“He was becoming more and more unyielding in his views on Islam, but there was no reason to think it could end in the terrible act that he did.”
Why not? Zaghba’s mother is assuming that Islam teaches peace, and so her son’s devoutness in Islam would therefore have had nothing to do with his jihad attack. Western intelligence and law enforcement authorities often make the same assumption, thereby cutting themselves off from one good way to identify potential jihad terrorists. A sudden increase in devout observance of Islam is not always an indicator of interest in jihad, but to discount it out of hand is politically correct foolishness.
“Terrorist Youssef Zaghba Was ‘Unyielding in His Views on Islam,’ His Mother Says,” by Eric Sylvers and
Giovanni Legorano, Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2017:
Valeria Collina tried last June to enter the east London fast-food restaurant where her son Youssef Zaghba worked in the kitchen. He blocked her at the door, saying she couldn’t sit there unaccompanied by a male relative.
“He was becoming more and more unyielding in his views on Islam,” Ms. Collina said in an interview outside Bologna. “But there was no reason to think it could end in the terrible act that he did.”…
Frank Scarn says
Well, there’s one of those warning signs. When your friends begin describing you as a “devout Muslim.”
don vito says
The devout become “mad”, not angry, from the “madding” text.
TheDane says
Take a look at his eyes. Demon-possessed. That is always the sort of eyes one sees in these evil mohammedans; empty, evil, dark-dark eyes, without kindness and empathy, without life! The 9/11-terrorists had the same kind of diabolic eyes.
Mohammedans have killed approx. 270.000.000 people; that ‘sane’ politicians can call that ideology for ‘religion of peace’ (not to mention allow it!) should carry a sentence of life imprisonment!