On June 18, 2009 National Public Radio gave an update on a young man, Burhan Hassan, age 17 who a year ago suddenly disappeared after his high school graduation. He was last seen on a flight to Somalia. After nearly a year of searching, family members found him. He had been recruited into a terrorist group. After long discussions with his father, the boy agreed to come home. Days before his flight back to the U.S. he was murdered by one shot to the head. Authorities speculated the terrorist group was responsible. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105572589)
The US & World website reported on November 28, 2008 that Minneapolis Minnesota is a recruiting center for Al-Qaeda (http://wcco.com). December 4. 2008 Fox News Website headlines read “Jihad Recruiting Effort May Explain Missing Somalis In Minneapolis Area (www.foxnews.com).
These young men and women are often intelligent, kind and family oriented individuals. Yet recruiters are able to convince them to fight in what they present as a holy war. The young people soon are willing to give their very lives to these unscrupulous men’s indoctrination.
Though these stories strike terror in our hearts, there is even a greater enemy, who was in the process of destroying our lives. Satan used lies and bribery to convince us to forsake the truth. But Jesus came to take the blinders off our eyes and to expose the false teaching of this world.
He has given us an “inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away,” which is reserved in heaven for {us}. (1 Peter 1:4).
