How absolutely abhorrent are the acts this individual committed. As parents, we can only offer our best when we raise our children. What our children choose to do after that is their decision. We have prayed and hoped and believed in Proverbs 22:6, just as our parents did for us. Praise be to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Praying for healing of heart, mind, and soul for this troubled individual, his family, the victims and their families, and our nation.
Amen.
I can’t imagine - and hope and pray I never have to find out - what it is like to have a child get caught in a cult and become a murderous thug.
Seems like he was first involved in drugs, which suggests a progression. One of his tattooes was RIP to somebody, which makes me wonder if he turned to drugs while grieving, which got him into the prison and from there the Muslim cult got him.
I don’t know what the story is, but this man has definitely been possessed by the demon that is Islam, and I pray that he will be restored to a right mind/spirit.
I didn’t watch the video of the altercation between the family and the police at the hospital but I read the description. Sounds like the family was at the hospital for hours hoping to see the jihadist but wasn’t allowed to visit him. While they were there somebody from their church who didn’t know what had happened wanted the mom to come see his sick wife and pray with her - which the staff and police interpreted as a backdoor attempt to sneak in and see the jihadist.
I don’t know what kind of church it was, but somebody expecting that the mom would come pray with his wife suggests that the family may be Christian. Maybe they’ve been worried about him and didn’t know what to do. Maybe their church is PC so they thought everything would be fine (hard to believe that, though, since they were FB friends with him so should have seen what he was like). Hard to tell. But I imagine they are probably hurting badly right now.