Journey to Jihad - from TodayOnline
A very discomforting read.
There's also a link to a New York Times video (~ 8 mins). I watched it, and came away extremely disturbed.
Mohd Lotfi is certainly not representative of Malaysian Muslims, but it's telling that he is able to raise funds from his "fame" as a fighter during the Afghan war to build a madrasah, and the fact that his own family members are "relieved" and even "happy" that he's died in another country's civil war being fought thousands of miles away.
The motivations behind Lotfi's decisions are incomprehensible to me.
But I'm not Muslim, and I suspect it will take a lot more effort from all Malaysians, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, to even start to turn this tide around.
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