re: #13 Obdicut

This guy was obviously inspired by radical Islam, but was he really a Muslim convert, or did he just start calling himself by an Islamic name and get all Jihad-y by himself?

The news reports don’t mention any mosque or anything that he belonged to.

From the article….

His mother disapproved of his life choices, according to records. “She wants me to be like everybody else, being in school, working,” he told the informant. “Glad I am not like everyone else my age – going out having fun, be in college, all that stuff. That’s not me. … That [sic] not what Allah has in mind for me.”

I’m guessing that he converted himself as an act of rebellion. Probably from reading books from the library.