FRENCH MUSLIM CLERIC HATE!
French
police arrest five, including an imam, in
connection with knife attack on Paris police station
Henry Samuel, paris
14
OCTOBER 2019
The
Telegraph
French police arrested overnight five people,
including a Salafist imam, in connection with Mickael Harpon, the IT
expert at
Paris police headquarters who killed
four colleagues in a knife attack this month.
Police swooped on the individuals in three
locations in the northern suburbs of Paris around near the home of
Harpon, 45,
who was killed at the end of his stabbing spree on October 3.
The murders sparked soul-searching over how a
man who converted to Islam 10 years ago and had adopted increasingly
radical
beliefs escaped detection despite working at a police intelligence unit
whose
job is to identity terror threats.
One of the people detained on Monday was an
imam who preached at a mosque Harpon attended in Gonesse and who is on
France's
"Fiche S" list of potential security threats.
Last week, the mayor of Gonesse announced
that the Muslim association which employed the imam, who followed the
hard-line
Salafist branch of Islam, had dismissed him.
Detectives suspect that Harpon had been in close contact with the
imam in the months before his killing spree.
Investigators also found that Harpon had a
USB key holding propaganda videos of Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant
(Isil) as well as details on dozens of officers, raising fears he
intended to
pass them to other radicalised Islamists.
However, Isil has not claimed responsibility for the attack despite
mentioning it in a propaganda statement last week.
A string of inquiries have been launched to
examine how Harpon, who had severe hearing difficulties, fell through
the
security net despite telling colleagues he welcomed the Charlie Hebdo
attacks
in 2015.
A former domestic intelligence agent in
contact with colleagues told Le Journal du Dimanche: “They all told me:
‘We
knew he was radicalised’. I deduce that people on the ground were aware
but
that information failed to rise through the ranks.”
Interior minister Christophe Castaner has
ordered a security check on all French intelligence services by the end
of the
year and pledged to introduce “automatic alerts” over any questionable
acts or
beliefs in the force.
French Imam Indicted Over Antisemitic
Sermon in Which He Cited Hadith Urging Violence Against Jews
DECEMBER 21,
2018
by Algemeiner Staff
The imam of the
Grand Mosque of Toulouse, Mohamed Tatai, was indicted this week for
“public verbal provocation to hatred or violence” following an
investigation into an anti-semitic sermon he gave last year, French
media outlets reported on Friday.
In the remarks
in question, Tatai cited a hadith saying that on Judgment Day the
Muslims will fight and kill the Jews.
The incitement
charge was brought by the Toulouse Prosecutor’s Office.
In an interview
with a French media outlet this past summer, Tatai claimed his words
were taken “out of context” and that he had not called for violence.
In 2012, an
Islamist gunman killed four Jews — a rabbi and three students — at a
school in the southern French city.
French Muslim Cleric Calls Pope's Comments
"hateful"
September 15th 2006
The rector of a mosque in the
northern French city of Lille on Friday criticized as "hateful" recent
controversial comments by Pope Benedict XVI about Islam.
"I just don't understand this statement. It's a kind of declaration of
war for Islam and the Muslim world," Amar Lasfar said. "Muslims will
take it as an offence, as a hateful provocation."
On Tuesday, during a speech in Regensburg, the pope quoted comments
from a 14th-century Christian emperor which said the Prophet Mohammed
had brought only "evil and inhuman" things to the world, and that
Islam was spread "by the sword."
"With Pope John Paul II, there was respect," Lasfar said. "Benedict
XVI is showing a different face."
His comments came one day after the head of France's largest Muslim
organization, Dalil
Boubakeur, demanded a "clarification" from the Vatican of the pope's
comments.
"We wish the Church will give us its opinion and clarify its position
as soon as possible, so that it will not confuse Islam, which is a
religion, and Islamism, which is no longer a religion but a political
ideology," said Boubakeur, who heads the French Council of the Muslim
Religion (CFCM), an umbrella organization representing many of
France's estimated 5 million Muslims.
"We want friendly relations with Christianity," Boubakeur said. "The
pontificate of Benedict XVI should reap the fruits of the efforts of
John Paul II in inter-religious dialogue and friendship against the
dangers that threaten all believers, particularly extremism,
radicalism, intolerance and violence."