Bizman: Lindh was my gay lover / A step on the road to Taliban

New York Daily News ^ | 9/30/02 | JOSE MARTINEZ

[kattracks]

John Walker Lindh's "dangerous journey" into Islamic militancy was cemented by a sexual relationship with a Pakistani businessman who guided the American Taliban turncoat toward schools that fueled his hatred for the United States, a news magazine reported yesterday.

"It was the beginning of the dangerous journey, the first jaunt, the pleasure journey," Mufti Mohammad Iltimas Khan, a spiritual adviser, said of Lindh's encounter with the businessman.

Time magazine said Lindh's religious journey was marked by a series of turns that led from a wealthy San Francisco suburb to an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan - notably an encounter with a Pakistani man who says he was Lindh's lover.

'Ready to stay with me'

Lindh met Khazar Hayat in the fall of 1999 as the businessman toured California with missionaries. The meeting prompted Lindh to make a second trip to Yemen and then to Hayat's home in Pakistan.

"He was ready to stay with me," Hayat, a married father of four, told Time. "But I pushed him into the madrasah," he added, using the Islamic word for religious school.

Lindh's lawyers deny their client had a gay affair.

Lindh, 21, was captured by American soldiers last November after an Afghanistan prison uprising in which a CIA operative was killed.

He pleaded guilty in July to a single count of providing support to the Taliban - after prosecutors dropped other counts accusing Lindh of joining Al Qaeda and conspiring to kill Americans.

With Lindh facing 20 years in prison at a sentencing hearing on Friday, his lawyers have put forth a portrait of a sweet-faced kid who was drawn into radical Islam in a quest for spirituality. They deny he was a terrorist.

Magazine articles portray Lindh as a curious youth who roamed the Internet for information about Islam, protected his kid sister and sang himself to sleep as a toddler.

Lindh's parents supported their son's overseas travels and encouraged his curiosity. Frank Walker and Marilyn Lindh divorced in June 1999, months after Walker disclosed he was gay.

In February 2000, John Walker Lindh returned to Yemen, where he kept notebooks with phrases like, "We shall make jihad as long as we live."

[zarf]

This is too much, my head is going to exploce.

[NYCVirago]

"It was the beginning of the dangerous journey, the first jaunt, the pleasure journey," Mufti Mohammad Iltimas Khan, a spiritual adviser, said of Lindh's encounter with the businessman.

Yikes! Like father, like son!

[Elkiejg]

This smells like a defense plan -- "you can't convict him, it will be 'alternative lifestyle' profiling".

[patriciaruth]

Like father, like son!

Facts: Father is gay. Son wouldn't speak with father, wrote letters/email only to mother.

Question: Did father molest son? Did an event like that trigger son's hadj?

As long as we are doing a psych profile with practically zero reliable information, I thought I'd throw that question in.

[johnny7]

Cheek-spreading traitor! Put him in general population. It will “broaden” his eliptical horizons.

[Elsie]

Lindh met Khazar Hayat in the fall of 1999 as the businessman toured California with missionaries.

Uh.......... what KIND of 'missionaries'???

[DWSUWF]

"...This is too much, my head is going to exploce..."

Nature used to turn gene pools like this into cave bear's dinners.

Then man wised up (minimally) and began to manipulate the laws of nature to his benefit.

Now we have a situation where semi-human debris like this family are able to maintain their tenuous grasp on existence, day after endless day.

But mother nature is a cagey old strumpet.

And she will have the last laugh...

One way or another.

[aristeides]

The Taliban execute homosexuals by toppling walls on them, but we have guys like these ones attracted to their cause, and reports that Atta, for example, was also homosexual. There's some deep cognitive dissonance going on here, the same kind of love-hate relationship towards homosexuality that was also present in the Nazis.

[tabsternager]

A friend of mine who worked for many years in Arab countries told me that there was rampant homosexuality among the muslims. It wasn't all that surprising to me to hear that, considering how they disrespect women.

[aristeides]

So why do you think somebody like Rat Boy Walker would be attracted to a radical version of Islam that executes homosexuals not despite his homosexuality, but precisely through his homosexuality? Isn't that weird?

[Mike Darancette]

Lindh's lawyers deny their client had a gay affair.

It will soon be different,

[cajungirl]

A spiritual advisor helps his advissee on the road to homosexuality? If that is not a perversion, I don't know what is unless the priests doing the same thing is the same thing. What is it about these guys combining religion and sex??

[ValerieUSA]

I saw no indication that was anything sexually normal about the creep.

[I still care]

People have been combining religion and sex since time immemorial. Now I know Afghanistan is full of homosexuals, and the Taliban outlawed it. In fact, I read several articles where the rise of the Taliban was related to the rampant homosexuality and abuse ongoing in Afghanistan - normal, moral people were sick of the perversions and gave power to the Taliban, because they seemed the only ones willing to stop it. Unfortunately, they got more than they bargained for.

I agree with Pat Robertson when he said Mohammed was perverted. There are so many rules about sexuality in Islam I wonder they do anything at all. I mean, do you know that Moslems have to shave their private parts? I thought it strange upon hearing this, especially since Mohammed took at least one wife under 10 years old.

And they terribly disrespect their women, to the point of abuse. So I am not surprised to hear there is a special "comraderie" between many Muslim men. I mean, in Afghanistan women are kept locked up in houses with veils over their heads so you can't even see their eyes. This is not natural or healthy for either sex. I would think that the more secluded the woman, the more likely to have homosexuality in the male population. That is just my personal take.

[Galtoid]

Whoa. T.M.I.

[mhking]

John Walker Lindh's "dangerous journey" into Islamic militancy was cemented by a sexual relationship with a Pakistani businessman who guided the American Taliban turncoat toward schools that fueled his hatred for the United States, a news magazine reported yesterday.

"Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

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[Guillermo]

Yes of course, we are prosecuting Lindh for being homosexual. I can hear it already...

[Welsh Rabbit]

Yikes! Like father, like son!

Yep... The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.