Mark Houser continues his series in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, with thanks to KAOSKTRL.
PARIS -- Waiting for his train in a metro station named for the battle of Stalingrad, Moun R'Quibe spoke with pride of the men he considers heroes fighting in another bloody conflict -- Iraq.R'Quibe, 20, born in France of Moroccan parents, supports fellow Muslims willing to give their lives for jihad against the Americans.
"I would like to do it, God willing. I would like to do it, but my parents don't want me to," he said.
The high-rises here in Paris' 19th arrondissement, a residential district in the city's northeast where tourists rarely venture, are crowded with North African immigrants and their descendants along with native French. On narrow Rue de Tanger, across from a drab, concrete Catholic church, is the drab, concrete Addawa mosque.
French officials say it was in this mosque, and at later meetings in an apartment, that a jihad recruiter met with a group of young Muslims and convinced them to fly to Syria, sneak across the border, join the insurgency and pursue glory.
Three of them are dead -- two were killed in battle and one blew himself up in an October car bomb attack that injured two American soldiers and two Iraqi soldiers. Three more were captured and are being held by the U.S. military.
In January, French police arrested their alleged recruiter, Farid Benyettou, and two other young men who were preparing to follow in their friends' footsteps...
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"Yesterday it was the hippies, today the Islamists, and tomorrow another kind of these strange creatures," Boubaker said.
That would be nice but I doubt its true
R'Quibe said he opposes the killing of innocents, and he opposes Osama bin Laden. He also said Americans, not al-Qaida, were behind 9/11, and that George Bush and bin Laden are "best friends" serving each other's interests.
always with the innocent.
why not just object to Islam ,it calls fot subjegation and genocide.
Or are you supporting that just not completly
In the end, R'Quibe confessed that he probably is not fierce enough to become a jihad warrior. He said he knows a man who went to fight and came back "crazy," a thought that scares him.
"If you go to Iraq, you'll go crazy or die," said R'Quibe.
"Crazy is not good, but dying is good."
what can you say?
KAOSKTRL-
How the hell can you tell when one of these guys is "crazy"? (Do they become peaceful then?)
I'm waiting for Amnesty International and the ACLU to ask for the release of the "poor, misunderstood" would-be-terrorists who were "captured by the U.S, forces in Iraq". (Have we given them their complimentary Korans yet? Did we wear gloves when handing it to them, since we are unclean infidel dogs?)
France, you're welcome to them.
Bon appetit!
Or should I say:
Sauve qui peut!
("Let him save himself who can.")