Posted on 06/01/2004 1:58:36 PM PDT by Alouette
The new face of Islamic terrorism is quite a departure from the spacy half-smile of Osama bin Laden and the dead-eyed glare of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; ever since the latest FBI wanted poster came out, its a pudgy, long-haired American kid who appears to be locked in a desperate, losing struggle to grow a beard: Adam Yahiye Gadahn, an American convert to Islam.
Just as they did in the cases of Gadahns fellow converts to Islamic radicalism (John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, British shoe bomber Richard Reid, and others), Western analysts have rushed to ascribe Gadahns involvement with al-Qaeda as a product of his disaffection and alienation, cannily capitalized upon by al-Qaeda operatives to make the boy feel important and give him a place in the world.
Gadahn obligingly supplied the talking heads with plenty of ammunition for this sort of thing in an account of his conversion, apparently self-penned, that is posted on the website of the USC Muslim Students Association. His father was a Muslim, although evidently not a particularly active one, and his mother a Christian. Neither, by his account at least, seems to have made much effort to raise him in either faith, and he says he had some friction with them. For reasons unexplained at one point he tells us that he moved in with his grandparents. I had become obsessed with demonic Heavy Metal music, he says, to the extent that he eschewed personal cleanliness and let my room reach an unbelievable state of disarray."[1] Around that time he discovered Islam by cruising the Internet.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Oh - you can believe it all right . .
-
Lot's of good research on this thread. Thanks!
I'll second that.
~snip~
Thanks for the ping, Happy.
But you're preaching to the chorus.
Let me say if an individual holding United States citizenship's found to be collaborating with the Islamifacists?
They're to be dealt with in the harshest way, just as any other traitor to our nation, pay the supreme price.
Punishment for treason is, I believe, death.
No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
~snip~
Now then, *Braveman*.
"I'd love to hear some refutation from someone, anyone with a shred of credibility."
Well then I'd be *just* the guy you'd be looking for, aina.
"Find the fault in my lying eyes."
An Optometrist would be the guy you need for that.
"I don't want to believe it..."
~& a shrink for that.
But lookit, since I like you I'll save you the time & $$ of the shrink right now.
OK?
The malady you're experiencing's called "Denial".
And interestingly enough?
If you [just] open your eyes (& trust what you see)?
You can dump the Optometrist while you're at it, too.
Sort of a emotional birdie, if you will? :o)
See?
...pretty credible cures, huh. ;^)
LoL
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.