Sunday, April 10, 2016

Then and Now ... (bad choices & consequences)

Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame And ISIS: A Cautionary Tale  WCCO | CBS Minnesota: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —

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.
Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame (credit: Anoka Co. Jail)

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.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Some would say he has to follow his religious convictions.