{"id":1584,"date":"2010-01-04T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/04\/getting-radicalized\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T03:23:51","slug":"getting-radicalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/04\/getting-radicalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting radicalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christmas Day Bomber invited a prominent ‘jihad’ cleric to address British students<\/a><\/p>\n

The Christmas Day airline bomber invited a radical cleric who has advocated dying while ‘fighting jihad’ to address British students.<\/p>\n

While president of the Islamic Society at University College London, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab helped arrange for Abdur Raheem Green to speak.<\/p>\n

The cleric, who converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism, has written that conflict between Islam and the West is ‘ordered in the Koran’, and that Muslims and Westerners ‘ cannot live peaceably together’.<\/p>\n

He has also claimed: ‘Dying while fighting jihad is one of the surest ways to paradise and Allah’s good pleasure’. <\/p>\n

In 2005, shortly before Abdulmutallab arranged for him to address UCL, Green was barred from entering Australia after opposition leader Kim Beazley accused him of ‘spreading hate’.<\/p>\n

The revelation adds weight to the belief that Abdulmutallab was radicalised during his time studying in London, where he read mechanical engineering and business at UCL between 2005 and 2008. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is simply not supportable that jihad is a response to poverty and oppression, or the rest of the world’s poor would be doing what upper-middle class and wealthy young radicalized Muslims are doing… killing the innocent for Allah, or some other god.<\/p>\n

But it doesn’t happen, does it?<\/p>\n

The problem is 7th-century Islam in the 21st century.  Of course, 7th-century Islam was a problem all along.<\/p>\n

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