“he didn’t believe the attack could have been an Isil-inspired Paris-style terror attack, because the family were Shia”
What mosque was he going to?
There are lots of extremist Sunni mosques in Germany (and throughout the West), but Shia mosques are harder to find. Several Western jihadis came from Christian, or Jewish families.
The family moved to the area two years ago - plenty of time for a teenager to fall in with a bad crowd. and be radicalized.
Second generation immigrants seem to be a better source of recruitment for the jihadis. They tend to be more the right age - awkward teens, and twenty-somethings searching for meaning.
I am sick of the focus on ISIS ISIS ISIS. ISIS is just one of the many hundreds of Islam jihad groups currently, and no “group” is needed, other than being an adherent of Islam. The authorities and media use ISIS as a smokescreen to hide the 1400 hundred year history of constant Islamic jihad, and the worldwide jihad action currently happening. AND the non-ISIS but “radical” mozlems in our own government, and those aiding and abetting it in many governments.
As though if some mozlem killers is not an ISIS member he’s okay.
Also tired of “radical” Islamic terror. It’s just Islam doing what Islam has always done and will continue to do until someone with guts puts it down seriously. Cripples it.
It is simply Islam being Islam. The more devout, the more dangerous.