"My beautiful faith is being overtaken by the beheaders I’ve studied"

"My beautiful faith is being overtaken by the beheaders I’ve studied". By Qanta Ahmed.

Attorney Richard Horowitz, an internationally recognized authority on terrorism who shared my concern about radical Islamist terrorism, wanted to know if I’d join him in his midtown office to view some homemade jihadist recruitment videos. This time I didn’t refuse.

Exchanging Chop-Chop Square for Times Square, where Horowitz was based, we watched a rare series of grainy films. They transported us from New York to the Af-Pak border. For long minutes, we watched a Muslim boy, who looked barely 12, decapitate a Muslim man with a blunt knife, struggling to sever each and every strap muscle, cartilage and vertebra that secured the head to the torso. The finale accomplished, the blood-spattered boy in too-big sneakers was lionized, roundly praised in the language of my faith. Hundreds watched with admiration.

It was a pivotal experience, and I knew I needed to know more about the people who committed these acts in the name of my faith. By 2012, I was meeting Pakistani child jihadists in Malakand, Northwest Pakistan. Boys groomed to be suicide bombers, Taliban operatives and Taliban informers, boys who might have been in videos like the ones I had seen, told me in the unschooled Urdu of the Swat Valley about their own paths to jihadism (journeys I have recounted in testimony on Capitol Hill).

Recent events have left me able to draw only one conclusion: Islamism — the radical imposter form of my religion — has declared war on Islam.Read the full story here.

Hmmm...In contrast i would ask people to watch the following video, a response to Pres Obama's claim that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam.