Bomber's Hometown Blames UK Schooling Not Islam For His Radicalism
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, December 28, 2009, 6:20 AM
He was such a sweet boy.
Undated family photograph of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged in the United States with attempting to blow up an aircraft over Detroit on Christmas Day. Abdulmutallab had been placed on a UK watchlist and barred from entering Britain earlier this year, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said. (AFP)
Local Muslims in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s hometown blame the UK educational system for his radicalization.
Reuters reported, via ROP:
For residents in his home town, it was Umar Abdulmutallab’s foreign education, not his roots in Muslim northern Nigeria, that radicalized him and led him to try to blow up a U.S. passenger plane.
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.
“My only advice to the elite is to allow their children to mingle with the children of the masses so that he will have some of the traditional morals and values that (the elder) Mutallab himself enjoyed,” Bello told Reuters.
Behind him, a group of elderly men were listening to the local Hausa language services of the BBC and Voice of America radio stations, eager to hear the latest developments.
His Nigerian friends say he was a kind and gentle boy.
The Nigerian news website This Day reported:
“The last time I saw him was four years ago in Kaduna, but I am really surprised to hear that he wanted to blow up a plane. I know he used to be religious, but I never imagined he would have the nerves to kill someone.
May be the school he went transformed him, I don’t know, but he was a good boy and his father was a good man,” the 34-year-old Hamza said in Hausa language. Residents of Funtua, the sleepy Katsina State home town of Abdulmutallab, have expressed shock over attempted bombing reports.
Those who spoke with THISDAY yesterday said the reports were not only disturbing, but capable of destroying the good reputation of the father in the community. The attempted bomber was described by neighbours as gentle, nice and one who takes his studies seriously.
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Anonymous commented:
Of course his “schooling” was “Islamic schooling.”
Sadly “Islamic schooling” often seems a lot like what Bill Murray once described as “Army training, sir!”
Old One commented:
The River Denial certainly flows full in northern Nigeria as it does in among all muslims !
kate commented:
It takes a village, or something–Hillary Clinton
wanumba commented:
Mark Steyn mentioned this sort of thing a couple of years ago – the radicalism is showing up in England more than the home countries. The Saudis injected Wahhabism into the Muslim areas with their “gifts” of mosques and a toxic imam each to go with them. Trouble has been brewing since that happened (since the 1970s one mosque after another has appeared across West Africa, and the local tolerance immediately begins to fall). Meanwhile, radicals deliebrately immigrated to Europe and the USA to establish radical enclaves – a flow of radicals out of one area into another.
So, it’s not preposterous for these people to say such a thing.
Doesn’t mean the guy didn’t pick up his radicalism at a Saudi-influenced Nigerian mosque, but he could have just as easily been recruited in UK.
Alice L. commented:
They’re always “gentle and nice” – until they cut you head off. Even if Janet Napolitano is let go, and she should be, the change would be only cosmetic since her boss refuses to believe that Moslems have declared war on us. On another blog, I sure hope that Debbie Schlussel isn’t reviewing another Julie Andrews musical or bashing Palin. Talk about wasting your talent.
bg commented:
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note the “one way street” similarities between the Jihadists & Obama..
WHATEVER THEY DO IT IS NEVER THEIR FAULT..
The Missed Signal on American Muslim Radicalization
[None of the organizations launched any programming at that point to combat the ideology. That failure helps create a mindset that leads five young students with promising futures to give it all up to jihad, said M. Zuhdi Jasser, executive director of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Jasser's organization tries to counter the Islamist hue of the "mainstream" national organizations by advocating a strict separation between faith and public policy.
Groups such as CAIR and MPAC have spread a message that America has been at war with Islam since 9/11, he said, rather than emphasizing the country's efforts to improve life for Muslims.
"Unless they're going to do a 180, saying American soldiers are in Afghanistan liberating Muslims ... unless they change the narrative then this thing they're going to do is useless," Jasser said.
The U.S. has failed to counter the narrative, too, Jasser said. He echoed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman who recently wrote about "The Narrative" that fuels anti-American hostility. More Muslims die from attacks by fellow Muslims than foreign soldiers, he noted, but:
"The Narrative is the cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America that have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world since 9/11. Propagated by jihadist Web sites, mosque preachers, Arab intellectuals, satellite news stations and books — and tacitly endorsed by some Arab regimes — this narrative posits that America has declared war on Islam, as part of a grand 'American-Crusader-Zionist conspiracy' to keep Muslims down.
Yes, after two decades in which U.S. foreign policy has been largely dedicated to rescuing Muslims or trying to help free them from tyranny — in Bosnia, Darfur, Kuwait, Somalia, Lebanon, Kurdistan, post-earthquake Pakistan, post-tsunami Indonesia, Iraq and Afghanistan — a narrative that says America is dedicated to keeping Muslims down is thriving."]
Confronting the Reality of Homegrown Jihadist Terror in 2009
["What happens in Europe is simply a prelude to what is happening here," Phares said. The argument that "America is different" is actually "an argument advanced by jihadi propagandists for strategic reasons."
They want "to cover up for the gradual expansion of the jihadi ideology before it reaches a critical mass comparable to Europe's," he told the IPT.]
CAIR’s One-way Attack on Free Speech
[Recently the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), had asked Obama to address what they call an "alarming level of anti-Islam hate" in the country. While it is true that the voices against Islam in America are on the rise, CAIR fails to mention that there is a very good reason that our voices are on the rise. What they fail to mention and condemn is what pro-Sharia Muslims are saying across America. You see CAIR is like Islam, a one-way street. Muslims can say whatever they want, but according to them we can only say what they approve of. Which is no criticism of Islam.]
Obama Administration Stacking the Deck with Islamists
[Abdul-Malik also makes no bones about discussing how the election of President Obama is a step forward in the project of Islamization and the long term goal of Islamist domination which falls right in lock-step with that of the Muslim Brotherhood as revealed in their manifesto.]
and much much more..
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bg commented:
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Obama Quietly Backing Muslim Brotherhood
[China Confidential has learned that the Obama administration is quietly backing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in an attempt to curry favor with the banned Islamist opposition group.
In response to the Brotherhood’s emergence from elections in 2005
as Egypt’s main opposition group, the government of President Hosni Mubarak has wisely banned religion-based political parties. The government has introduced legislation preventing Muslim Brothers
from standing in elections as independent candidates.
The government has also sought to cripple the
movement by arresting hundreds of its members.
Obama’s engagement of the Brotherhood recalls the Eisenhower administration’s covert support for the group in a failed attempt to topple the secular nationalist Nasser regime and the catastrophic Carter administration’s covert backing of the Ayatollah Khomeini and craven betrayal of Iran’s pro-American, modernizing monarch, the Shah, in a disastrous attempt to hop aboard the Islamist bandwagon in that country.
The world’s oldest and largest Islamic political group, the Muslim Brotherhood was founded by the Egyptian schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928. It spawned Al Qaeda, among other groups, and serves as the center of the global Islamist movement.]
flashback:
Muslim Activist Warns Obama of ‘Unholy Alliance’
[In an interview with Israel National News, Jasser said that Egyptian officials have facilitated the Muslim Brotherhood for a century with a public love-hate relationship. The Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, he charged, "has served as a platform for 'Islamism' around the world, hatching the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 20th century."
[..]
“In essence, one will find an unholy alliance in many of the Arab nations between the secular fascists and the Islamists,” Jasser noted. “I hope President Obama addresses this unholy alliance – which I’ve termed two heads of a snake – in Egypt when he visits.”
[..]
Jasser slammed Obama’s decision to speak from Egypt, which he said suffered from a repressive leadership. “President Obama should address the two-fold cancer which plagues reform and modernization in the so-called “Muslim world,” he said. “That cancer is Arab secular fascism (i.e. the Mubarak regime) and radical Islamism (i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Azhar University).” If Obama avoids these two issues, he said, he would be avoiding one of his responsibilities as leader of the free world.
To speak in Egypt and avoid the topics of political Islam, radical Islamism, and the Muslim Brotherhood, Jasser added, “will be like visiting Moscow in the height of the Cold War and avoiding any mention of the inhumanities of communism and its incompatibility with liberty.”]
The “Project”
you can Google The Muslim Brotherhood Project & The
Muslim Brotherhood Project (Continued) for more info..
The Third Jihad
again, just a sample of much more..
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Boogy commented:
U.K. Schools teach that the USA is the evil empire, full of racism and warmongers. No wonder the UK is updating its trident missiles without the US involvement this time. They believe they are the 18-19 th century conquers of the world, again.
AuntieMadder commented:
Ah, yes, the UK educational system has a long history of radicalizing kids. It first became obvious during the British invasion of the 1960s, when those mop-topped terrorists who went by the code name of “The Fab Four,” bombed the Ed Sullivan show…on live TV, no less. Then, there was Shea Stadium, where the Fab Four caused an arena full of teenage girls to scream bloody murder at the tops of their lungs.
Oh, yes, those Brits, via their public education system, have been churning out jihadis for the purpose of terrorizing the US for decades now
bandit commented:
The AP release on Saturday said “The motives were unclear” – Muslim on terror watchlist tries to blow up a commercial airliner on Christmas Day – a mystery as to why.
bg commented:
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Boiling The Infidel Frog
Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in
a country to agitate for their so-called ‘religious rights.’
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone.
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to
their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for
the introduction of halal and work to get the ruling government to allow
them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats.
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia
formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning.
At 40% you will find widespread massacres,
chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare.
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing, use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels.
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide.
100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ – the Islamic House of Peace – there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim.
Obama [confirmed] nominee supports Islamic Sharia law in U.S.
Harold Koh Confirmed
Obama’s UN Resolution to Stifle Free Speech on Islam
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Don Rodrigo commented:
The Nigerians from the would-be bombers home area do have a point, sort of. Modern UK schooling, especially at university, probably did play a role in his radicalization. Not necessarily the overall curriculum, but the kinds of associations he could have made while in the readicalized atmosphere of UK “higher” education. Also, the bomber’s father did warn authorities months ago that his son was a problem and a potential danger.
This all does beg the question, though: why don’t we here a lot more from ‘moderate’ Muslims, and why aren’t such ‘moderates’ a lot more aggressive in taking care of the supposed misfits themeselves?
Finally, the bomber didn’t try to commit the act on general radical principles, but he did so in the name of Islam. Since Nigeria has few constitutional niceties to worry about, why don’t they deal harshly forthrightly with such ‘radicalized’ youth?
AuntieMadder commented:
The timing couldn’t have been any better for Obamao and the Democrappers in WA. I mean, the bombing attempt has totally distracted the news media and blogosphere from the bribery and other corruption surrounding Obamacare.
Hmmm…Muslim kid, bomb that didn’t detonate, wealthy father, Obamao and Holder giving terrorists criminal trials, no shortage of unethical, libturded, US-hating defense attorneys…The heat’s temporarily off the Democrappers and Obamacare, no one was killed or seriously injured, kid will end up free as a bird in a matter of months…It makes me wonder.
bg commented:
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let me make this perfectly clear, “I am not a Muslim” ~ B Hussein O
“as a boy i spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the Azan”
Obama Recites The Islamic Call To Prayer In Perfect Arabic
“mengaji”
[“The actual usage of the word ‘mengaji’ in Indonesian and Malaysian societies means the study of learning to recite the Quran in the Arabic language rather than the native tongue. “Mengagi” is a word and a term that is accorded the highest value and status in the mindset of fundamentalist societies here in Southeast Asia. To put it quite simply, ‘mengaji classes’ are not something that a non practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever send their child to. To put this in a Christian context, this is something above and beyond simply enrolling your child in Sunday school classes.”
“The fact that Obama had attended mengaji classes is well known in Indonesia and has left many there wondering just when Obama is going to come out of the closet.”]
Indonesians see Obama, they don’t see him as an apostate
at all, they see him as a crusader for the cause of Islam]
repeat, just a sample..
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bg commented:
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sarc on/
oh yeah, whatever you do, don’t jump to conclusions..
a tad more here (some YT vids have been
deleted from the web, can’t imagine why..)
/sarc off
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Chisum commented:
Monday, December 28, 2009
Al Qaeda in Yemen Claims Responsibility For Latest Attack
I guess that all but settles that. A little Christmas present of sorts for Obama. Or call it a vacation note to the Prez. It was always only a matter of time before they decided to get in his face – and ours, unfortunately. No word from Bin Laden so far. I wonder if he’s still around?
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/12/al-qaeda-in-yemen-claims-responsibility-for-latest-attack.html
bg commented:
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AuntieMadder @ 1:38 pm #12
re: [Ah, yes, the UK educational system
has a long history of radicalizing kids. ]
eh, US kids are being radicalized too!!
not to mention this..
i cannot stress enough how much more has
been & is going on under the radar.. *sigh*
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AuntieMadder commented:
bg
December 28th, 2009 | 2:11 pm | #20
Yeah. It’s sad in that the deck is stacked against those of us who try to share the truth about Islam; it seems so futile. And it’s ironic that the very enligtened liberalism that compels them to scoff at us while they embrace Muslims is what will, when the time is right, compel Muslims to execute them in the name of Islam.
AuntieMadder commented:
Btw, I still think it’s absurd that his people are blaming his UK education for him being hell-bent on jihad as if it has nothing to do with him being Muslim.
bg commented:
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AuntieMadder @ 1:50 pm #16
noted that in a previous thread..
not to mention the O’s 3 Winter White House
Mansion Rentals @ taxpayer expense of over
26.7 mil (maybe more, i’m a tad bad at math)..
[2009 = Obamas went on lavish $12,000+/day Hawaiian luxury trip, renting three side-by-side-by-side mansions on a beach “favored by Hawaiian royalty”]
and it wasn’t the first time..
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bg commented:
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re: bg @ 2:52 pm #23
now we know why Hawaii won’t release BHO’s BC..
too lucrative a deal it being kept secret..
not to mention attracting bil/millionaire Middle Easterners
seeing as how Hawaii has also declared an “Islam Day”..
like i said, we have no idea what’s going on under the radar.. *sigh*
but i can tell you one thing, it’s all about what
money can buy, it’s always the bottom line..
oh yeah, speaking of BC’s..
Obama Hires Terrorist-Connected Lawyer
To Defend Forged Birth Certificate Lawsuit
to think all this could have been avoided had they revealed the truths about Obama, yet they cannot because he is at the hub of the IslaMarxist quest for a New World Order..
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AuntieMadder commented:
bg
December 28th, 2009 | 2:52 pm | #23
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AuntieMadder @ 1:50 pm #16
noted that in a previous thread..
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I didn’t see that one. We must share the same brand of paranoia.
Marsh commented:
I agree with them. The leftist universities in the Westwen world spew so much anti-Western hate and do so much apologizing for islamofascism I’m surprised more liberals haven’t turned to terrorism. Right Bill Ayers?
bg commented:
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AuntieMadder @ 3:30 pm #25
re: [We must share the same brand of paranoia.]
ROTFLMBO!!
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bg commented:
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btw..
re: [Mr Abdulmutallab was barred from returning to the UK earlier this year, a government source said. He is believed to have studied mechanical engineering at University College London (UCL) between 2005 and 2008 and, according to a newspaper report, tried to return for another course in May.]
i’d still like to know why he [Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab] wasn’t
allowed back in the UK or the University.. anyone know anything
about that??
thanks..
ps: some interesting/informative posts/vids in here..
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Jaan Krats commented:
The islamisation of Western Europe and USA can only be stopped when their governments are more afraid from their own people than from the muslims. Now the opposite is true.
Look at Belgium where Minister President van Rompuy did give a general pardon to all illegals, who are mostly trouble causing Moroccons, criminals and other thugs. This van Rompuy is despite this foolish criminal decision rewarded as President of Europe. So a complete imbecile is running Europe!
All these idiots as Brown, Balkenende, van Rompuy, Bildt, Nobel Committee in Oslo, Obama etc. must be removed from power, when they don’t go voluntarely the people must help them to go. It is no longer when Europe and USA will be islamic but only: When?
Joanne commented:
The truth is the UK houses some of the most radical Muslims in the world, even to the point where radical Muslim countries would not even allow them to preach such radicalism in their own countries. This fella would have been radicalized by Muslims of similar beliefs in the UK, not radicalized by the local white British.
Joanne commented:
And whatever happened to being responsible for your own actions anyhow. The left tends to blame everything rotten they do on someone else.
John Burke commented:
They don’t call it “Londonistan” for nothing. On the whole, Nigeria’s Muslims have not rallied to extremism in sharp contrast to Saudis, Yemenis and some others. It continues to be deeply troublesome that Britain continues to tolerate active nests of violence-prone Islamic extremists at well-known mosques and among university students.
bg commented:
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Gaddafi is right..
excerpt:
“Today, we are correcting human history from here, in Timbuktu.
We have fifty million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe – without swords, without guns, without conquests. The fifty million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.
Allah mobilizes the Muslim nation of Turkey, and adds it to the European Union. That’s another 50 million Muslims. There will be 100 million Muslims in Europe. Albania, which is a Muslim country, has already entered the EU. Bosnia, which is a Muslim country, has already entered the EU. 50 percent of its citizens are Muslims.
[...]
Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time, or else declare war on the Muslims.”
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bg commented:
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i just heard via ITN news that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
had also been attending school in the United Arab Emirates..
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apodoca commented:
What hypocrites these Muslims be! They never thought he’d have the nerve to kill someone? Ask the Christians, in Kaduna and other places where they live amongst Muslims in Nigeria, about how easy the Muslims find it to kill and over any pretext!