BBC Weeps for Moussaoui
Charles Johnson
Thu May 4, 2006 at 7:37 am PDT • Views: 139
The BBC paints 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui as the victim of a bad childhood who just wanted to be a good Muslim: Restless convert in quest for jihad.
Abdul Haq Baker was the mosque’s chairman and became Moussaoui’s friend and confidant.
Mr Baker remembers Moussaoui as an affable individual with a sense of humour which attracted him to others, but also an admirable seriousness about his faith.
“He wanted to revive his roots which were in Islam. He wanted to be a good Muslim, a knowledgeable Muslim, who wanted to know how to implement the tenets of Islam and make sense of the society he was living in,” said Mr Baker.
At the mosque Moussaoui would normally be accompanied by his childhood friend Xavier Jaffo. Both men would take the road to radicalism that would lead them to aspire to martyrdom.
Notice how the BBC’s Acme scare quote generator seems to be on the fritz again. “Aspire to martyrdom?”
Frank says: