November 17, 2014, - 11:02 am
No Tears for Abdul Rahman Kassig; Muslim Convert Learned True Islam: You Lose Your Head
No tears from me for Abdul Rahman Kassig, ISIS’ latest “American” beheadee. He learned what happens when you convert to Islam: you lose your head.
Even @ Death’s Door, Peter Kassig Didn’t Get It: THIS. IS. ISLAM. . . .
As you probably know from news reports, Kassig, formerly known as Peter Kassig, was once an American from Indiana who served as a U.S. Army Ranger for maybe a year before getting a medical discharge. But he left America, converted to Islam, and moved to the Muslim Middle East to devote his life to helping Syrian Shi’ite “victims” of a civil war. He became an anti-war activist who was embarrassed by his service in the U.S. military. And he was embarrassed to be American, even more embarrassed that he was briefly an Army Ranger. And he was there servicing Muslims who hate us in order to “make up for” having been an American serviceman. Who else leaves America to move to–of all places–the G-d-forsaken “paradise” of Beirut? Although that was where he lived, he ferried supplies from Turkey to Syria, where he was tending to the Syrian Shi’ites, who all support Hezbollah–you know, the terrorist group that murdered over 300 U.S. Marines and Embassy officials in Beirut. It’s all about Muslims, all about “repenting” for his “embarrassing (very brief) past” as an Army Ranger.
Mr. Kassig, an Indiana native, was kidnapped in October 2013 as he delivered aid to Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzour. During the past year of captivity, Mr. Kassig converted to Islam and adopted the name Abdul Rahman, Arabic for “servant of the merciful.” He prayed and fasted during the holy month of Ramadan, according to fellow Western captives who were freed by Islamic State after their governments paid ransoms to the group, according to reports from friends.
“We are heartbroken to learn that our son, Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig, has lost his life as a result of his love for the Syrian people and his desire to ease their suffering. Our heart also goes out to the families of the Syrians who lost their lives, along with our son,” Mr. Kassig’s parents said.
Mr. Kassig joined the Army, serving a little over a year, according to the Pentagon. He was deployed to Iraq for about four months in 2007. He left the Army with the rank of private first class in September 2007 with a medical discharge, records show. Mr. Kassig mentioned his prior military service to friends, including his wartime deployment, but “it was quite clear that was a part of his life that he wasn’t looking to dwell on,” Mr. Downey said. Instead, according to Mr. Downey, Mr. Kassig believed “war didn’t help anything. It just destroyed lives, families and countries.” Mr. Kassig “wanted to help, one person at a time,” Mr. Downey said.
Founding his nongovernmental aid organization, Special Emergency Relief and Assistance, in September 2012 was Mr. Kassig’s way of using his emergency medical training to help those in need, including shipments of medical supplies into Syria, according to Mr. Downey.
In their statement on Sunday, Mr. Kassig’s parents released the text of a letter he wrote from Syria before being captured. “Here, in this land, I have found my calling.…I do not know much. Every day that I am here I have more questions and less answers, but what I do know is that I have a chance to do something here, to take a stand. To make a difference.’ Mr. Kassig’s dedication to helping Syrians in need was more powerful than his fear of traveling to the war-torn country as kidnappings of foreigners mounted, friends and family said. His deployment in Iraq had affected him tremendously and influenced him to embrace pacifism, they said.
Friends said they had tried to talk him out of making his last trip to Syria from his base in southern Turkey in October 2013. The political landscape in Syria had changed by then, and Islamic State was routing the rebels and civilians who had protected Mr. Kassig during previous trips. “If I do die, I figure that at least you and I can seek refuge and comfort in knowing that I went out as a result of trying to alleviate suffering and helping those in need,” Mr. Kassig wrote to his family from captivity in June.
Nobody told this guy to go to Syria. He purposely went to a Muslim war zone and took the risks. He could have remained in America and dedicated his life to helping Americans–you know, the citizens of the land that gave him freedom and opportunity. But he forsook all of that in order to help Muslims full of hate in the middle of a civil war. He took the risks and “suffered” the consequences.
Nobody told this idiot to convert to Islam. But he made that stupid decision and look what followed. He chose to convert to this cult of death and destruction. And, then, he saw what happens in Islam. You get sucked into the death and destruction that is Islam. You get kidnapped and brutally murdered by your fellow Muslims (Kassig was a Sunni Muslim just like his ISIS murderers). First, he figuratively lost his head by choosing this dark religion. Then, he literally lost it.
But, even knowing that his choice to convert to Islam and go to the Middle East cost him his life, Kassig still wouldn’t face up to the fact that these choices would be the ones that resulted in his death. From a letter he sent his parents while in ISIS captivity:
If I do die, I figure that at least you and I can seek refuge and comfort in knowing that I went out as a result of trying to alleviate suffering and helping those in need.
In terms of my faith, I pray everyday and I am not angry about my situation in that sense. I am in a dogmatically complicated situation here, but I am at peace with my belief.
More like in two pieces with his belief. “Religion of Peace” and pieces. That’s what it’s all about.
Think he’s with the 72 Helen Thomases now?
Tags: Abdul Rahman Kassig, Is, ISIL, ISIS, Islam, Islamic beheadings, Islamic State, Islamic Terrorism, Muslim beheadings, Muslim converts, Peter Kassig, The Islamic State, THIS. IS. ISLAM.
“Think he’s with the 72 Helen Thomases, now?”
LOL
DS_ROCKS on November 17, 2014 at 11:05 am