Mohammed Merah: Al-Qaeda Linked Terrorist is Chief Suspect Behind French Murders
Mohammed Merah: Al-Qaeda Linked Terrorist is Chief Suspect Behind French Murders
The chief suspect in the murders of three French soldiers (2 North Africans, 1 Caribbean), and four Jews, including three children, we are being told is a 23 year old man named Mohammed Merah. The French interior minister, Claude Gueant alleges that the motive behind the attack was to,
“take revenge for Palestinian children” killed in the Middle East, and [he] was angry at the French military for its operations abroad.
This explanation of a motive will give little comfort to the bereaved families. How can Merah purport to be acting in the cause of Palestine when he TARGETED innocents? What demented, twisting acrobatics enabled him to let go of the innate morals within his humanity and kill children? Did he not realize he was betraying Islam, its core principles and the causes he claimed to be fighting for when he went on this killing spree?
The sort of callousness and cold precision with which he operated reveals the mind of a sickening sociopath.
Islamophobes in their haste had pinned their hopes on this murderer being a Muslim, so that they could once again smear and condemn Islam and Muslims. They attempt to minimize and cover for the role that occupation, war, invasion and murder plays in producing anger and…terrorists.
The double standards from them are expected, when an Anders Behring Breivik exterminates 60+ children he is, according to them, a “lone gunman,” a “nutter.” No discussion about the ideology, the anti-Muslim Islamophobic extremism that inspired Breivik’s terrorist Crusade, and which they propagate daily, is mentioned. When a US soldier goes on a rampage and eliminates 16+ civilians as they sleep, including 9 children we do not even learn their names and the soldier is treated with sympathy in the media and PRAISE amongst the Muslim haters.
If the allegations against Mohammed Merah are true, and they likely are, he should face the full brunt of the law for his crimes, but lets hope that the anti-Muslims do not attempt to use these horrific incidents to shift the focus from the true enemy, radical violent extremism whether Islamist (AlQaeda) or Radical Right (Anders Breivik, EDL, etc.). Life in Europe and particularly France, which is already seeing a campaign feeding off of right-wing populism and anti-Muslim rhetoric, will most likely get more difficult now.
What will be missing from all this is the fact that as long as wars of occupation, daily bombing and hate-mongering persist against Muslim majority nations you can rest assured that you will create more Mohammed Merah’s.
*Update I: If it’s not abundantly clear from the above, let me say it, Merah and the AlQaedah ideology is responsible for this crime, no one else, he stands completely condemned by Loonwatch as he does by nearly every honest and humane person. There is no apology above or blame shifting, just stating the facts. Merah himself claims to be acting out in revenge due to the killing of Palestinians and Afghans, I didn’t say this, the French Interior Minister did. Many seem to think we can’t even discuss the motives of these attacks?

So what is the explanation for the persecution of non muslims in say, Egypt? Why do Turks and Iraqis kill Kurds? Hazara?
This episode may be revenge – they are now saying the soldier’s was too – but there is a whole lot of violence going on which is not based on invasion, occupation, etc.
21 March 2012 at 10:16 am