John Walker Lindh, an Irish-American who converted to Islam as a teenager, has been released on probation after being convicted in 2002 of supporting the Taliban. ... Lindh . In 1997, at the age of 16, my son John converted to Islam. His aspiration was to become a teacher...…
According to Foreign Policy, the document, various Federal Bureau of Prisons intelligence summaries, claims that in March of last year, Lindh told television news producer that he would continue to spread violent Islam upon his release... ..…
At his sentencing in 2002, he traveled to Yemen to learn Arabic and then to Pakistan to study Islam.. Lindh volunteered Sunni Muslim group that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, to help fellow Muslims their struggle or jihad.. ..…
Catholicism to Islam . Lindh, 38, converted from Catholicism to Islam when he was 16 years old. ... “U.S. foreign fighter citizens who go from the United States to join the (Islamic State) caliphate are, in my mind, in a very different category than John Walker Lindh,..…
In 2001, shortly American, Adam Gadahn who would go on to become Al-Qaeda figure and right-hand man to both Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri met another American. ..…
Lindh, now 38, converted to Islam as a teenager after seeing the film “Malcolm X” and went overseas to study Arabic and the Quran. ... He also issued a short essay condemning acts of violence in the name of Islam that kill or harm innocent civilians. . ..…