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Originally posted by Magness:
(John Walker's) idiot liberal parents.
I actually feel quite sorry for them.
They are Catholics and did not encourage him to seek Islam, but when he converted they supported him. They did not force their religous views on him and tried to understand his new beliefs. As parents, that's what we are suppose to do.
At age 16, they allowed him to go to Yemen, not Afghanistan, to study the Qu'ran and the ways of Islam. They had no idea what would come of it, after all, Islam is a religion of peace. The last time they talked to him was in the spring of this year. He said he was taking a break from school and going up to the mountainous region of Pakistan to escape the summer heat. That was the last time they heard from him. During this entire conflict, they didn't know what had happened to him, or even that he was in Afghanistan, until they saw the video of him in the prison.
They haven't tried to excuse his actions, they have said he was wrong, and they have expressed their strong support for the US in our current efforts in Afghanistan.