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Barcelona jihad murderer recently “started to become interested in religion”

Aug 20, 2017 9:29 am By Robert Spencer

“The last few months, he started to become interested in religion. He used to go to a mosque in Ripoll. Maybe that’s where he was brainwashed.”

One might almost get the idea that this attack had something to do with Islam, if we didn’t have learned imams such as Pope Francis and H.R. McMaster to explain to us otherwise, and Soros-funded media outlets to go on a witchhunt against those who dare to notice an Islamic element to the jihadis’ motivations.

“Spain attack fugitive whereabouts unknown as Barcelona mourns,” by Daniel Bosque and Hui Min Neo, AFP, August 19, 2017:

…He said the youths used to frequent a Moroccan cafe near the first mosque where they would watch football matches but had stopped doing so more than a year ago.

In the Moroccan town of M’rirt, relatives of Abouyaaqoub also accused the imam of radicalising the young man, as well as his brother Houssein.

“Over the last two years, Younes and Houssein began to radicalise under the influence of this imam,” their grandfather told AFP.

– ‘Brainwashed’ –

Most of the suspects are children of Moroccan immigrants, including Ripoll-born Moussa Oukabir, 17, one of five suspects shot dead in Cambrils. His older brother Driss is among the four arrested.

In Morocco, their father Said broke down on hearing the news.

“I hope they will say he’s innocent… I don’t want to lose my two sons,” he told AFP.

A cousin said Moussa “loved playing football, having a good time, chatting up girls”.

“The last few months, he started to become interested in religion. He used to go to a mosque in Ripoll. Maybe that’s where he was brainwashed,” the cousin said.

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  1. jewdog says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 11:02 am

    Interested in what religion? Methodist, Congregationalist, Lutheran, Buddhism? I can’t imagine.

    • Georg says

      Aug 20, 2017 at 3:10 pm

      Am wondering the same thing.

    • Mo says

      Aug 20, 2017 at 6:07 pm

      @ jewdog

      “Interested in what religion? Methodist, Congregationalist, Lutheran, Buddhism? I can’t imagine.”

      Exactly my reaction. These so-called journalists are so tiresome.

  2. manat bint allaha says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 11:05 am

    let me get this right, it not only is islam a mental disease, but it appears brainwashing is the catalyst for jihad.
    konrad lorenz, you could have learned a thing or two by studying islam and muslims..

  3. Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 12:15 pm

    All of them have to go to mosques & imbibe sermons preaching violence. There are no moderates among them. The alleged moderates want the radicalized to succeed. That is all.

  4. Reader says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    To stop all the whitewashing, I propose that we stop using the euphemism “radical” and use the accurate term “traditional” to recognize that “radical Islam” is in fact “Traditional Islam” as it has been widely practiced for the past 1400 years.

    • Georg says

      Aug 20, 2017 at 3:12 pm

      Exactly. It’s just literal, orthodox Islam — practiced as prescribed. It’s the Muslims who the MSM gush over as being peaceful and wonderful who are heterodox. It’s great that they are, but the fact is that they behave in a way compatible with our civilization in spite of their religion, not because of it.

  5. Peacemaker says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 1:27 pm

    If what they said about Moussa that “The last few months, he started to become interested in religion” is accurate, we now can conclude that Islam has negative influent on Moussa. Moussa was killed by Islam before police had him killed.

    • Westman says

      Aug 20, 2017 at 1:41 pm

      Isn’t it amazing that a Muslim says Islam can be used for “brainwasking”? “He used to go to a mosque in Ripoll. Maybe that’s where he was brainwashed,”

      • Georg says

        Aug 20, 2017 at 3:15 pm

        Oops. They forgot to say he was radicalized “on the internet”. Lot of lone wolves on this mission having nothing to do with that thing.

        • Fair views TH says

          Aug 21, 2017 at 3:26 am

          After the brainwashing, he suddenly realized that he need to do jihad to go the Islamic paradise to meet his 72 1400-year-old virgins, as the offer was given 1400 years ago.
          However, no one had come back from the dead to tell us there is indeed such a paradise.

  6. Joe says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    “started to become interested in religion”

    I’m also interested to learn a little bit about Buddhism. /sarc

  7. John A. Marre says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 3:14 pm

    Which religion? Buddhism? sorry, that doesn’t incite to violence. Which one could it be? Oh, there’s one that does tell its followers to kill Jews and Christians. It’s Islam. And because of that, it should be outlawed.

  8. Guy Forester says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    On Fox news there was an article about the findings of the raid on this guys apartment. It was empty. No word of where he, his wife, and two young kids are. His Moroccan passport was found on a table.

    Note to investigators: Assume entire family is safely in Morocco. They left shortly after the attack by plane or ferry. Just a short hop across the straights, and they were gone. No one was looking for a family, just one man traveling alone. The passport was left as a decoy since he and his entire family have new passports with different names.

    Don’t expect a lot of help from south of Gibraltar.

  9. putupjob says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 5:04 pm

    don’t worry. mcmaster says there’s nothing called radical islam and it’s just a racist pejorative.

  10. R Russell says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 6:36 pm

    Of course if he just recently became interested in ‘religion’ he will have discovered that in Islam’s method of getting to jannah (why does the spell check try to insist I spell jannah with a capital? It doesn’t do that for heaven?) he will need good deeds to outweigh the overwhelming amount of bad deeds (from and Islamic point of view) he has amassed whilst far from the faith.
    Thus there is only one way left to make sure, from Islam’s point of view, that he will enter jannah, (Just taken the capital off the J for the third time)
    He has to die killing Allah’s enemies. No he wasn’t radicalised, he just wanted to ensure his Islamic destiny in the afterlife with 72 perpetual virgins and an ever erect ……….No need for me to spell it out. He also gets to name relatives to join him there. (That’s why the families of Arabs in Israel give out sweets when their sons kill themselves.)
    So from his point of view it seems a good deal. Allah is so pleased with the death and suffering of all his enemies that the dead murderer enters jannah (removed capital J for the 4th time) for all eternity.
    Pity he was never introduced to the Bible Jesus, He has so much more to offer and Muslims throughout the Middle East are discovering Him in dreams and visions.

  11. WorkingClassPost says

    Aug 20, 2017 at 7:45 pm

    I visited Morocco many years ago.

    It was a vibrant, musical place, full of Eastern and Western influence.

    French was widely spoken and it was culturally and physically as far away from Mecca as one could hope to be, in a muslim country, so I kinda get what the father might be saying.

    I also recently got to know a young Moroccan student who was looking forward to returning this year, but she couldn’t hide her foreboding of what might be awaiting her.

    Islam has a way of changing people and places very quickly, and always for the worse.

  12. FYI says

    Aug 21, 2017 at 7:56 am

    “He recently started to become interested in religion”

    {Maybe he should have tried another religion.He would probably not now be in jail}

    …The Jains/the Hare Krishnas/Tibetan Buddhism..

    Or maybe he should have recently become interested in a..new hobby or music or art classes and used his God given intelligence to do something good or useful.

    Note:-

    As far as I know…

    There are no Jain suicide bombers.

    No violent mobs of Hare Krishnas are on the rampage attacking and attempting to murder people by battering them to death with tambourines.

    There appear to be no Tibetan Buddhists shouting “Death to America”.

    Why Not?
    Because they do not see violence as part of their creed and don’t see any need to take over the world with violence.

    Unlike islam..allah wants it all.

    Here is the thing about allah and a global caliphate and the difference between the Biblical and Original revelation Judeo-Christian God and the subsequent islamic misrepresentation of God,allah.

    1)allah may want to rule the world and replace the Judeo-Christian concept of God.

    But GOD ALREADY OWNS THE WORLD

    2)allah clearly does not like the Jews

    But GOD CLEARLY SET ASIDE THE JEWS AS PART OF HIS PLAN FOR MANKIND

    3)allah’s followers like the Iranians want to destroy Israel

    BUT GOD WILL NOT ALLOW THAT ;IT BELONGS TO GOD.

    That’s why God gave prophecies in Zechariah ..which of course the Iranians ..who follow allah instead..just don’t get..it is set aside for a reason,not just for the Jews but for His future judgement of the nations.

    4)allah may want a global worldly kingdom

    BUT GOD’S KINGDOM IS A SPIRITUAL KINGDOM-NOT A SILLY WORLDLY kingdom made by man.

    Striving to gain a worldly kingdom through war and conquest and then claiming that their allah wants this is completely at odds with God’s Spiritual Kingdom.

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