{"id":13605,"date":"2011-10-12T00:19:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T05:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13605"},"modified":"2011-10-12T00:19:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T05:19:56","slug":"frankfurt-airport-shooter-no-longer-believes-in-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/frankfurt-airport-shooter-no-longer-believes-in-jihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankfurt Airport Shooter No Longer &#8220;Believes in Jihad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arid Uka, accused in the murder of two members of the US Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/uka-confesses-to-killing-us-airmen\/\">at the Frankfurt airport in Germany<\/a>, now says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/news\/usa\/Man-Accused-of-Killing-2-US-Airmen-in-Germany-No-Longer-Believes-in-Jihad-131134508.html\">he does not believe Islam permits violence<\/a> beyond\u00a0self-defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Arid Uka still prays and considers himself a Muslim, he said Wednesday he was duped by extremist propaganda and no longer believes his religion permits violence, except in self-defense.\u00a0 He added that shooting the airmen was not permitted by his religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This change of heart is somewhat unique, as some other recent <!--more-->terror suspects have used their publicity to dig their hole deeper, rather than repent.\u00a0 For example, Naser Abdo made <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/terror-plot-soldier-naser-abdo-defiant-weinstein-equivocates\/\">outbursts in court<\/a> recalling Iraq and Hasan, and Umar Abdulmutallab (the underwear bomber) continues to call America a cancer to be eliminated (and says bin Laden and al-Awlaki are actually alive).<\/p>\n<p>Uka killed\u00a0Airmen Nicholas Alden and Zachary Cuddeback, and has confessed to that fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arid Uka, accused in the murder of two members of the US Air Force at the Frankfurt airport in Germany, now says he does not believe Islam permits violence beyond\u00a0self-defense. While Arid Uka still prays and considers himself a Muslim, he said Wednesday he was duped by extremist propaganda and no longer believes his religion permits violence, except in self-defense.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[547,1548,1545,1593,44,1778,2,935,1929,1431,443,2315,1930],"class_list":["post-13605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-anwar-al-awlaki","tag-arid-uka","tag-frankfurt","tag-germany","tag-islam","tag-jihad","tag-military","tag-naser-abdo","tag-nicholas-alden","tag-nidal-malik-hasan","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-umar-abdulmutallab","tag-zachary-cuddeback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}