More details on John Walker Lindh's personal journey of self-discovery. According to people who knew him during a six month stint at an Islamic school in Pakistan, he was keenly interested in militant Islam, particularly the part where you get to have four wives. "He is a man and every man has desires," said the headmaster of the Madrassa-e-Arabia. That's true. This whole thing is getting easier and easier to understand.
Walker Lindh, or as he preferred to be called, Sulayman al-Faris, was also known as a splendid conversationalist:
Pharmacist Kareem Khan used to provide Lindh with medicine for stomach aches and allergies."I pointed to a cinema and told Sulayman 'look, it's a movie house,'" Khan said.
"His reply was: 'No, this is a house of Satan."