London: "Nice Guy" Neighbor - Moderate Muslim - Was Murderous Jihadi

Halo, Mate, Jihad Yer Arsenal

Among the minor inconveniences we put up with, for the privilege of having all these Moderate Muslims as our friends and neighbors, is the fact that we can't really tell the difference between the Moderate Muslims and the Murderous Jihadi Muslims.

Or at least I can't.

Can you?

From the Daily Mail:

The jihadi in an Arsenal shirt was ‘euphoric’ and asking about how to hire a van just hours before the London Bridge atrocity, it was claimed last night. He could not contain his excitement during a conversation with a neighbour on Saturday afternoon. 

The neighbour said he wandered over and asked about his van and how much it would cost to hire one. 

Hours later, the father of two, who had worked at KFC and for the Transport for London which is responsible for the Tube and buses in the capital, went on a bloody rampage with two twisted extremists which left seven people dead and scores more injured. 

The three terrorists were shot dead by police. Iketina Chigbo, who lives in the block of flats raided in Barking, said he saw the Arsenal-supporting jihadi just a few hours before the terror attack. 

He said: ‘It was around 3pm and I was in the process of moving so was loading stuff into a van. He came over and seemed quite excitable. He was wearing his Arsenal shirt and was asking about the van. 

‘He was asking where I got the van from and how much it cost. He said he was planning to move too and that’s why he wanted to know – I didn’t think anything of it. ‘He was on another level of happiness and kept shaking my hand. He seemed almost euphoric. 

‘But then I saw the picture from the scene of the attack of the guy on the floor – he was wearing the same kind of colour top and I just couldn’t believe it. I knew it was him, I recognised him.’ 

Mr Chigbo added: ‘I’ve known him almost three years and we’ve had general chit-chat. We never had any suspicions, he seemed like a nice guy.’ 

Another neighbour said he knew the man previously worked for KFC and more recently for Transport for London (TfL). 

He said: ‘He seemed like a normal guy but then he became quite radical. I saw him on a TV documentary with an ISIS flag some time ago and after that I tried to keep my distance from him.’ 

Another neighbour said: ‘He was a nice guy, obviously religious but normal. We used to speak about Arsenal and I last chatted to him a few weeks ago after we won the FA Cup. There was nothing untoward about him.’ 

Last night it also emerged that a mosque banned the jihadi after he repeatedly interrupted the imam during prayers prior to the 2015 general election. 

A source at the mosque told the Daily Mail: ‘He repeatedly interrupted the imam and that is not something you are allowed to do. 

He kept shouting 'Only God is in charge' and would not stop. ‘In the end the caretaker escorted him from the building. ‘I don’t think anyone else – by that I mean the authorities – were told of the incident. ‘It was dealt with by banning him from the mosque.’ 

Meanwhile a neighbour claimed that they warned police about the suspect radicalising children in a local park two years ago. 

Erica Gasparri then went to the park, where she said a ‘Pakistani man’ had stated: ‘I’m ready to do whatever I need to do in the name of Allah. I am ready in the name of Allah to do what needs to be done, including killing my own mother.’ 

She said she took four photographs of him and gave them to the police. She said that she then heard nothing. 

The same jihadi tricked his neighbours into believing he was a nice guy by playing football with their children on the nearby green. 

Secretly, he was harbouring a destructive hatred and frequently changing his appearance in preparation of unleashing a deadly attack on the capital city during which seven people died and up to 50 were injured last night.