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Prominent European Islamic Terrorist Renounces Extremism
Atlantic ^ | 10/19/10 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Posted on 10/19/2010 8:48:28 AM PDT by Nachum

A key figure in one of Europe's most infamous Islamic extremist networks has written a public letter renouncing whole swathes of the ideology that led him to try to murder non-believers. On Saturday a Dutch newspaper published what Jason Walters, an imprisoned member of the Netherlands-based "Hofstad Group," calls a "review document." The letter offers a window into the mind of a man who dedicated his life to spreading a militant version of Islam, by force when he deemed it necessary. It joins a small but important list of similar recantations, which have become a tool for counterterrorism officials seeking

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: european; islamic; prominent; terrorist
Keep your powder dry
1 posted on 10/19/2010 8:48:34 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

so he isn’t actually quitting islam; I guess there can’t be a fatwa on his towel-draped head.


2 posted on 10/19/2010 8:50:04 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (defeat islam.)
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To: Nachum

Taqiyyah, hudnah, whatever.

It’s most likely a trick.

Don’t trust muzzies at all.


3 posted on 10/19/2010 8:51:25 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Nachum

When the other 999,999,999 renounce it I will sleep soundly.


4 posted on 10/19/2010 8:56:22 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Nachum
interesting development...

I will follow your advice.

5 posted on 10/19/2010 9:11:59 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform)
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