Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the idea that his new religion commands him to do violence against unbelievers. Who taught Al Hindi about Islam? Where did he go to mosque? Why isn’t this being investigated?
“Kerala engineer ‘Abu Bakr’ who was killed fighting for Islamic State in Libya, appears in IS magazine, security agencies on alert,” OpIndia, August 22, 2022:
Security agencies in India have swung into action after the images of a Kerala engineer who was supposedly killed while fighting for the Islamic State (IS) in Libya appeared once again in the IS propaganda magazine Voice of Khorasan, according to a report by The New Indian Express.
The recent issue of Voice of Khorasan, the Islamic State’s mouthpiece in Afghanistan and surrounding regions, had a story about Abu Bakr Al Hindi, “who was born in Kerala in a Christian family.” The agencies have now contacted engineers’ associations in Bengaluru and Kerala to gather more information about this individual. Unfortunately, the inquiry has been hampered by lack of information concerning Abu’s true identity as well as data about his family.
The Keralite was mentioned in an IS document titled ‘Know your martyrs,’ which stated that Abu Bakr Al-Hindi was a Christian who converted to Islam while working in the Gulf. According to the paper, he is the first Indian ‘Istishhadi’ (suicide bomber) to be killed in the African continent.
According to the article in Voice of Khorasan, Abu was drawn to Islam after reading about ‘Prophet Isa and his mother Maryam’ in material supplied by a bookstall. He was recruited to the IS after hearing the lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki, the dreaded preacher executed in a US drone strike in 2011. According to the magazine, Abu’s repeated attempts to relocate to IS-controlled territory in Yemen failed owing to logistical obstacles, but the chance to join the Libyan module eventually came up with the support of his Gulf connections.
Abu received military training in Sirte after arriving in Libya. The current issue of the magazine mentions, “Brother Abu Bakr joined operation istishhadi (suicide attack). When the apostates reached gate 40, he was selected and carried out istishhadi operation on the murtaddin and attained martyrdom.”…
somehistory says
In my opinion, knowing what I do about Christianity, he was never Christian. He may have lived in a family of Christians, or a family that claimed to be Christian, but he was never a True Christian.
Much as Judas Iscariot never really loved Jesus as the other Apostles did; and so turned to stealing and betrayal. This terrorist….same kind of heart, same kind of thinking…selfishness and a desire to profit from evil ideas.
Infidel says
If I recall right, this is an old story, maybe a couple of years. This guy was in the Emirates and was surprised to learn from his co-workers that islam has Jesus. Not sure how much he knew about Christ, or whether he was taught the truth about Isa, who’s a very different character. Anyway, he flipped to islam, signed up, managed to get to Libya, since on his papers, he was an Indian Christian, not a usual source of jihadists, and then was killed before he could inflict damage
Before Christian missionaries in India try converting anybody, they should start describing to their existing followers the differences b/w Christianity & Islam, and the truth about ‘Isa’, so that other Christians won’t go this route.
somehistory says
‘there are a lot of people who call themselves Christian who actually know very little about the Bible and don’t really understand what defines a Chrisitan. there are many more who know even less about islam.
I was told, many, many years ago, that mozlums were a lot like Christians…and of course, it was not true then, and it isn’t true now.
Many still ‘preach’ that garbage, however and make the claim that the God of Christians and Jews is the same ‘god’ that mozlums worship.
Anyone who ‘teaches’ Christianity, or “preaches” the Good News about Christ, should first have a good understand of those things so as not to mislead others.
somehistory says
a good understanding…
gravenimage says
Agreed, Somehistory.
gravenimage says
India: Engineer converts from Christianity to Islam, is killed waging jihad for ISIS in Libya
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Gee–you might almost think that ISIS had something to do with Islam–despite our constantly being told that the Islamic State is nothing to do with Islam…