“I am Christian, I go to church. My child is a church boy. The bad thing is Islam,” said his mother. Yet the churches have no response whatsoever to concerted efforts by Muslim groups to convert Christian young people to Islam. They wouldn’t dare respond: it might harm their wonderful “Muslim-Christian dialogue.” Isn’t that right, Bishop McManus? And so Fasil Towalde, aka Abu Abdullah al-Habashi, is dead, and the churches once again are silent, washing their hands of any responsibility.
“Islamic State files leak: The ‘good British Christian’ who turned to jihad,” by Raf Sanchez and Camilla Turner, Telegraph, March 10, 2016:
A British jihadist killed while fighting for Isil in Syria was a “good Christian boy” who fell in with a gang and turned to radical Islam inside a UK prison, his mother has said.
The full story of Fasil Towalde’s short life can be told for the first time after his Isil recruitment forms and those of thousands of other fighters were leaked.
The trove of information on 1,763 jihadists includes details of 16 British fighters and sheds light on how they travelled from the UK to join the so-called caliphate.
The files reveal that the true name of the Isil fighter known by the nom de guerre Abu Abdullah al-Habashi was Fasil Towalde, a 21-year-old student from Camden in north London.
His mother, Himan Haile, confirmed in a tearful interview with The Telegraph that her son had been raised a Christian and grew up in London after the family fled violence in their native Eritrea.
“Fasil was not too much good, not too much bad. In my home he was a nice boy,” Mrs Haile said. He was arrested during the London riots and later fell in with a gang and converted to Islam in prison, she added.
“I am Christian, I go to church. My child is a church boy. The bad thing is Islam,” she said.
He disappeared in late 2013 and Mrs Haile called the police after three days without contact. By then it was too late and Isil records show that on December 28, 2013 he crossed from Turkey into northern Syria.
On the Isil registration form, which consists of 23 questions, he wrote down his mother’s first name and her street address in Camden. Eleven months later he was killed as Isil forces fought Kurdish troops for control of Kobane, a Syrian border town.
“He died for what? I don’t know. Every day I cry, in the morning, in the night,” his mother said….

CogitoErgoSum says
If a person knows all about Muhammad and chooses to be a Muslim anyway, then that person is despicable … or perhaps afraid of other Muslims. If a person chooses to be a Muslim without knowing all about Muhammad, then that person is a fool … or perhaps afraid of other Muslims.
Stephen says
All the Muslims must check the coran that Allah said to kill non-Muslims, and also Mohammed did kill more than 800 Jews n many more innocents during his time.
Muslims should kill, behead n chop off the hands that mentioned in the Coran.
Mohamed was killed with poison by Allah that mentioned in the coran.
All of u must go n do yr research deeper.
.
.
dwight hogg says
One day the world will wake up and the backlash will be terrible and decent Muslims are going to pay the price for not standing up against the fanatics. We have Imams preaching their hatred in their Wahabbi Saudi Mosques here in Canada and elsewhere but any criticism is “Islamophobia” –
which even moderate Muslims accuse those who speak out of being
gravenimage says
Once again, we see someone claiming that the real problem is Infidel violence against “moderate” Muslims–that Jihad is not the issue, but the phantom “backlash” against Muslims. Good grief.
Stephen says
There’s No “Decent” Muslims in the whole book of coran.
celticwarriorcanada says
Ya well ! The devil weaseled his way into the presence of God with the Sons of God ( Job 1:7 ; 2:1) : The devil hung around the disciples of Jesus ( John 13:1,26,27) and he even tried to hang around with the Apostle Paul ( Acts 16:16-19). And John in his First Epistle (1st John 2:18 ,19) describes those having the Spirit of the AntiChrist as having gone out from them (The Church) . The devil hates Bars, Whorehouses, Rock Concerts etc ! Why ? Because its to OBVIOUS , and he already owns some of these People. He is a lot more Effective when he “appears as ” An Angel Of Light” (2Corinth11:14). The devil prefers Religous Devotion Devoid of THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS ( The Deity of Christ and the Trinity) ( 1st Timothy 3:16-4:1-4) . And Promises his followers the same things he promised Jesus when he tempted Him in the wilderness (Matthew 4:8,9) . Apostasy has its consequences , Even on This Side of THE GRAVE , as this young man found out . But Jesus was victorious over the temptation !!!
Angemon says
Hopefully they’re looking into their family, friends, acquaintances and everyone in the mosques they frequented.
Christianblood says
Angemon
Thousands of young people in the Western world are deceived into converting this islamic cult of death because most of these young people are bored in the materialistic, superficial life that exists in the Western world today and they are looking to find some deeper meaning in life. Unfortunately, Christian churches in the West could have filled those deep spiritual and philosophical needs but these “churches” themselves are secularized and are spiritually bankrupt. In the Eastern Orthodox countries, Christianity is deeper, more spiritual, more mystical and allow profound spiritual and philosophical reflections/contemplations whereas in the Western Christianity both (Catholics & Protestants) God is confined in a tiny rational secular box and Christianity is limited to attending churches on Sundays mass or service There are no meaningful spiritual monasteries in the Western world and the few that exists are themselves secularized with computer games and have NO spiritual/philosophical dimensions to them. There are No ascetics in the West, No monastics, No mystics, No Holy seekers of God who move among the masses with their Crosses, icons and relics. There is HUGE spiritual bankruptcy in the Western world and until these problems are addressed millions of young people in the West, will either keep converting to the islamic death cult and become homicidal jihadists or will try to fill the empty void in their hearts with drugs, sexual perversions, satanism, violent gangsterism and all kinds of other evil practices.
gravenimage says
Just like Muslims, “Christianblood” is pretending that the problem is not Islam, but Western secularism.
The fact is that there are few converts to Islam in the West, and the population most prone to such Da’wa are not materialistic or empty young people, but violent felons in prisons.
These people are already violent, and Islam confirms and sacralizes their violence.
Oh, look–that was *exactly* the case here:
“…the Camden resident [Fasil Towalde] is understood to have become a Muslim during his time in prison and adopted a radical brand of Islam.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3487500/Leaked-ISIS-papers-reveal-wannabe-British-actor-dreamed-Hollywood-stardom-fled-Syria-appeared-jihadi-videos.html
Pere LaChaise says
Christianblood,
Writing as an Orthodox westerner, I beg to differ. We have access to many monastic establishments in Europe and America. They are more accessible nowadays than ever before. Ever do a web search for “Orthodox Monastery near (locale)”? Granted, it’s not like in Greece, Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia or other places where the historical presence is deep – the diaspora of Orthodox into the west is hardly more than a century old outside Alaska (which, though it has only a couple monasteries, is majority Orthodox).
The problem is that strong, visibly active presence of Church is lacking in the West where Byzantine symphonia of Church and state is proscribed, and the influence of Church has been waning for half a millennium. A stronger Church presence might have prevented this young man’s apostasy from the Tewahedo Orthodox Eritrean Church by doing effective prison ministry in Britain. But that church is tiny and weak anywhere outside Eritrea, and can barely do any outreach.
Meanwhile, Saudi oil money funds da’wa in prisons, where they teach resentful young men to turn their anger against the kuffar. Already criminalized youth would be attracted to a doctrine which teaches dominance and embraces nefarious violence ‘to the glory of Allah’.
I think we both agree that the tragedy unfolding is due to the spiritual vacuum being filled by Islamic pseudo-spirituality, which is anything but. When people are largely ignorant of what real spirituality is – when poorly-funded little ethnic churches can barely send their men to seminaries so they can preach and teach it – we see decadence. This argues for the unification of traditional churches worldwide so that their Christian brotherhood may be strengthened in the face of Moslem onslaught.
I think Christians in Moslem countries already know this. It’s only here in the Western Diaspora that communication and cooperation are lacking. A story like this one should serve as a wake up call for combined Orthodox efforts at communal self-defense beginning with adequate teaching and preaching of the Gospel of Christ.
Christianblood says
Pere LaChaise
I agree with your points. My comment was not about the Orthodox Diaspora in the West but on the extreme spiritual bankruptcy that exists in the Western churches (both Catholic & Protestant) and how that spiritual bankruptcy is leading many away from Christianity and into the hands of the evil islamic jihadist killers. I also agree with you, that many Orthodox communities in the West are affected by the the huge focus on the hedonistic materialism and radical and decadent secularist mentality that dominates in the Western psyche. Both you and ‘gravenimage’ are also right in pointing out the huge number of Western criminals gangs who are being converted to a violent islamic jihadism in the Western prisons and the sad thing is none of the leaders in the Western world are able or even willing to address this problem in a meaningful way.
Christianblood says
Angemon posted:
“Then learn how to”.
I do apologize for my poor English skills Angemon, English is really like a third language for me… Just to clarify, I meant to say I couldn’t open the link you provided me and I would appreciate if you could provide the source of the Russian crime statistics you provided above.
Angemon says
Again: the numbers I stated regarding intentional homicides in Russia and the US came from the site I posted. Claiming you can’t open the link doesn’t entitle you to another one, neither does it entitle you to imply I didn’t gave any source.
https://data.unodc.org/
Works on Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. On a PC running Windows.
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Thousands of young people in the Western world are deceived into converting this islamic cult of death because most of these young people are bored in the materialistic, superficial life that exists in the Western world today and they are looking to find some deeper meaning in life.”
Considering that the West is house to hundreds of million of people, thousands are a negligible percentage of the population. Plus, many of those thousands convert for completely different reasons – case in point, prison converts.
“Unfortunately, Christian churches in the West could have filled those deep spiritual and philosophical needs but these “churches” themselves are secularized and are spiritually bankrupt.”
Let me guess: cue-in your usual pro-Russian propaganda.
“In the Eastern Orthodox countries, Christianity is deeper, more spiritual, more mystical and allow profound spiritual and philosophical reflections/contemplations whereas in the Western Christianity both (Catholics & Protestants) God is confined in a tiny rational secular box and Christianity is limited to attending churches on Sundays mass or service There are no meaningful spiritual monasteries in the Western world and the few that exists are themselves secularized with computer games and have NO spiritual/philosophical dimensions to them. There are No ascetics in the West, No monastics, No mystics, No Holy seekers of God who move among the masses with their Crosses, icons and relics.”
Yup, propaganda from the paid Kremlin troll.
“There is HUGE spiritual bankruptcy in the Western world and until these problems are addressed millions of young people in the West, will either keep converting to the islamic death cult and become homicidal jihadists”
From thousands to millions – hyperbole much?
“or will try to fill the empty void in their hearts with drugs, sexual perversions, satanism, violent gangsterism and all kinds of other evil practices.”
Now this is just a sad denial of reality. Ever heard of the RUSSIAN mafias? Not to mention, as I stated here:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/iranian-general-iran-russia-syria-hizbullah-lebanon-coalition-is-on-the-verge-of-victory#comment-1385348
You want to talk about Christianity, drugs, sexual perversions, satanism, violent gangsterism and all kinds of other evil practices while comparing the West and Russia? Fine, I’ll sum it up for you: “why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
And I’ll end with a different take, troll. The West has the edge on Russia and the islamic world when it comes to faith and true believers. People in the West have
a higher life standard than those in Russia (other than Putin and his cronies – thieves and scum, all of them) or the islamic world, so the weaker of mind here don’t need the clutch of “bear it and grin because everything will be fine after death” to endure a daily life devoid of human dignity. Westerners who hang on to their faith do so despite the lure of materialism or an easy life. Plus, you’ve stated that the West is anti-Christian. Why then do you exalt the Christians who, according to you, life in a place where they face no repercussions for their faith? Doesn’t that make Western Christians more devout?
Christianblood says
Angemon
Your calculations about Russia crime statistics is highly exaggerated and incorrect but I was not talking about crime statistics in my comment above. I was pointing out factors that lead many young people to islam the deep spiritual bankruptcy that exists in the West and I do agree that prison conversions is part of the problem. Angemon, please taste the beauty of the Orthodox Christianity explained briefly by this American pastor:
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Your calculations about Russia crime statistics is highly exaggerated and incorrect ”
And, of course, you provide no alternative for them. No, those are the numbers reported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which can be checked here:
https://data.unodc.org/
Those are the reported numbers, so if those numbers are incorrect it’s because they’re under-reported, not exaggerated. I’ve hear that the Russian mafias have particularly, ahem, “creative” ways to dispose of bodies, so I’d wager some of the “Missing” people in Russia won’t ever be found.
“but I was not talking about crime statistics in my comment above. I was pointing out factors that lead many young people to islam the deep spiritual bankruptcy that exists in the West ”
Of course you were not talking about crime statistics, they don’t fit your narrative – getting into specifics shatters your claims of the alleged “spiritual bankruptcy” of the West. Who would one say is the nation with the biggest lack of spirituality – the nation with the higher murder rate or the nation with the lower murder rate? Same for suicide, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, violence against women, etc. The facts doesn’t fit the hypothesis, so you, like all Kremlin-employed trolls, just ignore the data and parrot the hypothesis all the same – a textbook example of Lysenkoism.
Christianblood says
Angemon
I couldn’t read the link you provided about Russian crime statistics.
Could you please provide me your sources for these statistics?
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“Angemon
I couldn’t read the link you provided”
Then learn how to.
“Could you please provide me your sources for these statistics?”
The numbers I stated regarding intentional homicides in Russia and the US came from the site I posted. That you claim you can’t read it doesn’t entitle you to another one, neither does it entitle you to imply I didn’t gave any source.
You claimed that those numbers were “highly exaggerated and incorrect“. It’s you, not me, who is lacking on sources.
mortimer says
Interfaith dialogue between Christian clergy and Muslims is fond of the agenda-based theological fallacy called the ‘Abrahamic faiths’.
Jon Levenson, the Albert A. List Professor of Bible at Harvard’s Divinity School and Anglican theologian, Rev. Mark Durie, PhD. Both theologians examined the ‘Abrahamic faiths’ theory and found it unsubstantiated.
Quotes: (Levinson)…it is wrong to present Abraham as a unifying figure who transcends the differences among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. The progressive wings of Christianity as well as Judaism have a great deal invested in this reassuring claim… (the creators of the ‘Abrahamic faiths’ theory) have essentially invented another Abraham
Quote: (Mark Durie) “I have been tracing the origins of the concept of “Abrahamic faith” in reference to monotheistic dialogue. Its most important and influential promoter was a Lebanese Maronite priest, Youakim Moubarac, following in the footsteps of his teacher, Massignon, who regarded Islam as a faith of genuine revelation — and Muhammad as a prophet”.
Christian churches need to prepare training films for teenagers to help them resist the ‘radical Islamic chic’ now prevalent among Muslim youth in the West.
Pere LaChaise says
It’s high time the Vatican convened a council to anathematize Louis Massignon as a heretic. Few in modern times have done so much damage to the Gospel. He considered a non-Christian, Mohandas Gandhi, to be a saint.
Massignon is the worst kind of traitor and apostate, who remains within the ranks (if not the Mystical Body by virtue of his heresy) and the fact that the Roman Catholic Church does not denounce him speaks volumes against the Vatican. One more reason to avoid Western churches and stay true to the original preaching of the Gospel among Orthodox. I write this as one who is not inclined to bash Catholics and I would hope never to agree with Mr. Spencer in his wholesale denunciations of the Western Church. But reminded of bad actors like Massignon, who epitomizes all that has gone soft and flabby in Western Christendom, I am pushed further away from them and see their fishlike silence on the matter of worldwide jihad in a new light.
Billy Wright says
British prisons are rapidly becoming recruiting grounds for Islam.
Muslims are the biggest gang in every prison and new prisoners are immediately told they will be protected if they become Muslims.
Non-Muslim prisoners are terrified to even cook bacon in communal kitchens for fear of Muslim gangs.
This boy probably became Muslim out of fear when he was inside.B
Stephen says
All the Muslims must check the coran that Allah said to kill non-Muslims, and also Mohammed did kill more than 800 Jews n many more innocents during his time.
Muslims should kill, behead n chop off the hands that mentioned in the Coran.
Mohamed was killed with poison by Allah that mentioned in the coran.
All of u must go n do yr research deeper.
.
Lewis says
I probably should feel sorry. But I don’t he sealed his own fate.
citycat says
Maybe muslims fear peer pressure conversion in prison with no Christian back up. Surrender is painless, but not only on the physical level.
It seems that no one gives a flying, else a serious looking at the psychology of all those conversions would have taken place.
It is a war to the death of the Infidel or to the death of Islam.
That’s the way it seems to be. There’s no mushyculturalism gonna happen with Islam anyway. And intuitively speaking there is something unseen lurking with respect to this mess.
medaber_emet says
I wish all the muslims a success to go and get killed in the islamic state
medaber_emet says
if i wrote what i wrote here in israely site they wouldnt publish it
because they are almost sharia compliant
gravenimage says
UK: Christian youth converts to Islam, gets killed fighting for the Islamic State
………………………
Why are so many converts to Islam convinced that their new faith requires violence and bloodshed? Really, it’s a mystery…sarc/off
gravenimage says
Fasil Towalde’s Muslim name was Abu Abdullah al-Habashi.
It means Ethiopian slave of Islam.
jayell says
1. “Fasil was not too much good, not too much bad. In my home he was a nice boy,” Mrs Haile said.
2. He was arrested during the London riots and later fell in with a gang and converted to Islam in prison.
3. “I am Christian, I go to church. My child is a church boy. The bad thing is Islam,” she said.
Three statements that sum up a lot of what typically seems to be going on in the UK (and elsewhere) these days. Simple conclusion:- Islam is effectively a pernicious social cancer that turns people and societies rotten wherever it spreads, for the equally simple reason that it was cynically concocted by a similarly nasty, twisted megalomaniac for ultimately evil ends and reflects the character and motivations of its criminal founder. The three statements above sum this up beautifully.
Charli Main says
Ah, the lure of Islam for your ” nice ” everyday psychopath.
All those women to rape, children to molest and sex slaves to own.
Who needs TV when you can watch, beheadings, burnings, drownings, crucifixions and live burials.
and your reward for committing every atrocity, that the sick Muslim mind can invent—- you get to Allah´s whorehouse in the sky to enjoy endlessly self repairing virgins, boys as sweet as pearls and best of all, a herd of sexy female goats.
Florida Jim says
Trump is correct “muslims hate us” and have since Mohammad wrote his koran.
The Oracle says
Why can only about 25% (I’m using my place of employment for this assumption) of non-Muslims in the West not understand that muslims want our extermination? Muslims will go about smiling and living their fetid lives with no thought of becoming loyal too nation or community. Just ask the Armenians and Yashidis how their Muslim neighbors exposed them to jihadi death squads in Turkey 100 years ago and in present day Syria.
Also, Muslim prisoners must be housed away from the general prison population to keep non muslims from converting too islam. This high rate of conversion will occur regardless of what country we use in comparison. I’m sure that younger prisoners will flock to this violent religion at the same rate be they from Serbia, India, China, or the USA. It may initially cost more to quarantine muslims from others but we will pay a horrible price later if we don’t.
Paleologos says
Is there any doubt, whatsoever, that if Jesus Christ was walking about today, he would throw muslims out of the temple, and everywhere else HE could find them, just like the disrespectful Jewish money changers?
R/
Paleologos 🙂
Walter Sieruk says
This action of extreme folly that this Muslim youth engaged in the only resulted in his death not only show how dangerously deluded he was by the deception of the falsehoods of Islam but since at least ,for a time, in his short life if thought himself to be a Christian but then turned to Islam may be also be the blame on the so called “Christian” leaders and teachers in some churches who don’t actually know and understand the Bible and aren’t really interested teachings young people the Bible. So many youth in such churches don’t know Bible doctrines can become deceived by the false doctrines of Islam.
This conclusion that I had reached has come from not just by years of observation and study but also from first hand experience back when I was a youth with awful and worthless church ministers. of the Presbyterian and the United Methodist Church. The ministers of those two church were ignorant men and outright liars.With those kind of “Christian” leaders No wonder Islam is spreading like a plague.