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Islamic State propagandist’s parents: “Our son is a devout Muslim. He had learnt the Quran by heart.”

Dec 16, 2014 8:01 am By Robert Spencer

mehdi-biswasOnce again we see the conflicting narratives. Western leaders universally tell us that the Muslims who join the Islamic State know nothing about Islam and are transgressing against its teachings. Yet those who are allied with the Islamic State claim to be the exponents of true and pure Islam — and this Islamic State propagandist is here described by his parents as devout and knowledgeable about the Qur’an. Who is telling the truth, and how can we find out? Perhaps a public discussion about the teachings of the Qur’an and Islam in general would be in order — or would that be “Islamophobic”?

“He knew the Quran by heart, often gave us lessons: Parents,” by Subrata Nagchowdhury, Indian Express, December 14, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

“I feared the worst when our son stopped responding to calls shortly after 1 am on Saturday. When we spoke last, he told us the Bangalore Police might come any moment,” Dr Mekail Biswas, father of Mehdi Masroor Biswas, said on Saturday.

In the past 12 hours, the world of Dr Biswas and his wife Mumtaz Biswas has been turned upside down, perhaps forever. Masroor, a manufacturing executive for a multinational conglomerate based in Bangalore, was arrested on Saturday after Britain’s Channel 4 revealed him as the individual behind the pro-IS Twitter handle @ShamiWitness.

The Indian Express tracked down the Biswases on Friday night, and soon after the newspaper became available on Saturday morning, reporters from print publications and television channels descended on the family’s home in Kaikhali near Dum Dum airport. It is from them that the couple learnt that their son had been arrested.

“We were totally in the dark about our son’s alleged activities, for which he has been arrested… We are hoping to leave for Bangalore as early as possible, but we fear that his flat will now be out of bounds. Who will accommodate the parents of a man branded a terrorist?” Dr Biswas, a 64-year-old retired assistant engineer of the West Bengal State Electricity Board who now practises as a homoeopathic doctor, told The Sunday Express.

Sources in central police agencies which have been working on the background of Masroor said on Saturday that according to their findings, Masroor was a “self motivated preacher for Islam and apparently had no mentors”.

From an analysis of the tweets allegedly posted by him on @ShamiWitness, investigators have got a preliminary impression that Masroor was “basically doing a copy-paste operation, mostly repeating stuff that had surfaced on several forums of the IS”.

These investigators said that while there was no doubt about the strong Islamic moorings of Masroor, no concrete evidence had emerged so far to link him to jihadi activities.

Sitting in their home north of Kolkata, Masroor’s parents appeared clueless about their son’s online identity — it seemed inconceivable to them that their well-behaved, timid, God-fearing son who liked to confine himself to his home at most times could be an aggressive jihadist propagandist who lauded the IS’s barbaric beheadings in the virtual world. The Internet is largely an alien world to them, the couple said.

“Our son is a devout Muslim,” Dr Biswas said. “He had learnt the Quran Sharif by heart, and would often give me and my wife lessons from the Holy Book. He did not know Arabic; he had learnt the English version of the Quran.”…

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  1. cs says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 8:15 am

    no surprise there.

    • Matthieu Baudin says

      Dec 16, 2014 at 10:38 pm

      That’s right CS, there’s no surprise there at all. I’ve read the entire Koran at a slow pace to make sure that I didn’t miss any of the gems that may have been scattered throughout the text. What I found was a book of incredibly violent imagery that offered very little respite to the reader. I’m sure there are many people who happen to have been brought up in Moslem households who just want to get on with living normal lives and manage to do this despite their upbringing, obligations to prayer and so forth. However anyone who reads the Koran thoroughly, and this would include all Imams, Ayatollahs (and other literate, traditional devout types who regularly read the Koran) would know perfectly well what I’m referring to in describing it as unrelentingly violent; to use an analogy, the Koran is written employing the worst ‘fire and brimstone’ to be found in the Old Testament minus the thoughtful and poetic passages and highlights. Unfortunately most people make out to be familiar with the Koran and don’t take the time to check it out for themselves, which is a shame as it is a real eye opener. The Koran is definitely the type of book that should not be distributed in prisons as it’s an obvious magnet to violent and self justifying minds.

  2. Arul says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 8:41 am

    The father of this guy admits that his son had learnt the terror manual by heart.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 17, 2014 at 9:28 am

      The Koran is the manifesto of world conquest: 60% of it is about the ‘problem’ to be solved…what to do with the evil disbelievers…crush them? exterminate them? forcibly convert them? extort money from them?

      Mehdi Masroor Biswas understood the Koran perfectly.

  3. Jaladhi says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 8:53 am

    Anyone in our esteemed media and government who believes in existence of “moderate” Muslims can buy the Brooklyn Bridge from me!! Yeah, the devout Muslim is euphemism for terrorist!!

    • mortimer says

      Dec 17, 2014 at 9:30 am

      Many popular Islamic preach teach exactly that: Dr. Naik said proudly, ‘All Muslims should be terrorists.’ He said it in India in English.

  4. Ayatrollah says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 9:02 am

    We see this type of thing. The parents are nominal “folk” muslims who know nothing about jihadi islam. They see their son or daughter studying islam and they think it is “beautiful”. They have no idea what is really going on.

    The only way you can tell what kind of muslim a person is, outside of web postings, is to talk to them over time and they let it slip out they support violent jihad to make islam strong for allah and the muslims.

  5. Muadh Khan says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 9:09 am

    This jihadi received a scholarship from the West Bengal government while he was studying. Taxpayer’s money well spent?

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 9:47 am

    … while there was no doubt about the strong Islamic moorings of Masroor, no concrete evidence had emerged so far to link him to jihadi activities.

    Thus, like all Infidel “invetigators” everywhere, the ten foot tall bold red font exclamation point standing immediately in front of you must be consigned to the reserve status of a religion, safely tucked away from any potential to be accused of religionist prejudice. Prejudice against the obvious truth, in other words.

    Same as when Prez Barack Hussein had the gall to hire the hafiz Rashad Hussain into a job in the White House. I’ve always wondered what Rashad does for 8 hours a day. Recite the Holy Ko-Ran, perhaps?

    • pumbar says

      Dec 17, 2014 at 12:05 am

      Pumping iron;

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IG_BK2LUFM

      Nose to the grindstone;

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4kPqnUKJc

      Testing out a new BS filtration system;

  7. TH says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 10:43 am

    God between us and devout muslims. If they are devout, then they are terroists. The best muslim is no muslim. The next best is the one who knows nothing about Islam.

  8. Angemon says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    “Our son is a devout Muslim,” Dr Biswas said. “He had learnt the Quran Sharif by heart, and would often give me and my wife lessons from the Holy Book. He did not know Arabic; he had learnt the English version of the Quran.”…

    So he was a devout muslim? What a shocker!!!!

    How long until muslim groups try to claim that if it’s not in arabic then it’s not the quran and therefore he is not a muslim and his actions don’t represent islam?

  9. Salah says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    Your “prophet” had sex with his wife’s maid…in his wife’s bed…with the blessings of his pimp: Allah!!!
    Muslims, keep your heads down in shame.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/10/muhammads-pimp.html

    • Salah says

      Dec 16, 2014 at 4:54 pm

      The comment above was in reply to “Christy.” Apparently he/she is gone, at least for a while.
      Thank you Robert / Marc.

      • St. Croix says

        Dec 16, 2014 at 10:47 pm

        “Christy” raises its ugly mug again–deploying the same tired decoy with boring periodicity–but never staying around long enough for a good head shot.

  10. Angemon says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 2:36 pm

    Christy posted:

    “Below are quotes which highlight the disturbing similarities between Islamophobic and Antisemitic messages.

    Ten statements by ‘anti-jihad’ writer Robert Spencer and Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher are compared.”

    The first thing to point out is that this list (which Christy decided to spam on topics regardless of its relevance to the topic at hand) is nothing new:

    http://middleclassdub.blogspot.pt/2011/10/islamophobia-and-antisemitism-same.html

    The second thing to point out is that Christy (and Colm Ó Broin, the original author of that list) purposely leave out that Robert Spencer reports on what islamic clerics and leaders do and say, and backs what he says with quotes from the quran, ahadith, or islamic leaders or clerics.

    Let that sink in for a while. Ó Broin/Christy are arguing that what RS says about islam is similar to nazi propaganda. But RS backs what he says with quotes from islamic sources. Therefore, what Ó Broin/Christy are saying is that islam is similar to nazi propaganda.

    So, how about comparing muslims and jews, since Ó Broin/Christy are trying to pass them as being in the same situation? Let’s start with the Jews.

    There are no jewish organizations killing non-jews in the name of Yahweh. There are no jewish organizations calling for the establishment of a jewish state run by jewish law. There are no lone-wolf jews committing terror acts for the sake of Yahweh because the OT says that jews who kill and are killed for Yahweh are admitted into paradise. In fact, the violence in the OT is descriptive and restricted to specific times and places.

    Now let’s see how the muslims fare.

    There are muslim organizations killing non-muslims (and muslims who are deemed to be not devout enough) for the sake of allah. All over the world we see muslim groups calling for the establishment of a caliphate run by islamic law. All around the world muslims commit lone-wolf terror attacks because the quran says that those who kill and are killed in the name of allah are admitted into paradise. The quran mandates warfare against non-muslims for ever until islam rules all over the world.

    The nazi propaganda who unjustly portrayed jews as shrewd, devious creatures was just that: propaganda. In fact, much of it still lives on in the islamic world:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard

    A Nazi German cartoon circa 1938 depicts Churchill as a Jewish octopus encircling the glob

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard#mediaviewer/File:OctopusNAS1.jpg

    The same imagery revived on the cover of the 2001 Egyptian edition of The International Jew.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard#mediaviewer/File:2001_ed_The_International_Jew_by_Henry_Ford.jpg

    Anyone claiming that muslims are being persecuted worldwide the same way jews were persecuted in pre-WWII Germany should be committed to a mental asylum for life. Where are the muslims being forced to use a green crescent on their clothes to let everyone else knew that they are muslims, like the jews who had to wear a yellow star of David? Where are the signs on restaurants, or barbershops, or anywhere else saying “NO MUSLIMS ALLOWED”? Where are muslims being forced by the government to live in ghettos? The treatment of jews in pre-WWII Germany and of muslims nowadays is as far apart as zero is from infinity, no matter what grievance mongers like Ó Broin or Christy here would have us think.

  11. jewdog says

    Dec 17, 2014 at 7:32 am

    I just wonder if Joe Biden’s parents can say the same thing.

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