THEN:
As a spoken word artist, Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame liked to talk to other young Somalis about following their dreams. In a video posted online in 2011, the teenager stands at a microphone and encourages teens to stay focused on their goals in life.
NOW:
But at his plea hearing, Warsame told the judge he was already in thrall to Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Islamic cleric killed in Yemen in 2011, listening to his lectures on the internet and watching videos of beheadings. He said he came to believe his duty as a devout Muslim was to take up arms against non-Muslims.
Perhaps his role in life is to serve as a bad example.
(Johnny Cash knows all about bad choices, but nobody named "Mohamed" ever listened to Cash.)
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Some would say he has to follow his religious convictions.
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