Fascinating .. conflicted in religion at such a tender and impressionable age, could say fairly immersed by year 8-9 .. it is sad that so many smart people succumb, in a destructive way, to that religious aspect of a call of 'the wild' .. the wild there, the unconscious .. Jung called it over-attachment to (or identification with) the religious archetype .. INFLATION .. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=g0QQtlJSyOEC&pg=PA433&lpg=PA433&dq=jung+..+religious+inflation&source=bl&ots=SLCPU-2bUN&sig=gjqOH2kesRLKSO417NRsGT0HSQw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OBRhUaKDFKqUiQe9joHACQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=jung%20..%20religious%20inflation&f=false .. yup .. lol .. inflation is BIG so will not minimize that link .. "My father once said: "I have a son that only thinks about the Aakhirah and a daughter that only thinks about the Dunyaa!"" the above is 1" inch down in the link below .. from your article .. From Alabama to al-Shebab Omar Hammami grew up in the deep south, in a town called Daphne, near Mobile. Born in 1984 to a Syrian Muslim immigrant father and a white Protestant mother, he was raised as a Christian, and described himself in his 2012 online autobiography as “a social butterfly” and “the most popular guy in school .. http://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/omar-hammami-abc5ab-mane1b9a3c5abr-al-amrc4abkc4ab-22the-story-of-an-american-jihc481dc4ab-part-122.pdf your link .. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/omar-hammami/all/ fascinating .. though hard to keep the eyes open .. this one adds some detail .. Al-Shabaab cannot 'turn away from the truth' as al-Amriki saga continues Boniface Bosire contributed to this report from Nairobi - February 25, 2013 http://sabahionline.com/en_GB/articles/hoa/articles/features/2013/02/25/feature-01 Omar's Aakhirah .. The Hereafter (al-Aakhirah) ?????? - Pt 1/22 [yt]T4O5alPRbj0[/yt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4O5alPRbj0 most religious music is catchy .. Deba's Dunyaa - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunya