Newsweek has a little more info on the a …
Newsweek has a little more info on the alleged Muslim CIA rapist Andrew Warren.
Warren is an aspiring author as well as a spy. Eight years ago, he published a pulp thriller called “The People of the Veil.” The hero of the book is a U.S. diplomat, based in Algiers, who battles terrorists trying to take over the U.S. Embassy. In a subplot, the hero, Nick Phillips, has an affair with Mariam, a beautiful Algerian woman who shunned Arab men (“because they were too controlling”) but fell in love with Nick because he “respected her and treated her as an equal,” and who “never pressured her and understood her culture.” Speaking anonymously in order to be candid, one of Warren’s former instructors at the “Farm,” where spies are trained, told NEWSWEEK that Warren was “a loose cannon” whose confidence “bordered on narcissism.” Still, he added, people at the agency “are crushed by this.” A former academic mentor, Professor William Alexander of Norfolk State University, described Warren as “an incredible person” and said that he had been working on a second novel.
As’ad Abu Khalil wonders why there has been little coverage of this story in the Arab media.
Tariq Nelson 9:22 pm on February 4, 2009 Permalink |
As I mentioned before, I think his being Muslim has something to do with that. Similar to in the American black community. A black on black rape would get little to no attention. A white on black rape would be an international incident
MT.Akbar 1:17 am on February 5, 2009 Permalink |
This guy should have his head sliced, or more appropriately whatever the Sharia’ punishment is for this.
Tariq Nelson 6:28 am on February 5, 2009 Permalink |
Seems that according to shariah he is AT LEAST due lashes since he says the sex is consensual.
Abu Noor Al-Irlandee 9:43 am on February 5, 2009 Permalink |
Tariq, as I’m sure you know there would have to be witnesses to the actual act (if you are talking hudood — of course under the Shari’ah the Qadhi could give lashes as ta’zir (discretinary) punishment for the rape or the fornication. (or the drinking for that matter). I guess you’re considering his statement as a confession?
The Shari’ah punishment for spying for disbelievers against Muslims I won’t mention.
Tariq, but it’s still odd that a random claim that he is Muslim would be so widely accepted as authentically making him so. Why wouldn’t the fact that he’s an American CIA agent trump that? How about the fact that he is Blackamerican? Wouldn’t one expect the widespread racism in the Muslim world to come into play here? We will see as more facts come out, but it does seem that the two victims about whom we know details were women were expatriates (they had other citizenships in addition to their Algerian citizenship) who liked to party with American CIA agents…so they were of a certain class, that could be an issue as well.
Allaah knows best.
Abu Noor Al-Irlandee 9:54 am on February 5, 2009 Permalink |
Here is a clipping from happier days when Mr. Warren was being celebrated as an up and coming African American writer of thriller fiction and was talking about how he wanted to teach people the true meaning of Islam.
I have to say with such stories I always fluctuate between anger and a deep deep sadness. Allaahu’l Musta’an.