Posted on 12/30/2009 1:29:14 AM PST by myknowledge
The 23-year-old London-educated Nigerian was charged on Saturday in the United States with trying to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day with almost 300 people on board.
The son of a highly respected banker, Abdulmutallab's actions shocked Nigeria's wealthy elite and residents in his family's predominantly Muslim northern hometown of Funtua.
"Everyone knew the Mutallabs and the father is honest, generous, helpful and above all a prominent banker. I cannot see why his son should be involved in this act," Funtua resident Ibrahim Bello, 65, said, close to the Mutallab family home.
Like other elders from the community, Bello said Abdulmutallab's schooling abroad meant he had been brought up outside the customs of northern Nigeria, a region with a history of moderate Sufi Islam.
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The so called religion of peace isn't peaceful in Nigeria either.
His father is honest and he is not responsible for the atrocious act of his son and the townspeople are likely ignorant, shocked and humiliated. I can understand that, but it’s not like Nigeria is a peaceful country or that Islam is a religion of peace. Surely these people are well aware of terrorism wrought by Islamofascists and it wasn’t born and cultivated in Western schools.
ah, yes, the poor lad is just another “victim”
Indeed, a victim of Western schooling! Forget ALL about Islam. Do not refer to him as a Muslim terrorist. Obama doesn’t.
a couple of beers in the Rose Garden and this can all be cleared up.
“Indeed, a victim of Western schooling! Forget ALL about Islam.”
And for get all about the Saudi funded Wahabi mosques he and others attend...
ROFL!
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