Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into pedestrians in Barcelona, Catalonia, killing 13 people and injuring at least 130, on August 17, 2017. The Mossos d’Esquadra are the police force of Catalonia.
Where did Abouyaaqoub get the idea that “Allah has promised us paradise and he has promised you hell”? Could it be from the Qur’an, which repeatedly warns unbelievers of the tortures of hell? And why does one of these plotters boast, “Every gram of this iron will get into your heads, those of your children or your wives”? Don’t Abouyaaqoub and his friends know that violence has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam? Why is this point so easy for Western non-Muslim politicians to grasp, and so hard for Islamic jihadis to understand?
“‘Allah has promised us heaven and hell for you,’” BCFocus, November 10, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
“Allah has promised us paradise and he has promised you hell.” This is one of the threats made by the terrorists who attacked in Catalonia in August 2017 while they were preparing explosives, in a video broadcast this Tuesday during the first session of the trial before the National High Court….
The videos feature Younes Abouyaaqoub, who was driving the van during the massive crash on Las Ramblas; Mohamed Hichamy, who participated in the Cambrils bombing, and Youssef Aalla, who died in the Alcanar explosion.
“This is addressed to the enemies of God, wait, wait, here we will wait for you,” said Hichamy, who said at another point: “You want life. Allah has chosen us from among millions of men to make you cry some blood.”
“Come on, come on… you’ll regret being born, especially you, Mossos d’Esquadra,” he said at another point in the video.
“Look how they are going to suffer,” he hears himself say at another point in the recording. Aalla, meanwhile, speaks while looking at the camera: “This is so that you know that the Muslim has dignity and strength with the power of God,” he said.
In another video released in the room today, they laughingly explain how they made the explosives and how much they cost them. “Every gram of this iron will get into your heads, those of your children or your wives,” said one of them, holding a homemade grenade.
Abouyaaqoub, for his part, appears in another video trying on and posing with an explosive vest while laughing. “It’s going ‘bang’,” he continues.