creeds, including Muslims, may become more religious in times of personal crisis. Muslims who do so may, in an effort to cleanse their souls and please Allah, begin to pay attention they never paid before to the texts and teachings of Islam that mandate warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers. So it is entirely possible that Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis’s girlfriend troubles pushed him toward jihad.
“Terrorist blames murderous NY plot at Federal Reserve Building on childhood stammer and unfaithful girlfriend,” by Selim Algar for the New York Post, August 8 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A Bangladeshi man who schemed to detonate a 9,000-pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Building in lower Manhattan last year blamed his murderous plot on a childhood stammer and an unfaithful girlfriend, court documents state.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was arrested last October after he worked with undercover agents posing as terrorists to level the structure. He is slated to be sentenced in Brooklyn federal court tomorrow.
Nafis wrote a remorseful letter explaining the roots of his violent plans before explaining that he has come to love the United States “” right down to the film “American Pie.”
He even lavished praise on the Metropolitan Detention Center, where he enjoyed “delicious food” and kind prison guards.
Nafis “” who faces life in prison “” said that a pronounced stutter turned him into a loner during his life in Bangladesh and made him vulnerable to impressive-sounding jihadists.
He also claimed to the court that his downward spiral accelerated after he learned that a girl he loved in Bangladesh was cheating on him.
The betrayal propelled Nafis into suicidal thoughts, he wrote. But he stated that Islam prohibited that step and that he figured that a violent plot would be a better way to go.
The would-be bomber, busted Oct. 17, 2012, the day of the planned blast, said he re-examined his religion in jail and has rejected radical Islam.
“Truly, after being in prison, my viewpoint toward America has really changed,” he said. “Your honor, I love Americans.”