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  • Ex-terrorist trainee urges reform of radical Islam

    06/26/2007 9:10:35 AM PDT · by george76 · 15 replies · 692+ views
    The Daily Sentinel ^ | June 25, 2007 | MIKE McKIBBIN
    Ending terrorism won’t happen until radical Islam is reformed, a former terrorist-in-training said Monday night ... Born in Egypt to a secular Muslim family, Tawfik Hamid joined the extremist Islamic group Jemma Islamiya while a student in medical school, and said he remembers being preached to by a doctor named Ayman al-Zawahiri, now second-in-command in al-Qaida. “They suppressed my critical thinking and transformed me into a beast from an innocent child,” ... “I regret I became a beast that thought of burning churches and mosques. Fortunately, my conscience and upbringing made me realize what they were teaching was violence and...