Posted on 09/04/2014 12:36:25 PM PDT by armydawg505
Just a few weeks ago a Catholic-born, American man –- a former military school student, special forces aspirant, law enforcement officer and bodybuilder -- set off on a path far from any he'd envisioned for himself as a kid in North Carolina: on the other side of the world, in Lebanon, he was trying to figure out how to get into Syria and join ISIS, the most radical, bloodthirsty terrorist group of our times.
Don Morgan, 44, said he was answering a higher calling.
Read more on Don Morgan and his quest to join ISIS from NBC News “It was months and months and months of asking Allah to guide me or to give me the answers I needed,” he told NBC News in an exclusive interview this summer in Beirut.
Morgan answered our questions on camera as asked by a freelance journalist. Morgan believed U.S. and other law enforcement agencies were already on his trail. He said he knew his desire to join ISIS would likely get him into trouble with American authorities.
The factors that drove Morgan to embrace the ideology of the terror group responsible for beheading two American journalists and killing thousands in Syria and Iraq appear to be rooted in more than faith, based on the extensive conversation with Morgan himself and some of those who know him. Personal disappointments and desires and exposure to increasingly radical social media also contributed to Morgan's actions.
Most crucial in Morgan's case may have been the order and discipline that he says he found in practicing Islam –and in ISIS's interpretation of the Muslim faith and its determination to spread it in the form of a caliphate.
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Losers like this seem to wind up as Jihadis or homosexuals. they need tp find something outside of themselves to explain and justify their many failures and overall stupidity
Mid-Life crisis. I used to work for a guy who had built a nice little business. Then he turned 50 and decided he wanted to be some sort of Mafia tough guy. I left. Last I heard he was doing 7 years in prison....sad.
“Losers like this seem to wind up as Jihadis or homosexuals.”
OMG the horror...what if all Jihadis are homosexual. Not only will they behead someone, but forcibly sodomize them before the beheading...eeeewwwwww, that is just wrong right there.
Reminds me of the old Eddie Murphy standup routine when he talks about Mr. T being a homosexual....
Napalm can solve many issues
"No thanks."
No doubt one of many out there.
“...Then he turned 50 and decided he wanted to be some sort of Mafia tough guy....”
I’m waiting until I’m 65 and then I’ll do something that gets me put away for maybe 30 years. Planned retirement, if you will. Or should I take an early out? Never know if they can continue feeding prisoners in this day and age.
Very sad.
I have tossed the idea of trying out Civil Air Patrol around.
Anybody who converts to the death cult must lose his American citizenship and be deported.
A lot of them get involved in the Moslem cult in jail.
What a dufus!
Rand Paul suggests anyone who goes to the middle east to support ISIS should have their passports revoked. Sounds good to me. Let him rot in a Turkish prison.
Churches are failing the USA, if here in N.C. the heart of the “Bible Belt” we aren’t reaching out to people like this who NEED Jesus, before they are to far gone and radicalized.
I’m 51 and I’ve just started a major career change. Sometimes I wonder if I’m making a wise decision or if this is a mid life crisis thing.
My plan does not include breaking laws, fast cars or women, so I’m hoping for the former.
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