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Dutch paper: Strasbourg jihad murderer’s zebibah confirms “exaggerated conversion behavior” that led to his attack

Dec 14, 2018 2:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Expect De Telegraaf to be denounced as “Islamophobic” and apologize, but they’re actually correct: not all devout Muslims are violent jihadis, but all violent jihadis are devout Muslims. Counterterror analysts in the U.S. used to consider this, but all that was swept away by Obama’s enforced willful ignorance in 2011.

“France is looking to ‘striking detail’ Chekatt,” translated from “Frankrijk kijkt uit naar ’opvallend detail’ Chekatt,” De Telegraaf, December 13, 2018:

STRASBOURG – The search for Chérif Chekatt has arrived at a crucial stage. If he is not found tonight, according to experts, almost all hope disappears. French people are asked to search for a shooter in which one detail in the report is very noticeable: the dark spot on his forehead.

The story behind the spot is at least as striking. Such a spot is called a zebibah in the Arabic vernacular, and literally means raisin. In reality, it is a dark, calloused prayer spot, which is seen as a ‘gift of God’ and is only for the most devout Muslims. The stain arises because Muslims pray five times a day, striking the forehead on the ground at least 34 times and making a stain or bump.

That spot seems to confirm Chekatt’s ‘exaggerated conversion behavior’, a term that quickly arose on Tuesday evening after the shooting in the heart of Strasbourg.

Criminal and terrorist

The 29-year-old shooter is one of the 12,000 ‘gangster jihadists’ who live in France; they are both criminals and potential terrorists.

In that respect, Chekatt is a textbook example. A long, criminal past, with an increasing tendency toward radicalization and ultimately terrorism. Born into a poor family, failed at school. Long unemployed. Convicted for abuse and burglaries. Eventually he would ‘behave differently’ in prison.
‘Excessive conversion behavior’

That is obvious to jailers. They contacted the national security services and confirmed Chekatt’s ‘exaggerated conversion behavior’ after a visit to the cells.

Yet no one really expected anything to happen. Neither did his neighbors, they didn’t contact authorities, either. “In prison, he embraced religion in a radical form, but nothing in his way of life suggested that he intended to act,” said French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Laurent Nuñez.

On the radar, but not on a leash

Many people have doubts about the security services; another terrorist who was known to the authorities but could still go ahead. How is that possible?

Apparently it is track to follow all the thousands of criminals who also have radical ideas. This is something else about Chekatt; he was listed on ‘Fiche S’ and was therefore monitored….

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  1. Jayell says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 2:29 pm

    “….not all devout Muslims are violent jihadis…”? But all devout muslims are bound to the teachings of the Qur’an, which prescribes violence in the furtherance of the aims of islam, one of which is Jihad.
    Ipso facto, all devout muslims have to be considered at least potential violent jihadis, and this is at least partly confirmed by the results of muslim opinion polls which show a signficantly large proportion of them actively support the activities of jihadis and terrorists.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 14, 2018 at 11:00 pm

      Jayell, ALL Muslims are jihadists … verbal jihadists … when the conceal, hide and dissemble about the meaning, motive and methods of jihad.

      Muslims who are NOT ‘VERBAL’ JIHADISTS, have left Islam. They have betrayed fellow Muslims. That’s why so few Muslims even mention jihad or admit what they know about it.

      Most Muslims DO KNOW about jihad and pretend they are ignorant of its CONSPIRATORIAL NATURE directed against the DIRTY KUFAAR.

      Ask this question to a Muslim: “Am I a kafir?”

      • Jayell says

        Dec 15, 2018 at 12:20 am

        So, for whatever reason(s), muslims who have ‘left islam’ (and are still called ‘muslims’???) might shy away from professing apostasy and therefore still feel obliged to prove their ‘islamic credentials’ according what their ‘good book’ expects of them – which would include “smiting unbelievers in the throat’, erc. etc. ad nauseam. So we’re effectively back to Square One. Islam is like malaria; once it’s in the system, the contamination is apparently permanent. And the only way to guarantee a safe environment for the rest of us would be some kind of permanent quarantine measures.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 15, 2018 at 12:31 am

          If someone has left Islam than are a apostate, and not a Muslim.

        • thebigW says

          Dec 15, 2018 at 4:14 pm

          Jayell was talking about mortimer’s phrase that implies that there are Muslims who are still Muslims but who are defined by mortimer as “left Islam” because mortimer knows what’s goin on inside their heads I guess. Contact Homeland mortimer they could use your superpowers

      • Rufolino says

        Dec 15, 2018 at 4:20 am

        Handy question to ask Moslems, Mortimer ! Thanks

  2. LB says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    Good news for those who haven’t heard it — Chérif Chekatt was found and shot dead by the police in the neighborhood where he grew up. Not that it would bring back the people he killed, but it should at least comfort the families of the deceased. Personally, I feel like the real murderers were the people who allowed him in the country in the first place; I’m looking at you, globalist eurocrat sellouts.

    The bad news is much worse I’m afraid — there are thousands like him in France (and Western Europe, in general) just waiting to go off. How are you suppose to go anywhere where a large group of people gather without constantly looking over your shoulder? It’s either never go out anywhere, or accept the fact that you can be randomly murdered at any time as “part and parcel” of the new daily life. That’s no way to live.

    Hopefully the Yellow West movement can turn the tides because the future is looking grim.

    • Kurt says

      Dec 14, 2018 at 10:29 pm

      Chekatt was born in Strasbourg in 1989, which of course will be whitewashed in some way.

      • Jayell says

        Dec 15, 2018 at 12:47 am

        We get this sort of thing in the politically-correct UK. Any rampant jihadist with roots in lands afar might these days be referred to as a ‘Briton’, a term hitherto reserved for those of ethnically indigenous heritage. I believe that the motivation for this is to promote ‘inclusiveness’. If this philosophy was extended to the urban physical environment, I hate to think of the consequences for public health.

  3. shoehorn says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 2:59 pm

    ‘ Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other. Thou wilt see them bow and prostrate themselves (in prayer), seeking Grace from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure. On their faces are their marks, (being) the traces of their prostration ….’
    Q. 4.29

    • shoehorn says

      Dec 14, 2018 at 3:00 pm

      oops, Q. 48.29

      • Michael Copeland says

        Dec 14, 2018 at 3:37 pm

        The verse defining Islam’s “Them and Us” religious discrimination and maltreatment.

    • Keys says

      Dec 14, 2018 at 5:03 pm

      The mark of the beast comes to mind.

  4. simpleton1 says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 4:36 pm

    The mark is where a “moderate” unicorn’s horn would sprout from 🙂

    • thebigW says

      Dec 15, 2018 at 7:16 pm

      the great “moderate” Muslim leader of Egypt Al-Sisi has one of them zebibas on his forehead:

      https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/11/24/egypt-will-vigorously-respond-to-north-sinai-attack-sisi/

  5. Wellington says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    The fact that the Islamic world looks upon a zebibah as a positive is dispositive of just how screwed up Mo’s creed is. It’s minor, but still ass-ugly, mutilation in the cause of piety. How stupid—but a visual warning to all of sense who see such that you are not dealing with a human being who has both feet on the ground, who is indeed missing a few toys in the attic.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 14, 2018 at 7:42 pm

      All that headbanging by itself cannot help. If football injuries sustained while wearing a helmet are a serious health hazard, how much more banging one’s head on the floor five times a day until a visible scar forms on the forehead?

      Of course, Islam is a much bigger health hazard than any amount of physical brain damage…

      • Wellington says

        Dec 14, 2018 at 8:14 pm

        And, as a “bonus,” gravenimage, football head injuries are not injurious to society at large, however tragic they may be to the player and his family.

        However, acceptance of Islam as the true faith often carries with it major injury to the human species at large. Already, over 34,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks just since 9/11 versus virtually zero football terrorist attacks during the same time period testifies to this massive difference.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 14, 2018 at 8:29 pm

          Spot on, Wellington. Retired football players are not slaughtering innocent people–nor was I implying that they ever did.

  6. somehistory says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 6:41 pm

    Well, now, they have given themselves something to use to identify all those who pose a terror threat. Just begin watching all those with this special bruise. When they have committed any crime, lock them up in solitary for life.

  7. gravenimage says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    Dutch paper: Strasbourg jihad murderer’s zebibah confirms “exaggerated conversion behavior” that led to his attack
    ………………..

    Glad to see a mainstream paper–especially one in Europe–notice this in the first place. Good to hear.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 14, 2018 at 8:30 pm

      I actually read this on one of the news items on MSN news feed, but when I went back to get the url, I could no longer find the story. But, it was all about the bruise on his head and what it meant. Straightforward, more than would have been expected.

  8. abad says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 8:35 pm

    Zebibah: advanced brain damage, the result of daily perpetual self-abuse.

    1 Corinthians 3:16-17

    Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

  9. somehistory says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 8:37 pm

    OT: Two stories, one from the same city in France as the shooting.

    Jewish cemetery vandalized outside Strasbourg, France
    (CNN)

    Muslim Amazon workers say they don’t have enough time to pray. Now they’re fighting for their rights. (VOX)

    • rp says

      Dec 15, 2018 at 3:44 pm

      Yes that one way to make sure Kaffir pay the price.

  10. somehistory says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    An AP report says that a fourth person has died, and a total of 7 have been arrested, including the four family members.

  11. 11B40 says

    Dec 14, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    Greetings:

    I still get some of my TV news from the France24 English-language broadcasts. SInce the Strasbourg attack two interesting things have crept into its reports.

    One would be the attempts to link the Yellow Vest (ers) to the attack via reasoning that states the Vesters were somewhat violent so that probably/might of created a climate that allow the Muslim guy to do his Muslim thing.

    The other, following the reveal of the Muslims criminal history, to wit, in his 29 years, racking up 27 convictions, in three different EU countries, resulting in four years in jail/prison. is that La Bell Republique didn’t take appropriate care of its troubled minion. Much breast-beating is ensuing.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 14, 2018 at 9:41 pm

      And the government is asking the ones wearing the “yellow vests” not to do Saturday as they have been due to the straining of the ability of the police to keep people secure, and because of this terror they are still investigating.

  12. Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 12:55 am

    I thought the spot was the place the mind used to be.
    Whilst vacuous, soulless Muhammadans embark upon their annual Christmas jihad or presents from Santa Muhammad for Western children, the European, Western mind struggles to find any reason for this Arabic speciality. It’s this utter ignorance that is inexcusable and no doubt the reason it continues unabated.
    One wonders at what point, how many, have to be slaughtered on the alter of pig ignorance, before deciding to address, confront and deal with, once for all, these vile pagan demons.

  13. G179 says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 2:55 am

    It’s simply the mark of Cain.

  14. andy mckendrick says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 5:51 am

    Just be careful on Ash Wednesday that your not mistaken for a muslim headbanger.

  15. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 6:55 am

    Revereridesagain, I had a similar reaction: the skin lesion sure looks like a zebibah, but can’t be, because it is too far up on the forehead. With a zebibah that high, his forehead-sweat and hair pomade will be transferred to his prayer rug. On the other hand, this will aid in his capture: “Be on the lookout for a man with a high-raisin forehead carrying a greasy prayer rug.”

  16. No Muzzies Here says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 8:55 am

    Is there a connection between banging one’s head on the pavement 34 times in one day and the deranged mental state that leads one to murder non-believers?

  17. Jedothek says

    Dec 15, 2018 at 10:43 am

    Can Robert or someone else tell us where the number 34 comes from?

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