Dogmatically complicated: Will President Obama care to name the pure evil that beheaded Peter Kassig? – by Abdul Nishapuri
It seems that despite his conversion to Islam, Peter Kassig was considered an infidel or kafir by the ISIS because he had not converted to the violent Wahhabi or Deobandi cult.
Unlike the Wahhabi and Deobandi murderers and terrorists, Kassig was interested in saving and helping human beings instead of beheading them on the basis of idelogical or ethnic differences. Most probably he had converted to peaceful Sunni Sufi or Shia Islam instead of the violent Wahhabi or Deobandi cult – which is the common ideological cult of Al Qaeda, ISIS, Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ), Al Nusra, Al Shabab, Taliban and Boko Haram.
Media analysts and rights activists must not ignore the “dogmatically complicated situation” referred to by Kassig despite his conversion to Islam. By “dogmatically complicated”, Kassig may be referring to the apostatization of all other Muslims by the Deobandi Wahhabi militants of the ISIS. In recent weeks, thousands of Sunni Arabs, Sunni Kurds and Shia Muslims have been killed by ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
According to media reports published on 6 October 2014, Kassig’s family had learned about his abduction and interest in Islam last October from his former colleagues but maintained a one-year silence while they waited for news. Last night (5 October), the couple from Indianapolis tweeted part of a letter from their son describing his faith. ‘In the letter,’ they wrote, ‘our son said he prays every day and that his situation is ‘dogmatically complicated’ – which we understand was a reference to his conversion. He wrote: I am in a dogmatically complicated situation here, but I am at peace with my belief. This may refer to his belief in the peaceful Sunni Sufi version of Islam.
On 16 November 2014, President Barack Obama confirmed the 26-year-old’s beheading, saying Kassig “was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity.”
Perhaps President also needs to remind himself and other members of the US administration that the pure evil has a name, it is called Wahhabism, Deobandism and takfirism and its major idelogical and financial sponsor is none else than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/16/world/meast/isis-kassig-killing-images/
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The parents of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, formerly Peter, released a statement shortly after the US government had confirmed that their son had been killed by Islamic State militants. The statement reads:
“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.
“Fed by a strong desire to use his life to save the lives of others, Abdul-Rahman was drawn to the camps that are filled with displaced families and to understaffed hospitals inside Syria. We know he found his home amongst the Syrian people, and he hurt when they were hurting.
“As he wrote in March 2012, in a letter announcing he was taking a leave of absence from Butler University to serve the Syrian people:
‘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.’
“We are incredibly proud of our son for living his life according to his humanitarian calling. We will work every day to keep his legacy alive as best we can.
“We remain heartbroken, also, for the families of the other captives who did not make it home safely. The families of James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, and Alan Henning remain in our daily thoughts and prayers, and we pray for the safe return of all remaining captives held by all sides of the Syrian civil war.
“We remain eternally grateful for the many, many words of support and prayers from all over the world on our son’s behalf. We ask people to continue to pray for the safe return of all captives being held unjustly and all people being oppressed around the world, and especially for the people of Syria, a land our son loved.”
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions in honor of Abdul-Rahman Kassig be made to the Syrian American Medical Society, which is working to meet the medical needs of Syrians displaced and injured by war:”
If USA Could not Behead this Mass Executer on the Same Place then we will believe the Fall of USA has begun. They can arrange this Executer’s Beheading through his own partners or other opponents but in same dress and at same place.
World want to watch this.
Converting to Islam ‘important’ to US hostage Peter Kassig
8 October 2014 Last updated at 18:12 BST
[This report was first broadcast in October 2014]
As the battle for Kobane intensifies, the fate of western hostages still held by the group calling itself Islamic State (IS) looks even more uncertain.
US aid worker Peter Kassig, who was paraded by IS at the end of a video showing the murder of British hostage Alan Henning, went to Syria because he wanted to help people.
He converted to Islam just after he was captured and now prefers to be called Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
Former French hostage Nicholas Henin told the BBC’s Paul Wood about Peter’s conversion to Islam.
“Peter told me Islam was important to him and how much it helped him overcome his situation in captivity.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29540201