Average Mohamed counters terror message with cartoon videos
Ahmed, a convenience store manager from Minneapolis, has launched AverageMohamed.com, a website offering homemade videos aimed at countering the messages and images terrorists use to lure disaffected youths.
"I don't want my children fighting this war. Let's end this in my generation," said Ahmed, a married father of four young children.
Sitting in his sparsely furnished recording studio, Ahmed, 39, said he started his videos out of frustration.
"I've decided to take on one value at a time, one item at a time, to shoot down extremist ideology and philosophy," he said. Ahmed wants to make creating anti-terrorism videos his life's work.
"One thing I know is that an extremist is not made. They are not born that way. Somebody trained them to become an extremist," he said. "And somebody has to train people to become non-extremists. And that is my job. That is officially my job now."
