Police searched through eastern France on Wednesday for a man suspected of killing at least two people in a gun attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg and who was known to have been religiously radicalized while in jail.
Witnesses told investigators the assailant cried out "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greater) as he launched his attack on the market, the Paris prosecutor said.
And as we know, the jihadi suspect had followed a criminal path:
Cherif Chekatt's criminal career began at age 10. By age 13 he had been convicted. Now, with his third decade still incomplete, he is a fugitive, accused in the deadly shooting at France's most famous Christmas market.
The 29-year-old has more than two dozen convictions, mostly in France but also in Switzerland and Germany.
As I noted back in March with another such case:
A jihadi claiming ISIL affiliation was killed after the jihadi killed 3 in France. The jihadi demonstrated the link between Moslem criminals and jihadis. It's almost as if guilt over crime convinces the Moslem criminal to go on a personal jihad to redeem their sin-filled life. Which is fairly twisted, you must admit.
These young men believe Allah is great because he approves killing innocents as a means of redeeming a life of crime.
As I started out, will this be a Je Suis Christmas Market moment? Don't be silly, in the aftermath nobody will be carrying candy cane pins the way people sported pencils for a short time to reject jihadi violence against a French satirical magazine.
Those Christmas markets will soon be banned because the world went from Je Suis Charlie to Je Suis Sorry very quickly in the face of jihadi death threats.
Note also: he was a known wolf, again. And there are 26,000 others on the French "S File" watch list. France needs to worry more about car bomb footprints than they worry about carbon footprints.
Our world will be better when COEXIST bumper stickers are routinely seen in Riyadh and when HATE HAS NO HOME HERE signs dot Islamabad neighborhoods. Because America is not the problem.
