“He was very cruel with me, as if he wasn’t my son. He said I’m an infidel and don’t fear God, and that I legislate against Islam in parliament. My efforts to get him back failed.”
“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.” (Qur’an 9:23)
“You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred.” (Qur’an 58:22)
“There has already been for you an excellent pattern in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people, ‘Indeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than Allah. We have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone…’” (Qur’an 60:4)
“Jordanian MP’s son joins Islamic State, dies in suicide attack,” by Hamza Al-Soud, Associated Press, October 4, 2015:
A Jordanian parliament member said he learned from Islamic State-linked media that his son carried out a suicide attack in Iraq, three months after dropping out of medical school and joining the extremist group….
“My son had everything, a family, money, and studying medicine, but he was controlled by terrible thoughts,” the legislator, Mazen Dalaeen told The Associated Press. “He was deceived and tricked by Islamic State. Islamic State is in every home through TVs and the Internet.”
The family is observing the traditional three-day mourning period for 23-year-old Mohammed Dalaeen, starting Friday in his hometown, Ai, in southern Jordan. Ai was also home to a Jordanian fighter pilot who was captured by IS late last year and burned alive in a cage by the militants.
Dalaeen said he learned of the death of his son last week from IS-linked media and a TV station in Iraq’s Anbar province. One of the sites, Dabiq, said suicide attackers drove three car bombs into Iraqi army barracks on the northern outskirts of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar.
Dalaeen said he recognized his son in one of the photos of the purported suicide attackers posted on the IS sites, under the nom de guerre “Abu Baraa, the Jordanian.”
The legislator said he last saw Mohammed in Ukraine in June and stayed with him and his Ukrainian wife, a convert to Islam, for a week.
“I noticed that his behaviour had changed completely,” Dalaeen said in a phone interview Saturday. “He had become isolated” and had grown a large beard.
Dalaeen said he told his son in a heated argument that he would cut ties with him if he didn’t drop his support for the extremists. The next day, Mohammed left for Turkey without telling his father.
Dalaeen tried to track him down, eventually heading to Turkey’s border with Syria, but was unsuccessful.
Mohammed later reached out on Facebook, telling his father he was in Syria and had joined IS. “He was very cruel with me, as if he wasn’t my son,” Dalaeen said. “He said I’m an infidel and don’t fear God, and that I legislate against Islam in parliament. My efforts to get him back failed.”
On Aug. 20, Mohammed informed his father through Facebook that it would be their last contact. He wrote that he had completed his Islamic studies and would head into battle as a volunteer for “martyrdom operations,” Dalaeen said.
An estimated 2,000 Jordanians are fighting in the ranks of IS and its militant rival from the al-Qaida network, the Syria-based Nusra Front, said Hassan Abu Haniyeh, an expert on extremist groups. He said about 350 Jordanians have been killed in fighting in the two countries.
This includes Omran al-Abadi, the son of Jordanian parliament member Mohammed al-Abadi.
Omran, an Egyptian-trained physician, joined the Nusra Front in Syria and was killed in January in a clash with the Syrian army. The legislator said Sunday that he did not hold the traditional mourning ceremony because he did not want to validate his son’s actions….

Beagle says
“My son had everything, a family, money, and studying medicine, but he was controlled by terrible thoughts,”
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Inconceivable! If this were true, one would be tempted to think all the leaders in the West are systematically lying about Islam and endangering all of us in the process.
We all know jihad is caused by poverty, alienation, marginalization, cartoon contests, Israel, and particularly Islamophobia. Right? Right?!
Michael Copeland says
How can it be anything to do with Islamic State? Such actions are the result of marginalisation, poverty, lack of opportunities and a complex matrix of grievances associated with the inability to obtain justice and employment against a backdrop of racist prejudice. Yes, Mr. Kerry?
Jacksonl03 says
Total belief can be a good thing or terrible depending on the subject.
How anyone intelligent enough to be a medical school pupil can believe in and give his life along with the lives of multiple innocents for anything as idiotic and scientifically bereft as Islam is way beyond my understanding.
EYESOPEN says
Simple. He CHOSE evil. And has now died with the consequences of that decision on his soul. Too bad he can’t come back to tell others that there are not 72 virgins awaiting them in the next life.
Cecilia Ellis says
Killing for Evil . . . the Islamic global sport. Despite all the opportunities Mazen Dalaeen gave to his son, they were insufficient; Mohammed Dalaeen wanted more. It was not poverty or the lack of education that led him to ISIS; it was Evil. But it was Mohammed Dalaeen’s free-will choice to unite with “the Greatest of Deceivers”. What was that “more” which Mohammed wanted? As most other JW readers are much more familiar with Islamic doctrinal texts than am I, I ask this question: What is the greater deception . . . the lure of personally earning paradise or the paradise itself, as luridly portrayed in Islamic canonical texts?
Walter Sieruk says
This is yet another example of a person who becomes dangerous to self and other because he believes very strongly in the in the Koranic doctrine /story of a lust- filled place with many virgins in it for the male Muslim who dies as a “martyr” in the jihad for the cause of Islam. This Islamic story /doctrine does much harm .For in inspires young men to commit terrible murderous actions of heinous evil. The Bible does warns against taking to heart such cunningly sly and deceptive religious stories. For the Bible reads against taking “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. Furthermore,such false teachers ,as those imams, who indoctrinate story./doctrines of a lust -filled place with many virgins in the minds and hearts of others have been predicted and warned about in the Bible.Which reads “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. In contrast to the deluded jihadist Muslims who put their faith in the Koranic story/myth of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]
Jaladhi says
Instances such as this prove there is no difference in Muslims- they are all same. No moderate and all radicals!! Quran is a radical terrorist manual and its leaders was a terrorist and the followers are also radical jihadi terrorists!! Thus sums up whole of Islam and Muslims!
Beagle says
Huh? In this story we have the Jordanian MP being declared takfir by his own son. Hard to imagine a better example of all Muslims not being the same.
Dave J says
Islam lures young men by promising control over women, approving sexual slavery and ultimately those 72 virgins. This can sound very attractive to a Muslim man in the West who no woman wants to date.
It also sounds “right” and authentic to them because it’s already written into the “religion” they were unluckily born into.
Westman says
It should be obvious that Mohammed Dalaeen was not in medical school to alleviate the suffering of others, but rather to gain importance and influence, to be like Dad.
My guess is he was beginning to have difficulty in medical school, was angry and frustrated because he was failing even though Muslims are supposed to be “the best of people”, dropped out, directed his anger at “infidels” and regained his sense of supremacy through the doctrine of Jihad.
Only in Islam does killing infidels and takfirs make you into a success; elligible for the highest rewards from Diety, which are guaranteed if you die in the process. Got depression? Get Jihad.
Angemon says
Try telling Obama that – he’s under the delusion that poverty causes terrorism. Or that global warming causes terrorism. Or that global warming causes poverty which in turn causes terrorism.
mortimer says
A Quaker film maker made the claim that global warming created ISIS, but he would never think of reading the Islamic source texts.
Superficial and SPONTANEOUS analyses like this are sophomoric and unhelpful.
Western people try to understand Islam through the lenses of political science or pseudo-science or New Age thought…anything but actually listening to the words of the jihadists and looking up the sources of their ideas in the original Islamic writings.
mortimer says
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES SET UP AND TAKE NOTE: a Jordanian member of parliament and a LIFE-LONG Muslim CANNOT convince his own son that Islam is a religion of peace. WHY IS THAT?
Why do you intelligence people or WESTERN politicians believe they know more about Islam than CALIPH al Baghdadi (PhD in Islamic Studies).
al Baghdadi was praised by his university teachers as ‘more knowledgeable about Islam than his teachers’.
Who knows more about Islam? Caliph al Baghdadi, PhD ? or David Cameron? or John Kerry?
ensitue says
Zeds
Sam says
The religion of peace keeps being kidnapped over and over and over and over. It is just so difficult to understand why these young men choose death instead of their peaceful religion Islam. Any suggestions?
RG says
“On Aug. 20, Mohammed informed his father through Facebook that it would be their last contact. He wrote that he had completed his Islamic studies and would head into battle as a volunteer for “martyrdom….”
I’ll bet any amount of money that THE TEACHERS who instructed him in his “islamic studies…for martyrdom” damn well DIDN’T VOLUNTEER THEMSELVES to “head into battle…”!!! What a complete waste!!!!!