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Jihad terrorist refused to blow himself up during Paris jihad massacre

Apr 2, 2016 4:01 pm By Robert Spencer

Jihadis frequently affirm how much they love death. Boston jihad killer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote: “you are fighting men who look into the barrel of your gun and see heaven.” Austrian Muslim teenage girls who recently traveled to Syria for jihad announced: “Death is our goal.” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said: “I’m even longing for death, you vagabond.” A Muslim child preacher taunted those he has been taught to hate most: “Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan.” Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he “loved death more than they loved life.”

Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife advised Muslim women: “I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death.” And as one jihadist put it, “We love death. You love your life!” And another: “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” That was from Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah.

This idea comes from the Qur’an: Say, “O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allah, excluding the people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful.” (62:6)

But loving death is not natural. Loving life is. Salah Abdeslam’s loss of nerve is testimony to that.

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“Terrorist ‘refused to blow himself up’ during Paris attacks,” Reuters, April 2, 2016:

Salah Abdeslam, the Paris attacks suspect who was arrested in Brussels last month, refused to blow himself up on the day of the attacks, his brother Mohamed told French news channel BFM TV.

Abdeslam, who will be extradited to France, has renewed an offer to cooperate with French authorities investigating the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people, his lawyer said this week.

“There would have been more victims had I done it,” Salah Abdeslam told his brother. “Luckily, I couldn’t go through with it.”

After his arrest in Brussels on March 18, Abdeslam answered some investigators’ questions but then exercised his right to silence following the suicide bombings in Brussels on March 22 that killed 32 people.

Investigators believe the attacks in Paris and Brussels were carried out by militants from the same Islamic State network.

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  1. Peter Charles says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 4:22 pm

    Wanting death is an exceptionally low bar. Death comes to us all sooner or later. No exceptions. The goal should be to live a good life and leaving the state of humanity just a little bit better than it was, not to bring misery. Islamists ant misery. Why?

    • revereridesagain says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 5:06 pm

      Because they believe bringing misery to the “filthy kuffar”, which is anyone not a muslim, will get them more rewards in their bordello paradise.

      Meanwhile, the Obamullah-in-Chief’s regime has been caught censoring the President of France.

      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/02/hollandes-islamist-terrorism-omitted-from-white-house-vid-technical-error-blamed.html?intcmp=hpbt1

      • خَليفة says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 7:27 pm

        Rather than try to raise themselves up, Muslims prefer to bring the kuffar down and humiliate them, all to make Muslims feel superior.

        e.g. You are a Muslim, taking a class, you are getting “D’s” how do you become the smartest student in that class? You kill all the students getting better grades than you, or you threaten them with violence if they continue to get a better grades than you. This makes you the smartest person in class.

      • Shane says

        Apr 3, 2016 at 4:33 pm

        The problem with Muslim men is that they blow up way to young!

        • Oliver says

          Apr 5, 2016 at 5:37 pm

          NOT young enough; and not enough of them. AND ALSO NOT ENOUGH MUSLIM WOMEN ARE BLOWN UP- AND QUICKLY-BEFORE THEY CAN REPRODUCE.

    • Ex-muslim says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 6:21 pm

      Good words! But muslims struggle and die for islam not for humanity. Muslims don’t care if Billions of infidels die in the process of making islam supreme and their allah demands that kind of sacrifice of them.

      • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 6:54 pm

        You poor thing Ex. I can’t imagine what you’ve had to go through, being a former muslim.

        You must have much, much more courage than the normal person. And then I understand that one loses one’s whole family if one leaves? Alas! What pain!

        Still: For your sake I’m glad you did what you did. And I dare to hope you’ve found our loving God, Who bears no resemblance whatsoever to the demon allah.

        • Ex-muslim says

          Apr 2, 2016 at 7:05 pm

          Kathy Brown

          Thank you Kathy. Thanks for your understanding!
          It is very, very painful leave islam but it is even more painful to live under islam after you are spiritually enlightened!

        • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

          Apr 2, 2016 at 11:16 pm

          You are so very welcome Ex!

          I’m so glad to hear that you’re ‘spiritually enlightened’. This life is hard at times, and one needs the love of God to cope. You know: I pray for muslims all the time, even (or esp.) for the violent horrible ones. They are in such bondage it seems to me. But we’re not doomed to stay there. ‘Behold! I make all things new!’-Rev. 21.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 2, 2016 at 10:10 pm

          Yes–kudos to you, Ex-muslim.

      • Panmelia says

        Apr 3, 2016 at 6:57 am

        Ex-muslim, I admire you and anyone who has shaken off islam. This can only be achieved by someone who is intelligent, an independent thinker and strong-minded enough to resist years of indoctrination. It takes a great deal of courage too.

        I wish you happiness in your freedom.

        • Ex-muslim says

          Apr 3, 2016 at 10:25 am

          Panmelia, Gravenimage, Kathy

          Thank you very much for your words of encouragement again!
          islam is evil cult of death and words cannot describe what muslims have to go through after they abandon islam and they still live in muslim countries, even in the West, they have to keep a low profile and keep their status hidden because of persecution. Thanks again!

      • Peggy says

        Apr 4, 2016 at 10:32 pm

        It must break your heart to see your family still shackled by this. You want to help them but know that it might be impossible.
        Just wondering if there is someone you can reach. They don’t have to convert to anything just be open to understanding of your feelings and thoughts.
        I hope that one day more from your family will embrace freedom and you.

    • Rob Porter says

      Apr 3, 2016 at 2:50 pm

      Peter Charles, if these Muslims want to die, who the devil are we to deny them death? We should be bombing and napalming the hell into these people, wiping out thousands weekly. From the moment ISIS reared it ugly head we should have been doing these people a favour. Instead we allowed them to expand and grow, to savagely murder thousands of Christians children in the most savage manner, crucify and murder adults and rape Christian and Yazidi women. if this hopelessly inadequately ‘led’ by Barack Obama coalition had done a quarter of the job it should have done, ISIS would be near extermination.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    Maybe this jihadist had a last minute mental reality check about the outlandishly false and absurd promises from the Koran about obtain a paradise for himself if he undergoes what the imams call a “martyrdom operation.” So Abdeslam wisely refused to engage in such evil and murderous folly of a suicide/homicide bombing.. Maybe,it should be repeated that if those imams really believe that committing those terrible actions murdering madness is actually such a grand and wonderful thing to do ,then they should strap bomb vests on themselves and then go out and blow themselves up and stop trying to manipulate other people into wanting become humans bombs. That those Muslim cleric’s never ,ever ,do carry out the suicide bombing themselves only exposes what insincere ,cowardly, deceptive villains they actually are.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 10:14 pm

      Walter Sieruk wrote:

      Maybe this jihadist had a last minute mental reality check about the outlandishly false and absurd promises from the Koran about obtain a paradise for himself if he undergoes what the imams call a “martyrdom operation.”
      ………………………..

      Oh, I doubt he really changed his views on murdering Infidels in the name of Jihad, Walter. After all, he had to be shot in the leg before he could be apprehended by police.

    • billybob says

      Apr 3, 2016 at 12:20 am

      Nah… He had an overdue library book he needed to return so he couldn’t kill himself just then. Later, he was on the run and there was no time for it while dodging the cops. Besides, he forgot his suicide belt back in France.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    As more Muslims realize what a pathetic vile JOKE that Islam is, they too will lose their nerve at the thought of dying in support of Islamic vanity and Muhammad’s self-serving lying.

  4. ballotcode says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    Death cult. Death, destruction, and deceit.

  5. Lulu says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    Also…it is imperative to point out that even the jihadists wife herself differentiated the Jihadist ideology from Islam by calling Jihadism what it is….the cult of Jihad.

  6. Enoch says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    Deuteronomy 30:19
    I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before
    you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both
    thou and thy seed may live:

  7. Ashley says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    “There would have been more victims had I done it,” Salah Abdeslam told his brother. “Luckily, I couldn’t go through with it.”
    ______________________

    Not sure I’m buying this.

    One glaring reason why a jihadist wouldn’t blow himself up? He wouldn’t be able to commit further terror attacks. I doubt he feared death or felt the Paris attacks had “already” claimed enough victims.

    I wouldn’t trust the words of Mohamed Abdeslam…

    • خَليفة says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 8:26 pm

      I Agree w/u Ashley.

      But I’d also add:
      What ever is in his heart, he should spend the rest of his life in jail.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 10:24 pm

      I agree, Ashley. This is likely just a claim so that he can look “remorseful”, and get a light sentence from the credulous Kuffar.

  8. Oliver says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 5:29 pm

    I agree with Ashley.

    However, I DISAGREE with the figures given- especially for the Paris attacks.

    I followed that-as closely as possible on the internet. The total was higher- and the Deputy Mayor (of Paris) was quoted as saying (translated) that the death total would be “in the hundreds”. ( I Believe that is was about 150-160 when this was said). Then the numbers started going down.

    I think it was game playing by the lefties.

    Probably same true in Belgium.

    Just my mistrust of liberals and the media.

    Also-if he had a change of heart- why didn’t he turn himself in, and talk- rather then not say anything until captured; then speaking then stopping. Why not turn in all of the slimes that he knows, if truly sorry, or whatever he is supposed to feel. Probably a lying sack of animal feces.

    • Ashley says

      Apr 3, 2016 at 12:54 am

      NO fan of the media myself, Oliver. That said, I seriously doubt the numbers were deliberately skewed. I have often seen the number of casualties either inflated or grossly minimized, especially during the midst of crisis and chaos. It is often difficult to know just how many attacks were occurring, how many of the critically injured passed, etc…

      Mayor Giuliani requested 10,000 body bags on the heels of 9/11…

      • Oliver says

        Apr 5, 2016 at 5:55 pm

        During the Paris attacks- there were figures given this number at this locale; this number at locale #2; etc. And- they were higher then the 130. Then the Deputy Mayor’s comments. Then days later, the revised figures.

        By the way, I was offered a job at a firm that was decimated on 911- ( a few years before)- but decided to leave New York, instead. The owner of the firm had been an acquaintance then a friend for several years.

        And, a casual acquaintance of mine had a relative who had scheduled an interview at the WTC- (doing the interviewing)-had to call the candidate and cancel, as his wife locked herself out of their home, and he had to go to his home to let her in. Strange stories form there.

  9. Champ says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Demonic brainwashing begins early …

    “Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife advised Muslim women: ‘I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death.’”

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 10:26 pm

      How horrifying Islam is. This goes against every instinct of motherhood, where a mother wants to protect her child and have him live a long, happy, and fulfilled life.

      • billybob says

        Apr 3, 2016 at 12:32 am

        It’s the “Big Lie”. Tell someone a small lie, and they will likely not believe you. Make the lie big enough, and it becomes more believable. This is analogous to the horrible violence in Islam, the very same that ISIS is so happy to display in their endless videos of beheadings and throwing gays off tall buildings and their slave markets. If you had just small time thuggery people would quickly see it for what it is. Make the violence totally Machiavellian in its barbarity and people will be so awestruck by it that they will believe there must be some titanic supernatural apocalyptic struggle and they want to land up on the right side of it. Muslims know deep within their hearts what is required of them – total surrender.

      • Hope says

        Apr 3, 2016 at 11:27 am

        Yes, consider the mass murderer Tashfeen Malik of San Bernardino, CA. She murdered 14 people in the name of her “god” and left her baby girl an orphan. This is a mother? A spider is a better mother than that.

        • Oliver says

          Apr 5, 2016 at 6:00 pm

          Hope–some years ago, the US Navy (probably before Hussein Obama) -trying out something or other -in submarines–took BABY RABBITS, and put them in some kind of enclosure. THE MOTHER RABBITS WERE RECORDED WITH TEARS IN THEIR EYES.

          (The mother rabbits were there, not part of the experiment; just there. The recording was done for whatever purpose- but not part of the experiment. The baby rabbits died, and the mother rabbits -as I recall- cried more. (The rabbit version, of crying, I guess)- ( A trainer had this on one of his tapes).

  10. Brian Hunter says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    If the Islamic leadership truly believed death is preferred over life, there would be a lot more of the leadership involved in suicide missions, rather than recruiting the gullible to take their place in “paradise”.

  11. Duh says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 8:05 pm

    Corporate, their greed are much to blame as well. Look at Air France:
    http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2016/04/02/air-france-flight-attendants-mutiny-over-attire-rules-for-tehran-flights/

    Why should they not be boycotted?

  12. Angemon says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    Terrorist ‘refused to blow himself up’ during Paris attacks

    We were told that by our morally superior pundits that the people involved in the islamic terrorist attacks on Paris were not “true muslims”. Now this comes to bite them in the ass – he didn’t blow himself up? Well, he’s not a “true muslim”, is he?

    As for his alleged willingness to cooperate, yeah, not buying it. I have no reason to think he’s just trying to save his ass – his unwillingness to kill himself may not have fallen well with other members of his cell.

  13. Sam says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    Poor Salah he will not go to the whorehouse with Allah when he dies. Allah is very angry with him now.

  14. gravenimage says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    “There would have been more victims had I done it,” Salah Abdeslam told his brother. “Luckily, I couldn’t go through with it.”
    ……………………….

    Uh huh–and yet, this supposedly remorseful Jihadist had to be shot in the leg to take him into custody.

    I’m not at all sure this isn’t a ploy to sucker the hopeful Infidels.

    • Ashley says

      Apr 3, 2016 at 12:18 am

      Right, Graven?

      Why is Mohamed Abdeslam playing sock puppet for his brother? Why has Salah stopped cooperating with the authorities?

      And as you noted, it took a shot to the leg to capture this monster.

  15. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    “…There would have been more victims had I done it,” Salah Abdeslam told his brother. “Luckily, I couldn’t go through with it…”

    We shouldn’t loose sight of how many peoples lives have been ended with Salah’s active participation in the terror cell’s activities. His cooperation is welcome but it remains reasonable that he eventually face a firing squad for his murderous and indiscriminate criminal activity. This is a war and the murder of civilians is a capital offence for combatants found guilty.

    • billybob says

      Apr 3, 2016 at 12:59 am

      The death penalty was abolished in French law in 1981. It is now also forbidden by the French constitution, and by several human rights treaties to which France is a party. Anyhow, death is to good for him. Let him rot in prison for a few decades to contemplate his actions. Worse than death in my opinion. Imagine being a failed Muslim suicide bomber? Can’t be anything worse for a Muslim. He won’t be able to look Mecca in face again.

      • Ashley says

        Apr 3, 2016 at 1:33 am

        Imagine being a failed Muslim suicide bomber? Can’t be anything worse for a Muslim.
        _____________________

        I’m not convinced Salah Abdeslam was a “failed Muslim suicide bomber.” He has been linked to the attacks in Brussels. God only knows what his plans were, who his cohorts are…

        Here’s hoping he sings like a canary, but I doubt it.

  16. billybob says

    Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 am

    “Abdeslam … has renewed an offer to cooperate with French authorities.”

    He wants to plea bargain. I would make a bargain with him – “tell us all you know, and we won’t waterboard you”.

  17. mortimer says

    Apr 3, 2016 at 1:34 am

    Salah Abdeslam has expressed the cognitive dissonance that resides in all but less than 1% of Muslims.

    I believe that most Muslims (like Salah Abdeslam) have SUBSTANTIAL, REASONABLE DOUBTS about the truth of Islam.

    I believe that they actually may be looking for a way out of Islam, but can’t see a way out without losing their entire family and network of friends. It’s too much to contemplate.

    Most Muslims, I believe, are haunted by SUBSTANTIAL DOUBTS which grow every day.

    They must see that something is very wrong and unjust about the jihad concept of murdering kafirs because they do not accept Mohammed.

  18. Kim Rasmussen says

    Apr 3, 2016 at 4:50 am

    Could it just be that he found the promise of 72 virgins too good to be true and not worth
    blowing himself to pieces for…?

  19. Mulakush says

    Apr 3, 2016 at 5:00 am

    In many religions, this life is transitory misery; ‘real’ life starts after death. In Islam, death hastened through martyrdom is rewarded heavily by special residence in heaven with wine and 72 virgins (a whorehouse really). It is for this reason that death is sought eagerly by killing of non-Muslims. I understand this mentality now and hate it even more than before.

  20. Berengaria says

    Apr 3, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    You’re right Mickey, this little coward wanted to save his own skin, & the Sob Story will follow with this sneaky devil’s face all over every magazine,TV & paper. The surviving Tzarnov killer in Boston became a heart throb to every Bostonian. WHY?

    • Ashley says

      Apr 3, 2016 at 1:10 pm

      The surviving Tzarnov killer in Boston became a heart throb to every Bostonian. WHY?
      _______________________

      That is a flat out lie! Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was vilified here in Massachusetts. The Rolling Stone cover spread featuring a glamorized Tsarnaev was pulled from many newsstands in this state due to blind outrage.

      A heart throb to every Bostonian? Oh, pleeeze.

      • Oliver says

        Apr 5, 2016 at 5:49 pm

        I recall reading that women from the Pacific northwest and other areas flew to Boston for his trial (or perhaps his arraignment). And I would guess that he is getting loads of letters from “love stricken” anal pores. (Many convicts do).

        I just cannot see why he hasn’t been killed yet.

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