How the Christmas Bomber Spent his Summer in the United States » Publications » Family Security Matters: "In August of 2008, an Islamist student made his way from London to Houston to attend a two-week program put on by the AlMaghrib Institute. This was his third course with the Institute, including two in London. On Christmas Day 2009, the very same student, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to blow up a transatlantic flight with a suicide bomb he had sewn into his underpants.
AlMaghrib's Houston-based director of the 2008 program and national Dean of Academic Affairs, Yasir Qadhi, expressed immediate concern for the aspiring terrorist's feelings of alienation and hatred of the West.
The AlMaghrib program offered 'mainstream Islamic stuff,' Qadhi told CNN, which did not challenge the claim.
'At some level,' he added, 'we did not convince him of the validity of our views, and that is cause for regret.'"
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