“Don’t forget that you are Muslim,” she told her sons. “Jihad will not end as long as there are enemies to vanquish.”
All this after she converted to Islam. Before she converted to Islam, she was the daughter of a gendarme (still is, actually), and presumably was a reasonably loyal French citizen. Now she is an enemy of the French state. We see this again and again: converts to Islam somehow getting the crazy idea that treason is required of them by their new religion. Yet no one in any position of power or influence seems in the slightest degree curious as to why this sort of thing keeps happening.
“Daughter of French cop becomes hunted jihadist,” The Local, September 30, 2015:
Emilie Koenig, designated as a global terrorist this week by the United States, grew up the daughter of a French gendarme in windswept Brittany before her metamorphosis into a radical Islamist.
Koenig, 31, is now a key member of France’s jihadist movement fighting in Syria where she is involved in recruiting and spreading propaganda.
“She is an important member of the jihadist community, she is very active on social media. We know her very well,” a high-ranking French anti-terrorism official told AFP.
Koenig, who had already appeared on a UN watchlist in September 2014, was added to the US State Department’s list for encouraging sympathisers in France to attack French government institutions.
Her assets have been frozen in France since 2012, when she left for Syria to join her husband who was already fighting alongside IS, making her one of the first of hundreds of French citizens to join the group.
She was born in 1984 in the port town of Lorient in northwestern France, the youngest in a family of four.
She had an outwardly normal life until she met her first husband.
Fight over full-face veils
It was while married to the man of Algerian origin, who had been imprisoned on drug charges, that she converted to Islam, learned Arabic and began to call herself Samra.
She began wearing the full-face niqab veil and came into contact with Forsane Alizza, a local Islamist group also called the “knights of pride” which gained attention for its protests against France’s 2010 decision to ban full-face veils in public.
Several former members of the group have since been linked to jihadist acts, such as Yassin Salhi who in June beheaded his boss and displayed the
severed head on the fence of a gas plant, surrounded by Islamic flags.In 2010, while wearing the niqab, Koenig was discovered handing out leaflets calling for jihad near a mosque in Lorient. She was also often seen at the forefront of protests in Paris, fully veiled.
In 2012, when summoned to court for her actions, she refused to remove her veil, prompting an altercation with a security guard that she filmed and posted on YouTube.
After Forsane Alizza was disbanded in 2012 by the government, which called it a “private militia”, Koenig opened several Facebook accounts calling for a holy war.
Female recruiters
It was around the same time that she left the country for Syria.
In France, Koenig has come under scrutiny as part of a probe into the recruitment of a dozen youths from the southern city of Nimes who left to fight with Isis.
Like many other women who have left to join the militants, she is not allowed to fight, but often appears in propaganda videos.
In one of them, posted in 2013, she appears training with a shotgun in Syria.
In another she addressed propaganda messages to her two sons who still live in France with their grandmother.
“Don’t forget that you are Muslim,” she told the boys. “Jihad will not end as long as there are enemies to vanquish.”
According to the UN watchlist, she often calls contacts in France from Syria, encouraging them to commit violent actions against designated targets such as French institutions or the wives of French soldiers….

Red Bee says
I wonder whether she has been exposed to teachings about Islam in school; that is, at an earlier age than when she met the Muslim man. It would be interesting to do research into at what age western non-Muslim children first learn about Islam and what exactly they learn about it. See my website (click my name) and especially page http://members.ziggo.nl/iiat/DIYToReciteThem.htm
gravenimage says
Things have changed in recent years, Red Bee, but I rather doubt Emilie Koenig learned a whole lot about Islam in the French schools in the late 1980s and ’90s–she seemed to have become “radicalized” when she met her Muslim husband and embraced Islam wholeheartedly.
How many ticking time-bombs are there in the West just like Samra?
Dr. Divinity says
Did isis order a batch???
Dr. Divinity says
Bitch not batch
spot on says
This is obviously a girl who was searching for spirituality. Now she has found it… on the dark side.
There are a lot of young empty heads out there looking for their real deal. Islam is a real deal on the dark side with 1400 years experience. To bad more young people can’t find their real deal on the bright side.
kay says
Re: “searching for spirituality.”
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No, not trying to connect with the spirit, not spiritual practice.
Trying to connect with religion and a cultural community, with an emotional-social bond.
Two very different things. For the most part, spiritual people have little in common with the religious people.
Religious people do outward oriented stuff, including Sharia and jihad. They do a lot of identity politics.
Spiritual people do inwardly oriented stuff. Like meditation, which is often multi-cultural and farthest from identity POLITICS. Two different worlds.
Real meditation practitioners generally avoid religious types and disharmony and dialectics. I’m the very very odd exception. I study a lot of Christian apologetics, Islamic stuff and current affairs. For this I will be laughed at by the disengaged spiritual people. But, I gotta help save civilization. It’s my karma.
This is an adolescent culture in America. A great strength of America was that, unlike Europe, the young American culture was not poisoned or torn apart by all the brutal religious identity politics.
Yet from here on out, it’s all religious politics. Most of the “spiritual people” are socially, politically, historically illiterate and uninvolved. Mostly they are clueless in this matter. But no one gets to be clueless any more. ( Shrugs. ) That was Zen and this is now.
This is The Church Of What’s Happening Now. It is the teaching on Universal Suffering and the Great Need for Liberation. And that we are all in this together. Even tho the situation is completely vile, painful, irrational, and degrading, and in many ways looking more and more bleak. Hey, that’s religious politics. Nothing new, right? Pretty talk is really cheap. We’ll see who is conscious in practice, and who is not.
“It’s a long hard road. It’s a long hard road. Its’ a long hard road. Maybe one day, we’ll be free.”
Richie Havens Woodstock 1969 Handsome Johnny live recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJHfYEEpGE
If you can dig where that’s at.
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or sect, a party or a class. It is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”
— Anna Julia Stewart
voegelinian says
kay’s distinctions may be valid; however, many people go through long phases in their life during which they are searching for spiritual substance & meaning, and depending on their own psychological maturity, the degree to which their culture failed to educate them in the spiritual treasures of of Graeco-Roman and/or Judaeo-Christian civilizations, and the relative deformations of what’s available in the Comparative Religions Cafeteria du jour to sample from in one’s search, many such people trying to “find themselves” end up gravitating toward cults of one sort or another. Probably most eventually grow up, shake themselves out of it, but a few slip through the cracks and get worse. Islam would be a cult which has become the #1 cult to seduce Western people — through a combination of Dawa outreach (which of course includes heavy doses of taqiyya) and the insane policies of the West in embracing millions of Muslims into her Body Politic such that they become more and more part of the fabric of Western societies.
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kay says
Re: failed to educate them in the spiritual treasures of Graeco-Roman and/or Judaeo-Christian civilizations, and…what’s available in the Comparative Religions…, many… gravitating toward cults. . .
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TRUTH. But NOT true in France. In France they teach philosophy and laicite’ to the high school kids. Atheist Dr. Richard Dawkins and I agree: Gotta teach Judeo-Christian literature to the kids.
If the kids get some Socratic dialectics, Aristotle ( Nichomachean ethics ), and above all critical thinking skills they should be okay.
Teaching kids about the wars and bloodbaths of religious history would be great, as that means teaching them that Islam Is Jihad.
Generally speaking, teaching people some real philosophy, some real ( comparative ) theology, some basic analysis of Islam, a few key such topics should be enough to kill off Islam in any civilized country.
We have to reach and teach the kids. A main way to do that is online. Twelve year olds go online. Even just showing people some of the REAL history and practice of Islam is enough to turn people away from Islam. The truth shall set you free.
I get real results teaching about Islamic rape and enslavement and jihad to girls and women. It’s heart-breaking and fairly terrifying material.
We are engaged in all-out cultural warfare. It is possible and necessary to DESTROY Islam on multiple levels using philosophy, theology, history and all kinds of real stuff.
The Muslim version of the crucifixion is garbage and nonsense. We can laugh the Muslims right out of the room. What they have is pathetic, irrational, bloodthirsty, and really bad for girls and women.
Islam really really is (a) dangerous ( “Why We Are Afraid” by Bill Warner ) and also (b) a pile of rubbish, as in
An Historical Critique of Islam’s Beginnings – Jay Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9lIuUjPs0
Three Quran Verses Every Christian Should Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Nu6EabQD8
David Wood: Five Reasons the Quran Is Not the Word of God
Shane says
Islam – turning people into murderers, traitors, pedophiles & rapists for 1,400 years. Of course, Islam has great appeal to people who were already murderers, rapists, pedophiles and traitors too. Mousy women who want to be dominated by their husbands can be lured into converting to the religion of patriarchy and misogyny.
kay says
Re: “Mousy women who want to be dominated by their husbands can be lured into converting to the religion of patriarchy and misogyny…”
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And it is the responsibility of women and REAL feminists to make sure that such does not happen.
It is proven true that in 2015 the “official” feminists do NOT in ANY way criticize Islam. The women of America MUST hammer on the feminist organizations and DEMAND that feminism raise all the issues of Islamofascism and the Islamofascist global war on women.
I can do lots of damage to Islam online with social media. But there must be a women’s movement in the West to fight Islam and to drag the current pseudofeminist crowd into the real world to face the bloody slaving rapist culture of Islam.
Can’t do that for you. That is the work of this generation. It’s a big job.
Go Feminists! Beat Islam!
“Islam is unhealthy for girls, women and other human beings.” We have to break the criminally insane narrative of these bloody fascists. Like right now. There is no time to lose. And we need the women to actually get on this. It’s about saving Europe and western civilization. These are worthy causes which merit YOUR best efforts.
There are no excuses, girls, and no middle ground. Fight or submit.
If you do not fight, then all the feminist work over the last hundred years is completely down the toilet. And that will be the greatest failure of social consciousness the world has ever seen.
This is a fight against insanity, cruelty, and the destruction of human society. We cannot afford to lose this fight. Success is the opposite of failure. Right now the so-called “feminists” are WORTHLESS. And that is something to cry about.
Jack Diamond says
Not only a traitor to France but since the Islamic State specifically has said “strike the police” of offending kaffir nations like France, she is a patricide calling for the killing of her own father. “You will not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, loving those who resist Allah and His Messenger, even though they be their fathers, sons, brothers or kindred.” (Qur’an 58:22).
Angemon says
So much for the “greater” and “lesser” jihad, eh…?
Jay Boo says
As long as there are enemies to vanquish Muslims will have an excuse to ignore the inherent emptiness of the Serpent of Satan, Muhammad’s ruse.
gravenimage says
Daughter of French cop becomes hunted Islamic State jihadist
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One cannot be sure,of course, but it is likely that Emilie Koenig grew up with decent French values.
But as soon as she married into Islam, she embraced its twisted morals.
By the way, “Samra” means “fruit”–and this is pretty damned poisonous fruit.
Where are her sons? Given Samra’s age, they must still be children. Who is raising them, and what are *their* beliefs? These boys have already been exposed to Jihad teachings, and hence may well present a future threat themselves if nothing is done.
Peggy says
According to the article her sons still live in France with their grandmther.
Even if they lived with her mother it won’t make a difference. She lived with her mother and look what happened.
Somehow she grew up damaged and she was raising her boys till recently so I’m sure they are already damaged too.
I believe that because we have taken this separation of church and state too far. I remember Christmas Carols and plays in primary school just before Christmas break. Do schools still practice it? Christmas used to be a wonderful time but lately I see less and less decorations. Shopping centres still try because of sales but gone are the ornaments from many poles lining our streets.
We need to get the spritit back and get our kids excited again. We need to show them how wonderful these times of year can be so that they don’t look towards this cult for excitement.
Mahendra Singh says
Just in time for Russian target practice. Halleluja !
Mirren10 says
The French Samantha Lewthwaite.
Sam says
What a good moslem. She has to kill her family also to secure a place in the whorehouse with Allah
voegelinian says
Here’s a picture of Emilie Koenig before she voluntarily ate her own brains and became a zombie. I don’t know when it was taken, but she’s pictured as having won a pageant as “Miss Alsace” and hugging another pageant winner of another French region:
http://i.skyrock.net/7502/93687502/pics/3250810014_1_3_ENryvu5d.jpg
Jack Diamond says
I can’t find a pic of her but I don’t think this is the right Emile Koenig. It would be quite a story since this girl is a beauty pageant winner but that was in 2012 and her FB has pics as recent as 2014, the sinister Emile Koenig was wearing a niqab by 2010.
https://www.facebook.com/Emilie-Koenig-Miss-Alsace-2012-472603006099945/timeline/
If that girl, Miss Alsace, is now this “foreign terrorist fighter” as Washington has listed her, that would be
tabloid fodder.
voegelinian says
Spencer’s report above doesn’t say she began wearing the niqab in 2010; it says that the Islamist group she came into contact with:”gained attention for its protests against France’s 2010 decision to ban full-face veils in public”. And the report doesn’t even say when she came in contact with this group.
voegelinian says
This French report does confirm she wore the niqab in 2010:
En 2010, portant le niqab, elle est repérée près de la mosquée de Lorient, où elle tentait de distribuer des tracts appelant au djihad.
In two stories in French news sites about the jihadist, they don’t mention a “Miss Alsace”. I suppose the Emilie Koenig who was “Miss Alsace” is a different Emilie Koenig.
voegelinian says
Even worse, in this brief video, one sees even more vividly the former humanity of Mme. Koenig:
http://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2012/06/18/emilie-miss-alsace-2012-se-presente
The caption says that she’s addressing “lecteurs de l’Alsace”. I’m not sure what “lecteurs” would mean in this context; it can mean “professors” or it can designate members of a certain order of the Catholic church.
Jack Diamond says
She’s addressing the readers of the leisure magazine, L’alsace.fr as the new Miss Alsace.
Jack Diamond says
She also went to Syria in 2012 to join her ISIS fighter husband (the year Miss Alsace became Miss Alsace). The problem is several articles on jihadi Emilie Koenig are putting Miss Alsace’s photo with the article…out of laziness or because they think it makes a juicier story. That’s a terrible thing to do to that young woman.
Linda Rivera says
Before this wicked woman came into contact with Muslims and Islam, she clearly had an evil heart. She excitedly gave her life and soul to Islam and Islam’s dark, death god. She was attracted by Islam’s excessive cruelty, savagery and blood drenched satanic atrocities.
Jack Diamond says
At the very least she fashioned her identity around her (Algerian) husband. And there is the fact she chose such a man for her husband. It’s odd there is so little information about her before she runs off to Syria. Not even a photo. The French police could at least release a photo of the woman’s face (other than the eyes peeking out from a niqab) so the poor Miss Alsace would not be falsely accused.
Mark A says
So basically she is committing treason against France.
Will she be stripped of her French citizenship? Will she be charged with treason?
What realistic penalties are there for this kind of action against France by French citizens?
Any reliable follow up yet on whether she’s the same Miss Alsace from 2012?
Philip says
Well I guess its up to Miss Alsace Emilie Koenig to put the magazine right on that she isn’t the Jihadist Emilie Koenig.
Some people look for ‘spirituality’ inner peace, meaning, fulfilment etc. Some people look for religious community, a God-figure, Dogma etc. An instruction manual for Life. If they find Islam likely they will become Jihadists. The Jihad is winning everywhere if only by not losing esp. to the West. It is permitting practices banned as barbaric in the West. It sees the West as weak, not without reason. Over the last 15years 3 Western militaries have been successfully resisted by Islam. Historically speaking Islam is on a winning role and on a 3rd wave, the first having ended at Poitiers in 732AD and the 2nd at Vienna in 1689 (?)AD. Anyone joining Jihadist Islam will find a religious community, an outlet for the most extreme violent tendencies and an Instruction Manual, if that’s what they are looking for. Christianity no longer offers these, having largely been ‘secularised’ and ‘PCed’ out of existence. Anyone looking for the ‘purity’ of the medieval vs the ambiguity and vacuousness of the modern heads for Islam. Its a ‘be as violent as you like for Allah and Get Out of Jail Free card’ all in one. And if you die you’ll go to those 1000 virgins in heaven as a man, or to Paradise as a woman. If that’s what a young person is after, Islam is their ticket. Lots of young people in the West looking for that sort of thing. She is only one amongst a growing number… Europe is living a kind of Continental cultural PTSD after 2 WWs. Its wallowing in every kind of a-conflictual ambiguity imaginable. Islam offers a polar opposite Alternative for those that seek it. That’s an explanation, not a defence. The West needs its own Jihad, its own inner struggle to find the Power to fight Islam. Otherwise Islam will win through lack of any viable opposition.
kay says
Yeah, well, you’re totally right Philip. You get all this stuff. Good for you.
I just wish the Europeans got this stuff. They need to.
sahani says
Saudi don’t send arms or their soldiers to destroy your nation. They just export $1 book and low paid mullah to convert your fools and poor to islam ,rest follows by these local converts. Without check on local converts death of each nation is certain .i