He said hundreds of young men like him, who were drawn to a Sunni jihad after the US invasion, do not believe that the latest manifestation of the decade-long war remains true to its origins.
"I got jeered at in a cafe in [the predominantly Muslim area of] El Príncipe because I was talking about peace and speaking out against jihad," he said.
At a time when militant Hindu groups are conducting a high-decibel campaign against Indian Muslim men marrying Hindu women (a practice labelled "Love Jihad"), this is not a denouement that gets the approval of the religious right.
Al Qaida and Islamic State have threatened to extend their cause to the Muslim population in Myanmar which did launch a short-lived "jihad" after the second world war.
"There are a growing number of youngsters who want to join jihad.
All these people who came to do jihad in Syria, can they explain to me, jihad for what?
"Is it possible to do jihad half a year?" asks one would-be recruit, apparently seeking to join a rebel group in Syria on a short-stay basis.
They discussed that jihad is the correct way to be adopted in this regard," the dossier says.
Paweł Wroński (Gazeta Wyborcza) When Laarbi Mateeis, 51, leader of the proselytising Muslim sect Tablighi Jamaat in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in north Africa, uses the language of "fighting jihad", he has to tread carefully.
"Going to some faraway country to die for jihad is stupid," he says.
They took him to a home in the west of the capital, where he immediately rejoined the jihad, which had transformed from a fight against an occupying army into a vicious and unrestrained war against Iraqi Shia.
