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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIntelligence officials have texts from mom saying Tamerlan is prepared to die for Islam
In the phone call between mother and son that the Russians wiretapped, Tsarnaeva and Tamerlan Tsarnaev discussed his going to the Palestinian territories, as well as the subject of jihad, but in a general, "nonspecific" way, the source said. The Associated Press reported he dismissed the idea of traveling to the territories because he said he didn't speak the language there, Arabic.
Intelligence officials have also found text messages in which the mother discusses how Tamerlan is ready to die for Islam, two sources said.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/source-tamerlan-tsarnaev-mother-talked-about-jihad-in-russian-wiretap-1.5154317
I think we have found the radical who influenced Tamerlan...
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Intelligence officials have texts from mom saying Tamerlan is prepared to die for Islam (Original Post)
dkf
Apr 2013
OP
Can't be a very good muslim if he doesn't know Arabic, can't read the koran.
Exultant Democracy
Apr 2013
#1
No it isn't a dumb question, but yes a translation would no longer be the koran.
Exultant Democracy
Apr 2013
#3
I believe a truly devote Muslim prays 5 times a day? Yet Tamerlan is reported to have slept all day
KittyWampus
Apr 2013
#4
i would have thought they'd have designated him the 10,000th al qaeda #2 by now
datasuspect
Apr 2013
#5
Exultant Democracy
(6,595 posts)1. Can't be a very good muslim if he doesn't know Arabic, can't read the koran.
wercal
(1,370 posts)2. Dumb question - Is it considered inadequate to read a translation?
Exultant Democracy
(6,595 posts)3. No it isn't a dumb question, but yes a translation would no longer be the koran.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)4. I believe a truly devote Muslim prays 5 times a day? Yet Tamerlan is reported to have slept all day
while in Dagestan.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)5. i would have thought they'd have designated him the 10,000th al qaeda #2 by now
just saying.