The Express reported that “a Spanish anti-terrorist official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed El Khazzani had lived in Spain until last year, moved to France then traveled to Syria where he is believed to have trained with ISIS before returning to France.” And he viewed a jihad video shortly before the attack.
So while everyone knows that it’s inconceivable that a Muslim would carry out a terror attack, since they “respect people” and all that, there is good reason to doubt what El Khazzani’s brother says here.
“Suspect no terrorist, kin say,” The Associated Press, August 27, 2015:
PARIS — The Moroccan suspect in a foiled attack on a high-speed train in France is facing terrorism charges over what authorities say was a plan to unleash carnage among hundreds of passengers — but his family defended him Wednesday, saying he was in a desperate situation.
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed Wednesday that Ayoub El-Khazzani was charged overnight. El-Khazzani, 26, was overpowered by at least five passengers, including three Americans and a Briton, after trying to attack the train with a small arsenal. Mark Moogalian, a French-American who tried to seize an assault rifle from him, is hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
El-Khazzani has denied having terrorism plans, saying he stumbled on a bag of weapons and decided to use them to rob passengers.
His older brother, Imran, reached by French radio network RMC, also said the younger man had no links with terrorism.
“I swear to you before God that my brother has nothing to do with a terrorist. We are Muslims. We respect people,” the brother said. “He could have gone crazy. His life was without a doubt difficult. He didn’t have much money.”
His father, Mohamed, said Ayoub’s job in France ended after about a month and a half and he believed his son acted out of a need for money.
“If he had nothing to eat, he doubtless wanted to commit a theft,” his father told BFM television network.
But Paris prosecutor Francois Molins has said Ayoub El-Khazzani watched a jihadist video on his cellphone moments before the attack and that — although he claimed to be homeless — he bought a first-class ticket. Molins said the suspect’s explanations became increasingly incoherent until he stopped speaking altogether to investigators.
Among the terrorism charges he faces are multiple counts of attempted murder, possession of weapons, and conspiracy….

ich says
“I swear to you before God that my brother has nothing to do with a terrorist. We are Muslims. We respect people”
First off , what GOD is that? My God looks like Jesus.
Your God tells you to kill people and rape young girls and boys.
End of conversation and Jedi mind tricks!
mortimer says
End? Hardly. There’s never an end to taqiyya.
Note: Muslims often start a conversation with a WHOPPER of a lie, denial or misrepresentation.
That is because they have been caught, so they merely say, ‘We didn’t do it’ or ‘It’s out of context.’
They lie, because there’s no other defense for jihad.
When Muslims give you THE WHOPPER, say to them, ‘That wouldn’t be TAQIYYA, would it?’
Harry_the_Horrible says
Taqiyya..
Lying to infidels to advance Islam is a Moslem’s holy duty.
Huck Folder says
He ain’t heavy…he’s ma bruvver…
Jerry says
Muslims’ “respect for people” is tempered by the Qur’an and the Hadith branding Christians and Jews as the “(descendents of) apes and pigs” and therefore notionally in the eyes of Islam do not qualify as “people”.
Dr. Divinity says
Islam….born a lie 1400years ago and still thriving today as it’s followers are proving still.
john spielman says
as I have said before, muslims don’t consider this man a “terrorist” because attacking and slaughtering unbelievers is part of the jihad life style that guarantees the jihadist ENTRANCE INTO THE BIG BROTHEL IN THE SKY WHEN HE DIES
Jay Boo says
We should be prepared to see Free “El-Khazzani” T-Shirts.
After CAIR mass marketing to the Hollywood Left this guy might become the latest must have Cause Célèbre fashion accessory.
Michael Copeland says
“We are muslim. We respect people.”
Well, yes. Like homosexuals, adulterous women, apostates, Yazidis, Jews, Christians.
See “Tariq Ramadan: Respect”,
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6377-tariq-ramadan-respect
mortimer says
RESPECT? OR HUMILIATE?
“The honour of Islam lies in insulting kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to humiliate them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to hold them under contempt and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
-Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624)
Jay Boo says
Yes that is the disgraceful Muslim point of view.
Their whole vile ideology if full of such filth hiding behind religion like a rat crawling out of its cesspool.
Jaladhi says
Ha, ha, ha, .. what BS!! “We are Muslims, we respect people” maybe it should be “we are Muslims, we kill people”!
Jay Boo says
They might wag their tails but even when they are not barking they are planning to take a bite.
These jackals probe in search of weakness and make threats to see how we respond.
mortimer says
Respect… His older brother, Imran, said, “I swear to you before God that my brother has nothing to do with a terrorist. We are Muslims. We respect people.”
Respect…
-K.60:1: “O you who believe! Do not take my enemy and your enemy [disbelievers] for friends: would you offer them love while they deny what has come to you of the truth [while they deny Islam]?”
-K.3:28 “believers not to take infidels for friends and allies instead of believers… unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions.”
-Tabari: “taking precautions” means “If you [Muslims] are under their [non-Muslims’] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them with your tongue while harboring inner animosity for them … [but know that] God has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels rather than other believers—except when infidels are above them [in authority]. Should that be the case, let them act friendly towards them while preserving their religion.”
-Ibn Kathir quoted Abu Darda, a close companion of Muhammad saying: “Let us smile to the faces of some people while our hearts curse them.”
Feigned respect…in other words. Chances are…this whole family supports jihad and Islamic supremacism. It will come out.
Jay Boo says
The mortimer style
Once again, that is a very impressive display of Islamo-think mortimer.
But for you to just post that (infidel blah blah drivel) and let it hang there is either lazy or hints at a subconscious admiration of supremacist thinking. When the Muzzies come waving their bloodied butcher knives I do not want to be anywhere near you as you impress them with your “knowledge” of (their viewpoint) on kuffar.
gravenimage says
Jay Boo, a deep knowledge of Islamic evil is *not* an indication of admiration for it or agreement with it. If that were true, Robert Spencer would be the most Islamophilic man on the planet, which could not be further from the truth.
Mortimer is no admirer of this vicious ideology.
Holy Prophet APF says
“I swear to you before God that my brother has nothing to do with a terrorist. We are Muslims. We respect people,” the brother said.
First, it’s spelled Moslems, not Muslims. Second, exactly which God are you swearing to? The Allah God? If yes, please account for that God’s command I shall terrorize the Infidels!, and explain how that separates your bro from the Allah God.
“He could have gone crazy. His life was without a doubt difficult. He didn’t have much money.”
Hey, America is a socialist country now, after 8 yrs of Prez Dubya and now six and a half yrs of Prez Barack Hussein. Ex-Prez Bill was pretty socialized himself, as was Dubya’s dad, the egregious RINO ex-Prez Herbert Walker, so what we do right here is give U.S. taxpayer dough as welfare mooch money to all young broke French Moslem Males to keep them on the up-and-up so they don’t try any more of this Jihad mass murder stuff, in imitation of the Holy Prophet (Mohammed, not me) as commanded by the Allah God.
Clinical insanity is a terrible thing, but the free money should help.
Baucent says
“Follow the money.” How does a unemployed broke drifter scrape money together to afford a 1st class ticket, not to mentioned to acquire an arsenal of weaponry (I think we can dismiss the found in the park story). Clearly he had handlers who coached him for this attack as well as provided all the logistic support. There is also likely to be a video clip of him somewhere announcing his attack on the kuffars. As he was unsuccessful, and failed to be come a martyr, that probably will never come to light, unless it was on his phone.
George Bemer says
Every crook…every murderer…every terrorist says they are innocent! But THEY ARE GUILTY!
KrazyKafir says
At first you think to yourself, how could this idiot think we’d swallow such nonsense, but it’s not his fault because he sees the west for what it has become, a cauldron of leftist self-loathing pc pussies.
Jay Boo says
“… We are Muslims. We respect people,” the brother said.
The Qur’an uses that same trick with chapter intros of”
“The Compassionate and the Merciful” in reference to Allah.
“Come into my embrace whispered Satan’s snake.
Let me caress and compress before I strike at your neck”
jihad3tracker says
Yes, Muslims “respect people”. The wonderful & brilliant & courageous counter-jihad resource David Wood knows that.
He also has a firm grip on WHY so many billion members of Allah’s fan club are nice peaceful persons until suddenly they are NOT peaceful.
I have posted this link before, but if readers here missed it, get yourselves ready for 5 explanatory minutes which should be sent on to clueless elected officials, guilt tripping clergy, local TV news robots, aunt Mabel, uncle Clem.
Go to www (dot) answeringmuslims (dot) com —- find “The Jihad Triangle”. Watch and learn, then laugh as David ends his remarks with typical dark humor.
Diana says
Yeah right – brother says (more taqiyya) “he’s not a terrorist – we-are-muslims-we-respect-people” …. except of course all those 2nd class citizens ( who are not muslims ) who are not really people according to the koran.
Are you all as tired of this absolute bulls!t denial of the truth as I am? Or is it only us stupid kuffars or dhimmis who say this and so this means nothing whatsoever to the allegedly tiny % of muslims who are “radicalised” not to mention the rest of muslims for whom this is an article of their faith. Sigh!
ollie says
Of course they respect people, i.e. the right kind of muslim people, all the rest being unworthy. Of course it is a religion of peace, muslim peace, rightfully killing every non muslim and destroying every other culture in jihad.
Westman says
The “family” knew he was out of a job, had no money, and due to their non-support “he doubtless wanted to commit a theft” with an AK-47. Of course, he could have sold the weapons for money, but the idea of leverage for profit suddenly popped into his head?
I feel a novel coming on, “The Accidental Terrorist”.
Ralph Statum says
Many non-Muslims and even many Muslims, think of Islam in the traditional religious sense of sacredness, intentions, spirituality, peacefulness, goodness, giving, loving, etc. In truth, Islam is not such a traditional religion. Islam is a ‘stand alone’ {only one of its kind} because killing unbelieving men, women and children, are not only permitted in Islam, but is actually demanded by Allah {Muslim God}. In Islam, Allah is not love, {he could be merciful, at best. A Christian would say ‘who needs mercy without God’s love?’} In Islam, total obedience to Allah is demanded, irrespective of rationality. Followers must unquestionably, even be prepared to kill a human, to protect this Allah because a ‘human life is meaningless’ {Ishaq: 676 – After killing the mother of five little sons, Muhammad said, “as meaningless as two goats butting their heads”} Instead humans are precious in Christianity and God calls us to value and respect human life, as God loves every human being, irrespective of race, creed, colour, nationality, etc.
Muslims generally claim, “Islam is peaceful and does not permit killing humans” but this is a blatant lie, in contradiction to their Allah’s commands in the Quran. This is because there are two types of Muslims a) The vast majority of Muslims do not understand Arabic (are only taught how to recite the Quran in Arabic, like a parrot, minus the meanings and they are the type generally fooled and lied to, by their own Islamic clergy, and make up almost all of Islamic suicide killers) b) The second type of Muslims, who are a small elite minority, do understand (including almost all Islamic clergy), but choose to lie for Allah hoping to get extra merit points selfishly, in defense of Allah, at the expense of the first gullible type of Muslims. They themselves never commit suicide for Allah {Have you ever heard of a Ustaz, Imam, Ulama, Mufti or Kadi sacrifice their generally well-off and polygamous life and commit suicide? The answer is NO.} Then ask yourself WHY. It is because these Islamic clergy are already having the good life at the expense of the Majority Muslims, just like in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, etc. They are generally, the well off, higher echelon, among Muslim societies} It is the first type, {the vast majority}, who swallow everything said by these Islamic clergy, and this gullible type are enticed with the rewards promised by Allah. Islamic suicide killers are generally unmarried young sex-maniac desperados, for whom Allah has promised 72 Houris {voluptuous, young, well-bosomed, pretty virgin girls} and for homosexuals “boys as fresh as hidden pearls” in addition to many other rewards.
zulu says
OT — Jihad Watch readers, check this out!!
Ezra Levant video: “No infidels allowed”: Disabled man denied subsidized housing because he’s not Muslim
http://www.therebel.media/_no_infidels_allowed
Toronto man denied subsidized housing for not being Muslim
http://globalnews.ca/news/2185359/toronto-man-denied-subsidized-housing-for-not-being-muslim/
Cecilia Ellis says
Absolutely stunning! What a slap in the face to Canadian taxpayers . . . not to mention the blatant discrimination that favors Muslims, even to the exclusion of a wheel-chair-bound young man who really does need the assistance!
Myxlplik says
OT:
Something the press will not show, full on Islamic invasion. colonization underway in Hungary/Balkans.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKVMlmC1HSM
These colonists are not here to integrate, it’s full all out invasion.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
This is perhaps the greatest human migration in world history, and it will have an ugly result. In a sense, one of the greatest power Moslems have is their incompetence in being able to run an economy. If forces them to infest and feed off of hosts in order to stay alive. Alluhu Akbar!
William says
More farrago of sophisticated dishonesty. It is as predictable as night follows day.
Voytek Gagalka says
“He’s not terrorist… We are Muslims. We respect people.”
Did you ever heard about bandit who admits to his banditry? Or criminal in jail claiming anything but his innocence? Two things here: Declaration of Mohammedan’s supremacist creed that they are better than anyone else (infidels) because they are MUSLIMS! Secondly, the don’t consider any infidels as “people,” they “respect” only their own kind, i.e. fellow Mohammedans. It is all in Qur’an, it is there!
Dave J says
Highly recommend “The Second Plane: September 11th: Terror and Boredom” by Martin Amis.
Couple of quotes: (on why we aren’t resisting or even noticing) “We are impeded by a combination of naivete, decency and a kind of recurrent incredulity. The Death Cult always benefits, initially at least, from its capacity to astonish and stupefy”.
(On the similarities with Nazi and and Stalinesque ideology and the rejection of Reason) “To transcend reason is of course to transcend the confines of moral law; it is to enter the illimitable world of insanity and death”
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Martin Amis, the talented son of the great Welsh novelist Kingsley Amis. I read Time’s Arrow and loved it. I missed on The Second Plane. I’ll have to read it. This guy’s good.
Truth Seeker says
Every Muslim is a Warrior of Allah and ought to do his/her Religious Duty. No One can Fight in Air, there has to be some Objects/Victims; they are Kafirs. According to the Teachings, Kafirs are Inferior Creatures, not even Humans. Jews are already labeled as Apes.
Kafirs are Enemies of Allah and are to be Eliminated. And it is the duty of every Muslim. All who work for that Directly or Indirectly will get Visa to Janaah.
Thus when Frontline Jihadi Butcher/Torture Kafir, Stealth Jihadis will come out to justify him/her. If No Point is Available, Utter, our Friend/s do/does not understand the Religious Teachings.
In short according to these Terrorists, They are Not Terrorists and are on Religious Duty. Kafirs Interpret as Terrorism, Crime etc.They respect Humans, but Kafirs fail to Realise.
Many in Europe are the Takers of this Interpretation thereby the Jihadis are Freed to do any Crimes. It is heard, Rulers encourage and welcome more and more Migration of Jihadi Terrorists and Spend the TaxPayers Money to Nurture these Terrorists..
epistemology says
I’ve never seen muzzies respecting other people, but they demand respect from us infidels all the time. This terrorist bought a ticket for € 199 but claims he’s starving. We’ve got to get rid of this scum all over the West.
Champ says
“I swear to you before God that my brother has nothing to do with a terrorist. We are Muslims. We respect people,” the brother said.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What a load of taqiyya! And swearing before your god allah/satan is meaningless since lying is allah approved >> read the unholy quran!
Angemon says
Called it.
Dave J says
The curious thing is that with the Islamic State establishing a “Caliphate” where there is Shariah law, Halal food and plenty of Mosques all these “migrants” are fleeing to Europe instead of to the Muslim state.
This indicates that they are not pious migrants but actual parasitic invaders seeking to expand the Caliphate and destroy the West from within. Having routed the Christians from their own countries they need a fresh supply of infidels to murder and enslave. And being paid by the infidels to do so is the icing on the death cult cake.
Truth Seeker says
The are not Genuine Refugees. They wear the Mask of Refugees. They are Jihadis. This is Conspiracy Jihad. Once they are allowed in a Country as Refugees, they Operate Terror Jihad, Horror Jihad, Rape Jihad, Love Jihad, Torture Jihad, Deceptive Jihad, Butcher Jihad, Befooling Jihad, Biological Jihad etc. Because they believe that actions will bring Visa for them to Janaah (Islam’s Paradise). So Long as this Myth Exists, Various Types of Jihad will Continue. It is late, at least Europeans should Know, the Myth of Multiculturalism is Nothing But Coffin for them.
Milt W. says
OK but he has to chose 1 or the other.
Is he a muslum
or does he respect people
because anyone posting here or PG site knows that is is called an oxymoron as opposed to an ordinary regular type mooslum moron which is usually called moderate mooslum- Or often on the media tv news clips , The sweetest guy yo ever met- cant figure why he slaughtered so many people- we never saw it and were family ,and the other rehearsed BS they all seem to know by heart.etc etc..,,