His parents then paid for him to travel to Yemen to study Arabic. They lost track of him after he moved on to Pakistan, where he studied the Quran at a religious school.
His PARENTS PAID for him to travel to Yemen?? These people are pathetic.. they typify the parental movement that views themselves as facilitators rather than parents.
We could look on the bright side. Suppose he had had his conversion experience at 16 after viewing "Silence of the Lambs"?
Dad: "Well son, Hannibal Lector isn't someone I would choose for an example to pattern my life after. But who am I to diss your choice? All I ask is that you don't eat your mother or me."