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UK: Muslim accepted to study medicine goes to Iraq to wage jihad

Jun 21, 2014 9:32 pm By Robert Spencer

nasser_mutanahHere is yet more indication that the idea that poverty causes terrorism, albeit universally accepted, is a myth. The Economist reported back in December 2010:

The ranks of high-profile terrorism suspects also boast plenty of middle-class, well-educated people. The would-be Times Square bomber, Faisal Shehzad, boasts an MBA and is the son of a senior Pakistani air-force officer. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who stands accused of lighting a makeshift bomb on a transatlantic flight in the so-called ‘underwear plot’, had a degree from University College, London, and is the son of a rich Nigerian banker. The suspected suicide-bomber in this week’s attacks in Stockholm had a degree from a British university.
And indeed, “social scientists have collected a large amount of data on the socioeconomic background of terrorists. According to a 2008 survey of such studies by Alan Krueger of Princeton University, they have found little evidence that the typical terrorist is unusually poor or badly schooled.” Likewise Risk factors for violent radicalization: youth, wealth and education, “new research from Queen Mary University of London has found youth, wealth, and being in full-time education to be risk factors associated with violent radicalization.” And a Danish study in May 2014 found that “radicalized young Muslims are often what one would consider well-integrated: They are better educated than average and also perform better economically and socially, and will therefore be largely able to maintain a double life.”

“Appeal for holy war by ‘happy’ son on his way to being a doctor,” by Claire Duffin, the Telegraph, June 21, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Sitting crossed-legged next to two men holding automatic weapons, Nasser Muthana looks directly into the camera as he urges his fellow Britons to join him in a Holy war.

He is almost 2,500 miles from home and a world away from the “happy” domestic life in which he had grown up in Cardiff.

His parents had hoped their “clever” son would become a doctor, having been accepted to study medicine at university.

But he disappeared in November, travelling first to Turkey and then on to Syria, where he resurfaced yesterday in a chilling recruitment video for jihadists.

In the video, released as part of a propaganda campaign by The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis), Muthana chants in Arabic before speaking in an unmistakably British accent.

“Oh you who believe, answer the call of Allah and his messenger when he calls you… what gives you life is jihad”, he says.

A caption on the film – believed to have been recorded several weeks ago in Syria – refers to Muthana by his Muslim name, Brother Abu Muthanna al Yemeni.

Last night he was identified by his father Ahmed, as the son he last saw seven months ago. With the 20 year-old is his younger brother, Aseel, 17, who followed his elder sibling to Syria.

Mr Muthana, 57, told of his devastation. He said he believed the pair – who as children enjoyed swimming and football and supported Manchester United and Arsenal – had been “brainwashed” in the UK.

He questioned why his “very clever” son had chosen to fight in Syria for Isis.

Born in Cardiff, Nasser attended Cathays High School in the city – where, aged fourteen, he was a school councillor.

Fluent in Arabic by the time he was 16, he achieved nine As, two of them starred, and two Bs at GCSE.

After completing his A Levels he applied to study medicine at four universities, being accepted by all of them but vanished at the end of last year.

His younger brother was studying for his A-Levels at Fitzalan High School in Cardiff when he went missing in February. Police told Mr Muthana he had travelled to Cyprus.

Speaking from his Cardiff home last night, Mr Muthana, who is originally from Aden in Yemen, said: “The eldest is clever, very clever. I don’t know which universities he had applied for – he got letters from four of them but he did not take it. The youngest wanted to be an English teacher.

“To be honest, they were very, very happy, I don’t know what has turned around. I wish to find out.

“We were informed a few weeks back that he was in Turkey. We heard about the video today. These are not his views, somebody else’s views, I think he has been brainwashed in the UK, but I don’t know. He attended Al Manar mosque in Cardiff.

“He was going to be a doctor, he applied to university and got accepted by four but didn’t go – he’s just finished. I didn’t know anything, I don’t know why. The last time I spoke to him was in November.”

He added: “Of course I fear he will be injured or die fighting but I can do nothing.”

Mr Muthana, who has two other sons, aged 22 and 10, said: “They are conservative Muslim, the respected, they don’t have girlfriends, they don’t talk to girls. Of course they were influenced in the UK but to be honest I don’t know. In the mosque, the people of the mosque won’t tell me anything.

“Who will encourage them, someone on the street? No, it has to be the mosque, but which mosque, I don’t know. They also spend a lot of time on their computer.”

In the video, Nasser, who wears a white scarf on his head, boasts of the “brothers” who have already joined him on the Holy war. Two other men who claim to be British – along with two Australians – also feature in the film, entitled: There is no life without Jihad.

It was released on the day Isis launched a global internet campaign, asking Muslims to post messages of support “to support the Islamic State” on social media.

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  1. MikeR says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    Muslims have hated the rest of us (infidels) since Muhammed was alive. They are not going to allow us to live in peace. We have to kill them before they kill us.

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 22, 2014 at 4:07 am

      But–but–but MikeR– the Muslims you refer to are NOT REAL MUSLIMS.
      99.9% of Muslims are ” moderate” “peaceful” and LOVE YOU.
      In the immortal words of that legend in his own mind, David Cameron, Muslims have made an outstanding contribution to Britain.
      There you go—don´t you feel better already ????

      • MikeR says

        Jun 22, 2014 at 8:14 am

        To paraphrase the great twentieth century philosopher Dan Aykroyd, “David, you ignorant twit.”

  2. No Fear says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 9:55 pm

    The swine !

    May Marduk, king of heaven and earth, fill his body with dropsy, which has a grip that can never be loosened.

  3. Beth says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 10:49 pm

    Teachings are what cause people to commit crimes. This fact does not require a team of scholars to figure out.

  4. Saleem Smith says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    This educated “Slave of Allah” is simply obeying the laws of his Islamic god he finds written in the Qur’an and Muhammad’s Sunnah.

    Nasser is most certainly enjoying all of the killing taking place around him as he and his Muslim buddies establish Sharia law in the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” and kill off all of those unbelieving infidels and Muslims deemed “not Islamic enough.”

    We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Islamic theology is a complete fraud that needs to be completely abandoned.

    Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:

    “One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…

    The statement continues,

    Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified. ”

    http://www.faithfreedom.org/

  5. Saleem Smith says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    Muslims killing for Islam and Sharia in the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” understand the various texts and teachings of their Islamic religion perfectly unfortunately.

  6. sidney penny says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 11:18 pm

    “Mr Muthana, who has two other sons, aged 22 and 10, said: “They are conservative Muslim, the respected, they don’t have girlfriends, they don’t talk to girls. Of course they were influenced in the UK but to be honest I don’t know. In the mosque, the people of the mosque won’t tell me anything.

    “Who will encourage them, someone on the street? No, it has to be the mosque, but which mosque, I don’t know. They also spend a lot of time on their computer.””

    Anyone notice the operative word here?

    No it is not “mosque”

    I am surprised that Robert did not pick this up?

    I know that the article was about “poverty causes terrorism”

  7. Jay Boo says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 12:18 am

    The bearded vulture can soar as nearly high as the highest mountains of the world.
    But, like all vultures it must eventually come down for the bearded vulture is not God, it only imagines that it is while its feet are not on the ground.
    Whenever it feeds it is reminded of its lowly status.

  8. bicky says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 4:15 am

    Theses savages were indoctrinated in ” original islam” by none other than their father, now he is acting clueless.Deport the father along with the sons.

  9. Hermit says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 7:14 am

    What would have happened if he had bcome a doctor and retained his jihadi temprement in secret. Would he have carried out his Hippocratic Oath that is historically taken by physicians and other healthcare professionals swearing to practice medicine honestly?

    Would he have secretly discriminated against non-Muslim patients, maybe even denied vital help to Jewish and Hindu patients without anyone suspecting anything – because we can’t not trust our doctors. No?

    More importantly, how many Muslim doctors, professionals, soldiers, teachers are already there who are harbouring these jihadi tendencies and carrying out their jihad on the quite, on the stealth?

    I mean they don’t have to blow everyone to smithereens, Jihadis can advance the cause of Islam in whichever way they fit, just as long as Islam in advanced and its enemies are discredited, discriminated against, harassed, insulted and generally their life is made a little uncomfortable, thats what counts, right?

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 22, 2014 at 7:35 am

      Of course, your right—100% right. The Muslim mind set is fixed in those halls of love and peace. AKA Mosques and Madrassas. Regardless of what cloak a Muslim wears for the benefit of a Western Dhimmni , scratch the skin and out pops the Muslim.
      The only “good” Muslims are those that have walked away from the filth of Islam and becoming ex-Muslims.

    • duh_swami says

      Jun 22, 2014 at 7:38 am

      I mean they don’t have to blow everyone to smithereens

      Terrorism is a tactic advocated by Allah and practiced by Mahound.
      Violence is not only called for, it is mandatory. Explosives are just the choice of weapons at the moment. At another moment, knives and swords will work.

    • Semeru says

      Jun 22, 2014 at 11:08 am

      Nothing new about jihadi doctors

      There was that bunch of well-heeled jihadi doctors from around the world that was implicated in the 2007 London/Glasgow bombings. At least one of the convicted terror MDs worked for Britain’s National Health Service.

      Then lets not forget Ayman al-Zawahiri, a surgeon from a family of doctors, was raised in the Muslim Brotherhood, was helmed the murderous Islamic Jihad, and masterminded myriad al-Qaeda plots before succeeding Osama bin Laden this summer.

      Former Hamas leader Abdel Rantissi, bent on wiping out the children of Israel, was a pediatrician.

      Convicted al-Qaeda scientist Aafia Siddiqui studied microbiology at MIT and did graduate work in neurology at Brandeis.

       Rafiq Abdus Sabir was a Columbia University grad who served as an emergency-room physician in Boca Raton, Fla., before his terrorism conviction in 2007 for agreeing to provide medical aid and treatment to wounded al-Qaeda fighters so they could return to Iraq to kill American soldiers.

       Rafil Dhafir, an Iraqi-born oncologist, practiced in New York before being convicted in 2004 on 59 criminal counts related to violating Iraqi sanctions and committing large-scale medical-charity fraud.

  10. eib says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 8:31 am

    Quote:
    The ranks of high-profile terrorism suspects also boast plenty of middle-class, well-educated people.
    end

    Hillary Clinton’s friends!
    Her constituency.
    Her clients.
    And never let her forget it.

  11. tpellow says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 10:45 am

    “A lethal new class of British jihadi: Second fanatic in ISIS recruitment video went to same Cardiff college as the first and once dreamed of becoming prime minister. Now he says: ‘Muslims who don’t join us will die a painful death'”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664668/A-lethal-new-class-British-jihadi-Second-fanatic-ISIS-recruitment-video-went-Cardiff-school-dreamed-prime-minister-Now-says-Muslims-dont-join-die-painful-death.html#ixzz35NZyBaVJ

    • Salah says

      Jun 22, 2014 at 1:13 pm

      ‘Muslims who don’t join us will die a painful death’

      …they will also get to enjoy a special after-death experience!!!

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/08/torments-of-grave.html

  12. Champ says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    UK: Muslim accepted to study medicine goes to Iraq to wage jihad

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    islam: the religion of warmongering and bloodshed

  13. ApolloSpeaks says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 8:52 pm

    ALLAH IS THE GREATEST OF HEALERS

    and Islam is the cure for all of humanity’s manifold ills.

    Meaning that this Moslem doctor made a smart career move. /sarc

  14. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 28, 2014 at 8:09 am

    The opportunities for a Muslim of malign intent, once qualified as a doctor – or pathologist, or pharmacist, or radiographer, or nurse, or theatre nurse – and embedded within the health care system (whether private *or* public) of *any* mostly-Non-Muslim nation, to cause harm – great harm – in all sorts of sneaky and nasty ways (beginning with, say, deliberate sloppiness in infection control measures) to vulnerable infidels, are virtually endless.

    It’s just as well this creep got impatient and decided to go wage Jihad in Syria, instead.

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