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Father of Strasbourg jihad mass murderer says his son supported the Islamic State

Dec 17, 2018 10:26 am By Robert Spencer

“Shortly after Chekatt’s death, the Islamic State group’s Amaq news agency claimed he was a “soldier” of the group. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner rejected the claim as ‘totally opportunistic.’”

But Chekatt’s father “acknowledged that his son backed the IS group.”

So once again we see authorities dismiss an Islamic State claim of involvement in a jihad terror attack, only for that claim to turn out to be true.

Note also that “the father said he went to police of his own accord and on a suspicion the night of the son’s rampage with a handgun and a knife.”

He didn’t go before that, even though he knew his son supported the Islamic State.

“He also said that if his son had told him about a project to kill ‘I would have denounced him, and he wouldn’t have killed or been killed.’”

Sure he would’ve, but he knew that his son supported a jihad terror group that has repeatedly called for jihad massacres of French civilians, and he did nothing. There are so many supporters of the Islamic State in France that French authorities probably wouldn’t have done anything anyway, but the fact that the father didn’t contact authorities is telling.

In any case, Abdelkrim Chekatt looks like a true believer himself. Is his beard really red, or is it dyed with henna in imitation of Muhammad?

“Father of Strasbourg shooter says son supported Islamic State,” AFP, December 16, 2018:

PARIS, France — The man described as the father of the 29-year-old suspect in this week’s deadly Christmas market attack in Strasbourg says his son subscribed to the beliefs of the Islamic State group.

The interview with Abdelkrim Chekatt by the state-run France 2 television channel was shown Saturday night, two days after the son was killed in a confrontation with three police officers in his childhood neighborhood in Strasbourg following a massive manhunt. Four people died in the Tuesday night attack. A dozen others were wounded….

Chekatt said he had seen his son, Cherif Chekatt, three days before the attack but couldn’t contact him while he was on the run.

He acknowledged that his son backed the IS group.

“He’d say, for example, that Daesh, fights for the just cause and all that,” the red-bearded father said, using the common term in France and elsewhere for the Islamic State group.

The interview, initially outdoors with the father, continued briefly inside with Cheriff Chekatt’s mother, Rouadja Rouag, who expressed shock and sorrow for the deaths. France 2 said the couple had been divorced for a long time.

Abdelkrim Chekatt, a French-Algerian, said he’d tried in the past to dissuade his son from backing the Islamic State, saying, “You don’t see the atrocities they commit.” The son would reply that “it’s not them,” the father said.

Shortly after Chekatt’s death, the Islamic State group’s Amaq news agency claimed he was a “soldier” of the group. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner rejected the claim as “totally opportunistic.”…

The father said he went to police of his own accord and on a suspicion the night of the son’s rampage with a handgun and a knife.

He said he told police that “if ever you locate Cherif, tell me. I’ll go to him and try to reason with him to give up.”

He also said that if his son had told him about a project to kill “I would have denounced him, and he wouldn’t have killed or been killed.”

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  1. Huh!?! says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 10:31 am

    Same comments. Over and Over. Someone suspected, maybe knew about, wasn’t sure, would have done something, except…. More dead from the religion of peace.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 8:41 pm

      Yep.

  2. Steve D says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 10:36 am

    Once a country willfully spends decades importing an absolutely colossal 5th column, well, you’ve pretty much mapped out your future with endless internal strife, until it ends poorly for you, just like India or Serbia.

  3. Halal Bacon says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 11:10 am

    and the apple does not fall far from the tree

    • Rarely says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 6:13 pm

      Zero evidence of that.

      • Mockingjay says

        Dec 17, 2018 at 8:02 pm

        What are you, mr Chekatt’s personal lawyer?

        – There are plenty of indications that the father is a true believer himself.

        Firstly, he didn’t report his son when he damn well knew that “supporting isis” isn’t just another conviction,

        Second, that beard DEFINITELY isn’t that Colour orange naturally,

        Third, on his head, unfortunately cut off from the picture, he wears a beenie that shows a large image of Che Guevera, so Mr. Chekatt seems to like other totalitarian ideologies as well – not to mention that he probably is covering the same prayer spot on his forehead that his son sported.

        Fourth, and maybe most compelling: BODY LANGUAGE.
        If you watch the short video of him answering questions, everything about him tells you he is lying.

        Body language never fails. It will tell you much more than the things that come out of people’s mouth. It will tell you the truth.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 17, 2018 at 8:53 pm

          Fine post, Mockingjay.

          I would also add, as I noted in another post, his using the term “killing and being killed”–a reference to Islamic “martyrdom”.

          He should be thoroughly investigated, at the least.

    • kessler says

      Dec 18, 2018 at 10:50 am

      Judging by the father’s beard alone, he is a conservative muslim. They need to investigate him with questions like “do you support democracy over Sharia Law”, “do you accept that no religion/religous figure is immune to satire on our society”, “do you consider non-muslims equal to muslims”
      If it’s a no to any of these questions, he is a jihadist and is complicit in the murders committed by his son. The seeds of hatred are sown by the time muslims are taught about their superiority over non-muslims.

  4. somehistory says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 11:50 am

    His eyebrows are …not…red. His mustache shadow is dark…not red.
    It is dangerous to dye the eyebrows, and many people don’t think of doing it anyway. If his beard was naturally red…his eyebrows would not be dark brown. Men with red beards have similarly colored brows.

    The fact that he is moslim, and that he has dyed his beard, and that he had not come forward much earlier…shoes his support of what his son did. Imo, he just didn’t want to be prosecuted for aiding and abetting in the crime…being a part of the “cell’… so he “came forward” after the fact to try and appear innocent…to remain free…perhaps to assist others in planning future attacks.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 8:57 pm

      Yes–this beard is almost certainly henna-dyed, like the “Prophet’s”.

      And this is no affectation–it is specifically intended to intimidate the Infidel, by making older Muslims look vigorous and more threatening. (Of course, these dyed beards just make those who sport them look like idiots–but intent here is *very* important).

      • somehistory says

        Dec 17, 2018 at 9:53 pm

        There are historical figures who were known to have “red” beards and who were thought of as “real” men.

        Much like war masks are made to scare and intimidate, the beard on this guy…who has evil eyes…is meant to cause a person to be in fear of what he can do.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 17, 2018 at 10:25 pm

          Spot on, Somehistory.

  5. mortimer says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 12:27 pm

    In many mosques you find a number of Muslims who die their beard with henna in imitation of Muhammad. This absurd and ghastly-looking style is referred to in hadiths with the prophetic approval.

    In the following article and video, Abdelkrim Chekatt calls ISIS ‘criminals’ …

    Original Article

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cherif-chekatt-strasbourg-christmas-market-shooting-attack-isis-abdelkrim-chekatt-a8685706.html

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 9:01 pm

      Sounds like CYA to me.

  6. Wojciech says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    Just one more sad thing in this story is the fact that another victim of this shooting has just died from severe wounds in the head, making the total number of victims five.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 9:01 pm

      Yes–I just heard that grim news.

  7. melek-ric says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 12:49 pm

    “I would have denounced him…”

    Yes, I’m so sure that henna-bearded, shaved-lip, zebiba-under-toque Papa would have denounced sonny-boy’s jihad plans. These guys must laugh themselves sick all the time at our stupidity and gullibility.

    • Jac says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 1:00 pm

      The son carried out what the father was too old to do.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 9:04 pm

      +1

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    If a Muslim is also a jihadist and he dies in a shootout , as that jihadist Cherif Chekatt did, or if he dies in a suicide/homicide bombing attack it was because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V] As for in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.

    In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears , they will heap up for themselves teachers ; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.” Second Timothy 3,4.

    Furthermore, In this twenty-first century conflict between the Judeo- Christian West and the Islamic East which also has been termed “The war of Ideas” the West needs ideas for its very foundation and defense that is far superior to something as weak and worthless as just “opinion.”
    What the West needs is wisdom. As the Bible instructs “Wisdom is better than strength.” Ecclesiastes 9:16. [N.K.J.V.] Likewise, this same book of the Bible also teaches in 9:18 “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” Therefore, wisdom is in strong contrast to opinion. Also greatly opposed to wisdom is folly and deceit. As the Bible in Proverbs 14:8 informs the reader ‘The folly of fools is deceit.” The deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded the he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.

  9. Rarely says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    No evidence whatsoever has been presented to us that it was an ISIS orchestrated action. It is reasonable to assume that it was a lone wolf inspired my ISIS. In many ways that makes it scarier.
    BTW. Of course ISIS would claim credit either way.

    • Rarely says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 6:20 pm

      …”inspired BY ISIS”..

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 9:03 pm

      No one said it was orchestrated by ISIS–what a straw man argument. It was certainly inspired by ISIS and done in their name, though.

  10. gravenimage says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 8:40 pm

    Father of Strasbourg jihad mass murderer says his son supported the Islamic State
    ………………………

    This should surprise no one…

    More:

    “Shortly after Chekatt’s death, the Islamic State group’s Amaq news agency claimed he was a “soldier” of the group. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner rejected the claim as ‘totally opportunistic.’”
    ………………………

    Sound accurate–he was acting in their name.

    More:

    “He’d say, for example, that Daesh, fights for the just cause and all that,” the red-bearded father said, using the common term in France and elsewhere for the Islamic State group.

    Abdelkrim Chekatt, a French-Algerian, said he’d tried in the past to dissuade his son from backing the Islamic State, saying, “You don’t see the atrocities they commit.” The son would reply that “it’s not them,” the father said.
    ………………………

    We see that sonny boy didn’t regard mass slaughtering innocent people attending a Christmas market as an atrocity, but rather as a “just cause”.

    More:

    He also said that if his son had told him about a project to kill “I would have denounced him, and he wouldn’t have killed or been killed.”
    ………………………

    Anyone unfamiliar with Islam might wonder about this phrasing–but “killing and being killed” is the Islamic description of “Martyrdom”.

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