UN teacher by day, jihadist bomb-maker by night

Just another case of some poor, desperate, illiterate Muslim being forced into terrorism by Western persecution. It's always the West's fault.

FROM JIHAD WATCH.ORG:

UN teacher by day, jihadist bomb-maker by night
He probably didn't see any contradiction, and there isn't much of one, but of course there is the usual denial from the usual deniers. "UN teacher by day … Islamists' chief bomb-maker at night," by Adam Entous for The Scotsman,
May 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):

BY DAY, Awad al-Qiq was a respected teacher and headmaster at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. By night, he built rockets for Islamic Jihad.

The Israeli air strike that killed the 33-year-old last week also laid bare his apparent double life and embarrassed a UN agency that has long had to reject Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted guerrillas fighting the Jewish state.
Students and colleagues, as well as UN officials, denied any knowledge of Qiq's work with explosives. And his family denied he had any militant links, despite a profusion of Islamic Jihad posters at his home.
But militant leaders allied to the enclave's ruling Hamas group have hailed him as a martyr who led Islamic Jihad's "engineering unit" – its bomb makers. They fired improvised rockets into Israel in response to his death.

Qiq's body was wrapped in an Islamic Jihad flag at his funeral, posters in his honour still bedeck his family home and a notice posted on the school gate declared that Qiq, "the chief leader of the engineering unit", would now find "paradise".
The poster was removed soon after reporters visited the Rafah Prep Boys School, run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees. Staff there said yesterday that UNRWA officials had told them not to discuss Qiq's activities. No-one from the UN attended the funeral or has paid their respects to the family, relatives said.
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Surrounded by Islamic Jihad mourning posters at the family home, Qiq's sister Naima insisted: "He's only a teacher and head of the school. School was his life. He had no time to work with Islamic Jihad." Other family members nodded in agreement. At the school, a 17-year-old who gave his name as Shadi read a poster for his former teacher and said simply: "Nobody knew."
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ISRAEL has long alleged that militants use UN Relief and Works Agency vehicles and facilities. The UN has denied those charges, although some UNRWA employees have had prominent political roles in groups like Hamas – such as teacher Saeed Seyam, who was the interior minister in the Hamas-led government elected in 2006.
Some western officials say UNRWA, as one of the biggest employers in the Gaza Strip, simply reflects the society it serves. But donors such as the United States, which fund the body's work, insist on vetting procedures to ensure their cash does not reach groups they class as terrorists – such as Islamic Jihad.
A UNRWA spokesman, Christopher Gunness, said: "We have a zero-tolerance policy towards politics and militant activities in our schools."
But he added: "Obviously, we are not the thought police and we cannot police people's minds."

Obviously.