Post by mesquite on Jan 8, 2015 5:55:53 GMT -5
Kouachi was listless, and didn’t adhere strictly to many Islamic precepts. "He drank, smoked pot, slept with his girlfriend and delivered pizzas for a living," the Tribune-Review paraphrased Ollivier saying. In those years, he worked a series of dead end jobs — as a pizza deliveryman, a supermarket clerk, a fishmonger — and spent a lot of time listening to rap.
....a 20-something janitor named Farid Benyettou, a radical preacher given to lengthy sermons on the merits of jihad. "I taught," he said in a sealed deposition reported by the New York Times, "suicide attacks were legitimate under Islam as part of jihad."
Two other Benyettou recruits who just died in Iraq, had very similar profiles to Kouachi. They were unemployed. They drank beer. They listened to rap music. They smoked pot.
"There’s no work here," one told an uncle. "… Life is tough."
www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/08/how-a-suspected-charlie-hebdo-gunman-turned-into-a-professional-jihadist/?hpid=z2
I find it interesting that we too have large pockets of young men in urban ghettos who are underemployed or unemployed, who are listless, who drink beer, who smoke pot, who listened to rap, and who say "Life is tough."
I also find it interesting that about 50,000 people, primarily from Mexico and Central America, come into this country every month, who are not listless, who quickly find jobs, and soon are sending money back home to relatives.
....a 20-something janitor named Farid Benyettou, a radical preacher given to lengthy sermons on the merits of jihad. "I taught," he said in a sealed deposition reported by the New York Times, "suicide attacks were legitimate under Islam as part of jihad."
Two other Benyettou recruits who just died in Iraq, had very similar profiles to Kouachi. They were unemployed. They drank beer. They listened to rap music. They smoked pot.
"There’s no work here," one told an uncle. "… Life is tough."
www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/08/how-a-suspected-charlie-hebdo-gunman-turned-into-a-professional-jihadist/?hpid=z2
I find it interesting that we too have large pockets of young men in urban ghettos who are underemployed or unemployed, who are listless, who drink beer, who smoke pot, who listened to rap, and who say "Life is tough."
I also find it interesting that about 50,000 people, primarily from Mexico and Central America, come into this country every month, who are not listless, who quickly find jobs, and soon are sending money back home to relatives.
