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Friday, August 25, 2006
Richard Reid, shoe-bomber: When disgruntled losers convert to Islam Reid is currently languishing in the Federal Supermax Prison in Colorado with the likes of Ted Kaczynski (the "Unibomber"), Zacarias Moussaoui, Ramzi Yousef and Charles Harrelson, the hitman father of wacko actor Woody Harrelson. What a motley crew of twisted losers! Anyway, details have been released for the first time of a meeting Reid had with a lawyer named Peter Herbert back in 2002. They provide a look-see at Reid's life before the attempted shoe-bombing, his conversion to Islam and his motivations for trying to take down an airliner with himself aboard. Reid is the son of a white British mother and a Jamaican father, with whom his relationship was poor. Neither had any connection to Islam. He converted, like so many others, while in jail as a young man. He said that in prison Islam helped him to understand better the world around him. One shudders to think how confused he must have been before his Islamic "enlightenment." After getting out of jail, he regularly attended mosques around London and became influenced by a plethora of radical imams. They fed him a regular diet of propaganda about the West's intent of oppressing Muslims around the world. That angered him and he said he could "see the injustices against Islam committed by the West with my own eyes." Of course, his own eyes never quite allowed him to see that far more Muslims are oppressed and killed by other Muslims than Westerners, but if he or any other radical Islamists were capable of coming to terms with that, there would be no global jihad going on in the first place. About the attempted shoe-bombing of the plane, he said this: "Of course I would have been sad to have those people die, but I knew that my cause was just and righteous. It was the will of Allah that I did not succeed." It sort of begs the question: If his cause was so just and righteous, why didn't Allah allow him to light his shoe and kill the plane-load of infidels? I guess maybe Allah works in mysterious ways. But forget about the logic of any of it. Radical Islam is a mental disorder and it can never be repeated too much. When asked why young men like himself are willing to commit mass murder and suicide in the name of Islam, Reid replied: "What do you expect people to do?" Any more questions? It all serves to illustrate the dangers of disgruntled and/or alienated Westerners being converted to Islam, a religion that can feed their feelings of victimhood and that offers jihad as the solution. If only Richard Reid had just become a good Christian instead of a Muslim, what are the odds he would've tried to blow up a plane? Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/ Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Greg Strange at 10:56 AM |
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