{UAH} Jihad Terrorist Refused to Blow Himself Up ....

Jihad terrorist refused to blow himself up during Paris jihad massacre

APRIL 2, 2016 4:01 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER47 COMMENTS

Jihadis frequently affirm how much they love death. Boston jihad killer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote: "you are fighting men who look into the barrel of your gun and see heaven." Austrian Muslim teenage girls who recently traveled to Syria for jihad announced: "Death is our goal." Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said: "I'm even longing for death, you vagabond." A Muslim child preacher taunted those he has been taught to hate most: "Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan." Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he "loved death more than they loved life."

Ayman al-Zawahiri's wife advised Muslim women: "I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death." And as one jihadist put it, "We love death. You love your life!" And another: "The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death." That was from Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah.

This idea comes from the Qur'an: Say, "O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allah, excluding the people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful." (62:6)

But loving death is not natural. Loving life is. Salah Abdeslam's loss of nerve is testimony to that.

"Terrorist 'refused to blow himself up' during Paris attacks," Reuters, April 2, 2016:

Salah Abdeslam, the Paris attacks suspect who was arrested in Brussels last month, refused to blow himself up on the day of the attacks, his brother Mohamed told French news channel BFM TV.

Abdeslam, who will be extradited to France, has renewed an offer to cooperate with French authorities investigating the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people, his lawyer said this week.

"There would have been more victims had I done it," Salah Abdeslam told his brother. "Luckily, I couldn't go through with it."

After his arrest in Brussels on March 18, Abdeslam answered some investigators' questions but then exercised his right to silence following the suicide bombings in Brussels on March 22 that killed 32 people.

Investigators believe the attacks in Paris and Brussels were carried out by militants from the same Islamic State network.

Paul Mugerwa