Tale of a Taliban Double Agent
A Canadian Muslim man who was formerly radicalized revealed in an interview earlier this week that his jihadist views changed after he met with Taliban militants, which subsequently led him to fight terrorism as an undercover agent.
Mubin Shaikh said he got "bit with the jihadi bug," and described himself as someone who had been "radicalized," according to The Blaze.
He said that he even radicalized and recruited other young people to "this singular narrative." To accomplish that, he would often ask young Muslims, "There is a war on Islam. What are you doing about it?' he recalled in the interview with The Blaze in New York City on Tuesday.
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However, his jihadist views were challenged after he met with some AK-47-wielding members of the Taliban in Pakistan just by chance, he said.
"In 2002, after 9/11, I realized there is somethig wrong with flying planes into buildings. ... What these people do is completely against Islam, number one, and number two, it takes a Muslim to set things right," Shaikh asserted.
