{"id":751,"date":"2007-08-17T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:50:08","slug":"rejecting-radical-islam-one-mans-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Rejecting radical Islam — one man’s journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (CNN)<\/a><\/strong> — The path to faith often takes unexpected twists. In the case of Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the road went through three of the world’s major religions — Judaism, Islam and Christianity — and ultimately brought him to the FBI.<\/p>\n

Born to Jewish parents who call themselves mystics, he grew up in what he calls the "liberal hippie Mecca" of Ashland, Oregon, a town of about 20,000 near the California border. It was in this ultraliberal intellectual environment that a young Gartenstein-Ross experimented with a radical form of Islam that eventually led him to shun music, reject women’s rights and even refuse to touch dogs because he believed this was "according to God’s will."<\/p>\n

"I began to pray for the mujahedeen, for these stateless warriors who were trying to topple secular governments," he said….<\/p>\n

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