Sabri Essid, a French national, recently appeared in an Islamic State (IS) video alongside his own stepson, who is shown murdering an alleged Palestinian Mossad agent. Essid’s stepbrother, Mohammed Merah, killed three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012. And last year, Merah’s sister Souad left France along with her four children to join jihadists—including her husband—in Syria. John Rosenthal reports:
In recordings made public in November 2012, Souad Merah declares that she is proud of her brother Mohammed and thinks highly of Osama bin Laden. Denouncing the “injustices” committed by “the Jews and the Americans,” Souad praises Salafists—adherents of the radical Islamic current of which both IS and al-Qaeda form a part—for taking action while others merely talk. . . .
Souad’s words were secretly recorded by another of her brothers, Abdelghani. The anti-Islamist “black sheep” of the family, Abdelghani has said he made the recordings to dissociate himself from the other Merahs and expose the anti-Semitism in which Mohammed was “immersed” from childhood. His own relationship with a woman of Jewish origin (now his wife) was, he says, such a profound source of discord in the family that, during an argument about it in 2003, [another of his brothers] stabbed him seven times, nearly killing him. According to Abdelghani, guests at a memorial service held at his mother’s home a few days after Mohammed Merah’s death [at the hands of police] broke into ululations of joy and, rather than offering condolences, congratulated his mother on her son’s actions.
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