Imagine a young man who grew up in a “moderate Muslim” culture — that is, a nominally Muslim community where Islamic practices are observed only minimally, where people may wear secular apparel without fear of abuse, where women appear in public unveiled, and where “violent extremism” is very rare.
The young man’s parents were largely secular. Their relationship with their local mosque was pro forma, for appearances’ sake only. He was educated in secular schools.
Then, after he grew up, he moved to a country where the fundamentalist version of Islam was dominant, where Muslims were taught to observe strictly the practices described in the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sunnah. He attended a mosque where the imam was a firebrand zealot who exhorted his congregation to wage jihad in the way of Allah. The young man became “radicalized”, and went on to join a group of dedicated mujahideen, with tragic consequences.
Such was the case of young Chiheb Esseghaier, who grew up in the mildly Islamic culture of Tunisia, but became a terrorist after moving to… Canada.
In 2013 young Mr. Esseghaier was apprehended and prosecuted for his part in the Via Rail Canada terror plot. He was sentenced to life in prison, but his conviction was later overturned. A final decision on the issue of retrial has not yet been reached.
In the following video from a French source, a reporter interviews the parents of Chiheb Esseghaier, who simply cannot believe that their son could possibly have committed the crimes he was charged with, because he had always been such a good, studious boy.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | In Tunisia, the parents of Chiheb Esseghaier, | |
| 00:08 | accused of a terrorist plot in Canada, | |
| 00:13 | reject the allegations weighing on their own son. | |
| 00:16 | In fact, they do not believe that he would have been able to | |
| 00:19 | blow up a Via Rail train near Toronto with the help of Al-Qaeda. | |
| 00:22 | But the father acknowledged that his son became radicalized after his arrival in Canada. | |
| 00:26 | Our special correspondent Eric de Lavarenne met them. | |
| 00:30 | We are in Razala, in the suburbs of Tunis, 15 minutes by car from the city center. | |
| 00:36 | It is here in this house that Chiheb Esseghaier spent his childhood with his three brothers | |
| 00:41 | and his parents. His mother, Raouda, refuses to believe that her son is guilty. | |
| 00:48 | “I was surprised,” she said, “but I did not believe it. | |
| 00:57 | Because I am sure that my son cannot commit such an act. | |
| 01:02 | I know it because I raised him. I know him by heart. He leads experiments, | |
| 01:07 | he does research, he is a very good boy, he loves studying.” | |
| 01:11 | “Chiheb is a genius,” she added. “Since childhood, believe me, he has loved studying. | |
| 01:17 | At four, he already knew how to read and count. Since his childhood, he has been studying. | |
| 01:21 | And even when we used to tell him, “Come on, come play”, | |
| 01:24 | he would reply, “No, I don’t want to, I prefer to study.” | |
| 01:33 | Even disbelief on the father’s part. For Rached, the arrest of Chiheb is a mistake. | |
| 01:39 | Whoever wants to hijack a train, he must have some material, or something. | |
| 01:48 | Or a plan, where there are names, a specific plan, details. They did not find anything. | |
| 01:55 | The father admits that in recent years his son has changed. | |
| 02:00 | His religious commitment comes more from Canada than from Tunisia. No doubt, for me. | |
| 02:08 | No doubt. Because I went to some mosques there and I heard what some of them say. | |
| 02:21 | I didn’t like it at all. —In the Esseghaier family | |
| 02:24 | they deny their son’s participation in a terrorist plot. | |
| 02:27 | But between the lines, they admitted that his religious commitment has become stronger | |
| 02:33 | in recent years. A commitment that doesn’t come from Tunisia. |
Another dindu nuffin bites the dust.
Whats shocking from this story is that the Canucks were able to find time to arrest this would-be future rocket scientist when they face a tremendous backlog of misgendering cases, loud freedom convoy honkers, and online critics of prize fool Fidel Turdeau.
But isn’t the curran the words of the THRONE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN RELIGION?
How does a Throne Archangel tell an ignorant, illiterate camel thief, how to form a religion and to exterminate the infidels?
mohammyman was smoking too much camel crap.
I commented on this in my own blog:
“Furthermore, they are not just badly chosen immigrants, but frequently those born here. All too often, the immigrant settles down to do what he came here to do: make a living, while it is the children who are radicalised.
There are two reasons for this. The first is the battle for the soul which takes place every generation – the same one which sees the children of religious parents drop out of the church, while couples who never see the inside of a church are surprised, even dismayed, when one of their children “gets religion”. The other is that the second generation of migrants often find themselves in an identity limbo, not belonging to their parents’ society, but not fully members of the adopted one. ”
https://malcolmsmiscellany.blogspot.com/2017/05/muslims-in-australia.html
I used to
Live in canadistan
Horrible weather
Horrible taxes
Slow submissive people , almost dead
Dragging their bodies from work to home and back
Paying huge taxes
And full of blacks and Indians and Muslims
Oh yes and Chinese
What can go wrong?