By IPT
In August of 2008, an Islamist student made his way from London to Houston to attend a two-week program put on by the AlMaghrib Institute. This was his third course with the Institute, including two in London. On Christmas Day 2009, the very same student, Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to blow up a transatlantic flight with a suicide bomb he had sewn into his underpants.
AlMaghrib’s Houston-based director of the 2008 program and national Dean of Academic Affairs, Yasir Qadhi, expressed immediate concern for the aspiring terrorist’s feelings of alienation and hatred of the West.
The AlMaghrib program offered “mainstream Islamic stuff,” Qadhi told CNN, which did not challenge the claim.
“At some level,” he added, “we did not convince him of the validity of our views, and that is cause for regret.”
An examination of the views expressed by Qadhi and others at AlMaghrib, however, shows that they are far from moderate and the institute exhorts followers to carry out jihad and not integrate with the West. Such views are exposed to a wide audience, as the CNN report noted that 30,000 students have attended AlMaghrib courses throughout the English-speaking world.
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/1768/when-a-radical-directs-anti-radicalization
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This post was written by mcarl on February 7, 2010
