By Jamie Glazov
FP: Abul Kasem, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Kasem: Thank you. I am pleased to be interviewed by Frontpage magazine.
FP: Tell us a bit about your spiritual and intellectual journey.
Kasem: Born in Bangladesh , I attended the secular schools as well as underwent strict religious discipline, and digested religious preaching. Taught by my father, during my childhood, I learned the basic Qur’an without understanding a single word, because like almost all Muslims of Bangladesh, my father did not know the meaning of Arabic words. He only knew how to read the Qur’an in Arabic, and recite it. When I was nine, a typical Mulla taught me the Islamic rituals (like prayer, ablution, fasting), and how to recite the Qur’an correctly. He also taught us that Muslims are the only inheritors of the earth, that we must never mix with the non-Muslims, we must hate them, humiliate them verbally, and if possible, physically.
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