Apparently the Merah family didn’t have just one member with jihad sentiments. How many other families like the Merahs are there in France, even among those whom the politically correct assume to be “moderates”? Or is that very question “Islamophobic”?
“Militant’s sister targeted in French terror probe,” Associated Press, May 22, 2014 (thanks to Thomas Pellow):
PARIS (AP) — French authorities have opened a terrorism probe into the sister of a radical Islamist who committed a 2012 killing spree in southwest France.
Scores of police, some wearing masks, on Thursday raided the home of the sister, Souad Merah, in the southwest city of Toulouse, but she was not at home. The Paris prosecutor’s office said she faces a preliminary investigation for suspected association with a terrorist enterprise.
An Interior Ministry official said French authorities believe Merah has fled to Syria with her young children. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the information.
In three separate 2012 attacks, Merah’s brother Mohammed shot dead a rabbi, three Jewish children and three paratroopers in southwest France before dying in a shootout with police. French authorities say Merah was of Algerian background and had traveled to jihadist training camps along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Souad Merah’s mother, Zoulikha Aziri, told BFM television that her daughter had traveled to Tunisia on vacation with her husband, not to Syria.
French officials have expressed fears that hundreds of its Muslim citizens who have traveled to Syria in recent years could return home from the civil war there could return to France and commit terror attacks. They say France has more of its young people joining the fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime than any other European nation.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “An Interior Ministry official said French authorities believe Merah has fled to Syria with her young children.”
I certainly hope that she *has* gone.
The French, once they have taken steps to ascertain that she has indeed departed, should then take steps – beginning with the cancellation of passports and the removal of citizenship status – to ensure that neither she nor her offspring will ever be able to return into France.
Let such as she deport themselves. The more the merrier. Wave them bon voyage…and slam and lock the door shut behind them after they have gone.
Wellington says
“….more of its young people…..” Yeah, as though young Muslims in France are just as French as any other “young people.”
Of course I don’t mean here technically or legally, yeah they’re French in this regard—–technicality and legality by Western standards very often serving the interests of a religion which parasitically uses Western technical and legal elements to advance an agenda which would obliterate such elements if only given the chance. No, I don’t mean it this way but rather in the spirit of things, in the common sense of things, in the preservation of a Western nation of things.
Ah, when dealing with Islam’s adherents this way, i.e., recognizing what they’re really up to, rather than just viewing them technically or legally, a far more expansive view of what Islam’s deluded followers intend for France and all the West becomes so much clearer. Most important, Western law was never designed to be a suicide pact, though I have no doubt that your more fervent Muslim desires exactly this—–yes, use Western law to eventually eliminate Western law and substitue Sharia—– while your so-called moderate Muslim remains as clueless, useless and unreliable as ever in this regard (and in so many other regards).
Same old same old. Gotta’ give Islam this much though: It’s so predictable.
Isabella says
What a surprise!
Isabella says
“French officials have expressed fears that hundreds of its Muslim citizens who have traveled to Syria in recent years could return home from the civil war there could return to France and commit terror attacks. They say France has more of its young people joining the fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime than any other European nation.”
This shows that France needs to do its homework when immigration is concerned. Countries in the Western hemisphere must refuse immigrants that are not willing to embrace the culture of the country they want to live. Obviously immigrants who are focusing on fighting jihad do not fit well in investing time and energy to adopt the values that prevails in France, such as equality between men and women and being able to live your homosexuality if it is the case. All they want is to subjugate the people who were decent enough to let them in their country.
RCCA says
“How many other families like the Merahs are there in France, even among those whom the politically correct assume to be ‘moderates’?” True, most jihadis are moderate until they are not. That’s why the authorities have to keep tabs on what goes on in mosques and Islamic websites and keep out extremist imams.
Myxlplik says
She looks like Jar Jar Binks
http://artistisak.deviantart.com/art/jar-jar-binks-290764528
Totally off topic, but she does!
mortimer says
65% of all Muslims are jihadists or jihad-supporters. Giving money to Islamic supremacists is considered financial jihad.
Buraq says
Gotta terror problem? Cherchez l’islam!
Clown!