Yet another convert to Islam misunderstands his new, peaceful religion, and gets the idea that it has something to do with waging war against unbelievers. Authorities remain resolutely incurious about this phenomenon.
Oxford University would never have dared question his bona fides as a “moderate.” That would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Oxford University worker suspended over alleged Islamist terror links,” Telegraph, October 28, 2017:
A staff member at Oxford University has been suspended from work after it was alleged online material had emerged showing he had links to Islamic terrorism.
University bosses ordered the action after learning the ‘non-academic’ employee, whose identity has not been revealed, had been arrested for terrorism offences and detained in Italy five years ago.
It was alleged at the time that the man was involved in spreading extremist material, and although he denied committing an offence, he spent two-and-a-half years in a number of prisons.
He reportedly sent emails containing links to download operational manuals on how to execute terror ‘attacks and guerilla techniques’.
Yesterday (Saturday) The university confirmed it had ‘immediately’ alerted Thames Valley Police when senior staff learned of the man’s background earlier this month, and an internal investigation has been ordered.
It’s not known what job he has at the university, or whether he was in a position to seek to influence students should he have chosen to do so.
It is also not clear how long the man, who is believed to be in his mid-30s, has been employed by the university or has lived in the UK.
Reports in Italy at the time of his March 2012 arrest said he had been detained in the Marche region in the east of the country.
An operation by Italian authorities and the Cagliari State Police led to his arrest as part of a wider investigation into Jihadi extremism.
He converted to Islam after studying Arabic, had changed his name and wanted to travel to Afghanistan to ‘join the war-fighting formations of the ‘Holy War’, the reports added.
He was reported to have been in a relationship with a Moroccan woman,and that counter-terrorism police in Italy arrested him as he was about to leave the country and go to Rabat, Morocco.
The man, along with others, was considered a major link between international Jihadists and ‘the Italian network’, it was reported, and may have served a prison sentence in a number of ‘institutions’ across Italy, before his release in 2014.
He subsequently moved to England, where he was eventually employed by Oxford University….
mortimer says
Any Muslim, whether secularized or ‘moderate’ can suddenly increase his faith and conduct jihad after he learns that it is a duty and obligation incumbent upon the Muslim community.
Any Muslim could quickly turn into a Major Dr. Hasan Nidal who murdered unarmed soldiers standing in line in a military clinic while screaming Allah Akbar.
Isn’t that an image for us all to carry in our minds. Wherever there are congregations of dirty kafirs, a Muslim may suddenly decide it is TIME FOR JIHAD and go after them with knives, stones, automobiles, guns or bombs.
Wouldn’t it be a surprise for Oxford if a Muslim employee became inflamed with the desire for suicide martyr and let loose at Oxford. All those Islam-pandering dons would start learning about Islam in a hurry.
Why are university teachers and professors not TEACHING THE PUBLIC about the dangers of jihad and AL WALAA WAL BARAA?
mortimer says
Correction: Nidal Hasan
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Any Muslim, whether secularized or ‘moderate’ can suddenly increase his faith and conduct jihad after he learns that it is a duty and obligation incumbent upon the Muslim community. ”
Unfortunately this is probably very true.
From a Christian perspective, every person is a fallen creature though made in the image of the Creator. At any time it is possible for any of us to become sensitive to our fallen condition and to begin to seek for ways to rid ourselves of the sense of having done wrong, since we all have done wrong.
In a land whose culture is deeply influenced by Christian concepts of morality, a person beginning to have those feelings will generally gravitate towards Christian ideas of better conduct, simply because those values are what the culture recognizes as the Good.
This shift will tend to produce what we would all probably confess to be a better life – less lying, less stealing, less sexual immorality, less drug use of whatever kind, and certainly less inclination to murder other people.
Almost exactly the reverse seems to be the case when we look at the results of a similarly affected person who, because of their surrounding cultural influence, gravitates towards islamic concepts of morality.
For the newly pious muslim who seeks to relieve himself of guilt over wrong doings, and strive towards God in the way he has been led to believe is true, behavior in many cases turns towards death, rather than life – anger, hatred, arrogance, even physical violence on smaller or greater scales.
From a New Testament perspective, even the repetitious manner of prayer with it’s obvious focus on being seen while doing it, and the other overtly externalized religious signs, are forms of idolatry and evil.
Going back to your statement above, i can only agree; people from Christian cultures are very unlikely to become dangerous to other people through an increase in religiosity, while those from islamic cultures have a much higher likelihood of becoming so.
The problem is not the people in themselves. The problem is islam and it’s toxic effect when followed to any real degree of commitment.
gravenimage says
Yes–the Christian and Islamic understanding of what constitute good works could not be more different.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim Oxford U staffer suspended after it was found he was arrested for terror offenses
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I guess it’s a good sign that a Muslim can still get suspended for something like this at an institution of higher learning in Islamophilic Britain today.
David says
We need more good news like this. Let’s hope he will be convicted and added to the ever-increasing muslim prison population.