Re: Filipino Theologian Embraces Islam

Two more converts to Islam misunderstand their new religion

January 24, 2006

Here are two Australian brothers who converted to Islam; one ended up in an
Afghan military camp. Like John Walker Lindh, they seem to have no sooner
accepted the Religion of Peace that they began to misunderstand it. How is
it that those who converted them weren't able to prevent this? How is it
that they missed all the allegedly peaceful and tolerant passages of the
Qur'an that we keep hearing so much about? What are allegedly peaceful and
pluralist Muslim organizations doing to ensure that new Muslims are properly
instructed about the supposedly peaceful true Islam?

"Forced end to Islamic studies," from the Herald Sun, with thanks to
Snowman:

THE brother of a Victorian accused of terrorism has returned to Australia
after studying Islam in Pakistan. Zaid Kent and his brother Shane grew up in
a middle-class Australian family and both converted to Islam in the
mid-1990s.

Shane, who adopted the Islamic name Yasin, trained in an Afghan military
camp where he allegedly met al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in 2001.

He is now one of 10 Victorians facing charges of belonging to a terrorist
group.

Zaid Kent returned to Victoria last month from a Pakistani Islamic school
days before a deadline set by Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf
for all foreign Islamic students to leave the country.

There had been criticisms that foreigners were being indoctrinated into
Islamist militancy.

No allegations have been made against Zaid Kent, but he has been spoken to
periodically by Australian security authorities.

"He has been under scrutiny for years, like anyone else who has gone to
study Islam in Pakistan," a source said.


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