Here yet again we see the direct connection: a secular Muslim becomes devout and then turns to violent jihad. Does this mean that every devout Muslim will become a violent jihadist? Of course not. But despite attempts to deny and obscure this, every violent jihadist is a devout Muslim. Bland assurances that jihad terror doesn’t have anything to do with Islam don’t do a thing to address or remedy this fact.
“The boy from Kosovo who grew up to be a suicide bomber,” by Linda Pressly, BBC, October 7, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
In Kosovo it used to be the case that families were culturally Muslim, but rarely devout believers. Recently though some young people have become radicalised. Up to 200 are thought to be fighting in Syria and Iraq causing heartbreak for those left behind.
“In these pictures of him as a little boy, his eyes are so innocent.”
Arieta is leafing through a pile of photos of her younger brother, Blerim Heta. She does this every day, and cries a little.
“My brother had a wonderful life. He had money. He didn’t have a Mercedes, he had an Opel, but we were a happy family. And I can’t understand why he did that.”
Blerim was 24 when he left Kosovo on 7 August 2013, without a word to his family. Two days later Arieta got a text – he said he was in Turkey. She didn’t worry, because after becoming a devout Muslim, he often travelled to hear different imams preach. Then she called his number and a message flashed up on her screen – “Welcome to Syria.”
When Arieta talked to Blerim on Skype, he denied he was in Syria – he insisted he was in Turkey, learning Arabic and looking for a wife who wore the hijab. Arieta wanted to believe him, but then her mother found a postcard Blerim had written and left in his bedroom.
“It was a goodbye postcard. He had written that he was on a journey and that he wouldn’t come back,” Arieta says.
Like many Kosovans, her family identifies culturally as Muslim, but was never religious. Then Blerim started going regularly to the mosque. He began travelling to Macedonia across the border, and to mosques in other Kosovan towns….
In his last three months in Kosovo, Blerim Heta changed. He grew a beard. He wore his trousers shorter, like some Muslim men in the Middle East. And he watched a lot of YouTube videos of imams preaching. Then he was gone.
“He wore his trousers shorter, like some Muslim men in the Middle East.” This is not confined to Muslim men in the Middle East. It is true of many devout Muslim men everywhere, because a hadith has Muhammad saying, “The part of an Izar which hangs below the ankles is in the Fire” (Bukhari 7.72.678)
Eventually, on Skype, Blerim Heta confessed to Arieta that he was, indeed, in Syria.
“He told me he’s fighting for his religion and that other people are bad. He said he wanted to die for Allah, and that it would be a great pleasure for him. I started to cry and scream and say to him what kind of religion do you have to kill people, to kill yourself? And he said if you speak to me like that, I will never call you again.”
“I started to cry and scream and say to him what kind of religion do you have to kill people, to kill yourself?” This kind: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)
Arieta did not tell the family that Blerim was in Syria – she did not want to alarm them, and part of her still believed he would come home….
The authorities think 200 Kosovans may be fighting with militant groups in Syria and Iraq. “We know there are quite a large number of Albanian families over there with the wife and children too,” Saud says.He believes often Kosovans with extended family in Syria, remain silent. There is a stigma now in Kosovo at being associated with radical Islam. And there is also fear: Perhaps you could lose your job if it is known your son has gone to join IS militants?
About 70 people have been detained by police in connection with investigations into Islamic extremism as Kosovan authorities become increasingly alarmed….
Erion’s family were all aware his father was becoming more religious. But it was only after her son’s disappearance that Pranvera told them her husband asked her to wear a hijab, and talked about going to Syria….
On 24 March this year, Blerim called his family in Kosovo.”I asked him – are you coming home? Mama wants to see you and she’s very sad,” remembers Arieta. “He said to me, ‘You don’t know what you are doing, you people. Only Islam is the right thing.’ And he said, ‘Maybe today or tomorrow I will meet Allah.’ Then he talked to my mother and he said, ‘Just forgive me… Forgive me all I’ve done?”
On 25 March Arieta’s brother killed himself and 52 Iraqis in a suicide bombing.
Arieta struggles to comprehend how and why her brother changed.
“When he was in Kosovo, Blerim said that suicide bombers, they’re not Muslims. But when I talked to him in Syria, and I asked him, ‘Is it good to kill people?’ He said, ‘If they’re not Muslim, yes.‘”
pumbar says
“Confused face” to “jihad face” in one easy photo transition. I’m starting to think I need a profiling job with MI5 or 6. Sadly, profiling is racist and islamophobic so it’s not going to happen.
jihad3tracker says
The way I think of this fact is :
Ddue to selectable verses in the Qur’an, the Hadith, and the Sira, every Muslim has a shoulder-mounted switch which can be flipped from “OFF” to “ON” if a friendly local imam — or another member of Allah’s troop — chooses to do so.
AND, OF COURSE, SUCH A POSSIBILITY IS PERFECTLY IN KEEPING WITH MUHAMMAD’S LIFE — HE DESIGNED ISLAM.
Beagle says
Obligatory: OMG, he’s white!
Yes, Beagle. Islam is a set of ideas which can be implanted into any human brain capable of absorbing information found in books. There have been many lily white jihadis like Gadahn, Walker, or the Tsarnaevs. Chechen jihadis, all white, are some of the most brutal beheading mujahideen on the entire planet.
Gee thanks, Beagle. I thought all this opposition to Islamic supremacism, sharia, and jihad was racism until you explained it to me.
Salah says
Muhammad himself was kind of…”white”!
Anas said: “..he (Muhammad) uncovered his thigh and I saw the WHITENESS of the thigh of the Prophet.” Bukhari 1.8.367
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/muhammad-and-nudity-mahomet-et-la.html
Will says
Do you really think that IF he were black they would admit it? Racism, especially towards blacks is endemic in Islam which makes me laugh at all those Somali idiots. Where are the descendants of the tens of millions of black slaves who were taken from Africa to the Middle East? There are none. Strange that,. Perhaps it had something to do with the castration of the men (Muhammad must have had a micropenis due to his fear of experienced women and his need for virgins and those black guys? well cannot have that)…in the 1930s a young “female” was discovered by archaeologists and they found out that she was s he castrated as a child(total) and given an artificial vagina(they inserted a bamboo rod). The children of Black women slaves in the ME were usually killed at birth.
Will says
(s)he was an escaped slave iscovered in Ethiopia near the Somali border IIRC
GP says
From moderate muslim (ISIS fanboy) to murderous jihadi in zero seconds flat!
‘Is it good to kill people?’ He said, ‘If they’re not Muslim, yes.‘”
Jim says
Is there any significance to the fact that this (Qur’an 9:111) verse number could be read as 9/11/01? It says: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” Did the Sept. 11th terrorists pick that date due to that verse?
Beagle says
Could be. I called 9.111 the “Twin Towers Sura” (ayat really) about ten years ago. Others link it to a pivotal day at the Gates of Vienna in 1683.
Peter Buckley says
It’s an established fact that, the more “devout” a muslim is, the greater the likelihood of violence:
http://www.thelocal.de/20100606/27673
Poupon Marks says
The best outcome would be to execute those imams, or any other authority that exhort killing and dying for Islam. Let them be the first to set an example.
gravenimage says
Here’s “Michael”, once again stumping for our executing people for “blasphemy”.
But this is what barbaric Mohammedans do—not the free West.
Will says
Ummm Murder and sedition ..yes. Blasphemy? No!!
Total war can only be beaten by total war and such western niceties may well have to go by the board IF YOU WANT TO WIN.
After my personal experiences I would have NPs shooting any armed enemy woman or child while “human shields” are only used when they work. When they do not they are NOT used.
Anyone who thinks that you can win this war one handed needs treatment IMO
No Fear says
Blasphemy is a victimless crime.
Champ says
“I asked him, ‘Is it good to kill people?’ He said, ‘If they’re not Muslim, yes.’”
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Further proving that allah is NOT the God of the Bible, since the one true God is clear …
“You shall not murder.” — Exodus 20:13
Sorry to have to break it to you, mohammedan, but following allah means that you are following satan, the evil *god* of the underworld.
boakai ngombu says
and the more you go down to the mosque the more you will learn of the Malevolent and Belligerent Allah god of Islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) which has a constant lust for blood and is not full of compassion, cannot love
Jerry says
Someone ought to explain to them that though their family may have been Muslims for generations, they were originally forcibly converted to Islam, the religion of violence and death, and it was not through true conviction in the Deity of Allah or the (false) Prophecy of Muhammad but through violence, and threats of death from their original Muslim invaders who were their oppressors, and their true salvation is not through following the religion of death, but rather in returning to the bosom of their original, caring, compassionate and forever living God and Saviour.
Ralph says
Muhammad posed as an apostle of God. Yet his life is filled with lustfulness (12 marriages and sex with a child, slaves and concubines), rapes, warfare, conquests, and unmerciful butcheries. The infinitely good, just and all holy God simply cannot tolerate anything in the least unjust or sinful. What Muhammad produced in the Qur’an is simply a book of gibberish consisting of later evil verses abrogating (superseding) earlier peaceful verses. These verses in Arabic poetically “tickle” the ears of Arab listeners. Islam is a caustic blend of paganism and twisted Bible stories. Muhammad, its lone “prophet”, who made no prophecies, conceived his religion to satiate his lust for power, sex, and money. He was a terrorist. And if you think these conclusions are shocking, wait until you see the evidence mostly from Islamic historians below. 70% of what is here is from Muslim and ex-Muslim historians – back to the 8th century and the Qur’an itself.
Bendet says
I think the best solution is to bomb the Christian Serbs who fought those muslim Albanians.
Stupid, stupid dhimmi West.
TH says
Of course it it, everything in Islam is dualistic. One morality for treating muslims and another for treating kafurs.
gravenimage says
“I asked him, ‘Is it good to kill people?’ He said, ‘If they’re not Muslim, yes.’”
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That pretty much sums up the pious Muslim worldview—throw in the doctrine of Takfir and you can add “heretical” Muslims such as minority Shi’ites and apostates and lax Muslims to the list of victims.
And posters here have already commented on the photos, above. Blerim Heta does not appear exactly friendly in the first shot, but he looks pretty neutral—but in the second shot he has the terrible dead “shark eyes” and scowl that mark virtually every devout Mohammedan. *Ugh*.