Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square, was frustrated with the state of the Muslim world and sought a way to “fight back.”I don't konw about you, but I do feel sorry for anyone who is humiliated. And, I find that humor helps me when I'm feeling low. So, I'll try to help the man out, and, I hope, any other Muslim who might be feeling humiliated as well.
Two e-mails obtained by CNN help piece together a portrait of the Pakistani-born naturalized U.S. citizen. They also may shed some light on what propelled his failed terror plot.
“Everyone knows the current situation of Muslim World,” he wrote in an e-mail he sent to a large group of recipients in February 2006.
At the time, he had been in the United States for about six years, had earned his MBA and was working as a financial analyst in Connecticut.
“Everyone knows how the Muslim country bows down to pressure from the west. Everyone knows the kind of humiliation we are faced with around the globe.”
The e-mail continues: “It is with no doubt that we today Muslim, followers of Islam are attacked and occupied by foreign infidel forces. The crusade has already started against Islam and Muslims with cartoons of our beloved Prophet PBUH (peace be upon him) as War drums.”
Shahzad was referring to the 2005 controversy in which a Danish newspaper published satirical cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that many Muslims found offensive.
“Can you tell me a way to save the oppressed,” Shahzad asked. “And a way to fight back when rockets are fired at us and Muslim blood flows? In Palestine, Afghan, Iraq, Chechnya and elsewhere."