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Dear brothers and sisters,              1/10/10;

 

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmathullahi Wa Bharakhathuhu.

 

Brother Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a Muslim and hence is my brother. Whether he is guilty of the crime foisted on him or whether he is innocent is known to Allah Subhana Wa Taala.

 

Before I present my arguments that Abdulmutallab is not a sinner [this is Islamic interpretation, and has nothing to do with the legal arguments] let us consider Verse 24:33.

 

http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display_all.php?chapter=24&from_verse=33&to_verse=33&mac=&translation_setting=1&show_transliteration=1&show_yusufali=1&show_shakir=1&show_pickthal=1&show_mkhan=1

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Yusuf Ali 24:33

Let those who find not the wherewithal for marriage keep themselves chaste, until Allah gives them means out of His grace. And if any of your slaves ask for a deed in writing (to enable them to earn their freedom for a certain sum), give them such a deed if ye know any good in them: yea, give them something yourselves out of the means which Allah has given to you. But force not your maids to prostitution when they desire chastity, in order that ye may make a gain in the goods of this life. But if anyone compels them, yet, after such compulsion, is Allah, Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (to them),

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We know that illegal sex is the third most serious sin after Shirk and murder. Brother Abdulmutallab is accused of attempted murder. Even though the sin of murder is worse than that of prostitution, we believe Allah Subhana Wa Taala would be Merciful to Abdulmutallab on the Day of Judgment based on the fact that he was compelled to act in the manner he did.

 

Our brother-of-the-Book Dele Sobowale has argued that Abdulmutallab is mentally sick and thus he should be treated rather than punished. It is suggested that Abdulmutallab should be examined by psychiatrists and if found to be insane he must be treated. I differ with that recommendation for two reasons.

 

The first reason is the Muslim belief that Allah Subhana Wa Taala takes charge of the actions of an insane or a sleeping person. Even though I would have loved to give a direct reference, now I give the following indirect one.

 

http://www.searchtruth.com/searchHadith.php?keyword=insane+married&translator=1&search=1&book=&start=0&records_display=10&search_word=all

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The words "insane married" appear in 2 hadith(s) in Bukhari translation.

 

(2) Narrated Abu Huraira: A man from Bani Aslam came to Allah's Apostle while he was in the mosque and called (the Prophet ) saying, "O Allah's Apostle! I have committed illegal sexual intercourse." On that the Prophet turned his face from him to the other side, whereupon the man moved to the side towards which the Prophet had turned his face, and said, "O Allah's Apostle! I have committed illegal sexual intercourse." The Prophet turned his face (from him) to the other side whereupon the man moved to the side towards which the Prophet had turned his face, and repeated his statement. The Prophet turned his face (from him) to the other side again. The man moved again (and repeated his statement) for the fourth time. So when the man had given witness four times against himself, the Prophet called him and said, "Are you insane?" He replied, "No." The Prophet then said (to his companions), "Go and stone him to death." The man was a married one. Jabir bin 'Abdullah Al-Ansari said: I was one of those who stoned him. We stoned him at the Musalla ('Id praying place) in Medina . When the stones hit him with their sharp edges, he fled, but we caught him at Al-Harra and stoned him till he died.  (Book #63, Hadith #196)
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If the adulterer had answered that he was insane, he wouldn't have been punished by stoning to death.

 

My second reason follows: It is my understanding that Abdulmutallab was hypnotically programmed to act on a trigger. Such hypnotized individuals would be normal in all other times until triggered by the 'hypnotic trigger.' Thus a psychiatric examination of Abdulmutallab would probably conclude that he is sane and thus he would be punished unjustly. Further those super-criminals who hypnotically programmed him would escape and continue to cause mayhem.

 

We hope what follows convinces the reader that brother Abdulmutallab was a victim of a plot using hypnotism, Inshah Allah.

 

We hope to persuade by analogy. Consider the case of Sirhan Sirhan the alleged murderer of Senator Robert Kennedy.

http://www.orwelltoday.com/rfksirhanretrial.shtml

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Sirhan Sirhan claims he was a victim of hypnotic programming
Isabel Vincent, National Post, Jun 11, 2003

 

...The evidence against Sirhan is overwhelming. The killer was a 24-year-old Palestinian militant at the time he pulled the trigger. In a diary police found at his home, he reportedly wrote: "My determination to eliminate RFK is becoming more the more [sic] of an unshakable obsession. RFK must die. RFK must be killed. Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated. .... Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated before 5 June, 1968."

 

...Sirhan testified he was angry at Kennedy after finding out from a radio broadcast in May the senator had promised to send 50 U.S. bombers to Israel . Although he confessed to killing Kennedy, he said later he could not recall the event. "That whole evening is fuzzy," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1985. "I remember some things but I honestly have no recollection to this day of firing at Kennedy or shouting 'You son of a bitch' at him. That part is a total blank."

 

In the interview, Sirhan said his first recollection after the shooting was of "being choked by someone. I thought I was going to be choked to death. Then I remember someone prying that person's hold off my throat." Mr. Teeter claims his client attended a hypnosis demonstration in Pasadena a month before the Kennedy assassination and may have been recruited by unnamed CIA members who he claims were experimenting with hypnosis at the time.

 

He also says there is new ballistics evidence that would clear his client. The bullets that killed Kennedy were fired at point-blank range, which for Mr. Teeter is an important fact because witnesses have said Sirhan did not get very close to his target. Mr. Teeter and other skeptics have long pointed to Thane Eugene Cesar, the part-time security guard who was walking right behind Kennedy when he was killed. Mr. Cesar allegedly fired shots during the melee but his weapon was never found.

 

Perhaps Mr. Teeter will finally get his chance to defend Sirhan in a new trial, although legal experts say it's a long shot. In January, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Sirhan's appeal to overturn his conviction. Last March, a parole board turned downed his 12th attempt to be released from jail. The board said he could pose a danger to society if released and he was unstable mentally. Sirhan has reportedly threatened his jailers and written threatening letters to his former defence lawyers. But his latest champion is undeterred. Mr. Teeter plans to fight for parole at the next review, due in 2006, and is determined to get a new trial.

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What happened?

 

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-449869-the-man-from-manchuria.html

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Another week, another assault on the collective human psyche. For Cho Seung-Hui at Virginia Tech ...

 

...Sirhan was a mind-controlled patsy who is still in jail for the murder of Robert Kennedy (a man he apparently 'worshipped') at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968, as Kennedy campaigned to become US President. As I said in And The Truth Shall Set You Free, the real killer was Thane Eugene Caesar, a security guard and asset of the Meyer Lansky crime syndicate, a strand of the Illuminati. This, and the mind-control to which Sirhan Sirhan was subjected, was confirmed by his late lawyer, Lawrence Teeter. You can hear Teeter's detailed explanation of the background at http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=8965&page=2&type. I highly recommend you give it a listen, because it explains so well how these mind-controlled assassins are used and how what really happened is covered up. Teeter became Sirhan's lawyer in 1994 and tried unsuccessfully to secure a! retrial. He died from lymphatic cancer in 2005.

In the weeks before Kennedy was killed, Sirhan Sirhan, joined the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosicrucians and followed their mail order course on 'how to control your mind waves'. He learnt how to put himself into a trance by staring into his own eyes in a mirror. During these trances, it is claimed, he began to write down incoherent threats of violence and assassination, which he didn't remember doing. Sirhan thought he saw Kennedy's face come out of the mirror towards him and he wrote 'Kill Kennedy' in his trance notebook. Sirhan could consciously remember nothing of the night that Kennedy died.

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We don't know who really killed Senator Robert Kennedy. We quote the above just to show that hypnotic programming is resorted to. It is interesting to find that the lawyer who was supposed to get a retrial for Sirhan Sirhan in 2006 dies of lymphatic cancer in 2005! There is no date in the above post. Since it refers to Seung-Hui Cho who died on April 16, 2007 we infer that this post is dated after April 16, 2007.

 

Let us turn our attention to Abdulmutallab.

http://open.salon.com/blog/truthtroubadour/2010/01/03/unanswered_questions_about_muslim_airline_bomber

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Was the Christmas Day 2009 “Muslim Airline Bomber” news about a man named Abdulmutallab some sort of media Psy War operation? There’s a lot wrong with this story as we learn from what some of the passengers observed. Was it a false flag operation to be used as a pretext to expand the Anglo-American so called “war on terror” to Yemen ?

 

Here is a gathering of interesting excerpts from CNN on AOL News, London Times on Line, Metro Detroit, and other sources. Together these news stories raise more questions than they answer about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the son of a prominent Nigerian banker, who allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight ( Amsterdam to Detroit ) over America . He was barred from returning to Britain earlier this year. And somehow this man on a US terror watch list got on board the plane without a passport with the help of “a sharp dressed man”, according to fellow passenger Kurt Haskell. See last entry from Metro Detroit Local News and Talk.

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We hope the authorities would succeed in tracing the 'sharp dressed man' who is alleged to have helped Abdulmutallab without a passport!

 

http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/passenger-jasper-schuringa-says-he-helped-thwart-terror-attack/19294599?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl1%7Clink1%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Fpassenger-jasper-schuringa-says-he-helped-thwart-terror-attack%2F19294599

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But as the plane neared its destination of Detroit , Michigan , he heard a pop that sounded like a firecracker going off, and someone started yelling: "Fire! Fire!"

"I was on the right side of the plane and the suspect was on the left side, there were quite some seats in between."

He jumped over the passenger next to him and lunged over Abdulmutallab's seat, "Because I was thinking he's trying to blow up the plane, and I was trying to search his body for any explosives."

Schuringa said he saw that Abdulmutallab was holding a burning object between his legs. "I pulled the object from him and tried to extinguish the fire with my hands and threw it away," Schuringa said. "Water! Water," he said he screamed.
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We believe from the above description Abdulmutallab cried "Water! Water," hopefully to extinguish the fire from the object he was holding between his legs. Passenger Schuringa might be able to clarify. We comment on this aspect just to show that if Abdulmutallab was indeed a jihadist he would not try to extinguish the fire. We continue the quote.

 

http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/passenger-jasper-schuringa-says-he-helped-thwart-terror-attack/19294599?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl1%7Clink1%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Fpassenger-jasper-schuringa-says-he-helped-thwart-terror-attack%2F19294599

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He heard fire extinguishers as he pulled Abdulmutallab out of his seat. "Just to be sure I grabbed him with another attendant and we took him to first class and there we stripped him and contained him with handcuffs and we made sure he had no more weapons, no more bombs on him."

Schuringa said Abdulmutallab seemed dazed. "He was staring into nothing."

Schuringa said the incident sparked panic aboard the flight. "The whole plane was screaming. The suspect, he didn't say a word."

We were holding [him,] but we wasn't struggling."
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In the above post there is a link to a video. Unfortunately that link does not work. We believe the video is found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO1ZWN6Km_I

 

We suspect that Abdulmutallab was hypnotically programmed not only to perform the botched attack but to also freely give incriminating statements.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6957485/Detroit-bomber-singing-like-a-canary-before-arrest.html

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The chance to secure crucial information about al-Qaeda operations in Yemen was lost because the Obama administration decided to charge and prosecute Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal, critics say. He is said to have reduced his co-operation with FBI interrogators on the advice of his government-appointed defence counsel.

 

The potential significance became chillingly clear this weekend when it was reported that shortly after his detention, he boasted that 20 more young Muslim men were being prepared for similar murderous missions in the Yemen .

 

The lawyer for the 23-year-old Nigerian entered a formal not guilty plea on Friday to charges that he tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25 – even though he reportedly admitted earlier that he was trained and supplied with the explosives sewn into his underwear by al-Qaeda in the Arab state.

 

"He was singing like a canary, then we charged him in civilian proceedings, he got a lawyer and shut up," Slade Gorton, a member of the 9/11 Commission that investigated the Sept 2001 terror attacks on the US , told The Sunday Telegraph.

 

"I find it incomprehensible that this administration is treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue. The president has finally said that we are at war with al-Qaeda. Well, if this is a war, then Abdulmutallab should be treated as a combatant not a criminal."

 

Abdulmutallab could have been held and interrogated in military custody under existing US legislation before a decision was taken whether to charge him before a military tribunal or a civilian court, according to Michael Mukasey, the last Attorney General under President George W Bush.

 

Mr Mukasey argues that it was crucial to gain intelligence from him immediately as details about locations, names and other plots is subject to rapid change. For the same reason, he dismissed the argument by John Brennan, Mr Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser, that investigators will garner valuable data during any plea-bargaining talks.

 

"He certainly should know that the kind of facts that Abdulmutallab might be expected to know have a shelf life that is a lot shorter than the plea bargaining process," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week.

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Whether Abdulmutallab was indeed a member of Al-Qaeda or was just a patsy hypnotically programmed to play his part and be destroyed is known to Allah Subhana Wa Taala. But for Schuringa snatching the burning element from the hands of Abdulmutallab and throwing it away, Abdulmutallab might have suffered third degree burns. By using the appropriate trigger words the hypnotically programmed Abdulmutallab would have sung the song his handlers wanted and died of the third degree burn injuries soon after the song.

 

Why do we suspect Abdulmutallab was hypnotically programmed? For a hypnotically programmed individual to perform the programmed act the correct trigger word must be said in his presence. The Shoe Bomber tried to destroy the plane over the ocean. Well this time may be it was desired by -- say Al-Qaeda -- that the attack must happen on the US soil. What is the distance travelled by the plane in which Abdulmutallab travelled over the US soil?

 

http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm?loadpage

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The distance between Ocean City and Detroit

 

The distance:

Origin:                            Ocean City, Maryland, United States

Destination:                     Detroit, Michigan, United States

Distance in miles:            503

Distance in kilometers:     810

Please note: The distance is calculated "as the crow flies". It uses the latitude and longitude of the cities to calculate the distance, so this may vary from the driving distances.

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The plane has possibly spent more than an hour flying over US soil. Why did Abdulmutallab not attempt to down the plane as soon as it entered the US soil. We suspect that the hypnotic programmers of Abdulmutallab have used one of the words usually told by the flight attendant as the plane approaches the destination. We believe that on hearing the trigger word said by the flight attendant, Abdulmutallab performed the hypnotically programmed action.

 

We are aware that a hypnotically programmed individual could as well be deprogrammed so that after the deprogramming any amount of investigation would not reveal the evidence of hypnotic programming.

 

The Republicans are decrying the Obama administration for treating Abdulmutallab as a criminal and not a terrorist. Democrats have suffered enough due to the actions of the

patsies, in particular Sirhan Sirhan. If only Senator Robert Kennedy was not induced to walk through the kitchen in the last minute, and if only Senator Robert Kennedy had in fact become President in 1968, the history of USA and possibly the whole world might have been different.

                 

We hope that the Obama administration investigates the possibility of hypnotic programming of Abdulmutallab and identify the hypnotic programmers so that future so called terrorist activities by hypnotically programmed patsies on the US soil are stopped once and for all. Kindly forward this analysis to every Democratic friend in USA so that the art of 'waging war through deception' comes to an end.

 

Before closing, we give evidence that Muslims are not to learn hypnotic programming.

http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display_all.php?chapter=2&from_verse=102&to_verse=102&mac=&translation_setting=1&show_transliteration=1&show_yusufali=1&show_shakir=1&show_pickthal=1&show_mkhan=1

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Yusuf Ali 2:102

They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers were, not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men Magic, and such things as came down at Babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so do not blaspheme." They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's permission. And they learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of (magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their souls, if they but knew!

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It is indeed easy to use hypnotic programming to create sexual discord between man and wife. We suspect that Abdulmutallab was hypnotically programmed to attach the device to his manhood.

 

Is it possible that such a hypnotic programming criminals, nay terrorists, would be exposed and punished?

http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display_all.php?chapter=2&from_verse=67&to_verse=77&mac=&translation_setting=1&show_transliteration=1&show_yusufali=1&show_shakir=1&show_pickthal=1&show_mkhan=1

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Yusuf Ali 2:67

And remember Moses said to his people: "(Allah) commands that ye sacrifice a heifer." They said: "Makest thou a laughing-stock of us?" He said: "(Allah) save me from being an ignorant (fool)!"

 

Yusuf Ali 2:68

They said: "Beseech on our behalf Thy Lord to make plain to us what (heifer) it is!" He said; "He says: The heifer should be neither too old nor too young, but of middling age.

Now do what ye are commanded!"

 

Yusuf Ali 2:69

They said: "Beseech on our behalf Thy Lord to make plain to us Her colour." He said: "He says: A fawn-coloured heifer, pure and rich in tone, the admiration of beholders!"

 

Yusuf Ali 2:70

They said: "Beseech on our behalf Thy Lord to make plain to us what she is: To us are all heifers alike: We wish indeed for guidance, if Allah wills."

 

Yusuf Ali 2:71

He said: "He says: A heifer not trained to till the soil or water the fields; sound and without blemish." They said: "Now hast thou brought the truth." Then they offered her in sacrifice, but not with good-will.

 

Yusuf Ali 2:72

Remember ye slew a man and fell into a dispute among yourselves as to the crime: But Allah was to bring forth what ye did hide.

 

Yusuf Ali 2:73

So We said: "Strike the (body) with a piece of the (heifer)." Thus Allah bringeth the dead to life and showeth you His Signs: Perchance ye may understand.

 

Yusuf Ali 2:74

Thenceforth were your hearts hardened: They became like a rock and even worse in hardness. For among rocks there are some from which rivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder send forth water; and others which sink for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unmindful of what ye do.

 

Yusuf Ali 2:75

Can ye (o ye men of Faith) entertain the hope that they will believe in you?- Seeing that a party of them heard the Word of Allah, and perverted it knowingly after they understood it.

 

Yusuf Ali 2:76

Behold! when they meet the men of Faith, they say: "We believe": But when they meet each other in private, they say: "Shall you tell them what Allah hath revealed to you, that they may engage you in argument about it before your Lord?"- Do ye not understand (their aim)?

 

Yusuf Ali 2:77

Know they not that Allah knoweth what they conceal and what they reveal?

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What are we, Muslims to do? Are we to learn the techniques of 'hypnotic programming?' The answer is an emphatic NO. By virtue of Verse 2:102 learning hypnotic programming

would deny us the entry to Heaven.

 

We pray to Allah Subhana Wa Taala for protection. In case we suffer due to the practice of hypnotic programming, we hope Allah Subhana Wa Taala would compensate us handsomely on the Day of Judgment.

 

Ya Allah guide the concerned authorities to investigate and identify the hypnotic programmers of Abdulmutallab. Ya Allah establish the innocence of Abdulmutallab. Ya Allah unite Abdulmutallab with his father. Ya Allah grant the father and son a long and happy life together. Aameen, Aameen, Ya Rabbil Aalameen.

 

Your brother, 

  

Mohideen Ibramsha

http://www.google.com/profiles/MohideenIbramshaPhD

Was Salaam

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From: mohammed Davies <ma_davies44@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Fw: [bangla-vision] A Nigerian Viewpoint on the Alleged "Christmas Day" Bomber (Must Read!)
To: ibramsha7@yahoo.com, a.green@iera.org.uk, s.brador@iera.org.uk
Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 1:20 AM

COMMENTARY PLEASE

 

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THE PEACE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION

11006 Veirs Mill Rd, STE L-15, PMB 298

Silver Spring, MD. 20902

 

MUHARRAM 1431 A.H.

(January 9, 2010)

 

 

Assalaamu Alaikum (Greetings of Peace):

 

A few days ago I received an e-mail alert on yesterday's anti-terrorism rally held in Detroit (MI). I was asked to forward the alert to our lists, but I just couldn't. Something inside me felt that the PR campaign would end up being more about image (i.e. politically correct public relations), than about making a statement that the public and powers-that- be needed to hear. After reading a couple of post-rally articles, I concluded that my instincts were correct. (More on this later, insha'Allah. )

 

As ALLAH is my witness, my immediate reaction to the earliest reports of the incident involving the young Nigerian Muslim's attempt to hurt himself (and possibly others) on the plane that was in the process of landing in Detroit, was that he was not in his right mind; that this was a troubled young man who was not mentally well. 

 

The question that came to mind was, did he do this on his own, or was he manipulated by someone else into doing what he did? And if the latter, was that person a professed Muslim? Or was it a non-Muslim provocateur motivated by a political, and possible economic, agenda? And to my knowledge, and this is very important, there has yet to be one report to call for this young man to be examined to determine his state of mental health! 

 

With that said, it pleases me to be able to forward to our readers the most insightful commentary I've heard yet on this troubling tragedy. It pleases me even more that it was written by a fellow Nigerian.

 

El-Hajj Mauri' Saalakhan

 

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Farouk: Terrorist? No! Misguided? Yes!!!

 

By Dele Sobowale - Jan 4, 2010


I started reading Nigerian newspapers in 1953 —mostly those absolutely delightful cartoon/advertiseme nts by Nigerian Breweries featuring Sammy Sparkle. Who in our generation can forget that mischievous character who popped up almost every where to stop a train; to stop a fight, etc, and the punch line —“I did says Sammy Sparkle; its time for STAR”.


I was also a good listener; in fact the best listener when my father, a Yoruba man who would gladly lay his life on the line for “Zik of Africa” and my eldest brother, who was a die-hard Awoist engaged themselves in arguments over their heroes. Between father, who religiously read the West African Pilot published by Zik and my brother, who devoured the Tribune, published by Awolowo, I got to know most of the important news of each

day.


Never in those 56 years has the media in Nigeria and respected opinion leaders made such individual and collective fools of themselves as they have done since the news of  Farouk Abdulmutallab’ s attempt to commit suicide was first announced by the American owned CNN network on Christmas day.


Notice the words “attempt to commit suicide” because that is what most of our commentators missed. The CBN, naturally, had gone to considerable length to portray Farouk as a terrorist because an American aircraft was involved and the attempt occurred as the plane was about to land in Detroit — one of America ’s largest cities. It was understandable that the news network would take the politically “correct” position in their broadcasts with regard to this incident. But, it was poor journalism. Worse than that; it was pure propaganda —as this article would show.

Media executioners


While CNN’s position was understandable, the response of the Nigerian media, opinion leaders, the Federal Government and even Farouk’s father was at first puzzling and finally enraging. CNN labeled Farouk a “terrorist” and every damn fool in Nigeria who had access to a page of newspaper or a few minutes on the air in electronic media, was gullible enough to accept that label without question and a barrage of the most prejudicial statements and commentaries followed.


Editors, who should be more discerning, were all on holidays and they allowed their papers to be used in the most despicable manner — to defame Farouk; to pronounce him guilty — even before pleas are taken and to have handed the poor misguided boy to American executioners. Well, I have a name for my media colleagues, from CNN to Nigerian columnists — on this matter.


As far as I am concerned they are all a bunch of media executioners. They have not even bothered with the first golden rule of journalism and law —let the other party be heard. None of our engaging and erudite columnists has spoken to Farouk; and failing that none had put on their thinking caps to ask themselves if Farouk’s right — namely the right to be presumed innocent of the charges — were being violated.


When Mark Twain, 1835-1910, wrote in Innocents at Home, “Are you going to hang him anyhow — and try him afterward?”, he must have had in mind a situation such as this.
And it was not only Farouk who was thoughtlessly slaughtered in the collective race to

hand the poor boy to American executioners. His parents, the Federal Government and even the re-branding effort of the Yar’Adua’s administration and the Nigerian nation were all taken to the media abattoir and butchered.


But was Farouk guilty of terrorism? Was his father wrong to have sent his son abroad for his education? Should the unfortunate incident be a reason to jettison the re-branding effort? And should Nigeria and Nigerians feel embarrassed and hide their heads in shame? The answer to all the questions, surprisingly, is a resounding NO!


Permit me to start in reverse order to point out how Nigerians have allowed themselves to be fooled by US propaganda and the thoughtlessness of our public opinion molders.
Virtually every day bombs go off in Pakistan , Afghanistan and Iraq , killing several hundred more people than were on the Delta Airline plane that Farouk was accused of attempting to blow off. Neither the governments nor the people in those countries feel ashamed or embarrassed. Why? Because they, and the entire world, realise that those carrying out these activities are in the tiniest minority. The vast majority of the people just want to live a peaceful life —if they can.


By the same token, 90% or more of Nigerians have never boarded an aircraft —and probably never will. An even larger majority — close to 99.99999% know nothing about explosives; they neither know how they are made and how they are used.


So in what way does Farouk represent them and as a result they should feel ashamed. In fact, Farouk is a product of the foreign countries — including Britain and America , now making the most deafening noise about a Nigerian “terrorist” when there is none. So Nigeria and my fellow countrymen and women have nothing to be ashamed of on this matter which the Western media and their Nigerian collaborators have blown out of proportion — as you will soon see.


Those carpeting the father for sending his son abroad for education are simply envious. There is probably no Nigerian today blessed with Alhaji Mutallab’s money who will not ship his children to school abroad. And, if a university in London harbours subversive elements hell-bent on preying on poor misguided souls, the fault is not Alhaji Mutallab’s own; nor Nigeria ’s. The fault is with the British government which had failed to curb such activities on its campuses.


Alhaji Mutallab, as a matter of fact, deserves a pat on the back for not engaging in cover-up. Few fathers will report their sons to the CIA or British security forces. Alhaji made only one cardinal error —which is, jeopardising his son’s right to strong defence when

the case comes up.


He should not have released the statement that he did because it can be misconstrued as admission that his son is guilty as charged by the media executioners —at home or abroad. Later in this article, Alhaji and Nigerians will be shown the way forward.
But, let me announce the destination of this journey — Nigerians should collectively put up a fight to save Farouk’s life. And the reasons are not hard to discover.


First, America never releases its citizens for prosecution in another country. So contemptuous are they of the quality of other nation’s judiciary that they don’t even believe an American can receive fair trial even in Western countries.


Secondly, Britain has provided the example of what a country should do when its citizen is on trial in other lands. As the Farouk story was playing on SKY NEWS, another story was on the air. A Briton had been sentenced to death in China for smuggling hard drugs into that country.


The British government and the man’s family proceeded to mount a campaign to free the man. He was pronounced mentally unstable — yet nobody presented a doctor’s report to substantiate the claim. The Chinese were made to feel like brutes despite the fact the more people are killed and more lives are destroyed by drug trafficking than all the homicides arising from “terrorism”.


The message was clear; Britain wanted its citizen’s life to be spared irrespective of the fact that the judgment was based on convincing proof and guilt was beyond reasonable doubt. By contrast Farouk was being cut and quartered at home and abroad by people who have not even heard the evidence.


Who’s a terrorist?


Now we come to the main issue —was Farouk guilty of terrorism? Was he a terrorist? And do all the facts at our disposal point to terrorism? Few of us are experts on the subject and even the experts don’t always agree. But, every one is familiar with the saying that, “one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”.


Every time a bazooka lands in Israel from the West Bank, the Israelis call it a terrorist attack; the Palestinians call it a blow for liberation of Palestine from the illegal occupants.

When Israel , in response to the bazooka which killed one person, sends bombers and tanks into Lebanon and reduce the city to rubbles — including children’s hospital — the West calls it retaliation; Arabs call it genocide.


Who’s right? It all depends on who you are. There is absolutely no reason why Nigerians should swallow — hook, line and sinker — the West’s characterisation of an event as “terrorist” any more than we can expect them to accept it as “liberation effort”. At any rate, if America can recruit Britain , Australia and other nations to fight its war in Afghanistan or Iraq , and those soldiers are not called “terrorists” regardless of how many Arabs they massacre, what stops the Arabs from seeking help wherever they can find it?

This is not an admission that Farouk was a recruit for al-Queda despite US propaganda. It is to point out to everyone that there is a war on in the Middle East started on the basis of a lie told by US President Bush and British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, about weapons of mass destruction, WMD, in Iraq . I recollect writing in my SUNDAY VANGUARD column before the war started that “Bush and Blair would invade Iraq even if there is no single pen knife in the country”.


Today the whole world knows there was no WMD; the whole world also knows that over one million Iraqis have lost their lives since the invasion and the once thriving country has been devastated. What can be more “terrorist” than that?


Now we come to my “son”, Farouk. I call him son, not only because I am old enough to be his father, but because I feel pity for him and if possible, I will adopt him. If it is possible to visit him, I will hug him and tell him that he has not been abandoned; that in my books, he is not a terrorist. Again the facts at our disposal should be our guide. And what do we know?


Why did he do it?


First we know that Farouk is the son of one of the richest men in Nigeria and that he stands to inherit — if we can save him from the executioners — millions of naira and, may be, even dollars. In fact, he will probably not ever have to work for a living if he chooses not to and he will still live in affluence for the rest of his life. The obvious question is: why does a fellow like that want to blow himself up? Once that question crops up in your mind, you begin to see the truth, namely that we have a mind disturbed in a handsome body frame.


In short Farouk was, and is still, not himself. And nothing proves this more than the

approach he adopted to end his life. In short the fellow was embarked on suicide in the most “tragic-comical” manner.


Second, most of us forget, when reading about suicide bombers, that the first word is SUICIDE. That comes before bomber. Obviously, any person with so much to live for, and who contemplates suicide, is not a candidate for the electric chair or the firing squad but a mental hospital.


Third, the poor boy, in absolute ignorance of how to manipulate the device he procured for the suicide bid, strapped the damned thing to his vital organs — which raises one question. Which well-adjusted young man still in his twenties would want to blow off his “tool box”?


Even my old friends, past 70, until their dying days guarded the “strong room” jealously. Despite the attempt by CNN and other Western media to prove that the explosive could have blown a hole in the plane’s fuselage, which they considered a sufficient reason to label Farouk as a “terrorist”, the fact remains that if the device had gone off as planned, Farouk was the only sure candidate for kingdom come. The seats next to him appeared empty and a plane might still be landed with a hole in the fuselage. It has happened before.


Fourth, a real terrorist generally wants to witness the result of his efforts. They plant an explosive which is detonated by remote control or with a timer allowing them to get away before the explosion occurs. Just as in the regular army, a soldier is trained to kill for his country, not to die. In so far as he dies, he has been a failure. So the real terrorist wants to live to terrorise another day.


The suicide bomber is another character all together. He would not see the outcome of his mission — if he succeeds. In that respect, he has a lot more in common with others embarking on self-liquidation. Having decided to end his life, the next most important question is: how?


The methods range from those who go alone to those who decide not to “walk alone”. And once it is decided that the exit must be accomplished by taking a crowd along, then it does not matter whether he drives his car on the path of a speeding train, or a fully loaded bus or a plane full of passengers. Farouk chose the plane and he is no more a terrorist than the fellow who caused the train to derail taking 400 people with him.


Nigerians must save Farouk


So far, all evidence at our disposal can only support one conclusion — suicide. That it occurred on Delta Airlines and in a plane coming to land in Detroit are secondary considerations. And if it is suicide, the fellow should not be executed but helped. And the only people who can help him are Nigerians. And Alhaji Mutallab must take the lead for his son to be saved.


We must adopt the Western approach; which means we establish a SAVE FAROUK ORGANISATION. Its functions will include raising funds to ensure that Farouk obtains the best legal team money can engage. The second is to start a multimedia campaign, including using CNN, to convince the world that Farouk is not a mass murderer but a sick young man.


The third is to insist that Nigeria ’s leading psychiatrists should be called to assess his mental state. It is doubtful if an American or English doctor can accurately diagnose mental illness in a Nigerian who is not a raving lunatic already.


Fourth, the Federal Government of Nigeria, instead of distancing itself from Farouk, should use diplomatic approaches to get him released to a Nigerian psychiatric hospital for treatment. The fifth is to get Nigeria ’s media executioners to stop labeling the fellow a terrorist and to join the campaign to save Farouk.


It will not be easy, given the prejudicial statements most commentators have made before. But, we must hold the life of every Nigerian so sacred as not to throw them to foreign wolves when they present with evidence that they are asking for help which  sometimes manifests itself in extremism.


Finally, this is not an issue which should be confronted by Muslims alone. I am a Christian; but, that should not stop me from standing up and defending a Muslim who is being led to the slaughter house as we are now doing to our son Farouk. Will you join the struggle?