The Daily Star online report on one of the Jihadists named Mubasher reveals the process of the transformation of a young teenager to a barbarian. One should ponder about this transformation process of this JIhadist. Let's examine Mubasher briefly and the series of events that took place centering his transformation from a young teenager to an Islamic terrorist. Let me summarize the items of the Daily Star online report in a chronological order as follows:
(1) Mubasher was an impressionable teenager (18-year old) preparing for his A-Level exam.
(2) He was deeply interested about his faith that is Islam.
(3) At one point of time, Mubasher stopped sketching.
(3) His father Mr. Meer Hayet Kabir wanted him to explore Islam more (because of Mubasher's interest) by reading the Quran directly from the source without going through any warped interpretation.
(4) Mr. Kabir gave an English translation of the Quran which Mubasher studied.
(5) Mubasher went missing on February 29, 2016
(6) On July 1, 2016, he was identified as one of the attackers in the deadly attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka.
If we observe the above series of occurrences centering this teenager, it should be clear that one event led to the other. Does Islam allow sketching? If the answer is negative, then item 3 occurred as a result of item 2. Mubasher was given an English translation of the Quran. Since he was deeply religious, he studied the deep-rooted teachings with proper meanings in English. There were not supposed to have any difficulty for him to understand the meaning because he was an English medium A-Level student. After studying the Quran (number 4), the outcome is number 5. He went missing and appeared as a fierce Jihadist showing dreadful barbarity (number 6). What did happen between numbers 4 and 6? Did he learn anything positive after studying the Quran?
Let's agree with his relatives and assume that some extremists influenced him and/or mentored him at a stage between numbers 4 and 6. If he learned something positive from the Quran, he was not supposed to fall into the trap of whoever those extremists/mentors were. The rightly guided teachings of the Quran were supposed to keep him on track. He was supposed to inform his dad about the derailed extremists who were trying to allure him through some enticing Jihadist ideology. As the events unfolded later with outcome as number 6, it can be concluded that he aligned willingly with the extremists, who probably mentored him further to perform an awful act along with his fellow Jihadists. Did his in-depth study of the Quran help him align with the extremists for Jihad? For the sake of preventing deplorable and appalling acts of the Jihadists, the Islamic thinkers (in Bengali "Chintabids") should examine the reasons for the transformation of a teenager like Mubasher to a disgraceful Jihadist.
http://www.thedailystar.net/dhaka-attack/dhaka-attack-mubasheers-father-apologises-his-son-1250188
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