{"id":7743,"date":"2014-07-05T21:28:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2014-07-05T21:28:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T20:28:46","slug":"british-man-believes-son-radicalised-by-imam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/british-man-believes-son-radicalised-by-imam\/","title":{"rendered":"British Man Believes Son Radicalised by Imam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rahim Kalantar, father of Ali Kalantar, believes his son was radicalised by an imam at a mosque his son attended.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A British man believes his teenage son, who traveled to Syria to join a jihadist group, was radicalised by an imam from a UK mosque.<\/p>\n

Rahim Kalantar, father of Ali, 18, told<\/strong> <\/a>the BBC he believes his son is now fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)<\/strong><\/a>, an active jihadist group in Iraq and Syria. Kalantar claims that an imam sent him \u201cdown this road,\u201d but the imam denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

Ali would be one of about 500 Britons who have gone to the Middle East to fight in the conflict.<\/p>\n

Kalantar says he worries about his son \u201cevery minute\u201d and that his grief is \u201climitless.\u201d He believes that his son was brainwashed by the imam while Ali was taking classes at a mosque after evening prayer.<\/p>\n

Although the BBC contacted the mosque to speak with the imam, he refused an interview and denied all allegations.<\/p>\n

Kalantar believes this imam radicalized his son, as well as another 18-year-old, Rashed Amani.<\/p>\n

Family members of Amani had travelled to the Turkish-Syrian border to search for the boys, but Amani\u2019s father said they came back \u201cempty-handed\u201d after looking for over two weeks. He also feared that his son had joined ISIS.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe somebody worked with him, I don\u2019t know. Maybe somebody brainwashed him because he was not like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This report comes after two other young Britons, Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan, both 20, appeared<\/strong> <\/a>in a recruitment video posted by ISIS. In this video the two men encouraged other British Muslims to join the fighting in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

Former independent reviewer of terrorism laws, Lord Carlile, informed<\/strong> <\/a>the BBC that the Muslim community itself was in the best position to prevent jihadists from recruiting in the UK. He also said that the UK needed to \u201creintroduce\u201d tougher measures to stop terrorism.<\/p>\n

\u201cMothers, wives, sisters do not want their husbands, brothers, sons to become valid jihadists and run the risk of being killed in a civil war,\u201d he told the programme.<\/p>\n

He also said that the Government needs to \u201clook at preventing violent extremism before people leave the country and also we need to look for further measures.\u201d He suggested reintroducing \u201csomething like control orders.\u201d These were replaced in 2011 with Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPims), which are less restrictive than control orders.<\/p>\n

United States President Obama announced<\/a><\/strong> on 19 June that he will send 300 U.S. special operation forces to Iraq in order to repel the uprising of Muslim jihadist troops involved with ISIS.<\/p>\n

Although the jihadists recruit mainly Muslims, these incidents are just another way that the increasing Muslim population in Britain is affecting British culture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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