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Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: The National Guardsman’s Jihad

Mar 24, 2014 3:45 pm By Robert Spencer

LAbomberIn PJ Lifestyle I examine a curious side-effect of some conversions to Islam: they make the convert hate their own country.

NBC Los Angeles reported Tuesday that “a California college student and National Guard enlistee was captured Monday after an FBI investigation revealed a foiled plot to attack the Los Angeles subway system and plans to help al-Qaida.”

What could possibly have transformed a National Guard enlistee into someone who plotted a mass murder attack in the Los Angeles subway system on New Year’s Eve? What could have changed in Nicholas Michael Teausant’s mind and heart to make him want to dedicate his life not to defending Americans, but to killing them?

The answer is simple: Islam. Nicholas Michael Teusant now prefers to be called Ased Abdur-Raheem, although that name did not appear in a single one of the mainstream media reports published about his arrest (I found it on his Facebook page). The universal practice of the mainstream media is to refer to converts to Islam by their Muslim names if they do good things and are revered, beloved figures (think Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), and by their infidel names if they do evil in the name of Islam (think Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, aka Mujaahid Abu Hamza and Ismail ibn Abdullah, the jihad murderers of British soldier Lee Rigby on a London street; John Walker Lindh, the Marin County mujahid, who is now known as Suleyman al-Faris in his prison cell, where he is doing time for joining up with the Taliban in Afghanistan, etc.).

Converts to Islam not only change their names. All too often, they effectively change their nationalities. When Mujaahid Abu Hamza and Ismail ibn Abdullah murdered Rigby, Abu Hamza, his hands red with Rigby’s blood and still holding a bloody cleaver, approached a television cameraman and calmly began explaining himself.

In the course of his explanation, Adebolajo invoked the Qur’an’s ninth chapter (Surat at-Tawba), which enjoins Muslims to make war against and subjugate Jews and Christians, declaring: “we are forced by the Qur’an, in Sura At-Tawba [its ninth chapter, ‘Repentance’], through many ayah [verses] in the Qur’an, we must fight them as they fight us.” He added: “I apologize that women had to witness this today but in our lands women have to see the same.”

“Them”? “Us”? “Our lands”? Abu Hamza’s parents were Nigerians who immigrated to England in the early 1980s. But he meant neither English nor Nigerian lands, of course; he converted to Islam around 2003, and that meant that in his mind he was no longer English, if he ever was. He understood his commitment to Islam to supersede everything else, demanding a loyalty above national allegiances and even ties of kith and kin. The Qur’an commands Muslims to “be good to parents” (17:22). However, this is only if they are Muslims, as the Qur’an also says: “O you who have believed, do not take your fathers or your brothers as allies if they have preferred disbelief over belief. And whoever does so among you, then it is those who are the wrongdoers” (9:23).

And so Mujaahid Abu Hamza committed murder on a street of the land where he grew up in defense of those he considered to be his only true kith and kin: Muslims worldwide.

Similarly, when Sergeant Hasan Akbar, an American engineer from the 101st Airborne Division, killed Captain Christopher Scott Seifert, Major Gregory Stone, and wounded fifteen others in a grenade and small-arms attack in northern Kuwait on March 22, 2003, he yelled: “You guys are coming into our countries, and you’re going to rape our women and kill our children.”

Our countries? Our women? Our children? Akbar was not Iraqi or Kuwaiti. He was an American, raised in Los Angeles. But when he became a Muslim, any allegiance he may have had to America was gone. Like Ased Abdur-Raheem and Mujaahid Abu Hamza, his allegiance lay solely with the umma, the global Muslim community….

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  1. RCCA says

    Mar 24, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    “No mosque in the U.S., Great Britain, or anywhere else in the West currently has any program in place to teach prospective and new converts to reject this understanding of Islam that the vast majority of Muslims in the West ostensibly reject.” RS

    Isn’t the vast majority of peaceful Muslim in the West a testament to the peaceful interpretation of Islam being taught in their mosques? Why would they need a special program to get that peaceful message?

    Even so, here’s the contact info of a leading imam in the Northern CA area, Imam Tahir Anwar, who is very involved in outreach. You might reach him to ask what he is doing specifically to counter jihad in his community. http://www.imamtahir.com/site/contact/

  2. Jerry says

    Mar 24, 2014 at 5:26 pm

    If he looked in the mirror he would have hated himself too.

  3. No Fear says

    Mar 24, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    Islam takes a devotee and proceeds to brainwash him so that the devotees country of origin (e.g. USA or Australia) is replaced with the ‘nation of Islam’ aka the ‘ummah’. Loyalty is to the ummah and the leader Mohammed. Countries don’t matter, only the ummah.

    Islam is a primitive form of tribal supremacism.

    The lowest scum of the ummah is higher in value than anyone not in the ummah.

    “You are the best of the nations raised up for (the benefit of) men; …” Quran 3:110

  4. No Fear says

    Mar 24, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    (additional comment) Such tribal supremacism is also found in many groups, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses who refuse to recognise any ‘earthly authorities’ and only follow God. The difference between the Witnesses and Mohammedans is obvious however because the Witnesses are all pacifists. I have never met a Witness who would use a gun. Having said that the Witnesses still have an eschatology of global destruction of all wicked people by God. At least they leave it to a supernatural being and do not pick up the weapons themselves, unlike , for example, some of the more enthused Mohammedans.

    Yes I was raised a JW…..a long time ago.

  5. Salah says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 2:11 am

    “they make the convert hate their own country.”

    I would rather say: Islam makes the convert HATE.
    He will hate his country, his family, his friends, his fellow muslims and even himself.
    That’s the ultimate goal of Islam, that’s the ultimate goal of Satan: HATE.

    Muhammad and Satan
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/10/muhammad-and-satan_24.html

    • EYESOPEN says

      Mar 25, 2014 at 11:16 am

      Very well put Salah. – and cuts right to the heart (no pun intended) of the matter.

  6. MikeRyan says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    I feel sorry for this young man’s family for the humiliation he has brought upon them. The fact is, there are problably more just like him amongst us.
    He is a perfect example of the poisoned fruits of moral and ethical relativism.

  7. Gee says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    Nicholas Teausant, is not an enlistee in the National Guard. He attempted to join, but failed because of his stupidity.

    Stating that he is a member is kind of like stating somebody that volunteers for the local fire department and being rejected a fireman.

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