Check out the highlights of “Just a Muslim Man Looking for answers in a Lost world,” the blog of Ased Abdur-Raheem, in my PJ Lifestyle piece today.

“War is deceit,” said Muhammad, and Ased Abdur-Raheem, the would-be jihad terrorist about whom I wrote last week, took his words to heart. Formerly (and currently in the mainstream media, ever anxious to protect the image of Islam) known as Nicholas Teausant, Abdur-Raheem, 20, was a member of the Army National Guard who called for respect for the military uniform just three days before he was arrested. This was almost a year after he wrote on Instagram:
don’t get me wrong I despise america and want its down fall but yeah haha. Lol I been a part of the army for two years now and I would love to join Allah’s army but I don’t even know how to start.
But he wasn’t always so deceitful. Last January, Abdur-Raheem kept a blog for twenty days, consisting of all of six posts, entitled “Just a Muslim Man Looking for answers in a Lost world.” It is refreshingly honest and direct, containing a wealth of information that the earnest young convert wanted you to know about Islam. Some of the highlights:
…2. “i took the Shahaddah for numerous reasons one of which was because i read a book called ‘Misquoting Jesus’ written by Bart D. Ehrman.”
The “Shahaddah” is the Islamic profession of faith: “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.” For decades now, Islamic apologists have made skillful use of books purporting to debunk and deconstruct the Christian understanding of Jesus Christ, such as Ehrman’s and those of other liberal scholars, to promote Islam to confused young Christians.
The churches (Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant) for their part generally either embrace such scholarship and disdain traditional Christianity, or ignore such explorations altogether – in both cases leaving their young people utterly unequipped to deal with challenges from Muslim apologists. First and foremost among such challenges is the simple question: If what the New Testament teaches about Jesus is not true, why remain in your church? Why, indeed. As a result of the churches’ general refusal to engage Islam (or anything else) on intellectual, rational grounds, in part because of a post-modern embarrassment with the idea that anything at all is true or false, young Christians like Nicholas Teausant are turning to the mosque – where they get all the answers they’re seeking, and have no way to discern whether what they’re being told is accurate or not.
This is paradoxical: young people are leaving the faith that tells believers that they should “always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (I Peter 3:15) for the one that tells them “do not ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you….A people asked such questions before you; then they became thereby disbelievers” (Qur’an 5:101-102).
If all too many of the new converts did not, like Teausant/Abdur-Raheem, conclude that their new religion commanded them to become an enemy of their country and its people, this indifference to Islamic proselytizing might not be of any concern; but Abdur-Raheem is by no means the only one.
1. “I promote Jihad, Not terrorism and yes there is a difference.”
Abdur-Raheem no doubt thought he was engaging in jihad, not terrorism, when he attempted to join al Qaeda in Syria and plotted to blow up the Los Angeles subways (such as they are). “Terrorism”? For a true believer like Abdur-Raheem, that’s what the Israelis do in Gaza and the Americans do in Afghanistan. Muslims waging jihad are not engaged in “terrorism,” in this view; they’re engaged in a work for justice.
The “justice” envisioned in Islamic law institutionalizes discrimination against women and non-Muslims, denies the freedom of speech, and mandates death for those who leave Islam. That’s why the adults around Nicholas Teausant when he began considering converting to Islam should have made an effort to try to dissuade him. But that, of course, would have been “Islamophobic.”
There is more here.
Jay Boo says
NEW CONVERT GUIDE
(How to pray in Arabic) …
Cup Hands and — Make big bunny ears
carry the baby
bow
Make big ears
kneel & kiss the floor
sit like a geisha girl
kneel & kiss the floor
stand carry the baby
bow
Make big ears
kneel & kiss the floor
sit like a geisha girl
All the while, mumble and lip-sync if you forget the words
REPEAT the above or just skip right to the end if no one is watching
If all else fails to impress
wipe your face with one hand at a time
just like Curly on the ‘Three Stooges’ and say Yuk Yuk Yuk
with a pious expression on your face,
Brit says
Ya gotta love the ones that scrub shit on their foreheads to make that messed-up callous, so they look “pious.”
Their whole religion is based on BS.
Screw allah, the pig-cock sucker, and moe hammid too – Pig’s Blood Upon Him.
Jay Boo says
“Now look at me and watch me mumble & pray.
Let’s see this verse then that gesture then …
Hey! You are not looking, I said watch me.
Here I go now. Are you watching?
I said here I go now.
Hey! Are you paying attention?”
That is not fair. No one is watching.
MOMMY!
CAIR, NPR, BBC
Please make them watch me.
Islam is not about Allah
Islam is about the inflated ego
Mirren10 says
” … young Christians like Nicholas Teausant are turning to the mosque … ”
Just curious; where does he say he was a Christian ?
mariam rove says
I guess by birth one could assume. That said he looks like a lost soul with no direction in life thus the perfect candidate to become a muslim jihadist. M
kikorikid says
Insightful, very much like the teenagers in the 70’s
who were taken and “Brainwashed” by “The Children of God”.
mariam rove says
Also the adage : hollyer that thou is perfect here. Converts to Islam are a lot more radical/jihadists than born and bred muslims. M
Richard Parmene says
Now, now, Mr Spencer, this is no reason to vilify Ehrman’s book. His book is a scholarly study of Christian texts, just as your books on Muhammad and Islam are scholarly studies of Muslim texts. It’s not his fault if someone is confused by it. You know very well that the texts of the gospels have been tampered with (sometimes intentionally, sometimes not) by early christian monks and scribes and that these documents cannot be taken literally as God-given truths just as the Quhran isn’t the unfailing word of Allah true to the original that’s kept in heaven.
Mirren10 says
”Now, now, Mr Spencer, this is no reason to vilify Ehrman’s book. ”
Vilify : to make vicious and defamatory statements about.
Mr Spencer:
”For decades now, Islamic apologists have made skillful use of books purporting to debunk and deconstruct the Christian understanding of Jesus Christ, such as Ehrman’s and those of other liberal scholars, to promote Islam to confused young Christians”
Do people like you actually have any understanding of what words **mean** ?
Clearly not. You just humptydumpty them.
Robert’s comment about Ehrman’s book was in **no way** a ‘vilification’.
You are clearly an illiterate idiot.
Bezelel says
The word “wicked” comes from the same root as “wicker” as in baskets etc…
Noted the wickered products start with reasonably straight pliable material and then “twist” it to suit their purpose. The best way to spot counterfeits is to know the original in detail.
Richard Parmene says
I think that “purporting to debunk and deconstruct the Christian understanding of Jesus Christ” is not exactly a compliment. Or is it ?
Mirren10 says
”I think that “purporting to debunk and deconstruct the Christian understanding of Jesus Christ” is not exactly a compliment.”
So, according to you, *criticism* should be ‘complimentary’ ?
Bezelel says
Attempts to debunk and deconstruct the Gospel, compliment or not it comes from an agenda based on the opposite, or so it seems.
Considering the purpose of the Gospel is to elevate humanity, what good can come from the opposite?
QuoVadis says
So what if Bart Ehrman caused this guy to convert to Islam. If Bart Ehrman can keep meat heads like Teausant from enjoying the Kingdom of God then more power to him.
Dennis Trisker says
I am an avid reader and supporter of Jihad Watch and Pamela G. I am also a progressive and liberal, an agnostic and hopefully a free thinker. I have lived in Israel, India, Egypt, Iran, Buddhist countries as well as Catholic countries. Having said that I am not against Islam, but against Islamic incursions into the West without respecting the cultural base of such cultures. It is not wrong for scholars to “debunk ” any religion. No one forces people to read their books. It is not professors which leave American youth defenseless to stand up to Islam. It is the educational system, the churches and the parents who teach the children what to think, not how to think. If young people convert to Islam it is because of this. Young people in Muslim countries want to leave Islam but find the example of Christians to be similarly hypocritical and unthinking. Fortunately there are other alternatives .
Bezelel says
Hypocrisy? muslim hypocrisy means a non-jihadist
Christian hypocrisy means you didn’t forgive someone.
Is that simple enough for you?