“Warsame said his descent into extremism began after he began attending mosque at his mother’s urging. ‘Learning about the religion and reciting the Quran, I started to become more religious. I felt like there was something that was missing in me.'”
Learning about the religion and reciting the Qur’an, he got the idea that he had a duty to wage war against unbelievers. That should come as no surprise to anyone except Pope Francis and H. R. McMaster, because the Qur’an contains numerous exhortations to wage war against unbelievers (see especially chapters eight and nine).
“Then a teenager, Warsame felt alienated from his own mosque, which has not been tied to extremism, because the lessons were in Somali.”
Not because it was twisting and hijacking the Religion of Peace, but because the lessons were in Somali. The mosque “has not been tied to extremism,” but it taught the Qur’an and Sunnah. That those sources contain numerous exhortations to Muslims to commit violence against unbelievers is a fact that government and law enforcement authorities generally refuse to accept, and often deny outright, in the teeth of the facts.
“The American ISIS ’emir’ who wanted to commit his own gruesome atrocities and sent his friend to die in Syria,” by Keith Griffith, Dailymail.com, July 3, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
The leader of an American ISIS cell has spoken out about his thirst for violent extremism and how he send his friends to fight and die in Syria.
Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 22, was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison last year, after he admitted he conspired to help two friends join Islamic State and planned to go to Syria himself.
Now, in an interview with Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes, the Somali-American explains how the online ravings of a dead terror cleric radicalized him and drew him into a plot with eleven other young men in Minnesota’s large Somali immigrant population.
Asked if he had planned to join Islamic State in Syria and join in their atrocities, Warsame replied: ‘I was going to be, I was going to be participating in those activities.’
Warsame said his descent into extremism began after he began attending mosque at his mother’s urging.
‘Learning about the religion and reciting the Quran, I started to become more religious. I felt like there was something that was missing in me,’ Warsame said….
Then a teenager, Warsame felt alienated from his own mosque, which has not been tied to extremism, because the lessons were in Somali.
He turned online looking for religious instruction in English, and found the videos of Anwar al-Awlaki.
Once the respected imam of a mosque near Washington, DC, al-Awlaki was exposed as violent extremist and went into hiding in Yemen, where he was killed by a drone strike in 2011.
Yet the terror cleric’s sermons live on online, where they have been responsible for radicalizing scores of young Muslims.
‘He explained how Islam was, you know, like, my calling. It was almost like he was talking to you,’ Warsame explained to Pelley.
‘And like it made you feel like you were special, you know? And like you’re the chosen one. And the more I listened to it, the more it was appealing to me and the more interesting it became.’
Warsame became convinced that committing violence against non-Muslims would be best not just for himself but his family.
‘Most of the videos would talk about how if you would engage in jihad you would be doing your family a favor. And that you would be saving their lives from eternal hell fire,’ he said.
‘And so whether you’re doing something good for your community, whether you’re going to school, whether you have a nice job, all of that, they’re gonna make it seem like it’s worthless. And that there is something greater that you can be doing.’…
Dave says
Ataturk understood this so he put all clerics of turkey in a small ship and sank it in mid ocean to start the move to more secular modern turkey.
until islam came back to power under Erdogan
Savvy Kafir says
Where did you hear that story about Ataturk disposing of clerics in that way?
Dave says
Been long time since I read it. search online you may get it.
gravenimage says
Savvy Kaffir and Dave, this is a myth:
When Atatürk inherited the bleeding remains of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, he moved swiftly and decisively to forge a secular republic. Gone almost overnight were the caliphate and Islamic law; in their place Atatürk put a modern state based specifically on the French laïcité model and the Swiss civil code. The clergy found a strong, unyielding foe in Atatürk. As he saw it, Islam had held Turkey back; secularism would ensure that Turkey could progress. *The myth spread of how he had dealt with recalcitrant mullahs.* Having promised to send them on the Hajj to Mecca, he waited until they set sail and then ordered their ship to be sunk. Islam had a place, but that place was not in the affairs of state.
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2013/04/12/secular-sort-of/
Emphasis mine.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Yes and he assigned the army with the task of protecting the nation from any backsliding back to the ‘caliphate.’ Several times the Turkish army stepped in to protect Turkish secularism.
This last time, either the army was set up with a false flag maneuver or it was simply defeated and … well the move back to the caliphate is well underway.
What I found astounding was that a lot of stupid Westerners were celebrating the Turkish army’s defeat. “A victory for democracy,” they said. What is it they say about ‘those who do not learn from history?’
John A. Marre says
So the religion of Islam inspires him to violence.
Sid says
“He wanted to wage war on non believers” This is a statement we hear repeatedly from extremists.
Part of a free society’s strategy needs to be to have the extremist question his beliefs. A simple way is to question the “supersonic 7th century flying horse theory” in Islam. Somehow most people do not know that the prophet Mohammed reported (and this is documented in the Hadith) that he travelled back and forth between Mecca and Jersusalem overnight on a flying horse called Al Baraq. This is obviously mythology at best and a lie at worst. But it challenges the infallibility of Koran which is what extremists hold so dearly. It is common in the West to call out cow worship in Hinduism and question the parting of the Red Sea in the Old Testament. It is the need of our times to openly discuss the flying horse theory and ask young Muslims whether they honestly believe in it or whether they are willing to accept there are some flaws in Islamic texts.
FYI says
There is a terribly painful unpalatable truth for black people about the great “prophet” of islam.
Muhammed was a…Slave trader:he sold and bought black slaves.
SAHIH MUSLIM 3901
Read it and weep!
It’s a bit awkward and …
It’s really, really ,hard not to laugh because when black people………………..
say “muhammed(peace be upon him)”…..you see…… they are praising an Arab slave trader who
BOUGHT AND SOLD BLACK PEOPLE.
If muhammed appeared today in a mosque full of black people he would say
“Thank you allah…for providing me with such a bountiful supply of.. slaves”
That’s how muhammed and his Arab followers viewed black people.
I mean if you want racism,nothing beats the Arab muslims and their long history of enslaving black people.
Let’s hope the Nation of islam/muslim brotherhood never find that out because it’s really,really awkward…..I mean the fact that muhammed(guilt be upon him)was involved in the slavery of black people shows he didn’t see them as being worth anything compared to Arabs.
SAHIH MUSLIM 3901
moeped says
Not only blacks, any non Arab mulsim and any different sect. It’s interesting how non-arab muslims can often be the most extreme in their…faith.
moeped says
Radicalized on-line? Sorry, doesn’t exist.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Learning about the religion and reciting the Qur’an, he got the idea that he had a duty to wage war against unbelievers.
Well gee, that’s what it says in no uncertain terms right there in the Holy Ko-Ran. So to defuse that damning fact, the media, educators, priests et al. muck up the waters by implying the the Ko-Ran is ok but is perverted “radicals” at their websites and social media. Total bullsheet, but hey, who cares about reality nowadays?
Chris P Bacon says
I often wonder who are the bigger dopes–muslims or minnesotans?
gravenimage says
Minnesota jihadi’s “descent into extremism” began “after he began attending mosque”
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No sh*t…
More:
‘Learning about the religion and reciting the Quran, I started to become more religious. I felt like there was something that was missing in me,’ Warsame said….
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Funny that Jews and Christians and other people of faith who feel that something is missing in their lives don’t decide that that something is slaughtering unbelievers…
Rich says
“There is no such thing as “radical Islam.” I have refused to accept several organizations that seek to combat or expose the antics of “radical” or “extreme” Islam, because I know that it is not extremism that is causing the violence…it’s mainstream, typical, normal, traditional, specified, canonical [based on religious law] Islam.” —Amil Imani (See more below.) [emphasis added]
Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
Excerpts From Some of Mohammad’s Chroniclers:
Sahih Bukhari (52:177) – Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”
Sahih Bukhari (11:626) – [Muhammad said:] “I decided to order a man to lead the prayer and then take a flame to burn all those, who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes.”
But remember always that the Quran allows lies, deceit, cruelty, machinations, and anything else that a Muslim believes will advance Islam. No Muslim is bound to any honor in dealing with the infidels, the unbelievers, the Kafir.
The upshot here is that ALL Muslims – Muslims being anyone who has embraced the religion of Islam – are bound to Sharia, the Code of Law derived from the Quran, the Hadith, and the Sira. It is not for them to question but to obey without question. True, some are more militant than others but the universal truth is that Islam must rule the world by Caliphate; that all will be Muslims; or tax-paying subordinates to Muslims; or dead.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Herne/ronnie108.htm