Abdulmutallab's "Jihad Fantasies" Revealed

(CBS)  CBS News correspondent Richard Roth reports Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's online digital trail leads back to boarding school in West Africa. In 2005, he was chatting under the screen-name "Farouk 1986."

Eighteen years old at the time, Abdulmutallab paints an online portrait of alienation.

"I have no friend," he writes. "Far from home, at a school with few Muslims; No one to consult, no one to support me and I feel depressed."

He explains that he's Nigerian - from a wealthy family with a home in London. He even gives his name, Umar Farouk, and on February 20th, 2005, he hints at his dreams.

"…Basically they are jihad fantasies," he writes. "I imagine how the great jihad will take place. How the Muslims will win, and rule the whole world," adding, "do I have to clarify anything further?"

Back and forth on the anonymous Internet, he asks for advice, and get it: about religion, and sex, and college.

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He wants to study engineering and business management, considers Stanford, and CalTech - and decides on University College London - saying "the Islamic environment" is a factor.

"I hope to get over my loneliness when I get to the university," he wrote. In London, it seems he did.

On campus, he became president of the Islamic Students Union. Online, January 26th, 2007, he listed seminars for what was called the "War on Terror Week." Speakers would include Asim Qureshi. In an online video, Qureshi said: "We know it is incumbent upon all of us to support jihad against the oppression of the West."

It isn't known whether Abdulmutallab heard those words, but by his own account he was ready for the message. British authorities say his path to terrorism wasn't unique. What they want to know is, who helped him?

[armyoftwelve]

Yoo-hoo nokia3210c , you still haven't responded to my posts????


Chicken?

[from_the_north]

Oh my God - isn't this a wonderful religion? Poison and food for dimwits

[John_Merritt]

Wow that is pretty heavy. Not understanding the teachings of Islam radicalism versus Islam proper, it is apparent this young man got mixed up with some extreme teachings either as a young boy or ancillary to the proper worship decorum the other 3 billion Muslims learn. It has to be terrible to be raised in an environment where they catch these people early in life, and ply them with the tools of hate and bigotry.

Than again where many of these young people are raised, the experiences of everyday living may be so untenable they have to point fingers somewhere. I can go into diatribes and write volumes on the subject of hate, bigotry and violence; but in the name of a religion the majority of his fellow worshippers do not practice and it makes me wonder........what the hey is going on? It is truly sad.

[armyoftwelve]

In that faith there is only one "prophet" and one religion he founded. There are not different "islams." All of this crap comes about because the whole thing was made up by one man and he wasn't specific enough.

The attacker in this story is the son of a banker and no doubt comes from a privledged background--especially when you consider all the time he has spent getting educated in the West. To argue that this fellow is poor and suffering and had no choice to be a terrorist is silly.
The problem is that NO ONE CAN DEFINITIVELY SAY whether or not this behavior is true to the faith BECAUSE NO ONE IS mohammed's SUCCESSOR.

[lilbear925]

If the Muslim teachings all include "jihad" so they can rule the world, maybe it is time to let them know there are a bunch of freedom loving folks who are just not going to let that happen. If they keep claiming we are fighting a "war on Islam" maybe we can help them realize their fantasies and just get it over with.

[armyoftwelve]

Quoting from this article: "I imagine how the great jihad will take place. How the Muslims will win, and rule the whole world,"

From the mind of an educated, devout muslim: exposure of a violent and power-crazy religion. Makes me glad I'm no longer a muslim.

[armyoftwelve]

I was born in Jordan in the 1960's to a muslim father and Greek Orthodox mother. We left Jordan after after sectarian violence in the late 1960's---muslim fanatics wanted my father to help them attack his father-in-law and brothers-in-law (MY maternal grandfather and uncles). My father refused and it destryoed his ability to make a living.

My father became an Evangelical Protestant in 1985. I became a Roman Catholic in 1994, three years after marrying a French-Canadian woman.

Any other stupid questions...?

[armyoftwelve]

From 1962 to 1994.....about 32 years of practicing false religion.

[rwsmith29456]

I'm lonely and depressed. Clearly a call to jihad. Gets his big education in the West then of course condemns the West. Need I go on? This idiotic crap is really getting old.

[pete_in_az]

I keep waiting to hear from the peacefull silent majority.

[armyoftwelve]

Not likely to happen, that would mean that there is something wrong with the ummah or with islam and that is not something they can accept.

Keep in mind, even though most of those people are not terrorists per se---they would not object to ANY kind of "gain" that terrorists could secure for them.