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'These boys were raised among us': Islamic terror cell town reels after Catalonia attacks
The Guardian ^ | 22 August 2017 | Jonathan Watts

Posted on 08/22/2017 2:44:34 AM PDT by Cronos

A dark, narrow staircase leads up to the seventh-floor flat in the small Catalan town of Ripoll from where Abdelbaki Es Satty allegedly masterminded the terrorist cell that struck in Barcelona last Thursday.

A bottle of the Moroccan imam’s scent sits on a sideboard, the miswak root he used to clean his teeth lies on a bedroom shelf, and his green Qur’an nestles behind the TV where he watched the daily news.

“He didn’t talk much,” said Es Satty’s flatmate, Nordin. “He seemed normal. His face and words were normal. I didn’t know what problems he had in his head.”

...Spanish anti-terrorism investigators are now working on the assumption that the imam was the “catalyst” in the radicalisation a cell of a dozen mostly young Moroccan men in Ripoll, where he had been leading prayers and teaching Arabic for the past two years.

...About 5% of the town’s 11,000 population are Muslim. Most are Moroccans who started arriving in the early 1990s to work at local factories.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: barcelona; europeanmuslims; islam; jihadi; jihadineurope; muslims; spain
The Muslim amongst you -- may be Moroccan, Pakistani, blonde-blue-eyed, brown skinned or black skinned or East Asian looking. The problem is not the "race"
1 posted on 08/22/2017 2:44:34 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Spain has stubbornly high long term unemployment rates and yet still imports muslims to work in factories....


2 posted on 08/22/2017 2:54:08 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Cronos

“We are beaten,this is the result of thirty years of Marxism” Marshal Petain


3 posted on 08/22/2017 3:08:16 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Cronos

Ain’t multiculturalism grand? Sure glad we got rid of that evil concept of assimilation. Now, entire generations of immigrants can grow up in your country creating a nation unto themselves. What interesting times in which we live...


4 posted on 08/22/2017 3:21:26 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: antidisestablishment

Which is precisely why you can’t have any Muslims in your country. They or their offspring are all potential jihadists. As soon as they start to take islam seriously they learn that jihad is their main purpose.


5 posted on 08/22/2017 3:50:05 AM PDT by littleharbour
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To: Cronos
"I hope people here can be emotionally intelligent enough to distinguish between the Daesh [Islamic State] jihadists and the Muslim community."

This is the fatal sin of liberals everywhere. The "Muslim community" is the one and only SOURCE of Daesh [Islamic State] jihadists. Until that is fully understood and corrected, Islamic terrorism will never be stopped.

6 posted on 08/22/2017 3:54:47 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Cronos

No where in the entire article does it give the immigration status of the suspects.


7 posted on 08/22/2017 4:22:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Cronos

“I didn’t know what problems he had in his head.””

This is pure unadulterated BS -

In muslim communities everyone knows what everyone is doing. There is no “private business” in muslim communities because the women talk and men talk about everyone in the community, especially at weddings. They all know who is doing what good and bad; they will not tell anyone outside that community about anyone bad. They know what all the men are doing because they and he have to pick a future bride for each man [him] for consideration at the weddings. It`s their culture. Like I said., it`s pure BS that they “don`t know anything.”


8 posted on 08/22/2017 4:25:34 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: Cronos

(”But we can’t give in to anger. That would be dangerous. We must move on.”)
WTF does moving on mean? Put their heads back in the sand? Declare that Islam had nothing to do with this?


9 posted on 08/22/2017 4:30:27 AM PDT by winner3000
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That’s exactly what it means.

L


10 posted on 08/22/2017 4:33:22 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Cronos
I didn’t know what problems he had in his head.

To see what problems he 'had in his head,' check the green Koran he had behind the TV.

11 posted on 08/22/2017 4:54:38 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: Cronos
Might as well be these "raised amongst" you...

they will never be one of you. Never be loyal to anything but their cult of death.

12 posted on 08/22/2017 5:10:40 AM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: Cronos

More Moslems, more terrorism, period.


13 posted on 08/22/2017 5:20:45 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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“He seemed normal. His face and words were normal. I didn’t know what problems he had in his head.”

The problem in his head was *slam, a violent, world-domination ideology cleverly disguised as a religion.


14 posted on 08/22/2017 5:33:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Consistently acting in a way that is in opposition to our human nature is INSANITY.)
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To: bunkerhill7

“In muslim communities everyone knows what everyone is doing.”

Excellent point. Normally I don’t believe in `collective guilt’ but the social habits of Muslims make it clear that when one of their number plans on killing what they call “infidels”, THEY KNOW.


15 posted on 08/22/2017 6:34:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Cronos

You knew they were snakes and you let them in?


16 posted on 08/22/2017 6:51:39 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: 2banana
Spain has stubbornly high long term unemployment rates and yet still imports muslims to work in factories...

Global "Elites" are behind this horror... figgin Germans - once again but this time without the camps and bullets. Time for everyone to wake up.

17 posted on 08/22/2017 6:54:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (ISIS & Taliban feel Buddha Statues express hatred toward Islam - therefore they can be destroyed.)
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To: Cronos

The problem with Muslims is that they never “become part of us” because in their mindset “we must become part of them.” Most will live peaceably until they have the numbers sufficient to force their demands and then they will begin to force all the infidels into subjection.


18 posted on 08/22/2017 7:50:48 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: antidisestablishment
Multiculturalism WORKS -- just that this should not include "Islamic culture" -- if you have Italians, Poles, English, it can work together. But you gotta leave out the I
19 posted on 08/23/2017 5:34:00 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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