“They are good people, religious. When someone gets to memorise the Koran, it’s unlikely for them to do wrong. But this is what happened to the brothers.”
In reality, San Bernardino jihad mass murderer Syed Rizwan Farook had memorized the Qur’an. Manchester jihad mass murderer Salman Abedi was also a “devout” Muslim who learned Qur’an by heart. In Germany, a teen Muslima who stabbed a police officer went to mosque every Friday and had memorized Qur’an.
A savvy analyst might get the idea that there was some connection between the Qur’an and terrorism. But that would be “Islamophobic.”
“The Maute brothers: Southeast Asia’s Islamist ‘time bomb,'” by Neil Jerome Morales and Tom Allard, Reuters, June 12, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Marawi City, Philippines: On his Facebook profile page Omarkhayam Romato Maute describes himself as a “Walking Time-Bomb”.
When a band of militants led by Omarkhayam and one of his brothers over-ran a town in the southern Philippines on May 23, festooning its alleyways with the black banners of Islamic State, the Facebook description seemed appropriate.
Officials say the video, obtained exclusively by Associated Press, shows one of the world’s most-wanted Islamic militant leaders plotting an assault in the southern Philippines….
Omarkhayam and Abdullah Maute grew up with several other brothers and sisters in Marawi, a Muslim-majority town in a country where over 90 percent of the population is Christian.
Marawi is, historically, the centre of Islam on Mindanao, a sprawling island where violent resistance to authority has been a tradition since the era of Spanish colonialism, spurred in recent decades by poverty and the neglect of successive governments.
As teenagers in the 1990s, the brothers seemed like ordinary young men, said a neighbour of the Maute family: they studied English and the Koran, and played basketball in the streets.
“We still wonder why they fell to the Islamic State,” said the neighbour, who was once an Islamist militant himself and surrendered to the government. “They are good people, religious. When someone gets to memorise the Koran, it’s unlikely for them to do wrong. But this is what happened to the brothers.”
In the early 2000s, Omarkhayam and Abdullah studied in Egypt and Jordan, respectively, where they became fluent in Arabic.
Omarkhayam went to Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where he met the daughter of a conservative Indonesian Islamic cleric. After they married, the couple returned to Indonesia. There, Omarkhayam taught at his father-in-law’s school, and in 2011 he settled back in Mindanao….
Buraq says
Practice makes perfect, they say. But the more you practise Islam, the more imperfect you become!
Jaladhi says
Quran is the source of jihad terrorism of Muslims!! Period>
Jayell says
“When someone gets to memorise the Koran, it’s unlikely for them to do wrong.”
That would no doubt be the Qu’ranic definition of ‘wrong’. Which means this pair would feel perfectly entitled to do exactly as they please.
Shmooviyet says
“The Moving Finger” writ, on Facebook.
pfwag says
They are all just good and faithful Muslims doing exactly what their moon-bat god and crazy, murdering, pedophile prophet command all Muslims to do.
TL says
There it is again. Did you notice it in the “news” report? Morales and Allard are explaining a bit of history about “Islam on Mindinao” when they slip two prized pieces of leftist propaganda into their word stream about “violent resistance to authority”. Here is the critical part:
If you read it carefully you’ll notice that it’s a combination of two punches. Here is the first punch again:
It isn’t made clear how “poverty” inspires those Muslims to practice “violent resistance to authority”. When I was poor and 23 years old, my poverty “spurred” me to eliminate frivolous expenses and to find a way to be more productive through employment in the private sector. It didn’t occur to me at all that I should buy expensive weapons with my meagre savings and then attack the rotter administration of Slick Willy.
Well, no matter, for the journalists, Morales and Allard, quickly lose interest in their primary excuse for Muslim brutality. Since they, too, suspect that their first punch alone won’t ork, they slip a backup excuse into their wordstream. Thus the second punch of the one-two combination:
So, there you have it. The Muslims’ habitual, brutal “resistance to authority”, a tradition for more than 100 years, is the fault of a series of recent organized meanies who neglected to impose their authority on and control over the poor, poor Muslims. Yes, the surge of Muslim brutality against nonmuslim “authority” is due to authority’s failure to assert itself over the Islamic criminals of the “sprawling island”.
Westman says
“Omarkhayam and Abdullah Maute grew up with several other brothers and sisters in Marawi, a Muslim-majority town in a country where over 90 percent of the population is Christian.
Marawi is, historically, the centre of Islam on Mindanao, a sprawling island where violent resistance to authority has been a tradition since the era of Spanish colonialism, spurred in recent decades by poverty and the neglect of successive governments.”
Wake up Reuters, this is not a correct assesment of Mindanao or its city of Marawi. Marawi is in a so-called autonomous region because it’s inhabited by seditionists whose religion places itself above the secular laws of the Philippines. Stop selling the British press propaganda, it’s getting tiresome and effused with laziness.
Neglect, poverty is the cause? This is like claiming it’s wrong to avoid a dog that bites. And poverty? Where is this not a “fruit” of Islam?
And just to correct the mendacity at Reuters, Marawi is 99.6% Muslim!, not Christian. The entire island of Mindanao is only 70% Christian. The Muslim population is 20% of the island and highly concentrated about Lake Lanao. Call it a giant no-go area for infidels that will inevitably produce more future violence for the Philippines.
Richard says
There are plenty of Muslims who have memorized the Koran, in whole or part, who don’t understand a word of Arabic and therefore have no clue as to what they’re reciting. You can be very sure that they haven’t memorized a translation in their own language, as only recitation in Arabic evokes the beneficent attention of Allah.
These young terrorists aren’t exhaustively studying the Islamic texts of their own volition and drawing their own conclusions; they’re going through the pious motions, but taking their marching orders from the imams. Get rid of the imams and you decapitate the serpent.
Irene Brekelmans says
I saw that video how muslim boys got brainwashed in their masks and beaten if they did not learn enough.
Those so called imams do nothing else than brainwashing people and their children. Can you imagine, listening the whole day to the koran It does something horrible to you and they all are getting mentally disturbed and start to play football with kittens and rip them open and hang them. It is right, children who act now already like that will behave like the young ones do now and are mentally disturbed as their parents did nothing to help them, only made it worse. Get rid of every imam or muslim teacher in the mosques and stop your hating advertisements to the children, it will take you thousand of years to bring you and your families back to normal. That is sad, but not in our countries. We had enough wars.
TH says
The Spanish and later the Americans in the Philippines were not taken in by political correctness. They would bury the perpetrators of suicide bombing in pig skins. The hanging was done publicly in the presence of the whole Muslim community, who also saw the dead bodies wrapped in pig skins. Results: No more bombing. the jihadis would be deprived of the 72 virgins due to being buried in pig skins.
FYI says
If you had Mob connections you could hand the carcasses of the jihadists over to a rendering facility,mark it as HALAL meat… and send it to the muslims(“Happy Ramadan:in appreciation for your kindness to us infidels”)
balam says
VERY BEAUTIFUL EXPOSITION!!!
FYI says
They should have memorized a list of Commandments instead.
But of course allah completely forgot to emphasise the importance of obeying God’s law and didn’t bother to include an enumerated listing of those all important teachings.
Why?
Because muslims would realize how morally wrong it is for allah to sanction the murder of the innocent{“slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”k2:191}
Ask yourself this with reference to the ORIGINAl Commandments.
Does allah say that it is OK to break them?
YES
Does allah encourage his followers to do things that are actually forbidden by these Commandments?
YES
if allah was the same as GOD then allah would be telling his followers that murder,adultery,lying,slavery,polygamy,stealing are all morally wrong(=sins).
But allah doesn’t do this:allah himself disagrees with God’s commandments!
So you see allah is NOT to be compared with GOD.
balam says
Evert DEVOUT MUSLIM represents a DEADLY POISPNPUS FORK TONGUED SNAKE!!!