Dutch paper: Strasbourg jihad murderer’s zebibah confirms “exaggerated conversion behavior” that led to his attack

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/12/dutch-paper-strasbourg-jihad-murderers-zebibah-confirms-exaggerated-conversion-behavior-that-led-to-his-attack

Dec 14, 2018 2:11 pm By Robert Spencer 45 Comments

Expect De Telegraaf to be denounced as “Islamophobic” and apologize, but they’re actually correct: not all devout Muslims are violent jihadis, but all violent jihadis are devout Muslims. Counterterror analysts in the U.S. used to consider this, but all that was swept away by Obama’s enforced willful ignorance in 2011.


“France is looking to ‘striking detail’ Chekatt,” translated from “Frankrijk kijkt uit naar ’opvallend detail’ Chekatt,” De Telegraaf, December 13, 2018:

STRASBOURG – The search for Chérif Chekatt has arrived at a crucial stage. If he is not found tonight, according to experts, almost all hope disappears. French people are asked to search for a shooter in which one detail in the report is very noticeable: the dark spot on his forehead.
The story behind the spot is at least as striking. Such a spot is called a zebibah in the Arabic vernacular, and literally means raisin. In reality, it is a dark, calloused prayer spot, which is seen as a ‘gift of God’ and is only for the most devout Muslims. The stain arises because Muslims pray five times a day, striking the forehead on the ground at least 34 times and making a stain or bump.
That spot seems to confirm Chekatt’s ‘exaggerated conversion behavior’, a term that quickly arose on Tuesday evening after the shooting in the heart of Strasbourg.
Criminal and terrorist
The 29-year-old shooter is one of the 12,000 ‘gangster jihadists’ who live in France; they are both criminals and potential terrorists.
In that respect, Chekatt is a textbook example. A long, criminal past, with an increasing tendency toward radicalization and ultimately terrorism. Born into a poor family, failed at school. Long unemployed. Convicted for abuse and burglaries. Eventually he would ‘behave differently’ in prison.
‘Excessive conversion behavior’
That is obvious to jailers. They contacted the national security services and confirmed Chekatt’s ‘exaggerated conversion behavior’ after a visit to the cells.
Yet no one really expected anything to happen. Neither did his neighbors, they didn’t contact authorities, either. “In prison, he embraced religion in a radical form, but nothing in his way of life suggested that he intended to act,” said French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Laurent Nuñez.
On the radar, but not on a leash
Many people have doubts about the security services; another terrorist who was known to the authorities but could still go ahead. How is that possible?
Apparently it is track to follow all the thousands of criminals who also have radical ideas. This is something else about Chekatt; he was listed on ‘Fiche S’ and was therefore monitored….