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Belgium: Muslim who went on shooting spree at Jewish Museum “had a long beard and was praying daily” before attack

Jan 7, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Here again we see the fact that virtually all the establishment counterterror analysts wish to ignore and obfuscate: jihad terrorists are devout in their observance of Islam. Not all devout Muslims are or will ever become jihad terrorists, but all jihad terrorists are devout Muslims.

Note also that Mehdi Nemmouche was supposedly “radicalized” in prison. Again and again we have seen that prisons all over the West are hotbeds of jihad recruitment. Why do authorities continue to allow this? Why are they too weak of will to stop it from happening?

“Brussels Jewish museum terrorist radicalized in prison, admired Toulouse shooter,” by Matthieu Demeestere, AFP, January 7, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria.

But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town.

This week, he will go on trial for four anti-Semitic murders during a 2014 shooting spree at Belgium’s Jewish Museum.

Separately, he is also accused of acting as the jailer of four French journalists taken hostage by jihadists in Aleppo in 2013.

The trial will last several weeks, but the 33-year-old is already a case study in the radicalization of some young European Muslims.

Belgium and France, in particular, fear the defeat of groups like the Islamic State in Syria will send more angry young men homewards.

But Nemmouche seems to have been on a radical path long before he set off, in early 2013, for the so-called “caliphate” on the Euphrates….

“What an enormous waste,” his former lawyer Soulifa Badaoui said after the museum murders, lamenting the fact that the authorities had not helped Nemmouche integrate.

“No one knew what to do with an intelligent, lively young man who wanted to get out, become an ordinary French citizen,” she told AFP.
‘Strict and violent’

Between December 2007 and December 2012, he spent five years in custody — and investigators believe this is when his ideas hardened.

In prison, he was known as an “extremist proselytizer” who tried to organize group prayer and spoke of jihad and the 1995 “genocide of Muslims in Bosnia.”

This linked him to the “Roubaix gang” — French Islamists who returned from the Bosnian war and carried out robberies to fund Al-Qaeda, some of whom he knew.

When his grandmother saw him in Tourcoing in December 2012, he had a long beard and was praying daily, something she had not seen before.

Less is known about his experiences in Syria, but three former French hostages have identified him as their “strict and violent” overseer.

They say he did not hide his admiration for Mohammed Merah, who murdered three French soldiers, a Jewish teacher and three young children in 2012….

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  1. Steve D says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    He was sneaky enough to shave his beard so as to not draw more attention to those still wearing them.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 2:55 pm

      This may not have been just sneakiness, Steve–many Jihadists shave off *all* their body hair–beard, arm and leg hair, pubic hair–before they wage Jihad where they think they will be “Martyred”. This was the case with the 9/11 hijackers.

      • revereridesagain says

        Jan 7, 2019 at 3:38 pm

        Oh, please tell me that has nothing to do with the preferences of the “holy houris” they will be greeted by in Islam’s happy hooker paradise as a reward for their dying in the course of waging jihad! (I believe it was 9/11 terrorist mastermind Mohamed Atta’s suitcase, left behind at an airport in Maine because of a connecting flight problem, that was found to contain a “wedding suit”. Very literal minded, jihadists. He’d better have done his shaving because it appears he had to get “married” in his birthday suit.)

        How in the world can anyone take that religion seriously?

        • KWJ says

          Jan 8, 2019 at 8:58 am

          I didn’t know about Mohammad Atta’s “wedding suit.” Shaving the pubic hair and plucking the underarm hair is standard for Islam though back then a stone was used. Did the dirty kuffar invent razors?

          Sunni descriptions of the houri say they have hair only on their head and eyebrows and they don’t defecate, urinate nor menstruate, and of course they will be eternally young. Perhaps these men ready for the brothel in Paradise think the houri would like them that way too. Lol. I watched a video of some Palestinians describing Paradise and they acted like they really believe it. The girl had to say she would have a loving marriage Roth someone of the same age. Muslim women don’t even get equal rights in Paradise – no male harem for them!

          Al Tirmidhi (824-892) said that Allah said that old women can’t enter Paradise so Alkah will renew them and make them virgins. Ibn Majah (825-887)

          Bukhari said that the houri will be 60 cubits tall which is 180 feet. I don’t know how that works out but they get the virgins anyway. It’s amazing that some Sunnis really believe this. I guess if you grow up in Saudi Arabia where you have to repeat, repeat, repeatedly verses and zina (sex before marriage) is a grave sin and KSA is more austere, Paradise sounds pretty good.

          That’s another thing, all that Qur’an repetition probably stays in their heads. Radicalization is easier…it’s just a matter of turning it on and putting the verses to use which is what Osama Bin Laden did.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 2:23 pm

    Anyone who takes a course in an American college ,which is not too overly infected with the politically correct sickness, and the class title subject is “comparative religion” the student will learn that all religions have what called “Acts of Devotion ” in which a person follow that specific religion engages in those religious “actions of great devotion.”

    The point being that Muslim man in the nation of Belgium who went on a “shooting spree ” in a Jewish Museum was engaging an act of devotion” for his religion which is Islam. For the sad and dangerous reality is that Islam is ,in essence , extremely anti-Jewish

    Such a strong and vicious Muslim hate for the Jewish people ,as that had the outcome of that Muslim Jewish Museum shooting, is the result of a firm but blind and unquestioning faith in the “holy book’ of Islam the Koran. Which instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. In other words the Koran inspires and causes such hideous violence. Furthermore, another role the Koran has in such deadly Islamic terror attacks in the Jewish nation of Israel is that the Koran contains many negative about the Jewish people. This has everything to do with the history of the prophet and founder of Islam, who was Muhammad The history is that for a specific time period of his life Muhammad lived among many Jewish people and he liked them at first. Later then they would not accept his claim of being of prophet, Muhammad then took is dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate for them. So in the hate and bitterness he spoke many derogatory things about the as even referring to them as “apes and swine.” Such word of bitterness and hate, along with other thing he said, where written down on things and then later after his death those words were together together and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Koran. Therefore, that why the Koran reads and in does about the Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Koran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60. Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that there is a chance the Muhammad actually might had been a prophet but the important thing to understand is that Muhammad was NOT a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a deceptive, lying false prophet send by Satan to lead many people astray and even and straight into hell. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned of the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. In addition, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [K.J.V.]

    • KWJ says

      Jan 8, 2019 at 9:16 am

      Good explanation. MEMRI.org had an article about a female suicide bomber who left behind a letter. I read the letter. It was lengthy, serious and deeply devout and thus she was very anti-Jew. That is the case with all the women suicide bombers. If they kill fellow Muslims they somehow convince themselves they are apostates or munafiqun which are those “unsympathetic to the cause of Muslims and sought to undermine the Muslim community, that they were double-faced and hypocritical which is called nifaq” and the Qur’an talks about it.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    Belgium: Muslim who went on shooting spree at Jewish Museum “had a long beard and was praying daily” before attack
    ……………………………..

    Whaaa? You mean he was a *devout* Muslim? I’m shocked, shocked…oh…wait…no, I’m not…

    • Westman says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 3:11 pm

      Apparently the “devotion” is proportional to the maximum beard length before jihad.

  4. Wellington says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    The devoutness of a Muslim is directly proportional to the likelihood they will either commit a terrorist act in the name of Islam or at least condone it if perpetrated by a fellow Muslim.

    This cannot even remotely accurately be said of any other major religion and its followers.

    Well, when the founder, in this case Mohammed, of a religion is on record saying, “I have been made victorious with terror,” {Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220}, this should in and of itself serve as overwhelming proof to all but fools, the ignorant and the malicious, that such a religion belongs on the trash heap of history.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 5:16 pm

      Wellington,

      Very well stated, 100% correct.

      I have created a little flowchart, which I have previously posted. In case you missed it:

      =================================================================

      A Muslim’s relationship to Islam at any given point in time and its effect on unbelievers.

      Note: The individual Muslim’s category can change over time!

      Muslim in name only: Knows little about Islam. Not particularly dangerous.

      Muslim light: Starting to learn more about Islam. Not particularly dangerous – at the moment.

      Muslim “mainstream”: Has become a “better” Muslim. Attends local mosque, follows the call to prayers, etc. Does not directly participate in jihad violence, however supports jihad violence and sharia law. May participate in “soft” jihad. Dangerous to the unbelievers.

      Muslim violent jihadists: ISIS, etc. 100% devoted to Islam. Extremely dangerous to the unbelievers.

  5. mgoldberg says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    And of course his trial is four years after his last homicidism. He got a bed, food, medical care, a prayer rug, a chance to share his thoughts with others in prison, unlike his victims who got no chance to say goodbye, . These trials, in a better world would be swift and I mean really swift. A few months to thoroughly gather info and in this homicidists case, to erase his existence from the earth, after his justifiable execution

    • boakai ngombu says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 7:01 pm

      In prison, he was known as an “extremist proselytizer” who tried to organize group prayer and spoke of jihad and the 1995 “genocide of Muslims in Bosnia.”

      the prayer rigor allows the prisoner to retain core knowledge which all jihadis need to love death, not life, and thus “serve” the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers). prisoners together pledge allegiance to the allah god several times a day every day; they remember their targets (ie Kafffirs) as well as they “pray.” [it’s the SHARIA culture]. prisoners remain slaves when they do this.

  6. James Lincoln says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    Wellington,

    100% correct. And to your point, something I posted a couple of months ago:

    A Muslim’s relationship to Islam at any given point in time and its effect on unbelievers.

    Note: The individual Muslim’s category can change over time!

    Muslim in name only: Knows little about Islam. Not particularly dangerous.

    Muslim light: Starting to learn more about Islam. Not particularly dangerous – at the moment.

    Muslim “mainstream”: Has become a “better” Muslim. Attends local mosque, follows the call to prayers, etc. Does not directly participate in jihad violence, however supports jihad violence and sharia law. May participate in “soft” jihad. Dangerous to the unbelievers.

    Muslim violent jihadists: ISIS, etc. 100% devoted to Islam. Extremely dangerous to the unbelievers.

    • Wellington says

      Jan 7, 2019 at 9:59 pm

      A very accurate paradigm, James. My compliments.

  7. ElderlyZionist says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    “No one knew what to do with an intelligent, lively young man who wanted to get out, become an ordinary French citizen…”

    I have a suggestion.

  8. FYI says

    Jan 8, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    A religiously observant Jew runs down.. a street shouting “Yahweh is Great!”
    Nobody dies.

    A Christian evangelist runs down ..a street shouting “Praise Jesus:Isn’t God great?”
    Nobody dies.

    A muslim fanatic runs down…everybody… on the street whilst shouting “allahu akbar”
    Innocent people either die or are injured.

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