you were a jihaddist why did you become one? it s a mix of ideology and foreign policy grievances. for me i was made to feel guilty about the western lifestyle that i was living, trying to find my way my identity who am i supposed to be, how western am i supposed to be? how islamic am i supposed to be? are the two incompatible, as i tried to answer these questions, i find myself moving towards more extreme views. why did you stop being a jihadist? well, it really came down to studying the religion properly. i mean, these extremists they cherry pick verses. i spent two years studying islamic and arain bic studies. i went h. a professor that went through and debunked them. was it difficult to leave? i assume had you friends in syria, right? yeah. when i was still in canada and with these extremist individuals, i mean, yeah, there were people that they were with me, three of my friends, two of them went to
struggle does have to do with what that he krp to be true islam. how should. see square with that? what should they take away from that? bin laden students understood well. to garner support and have recruits from the muslim world, they needed to be sure that they convinced people, persuaded people, that what they were preaching was not inconsistent with devout islam. so they cherry picked, if you will, versus from the koran, believed to be the actual word of god. not an interpretation, but the direction of mohammed. the prophet of the almighty. so what they would do is cherry pick verses. grueso gruesome verses are there. that s what bin laden was doing to execute his evil vision of the world. myth four, ayman al-zahari was in charge. what do you know about that? this really astounds me. because what we know from intelligence and our