March 17, 2008
Arabic Pop-Star Joins al Qaeda
It's a few days old, but new to me. Put another nail in the coffin of the "poverty causes terrorism" narrative.
If I'm getting this straight, he was a pretty famous Arabic pop star who had some kind of religious experience. Eventually he became so religious that he decided to go fight the jihad for his religion.
He's a Presbyterian, right?
A retired Kuwaiti superstar singer has recently left the Gulf emirate for Afghanistan to join ranks with al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in fighting foreign troops there, according to a press report published Saturday.MEMRI reports that his family denies that he's gone to Afghanistan to join al Qaeda. They claim, instead, that he's in Iran for medical treatment.Hussein al-Ahmad, who was until recently one of the Gulf’s most famous pop stars, decided to join “his Mujahideen brothers in Afghanistan to support Islam and fight alongside his fellow Muslims in al-Qaeda”, reported Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Saturday.
The retired singer will soon appear in his new military outfit in Afghanistan, in a video expected soon on a website known to be affiliated with al-Qaeda extremists, according to the paper.
Hat tip to North Carolina's most famous al Qaeda supporter.
