American Muslim who tried to join Islamic State: “I would not classify myself as a radical”
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And he’s not. He is a devout Muslim. This is authentic Islam, and those who bury their heads in the sand are going to get their asses blown off.
Radical is a Western construct designed to obfuscate the truth about Islam. The radicals are those rare voices in the Muslim world who are calling for expunging the Qur’an of the violent texts and teachings that command jihad, Islamic hatred of the non-believer. Those are the radicals, and under Islam, any Muslim that tries to reform or reinterpret the Qur’an is guilty of hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is punishable by death.
Don Morgan is not a radical. He is a devout Muslim.
“US Muslim who tried to join Islamic State: “I would not classify myself as a radical” By Robert Spencer, September 4, 2014Don Morgan is a convert to Islam; his Muslim name is apparently Nassar Abdul-Rahim, but true to the unanimous practice of the mainstream media, NBC doesn’t use it here. He says: “I would not classify myself as a radical, but by western definition I would be classified as a radical. I just consider myself to be a practicing Muslim.” If it were possible to have a mature and open debate about these issues in America today, which it is not, Muslim leaders in the U.S. who have repudiated the Islamic State could explain why they think of him as a radical, and how he is misunderstanding what it means to be a practicing Muslim. But they won’t, and the cognitive dissonance will continue: on the one hand Muslim and non-Muslim authorities will continue to assure us that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, while the Islamic State will continue to attract those who are the most devout and observant in their practice of Islam.“EXCLUSIVE: American Extremist Reveals His Quest to Join ISIS,” by Richard Engel, James Novogrod and Michele Neubert, NBC News, September 3, 2014:
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