“My mother always said, ‘We, the Arabs, we were born to hate Jews’”

But remember: “Islamophobia” is the problem. Not the holy book that designates the Jews as the worst enemies of the Muslims (Qur’an 5:82). “Brother says parents’ anti-Semitism, hate helped radicalize French gunman who killed 7,” from the Associated Press, November 11 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

PARIS – The radicalization of the French gunman who killed seven people on an eight-day shooting spree this spring began at home, his brother recounts in a new book and documentary, according to media reports.

Mohamed Merah killed three Jewish children, a rabbi and three paratroopers in and around the southern city of Toulouse in March before dying in a standoff with police. Merah claimed links to al-Qaida and said he had received training at an Islamist paramilitary camp in Pakistan.

One of his brothers, Abdelkader, also faces preliminary charges in the case and is in police custody….

But a new book by another of Merah brother, Abdelghani, says his parents, particularly his mother, are responsible for Mohamed’s radicalization….

“I will explain how my parents raised you in an atmosphere of racism and hate before the Salafis could douse you in religious extremism,” he writes in “My brother, that terrorist,” due out Wednesday. Salafis are ultraconservative Muslims….

“My mother always said, ‘We, the Arabs, we were born to hate Jews.’ This speech, I heard it all throughout my childhood,” Abdelghani says in the documentary, according to the RTL.be website.

Souad, on the other hand, declares how proud she is of her brother, Mohamed.

Proud!

*****

Update:

The pride of the family

More than just one bad man. There was, it seems, a culture of approval:

THE sister of Mohamed Merah, the Islamist gunman who shot seven people dead in Toulouse in March, is the subject of a criminal investigation after declaring herself proud of her brother in a television documentary, judicial sources say…

A program broadcast by the M6 channel on Sunday included secretly filmed footage of her saying she was “proud” of her brother for “fighting to the end”…

Mohamed Merah, a self-described al-Qaeda sympathiser, shot a rabbi, three Jewish schoolchildren and three French paratroopers in attacks in and around the southern city of Toulouse in March before being shot dead in a police siege.

A sister so proud of a big, brave man who shot dead these unarmed girls and this father: