She declined.

Times Of Israel:

Police brought Mehdi's [the jihadist's] mother to the standoff scene to try to get her to negotiate Wednesday with her son, but she declined, saying she had no control over him, French authorities said.

 

While we wait for whatever is going to happen, here's some history of Jihad(ism), from Wikipedia.

When jihadism is specifically motivated by Pan-Islamism, i.e. the ultimate aim of spreading Islam worldwide under a restored Caliphate, it is often called "Global Jihadism". But jihadism can also be motivated regionally, in an attempt to establish an Islamic state in a specific homeland. Global Jihadism is usually involved with international Islamic terrorism, while regional jihadism takes the form of guerilla warfare, possibly also paired with terrorist attacks. Historical and ongoing jihadist armed conflicts include:

Early jihadist uprisings (before World War I):

• Fulani War (1804–1810)
• Mahdist War (1881–1899)
• Moro Rebellion (1899–1913)

Classical Islamism (1928–1989)

• Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang (1937)
• Insurgency in the Philippines (1969–present)
• Arakan rebellion (1978)
• Arab–Israeli conflict (Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine 1981–present, Islamic Jihad Organization 1982-1993, Hamas 1987–present)
• Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989)

Modern jihadism (1990–present)

• Kashmir conflict (Lashkar-e-Taiba, 1990–present)
• Somali Civil War (1991–present)
• Bosnian war (Bosnian mujahideen, 1992–1995)
• Afghan civil war (Taliban 1994–present)
• East Turkestan irredentism (East Turkestan Islamic Movement, 1997–present)
• Chechen war and Insurgency in the North Caucasus (Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya, 1995–present)
• War in Darfur (Sudan Liberation Movement, 2003–2009)
• Iraqi insurgency (Islamic State of Iraq, 2003–present)
• Balochistan conflict (Balochistan Liberation Army, 2004–present)
• Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown (Abyan Governorate, 2010–present)

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Maybe it's just me, but I've read the Wikipedia entry three times -- and I don't get it. Global jihad, regional jihad -- it all sounds the same to me ... a distinction without a difference. The only thing that matters in the end is that all forms of jihad are intended to impose Muslim dominance and the rule of sharia over people who want neither. It is a technique for subjugating non-Muslims -- whether regionally or globally -- to Islamic sovereignty. Or, put differently, it is a Muslim effort to enslave the entire planet physically, intellectually, and spiritually. Jihad is a pestilence, just as the Black Death was a pestilence -- only the Black Death was spread by rodents and jihad is spread by creatures like the Butcher of Toulouse.