His father is shocked! shocked! that his boy could have done such a thing, but a neighbor gives a clue: “He and his brother were very devout; they dressed like Afghans and all that, but I can’t believe this.” Then there is the local mosque where he was a “regular.” Has anyone looked into what is taught there, or would that be “Islamophobic”?
“Terrorist’s father speaks for the first time,” by James Badcock and David Barrett, Telegraph, August 23, 2015:
The father of the gunman who attempted to commit a massacre aboard a high-speed international train service has spoken for the first time of his shock.
Mohamed El-Khazzani, speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, said his son was a “good boy” and expressed incredulity at his actions.
“I have no idea what he was thinking and I have not spoken to him for over a year,” said Mr El-Khazzani.
“He was a good boy, very hardworking.”
Between sobs, the gunman’s father said his son “never talked politics; just football and fishing”.
Since returning to be with his parents in 2012 after a troubled spell in Madrid, his son had given up smoking hashish and seemed very calm, said the father of five, who recycles materials for a living in one of Algeciras’s poorest areas, El Saladillo.
Mr El-Khazzani, born in Tétouan, northern Morocco, in 1950, managed to legalise his status in Spain a decade ago and brought his entire family over in 2007, first settling in Madrid before moving to Algeciras.
Ayoub was arrested twice in the Spanish capital for selling hashish in 2009.
“But he was only carrying a little bit; he was just a boy then,” his father said.
Mr El-Khazzani blamed a French telecommunications company for his son’s apparent transformation.
He said that six Moroccan youths from Algeciras were taken to work in France around 18 months ago on six-month contracts.
“Then after one month they were just kicked out. So now he’s in France, not Spain. What is he meant to do? What is he supposed to eat?
“But no, they’re criminals in that company, using people like that.”
After losing his job with the telephony company, his father thinks that Ayoub was in France and Belgium.
Mr El-Khazzani seemed surprised when asked if he believed his son’s version of events, in which he said he was armed with an assault rifle to rob people on the train.
“Rob on the train?” he repeated. “It’s all very strange,” was all he can say before breaking down again.
Other residents of El Saladillo who remember Ayoub from his time in the Algeciras neighbourhood were similarly shocked by the development. The last they had all heard of him was that he had a job with Lycamobile in France. “He and his brother were very devout; they dressed like Afghans and all that, but I can’t believe this,” said one young man of Moroccan origin. “He would sit with us while we smoked joints, you know? He didn’t smoke, but he didn’t mind that we did.”
But a Spanish neighbour said he was “arrogant”.
“I only knew him from playing five-a-side here in the neighbourhood. I didn’t talk about anything else with him but he was uptight, standoffish. He loved his football, though.”
Anouar, a volunteer from the modest local mosque where Ayoub and his brother were regulars said he was struggling to take in the news. “I am having trouble coming to terms with the news. It was not obviously apparent that he had such ideas. If it’s what it looks like, I feel ashamed. He has shamed the neighbourhood. I have lived here for 25 years; we had had our children here”.

S says
May I just quietly remind everyone that following the beachside murders in Tunisia, the government of that (Muslim) country had 80 (as in EIGHTY) mosques shut down for incitement?
Will the government of Spain shut down even that one measly little mosque in Algeciras?
Steph says
Tunisia knows how to deal the cards, I think a Euro wide law needs to be passed,,
the mosk a jihadist comes from where everyone is amazed by the outcome & no-one can understand why the jihadist behaved this way,, !
the mosk should be bulldozed, they obviously don’t know how to teach, “the religion of peace”
Shane says
He was a good Muslim, not a good boy, not a good citizen. Good Muslim = good jihadi.
Sam Hawkins says
May I remind everyone that following the beachside murders in Tunisia, the government of that (Muslim) country had 80 (as in EIGHTY) mosques shut down?
Will the government of Spain shut down even that one measly mosque in Algeciras?
Savvy Kafir says
New Rule: If you know your son is a devout Muslim, you can’t be “shocked” when he starts killing infidels.
Steph says
Also you father skills are pathetic
Peggy says
According to Islam, his father skills would be spot on.
He is only shocked because this carefully planned mass murder didn’t work.
They never counted on a counter attack.
Angemon says
So why didn’t he turned his attention to the company rather than a train full of innocent people? And why don’t we see more people fired by that company engaging in train attacks?
If a Spaniard considered him to be “arrogant”, I can assure you he (the jihadi) was a first class douche.
That’s the behaviour we see when someone is instilled from birth with the notion that he’s better than most people for whatever reason – the reason in this case being religion.
Champ says
True–great comment, Angemon!
st patrick says
Angemon always has great comments..and you too Champ..Check out how the kids that are not allright at vladtepes and barena.kedislam ..but you already knew that..Take care guys.. love ya’s..
Angemon says
Thanks for the cumpliment, st patrick 🙂
Nimrod says
Yep, since we now know that getting laid off by this one company causes people to go on mass shooting sprees, better find those other five guys who got let go by that same company at the same time and find them fast before they all go full jihad and try to murder hundreds of people.
“Mr El-Khazzani blamed a French telecommunications company for his son’s apparent transformation.” lolllolololololol
Steph says
Read between the lines people, he was mostly kicked out of the French Teleco for being arogent, selling hash and being stoned at work,,
If he was stuck in France & unemployed & in trouble, why didn’t he just get on a train (without a gun) and go home.. A real father would pay the fare
Steph says
Read between the lines people, he was most likely kicked out of the French Teleco for being arogent, selling hash and being stoned at work,,
If he was stuck in France, unemployed & in trouble, why didn’t he just get on a train (without a gun) and go home.. A real father would pay the fare…
I have a real fear for Europe, this can only get worse, with the volumes of people streaming in it’s going to create more middle eastern slums and burden the social services beyond sustainability ..
(can you claim the social services payout for an infidel woman you have bashed into being a sex slave ??)
And of course if they kill all the taxpayers, who will support them
Jaladhi says
Ain’t it always- the father, the family, the community, the mosque imam, are shocked, shocked when one of them commits jihad. If this doesn’t prove that Muslims are liars and they do not know how to tell and admit the truth about them and their religion of peace then I don’t know what else will prove it. I have never, never ever heard a Muslim admit that a particular Muslim was known to be a jihadi. It is always ” he was a nice boy” crap. Liars, liars, liars.
PRCS says
The reason they get away with that is that they are seldom–if ever–challenged with the specific chapters and verses from Qur’an and sunnah which permit, authorize and command such Islam’s supremacism, hatred and violence.
I’m not sure if I posted this before, but the last bit of this video is the kind of aggressive questioning that too many “journalists” and politicians either don’t to ask or are just too afraid to.
Steph says
I worry about the journo’s, like Charlie Hebdo how long will it be before our reporters start getting grief
William says
“I have no idea what he was thinking and I have not spoken to him for over a year,” said Mr El-Khazzani.
“He was a good boy, very hardworking.”
Between sobs, the gunman’s father said his son “never talked politics; just football and fishing”.
What a farrago of sophisticated dishonesty!
PRCS says
“What a farrago of sophisticated dishonesty!”
Were you wearing one of those judicial wigs when you posted that?
William says
I couldn’t resist.
Jay Boo says
Islam is of shame and sorrow
When will Muslims learn
Islam is about yesterday not tomorrow.
Yes, the more it (chains) the more it stays the same.
gravenimage says
France train jihadi was “very devout” Muslim, father shocked by attack
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How many times have we heard this garbage by now? This is trotted out with few variations following virtually *every* Jihad attack.
More:
His father is shocked! shocked! that is boy could have done such a thing, but a neighbor gives a clue: “He and his brother were very devout; they dressed like Afghans and all that, but I can’t believe this.” Then there is the local mosque where he was a “regular.” Has anyone looked into what is taught there, or would that be “Islamophobic”?
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Of course it would be!
“Mississippi paper: It would be “ignorant” to be suspicious of jihadi’s mosque”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/mississippi-paper-it-would-be-ignorant-to-be-suspicious-of-jihadis-mosque
More:
Mohamed El-Khazzani, speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, said his son was a “good boy” and expressed incredulity at his actions.
“I have no idea what he was thinking and I have not spoken to him for over a year,” said Mr El-Khazzani.
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Odd that he hasn’t spoken with sonny boy in over a year. I imagine he is defending his spawn, but doesn’t want to appear too close to the Jihad plot, either. Might be inconvenient…
More:
Since returning to be with his parents in 2012 after a troubled spell in Madrid, his son had given up smoking hashish and seemed very calm, said the father of five, who recycles materials for a living in one of Algeciras’s poorest areas, El Saladillo.
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We’re supposed to be sad that this JIhadist’s family lives in a poor neighborhood. More of the mistaken implication that it is poverty that causes Jihad…
Yet dear old dad was eager to bring his brood over from Morocco. And why not? I’m sure they are living much better in civilized Spain than they were back in Dar-al-Islam.
More:
Mr El-Khazzani blamed a French telecommunications company for his son’s apparent transformation.
He said that six Moroccan youths from Algeciras were taken to work in France around 18 months ago on six-month contracts.
“Then after one month they were just kicked out. So now he’s in France, not Spain. What is he meant to do? What is he supposed to eat?
…………………………….
Where to start? Firstly, many people have had a job end early. This is inconvenient and sometimes even traumatizing, but most of those laid off do not respond by going on a rampage trying to mass murder innocent passengers on a train.
Moreover, France and Spain are right next door to each other. I’m sure even if you were completely penniless, you could *panhandle* bus or train fare to get home.
Then, this Jihadist apparently had enough money to buy a Kalashnikov and a Luger, as well as afford train fare on the line he was plotting to attack. Why not just put that money to better use going home?
One more thing: this is now *17 months*–almost a year and a half–after sonny found himself unemployed. How has he been keeping himself in the meantime?
More:
“But no, they’re criminals in that company, using people like that.”
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So, a French telecommunications company with dodgy business practices (assuming that we are to take this Jihad apologist’s allegations at face value) is criminal, but his son shooting up a train full of innocent people is not…
More:
After losing his job with the telephony company, his father thinks that Ayoub was in France and Belgium.
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In most cases, it would be no easier to get to Belgium than to Spain from France. If he could not afford to return to Spain, how did he get to Belgium?
And note what he does not mention at all–during this time when sonny supposedly lacked money to get home to Spain, he *traveled to Syria*. Since the family is Moroccan and hence almost certainly does not have relatives there, the only reason for him to go to such a violent Jihad zone was for terrorist training.
And notice the rest from the neighborhood–the idea that it is unbelievable that this could be Jihad, since sonny hung out with pot smokers and liked football. So often Infidels–or Muslims appealing to Infidels–take a superficial liking for Western pleasures and conflate it with an actual embrace of Western values.
Just one more incident that proves that this is anything but the case.
mortimer says
FATHER SHOCKED? But why was he ‘shocked’ that his son wanted to imitate Mohammed?
All ‘PIOUS’ Muslims want to be as much like Mohammed as possible. They call him ‘the perfect man’.
‘PIETY’ in Islam is nothing less than imitating Mohammed. To imitate Mohammed is to be a gangster.
Islam is essentially sanctified gangsterism. Mohammed’s voices gave him permission to hold up, rob, plunder, rape, murder and enslave, not necessarily in that order. He was given the right to do virtually anything that was convenient to make his gang grow.
The earliest Islamic histories, the hadiths and Sira, describe the marauding desert pirates and their amoral consciences as they attacked and destroyed the lives of their Arab relatives, good, cultured Arabian people who may have been their second, third and fourth cousins. They showed their loyalty to the GANG and their gangster “piety” by being able to attack anyone at any time and to kill even members of their immediate families: fathers, brothers, first cousins.
Is Mr El-Khazzani ‘ashamed’ that his son imitated Mohammed? Or is he ‘ashamed’ that his son got caught imitating Mohammed? Mr El-Khazzani raised his son to love and respect a GANGSTER…Mohammed.
Linde Barrera says
To mortimer- I love, love, love this brilliant statement from your 5:53 pm Aug 23 post: “Islam is essentially sanctified gangsterism.” I would like to use it in verbal conversations and when I make a written comment on Facebook Times of Israel. Thank you mortimer. Stay well.
Steph says
“Islam is essentially sanctified gangsterism.”
“Gangsterism” is being polite, go back and look at the history, the history of how it all started, how mohumid got the whole thing going and how it expanded, “everything was by force”
Rape & pillage got them all the way from Mecca to Morraco, to the caucasis, and dealing to everyone all the way through and well into France ….
If the muslims bitch about the crusaders, remember it was the crusaders that created the free world ..
mortimer says
Plunder was the element that made this sociopathic ‘religious movement’ grow at an exponential rate…piety and prayers didn’t attract people to early Islam. There’s little evidence of any piety whatsoever in the ‘Believers’ movement until 60 or 70 years after Mohammed. The Koran appeared around 705 AD and was completed much later.
The whole point of the EARLY Islamic movement was the emolument of Mohammed’s immediate tribe through the slave trade, plunder and extortion…the protection racket. It sounds like gangsterism to me.
Mohammed said, “My living is under the shade of swords.” (gangsterism)
Champ says
A “devout muslim” is a truly dangerous one …
But all muslims are dangerous since they band together and cover for one another and/or lie by claiming that islam is a ‘religion of peace’. Yeah sure it is and I’m the Queen of England!
Jay Witbeck says
Shocked! They are liars… I think deceit is in the Qur’an- its part of their strategy- but wait… what?… oh no…I am not a Jihad terrorist you must be islamaphobic or something. Is what is amazing and really sad is there are people who believe him… they mostly all are liars.
JIMJFOX says
“I think deceit is in the Qur’an”
You THINK??
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Allah_the_Best_Deceiver
gerard says
“He and his brother were very devout” muslims. No further explanation needed. Typically pappy blames someone/something else. Have we heard “his motives are unclear” yet?
Rob a train? With several loaded clips in his arsenal?
Timothius says
oh my! Again another poor innocent muslim. Too, too bad.
Guy Macher says
Mosques teach Islam! Islam teaches hate and violence against non-Muslims. Raze the mosques. Ship Muslims back to their Islamic hellholes.
abad says
It would be a start for France to start shutting down mosques AKA terrorist training centers.
Then deport the Muslim vermin from French soil.
Michael says
Jihadist Dad was shocked that there were Americans on board who weren’t going to cower and wait for the slaughter. Their self-defense was the “attack” which shocked him.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep. That’s probably about the strength of it.
dumbledoresarmy says
Time to re-post a classic from 2007, for the benefit of all persons here posting who joined the forum after that date.
Michelle Malkin’s “I Am John Doe”.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/03/i-am-john-doe
Excerpt:
“Dear Muslim Terrorist (sic: Jihadi – dda) Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist,
“You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you.
“You are my enemy. And I am yours.
“I am John Doe.
(And, from now onward, I also am Anthony Sadler, Aleksander Skarlatos, Spencer Stone, Chris Norman…dda)
“I am traveling on your plane.
“** I am riding on your train.** (read that and let the hair lift on the back of your neck – dda)
“I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift.
“I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss.
“I am John Doe.
“I will never forget the example of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight.
“I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.
“I will never forget the alertness of actor James Woods, who notified a stewardess that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. The men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run.
“I will act when homeland security officials ask me to “report suspicious activity.”
I will embrace my local police department’s admonition: “If you see something, say something.”
I am John Doe.”….END EXCERPT
qedlin says
The son is a devout mussi and his father is shocked? That is hilarious.
What the h___ did he expect? Apparently, if you study doctrines of peace long enough you can get a little frustrated that there just isn’t enough peace in the world.
Poor boy was just acting out a little.
JIMJFOX says
Not ANOTHER ‘peaceful Muslim”????
Edward says
“His father is shocked! shocked! that his boy could have done such a thing”
All Middle Easterners are born actors (or should I say manipulators). I wonder if all terrorist volunteer wannabes go through a basic Jihad 101 training program that teaches the new trainees the art of denying or is denial an innate attribute to cope with their harsh realities.
The father of the Jihad involved in the train terrorist attempt seems to be seasoned with this denial personality trait. A quick check on the web we can find much about human denial attributes around the world. And the ME it seems to be most inflicted because of their survival customs…..that they have to deny their horrible atrocities because of their heavy weighted guilt. That part of the world is constantly under a rat race mode. It has been discovered that their fears of retribution is so great that they have to even deny their denials to cope with life.
Denialism as the researchers referred to as because: “denialism is exhibited by individuals choosing to deny reality as a way to avoid dealing with an uncomfortable truth.”
“DARVO is an acronym to describe a common strategy of abusers: Deny the abuse, then Attack the victim for attempting to make them accountable for their offense, thereby Reversing Victim and Offender. This may involve gas lighting and victim blaming.”
gas lighting: to manipulate someone into questioning their own sanity; to subtly drive someone crazy
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial
The Middle East is certainly a rat race world!
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
At his point even Captain Renault would be embarrassed.
Edward says
Rick would be most surprised to see Captain Renault at that moment 😮 ??
Rob Crawford says
He was supposedly “stuck” in France, not able to get to Spain, but he could afford train fare to and from Belgium.
And why didn’t his parents send him cash to get home?