The EU’s “Journalist Prize Against Discrimination” was awarded in 2009 to Notre Dame hammer jihadi Farid Ikken, a “highly educated, well-travelled jihadi,” for writing pro-migrant articles.
During Farid Ikken’s Islamic State-inspired attack, “the award-winning journalist cried ‘this is for Syria’ while hitting a policeman with a hammer in front of France’s most iconic cathedral.”
The Islamic State promised to infiltrate the refugee stream as Europe, and succeeded; mass rapes and massacres are the result. Yet suicidal immigration policies are deemed to be essential to Western tolerance and rejection of discrimination. Farid Ikken’s attack illustrates how wrongheaded this thinking really is.
“EU Gave Notre Dame Hammer Attack Jihadi Award For Writing Pro-Immigration Articles in Sweden”, by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, June 7, 2017:
The ‘Islamic State-inspired’ Notre Dame hammer attacker was allegedly radicalised in Sweden and awarded a so-called “Journalist Prize Against Discrimination” by the European Union (EU) for writing pro-migrant articles during his time there.
The Algerian suspected jihadist Farid Ikken, 40, was given the award in 2009 by the European Commission, the EU’s unelected executive branch, for a report about asylum seekers claiming healthcare in Sweden, Expressen reports.
The “EU Commission’s National Journalist Prize Against Discrimination” was awarded to him for an article dealing with “asylum seekers who are not entitled to medical care and who are therefore forced to seek medical care, as well as healthcare staff and others who still provide health care to asylum seekers,” the Commission wrote in a statement.
Eight years later, this Tuesday, the award-winning journalist cried “this is for Syria” while hitting a policeman with a hammer in front of France’s most iconic cathedral.
The highly educated, well-travelled jihadi was shot in the chest and is currently recovering in hospital. He also left a video claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group, according to The Times.
The future terrorist came to Sweden to study for a master’s degree, LIC reports, where he had a Swedish wife before getting a divorce. His nephew, Sofiane Ikken, claims he was radicalised during his time. “I think he started to take an interest in religion during his stay in Sweden,” he told TSA-Algerie, a French-language Algerian site.
After graduating from university in the Swedish capital Stockholm, he worked as a freelance journalist for various papers and radio stations between 2009 and 2010, when he wrote his award-winning article.
He then returned to his native Algeria after the 2011 Arab uprising, where he set up a regional news site and worked on Al Watan, a national newspaper, before moving to France in 2013 to study for a PhD.
Mr. Ikken regularly wrote about terror and jihad during this time. Describing his work at the Bejaia-today Algerian news site, he wrote on his Linkedin profile: “I headed up a small team composed of two permanent journalists, two freelancers and a translator for two years…..
Westman says
Conclusion: The road from Muslim “moderate” to violent jihadi is simply a matter of increased devoutness. The instructions for jihad only await the inquirer’s discovery or the cleric’s dissemination.
mortimer says
Many Muslims are radicalized when they attend Islamic study groups in which the primary, foundational source texts are presented to them… often for the first time. The primary, foundational texts are irrefutably jihadist in character, with 164 jihad verses in the Koran which abrogate all the tolerant and peaceful verses of the Koran, making jihad the only authentic, valid and acceptable course of action for a pious Muslim.
Islamic study groups in universities are one of the most fruitful recruiting grounds for jihadists. University students have the ability to assess the authenticity of jihad in primary, foundational Islam. If Islam is true, then jihad must valid and authentic today if the students are not to abandon Islam altogether.
This is the result of study groups: the STUDY OF JIHAD raises the stakes to the point where it is URGENT… either the students MUST conduct jihad or they must CEASE to believe in Islam. Many seem to choose to conduct jihad and ruin their lives.
common sense says
The longer I live the more I learn about America, the freedom we enjoy and how that freedom was obtained. My gratitude is greater everyday although I already had been taught our history from childhood all the way through college. I can see it’s exactly as Mortimer describes Muslims entering deeper into Satan’s snake pit.
The problem for Muslims in the West is they have no grasp of historical context as it relates the outside forces of other countries and especially Islamic beliefs entering the west. This holds true for the brain washed sheeple as well.
-Deplorable, freeloader and proud!
Ed Lee says
You hit the nail on the head, Westman. A “moderate” Muslim is an uninformed, deficient Muslim. As they are exposed to more verses of the Qur’an, they realize what a disappointment to Islam they have been, and are compelled to compensate for their past substandard behavior.
mortimer says
“Moderate Muslim” = “uninformed Muslim”
john spielman says
a moderate muslim is one who outwardly expresses disgust at violence against infidels BUT this is in reality ; TAQIYYA ( holy lying ) and inwardly he approves- and give financial and logistical support to the extremists and the concept of a world wide caliphate of islamofascism
Patricia F Koenig says
Well said, Westman. The radical/devout Muslims gain power by the large numbers of Muslims…including the moderate/ un-informed Muslims. So both radical and moderate Muslims are dangerous. The moderate Muslims aid and abet the radical Muslims.
John A. Marre says
Shows how much a journalistic award is worth: nothing.
mortimer says
Algerian jihadist Farid Ikken is typical of university- and college-educated jihadists. They come to the conclusion that jihad is the only valid course of action after studying the primary, foundational texts of Islam. The conclusion that jihad is the most important deed in Islam is IRREFUTABLE … that is, if you have studied the primary texts.
The jihad deniers have NOT studied the primary Islamic texts are wilfully ignorant of them. They are culpably negligent and too often smug about their ignorance of Islam’s foundational texts.
There is no excuse for ANYONE in the internet era NOT to FIND OUT about the jihad doctrine. WILLFUL IGNORANCE of the jihad threat is a deliberate REFUSAL to acquire that information. This is the most INVALID form of ignorance… intentional ignorance.
“Ostrich brigade” well describes such people.
common sense says
I’m not shocked since Hussein was handed 2 NPP’s for disseminating hateful rhetoric, inciting terrorist groups such as BLM, ms 13 and the Mexican cartel to invade our country, sell drugs and kill police. Not to mention ‘fast and furious ‘ and handing billions to our sworn enemy Iran and giving them nuclear power practically unchecked.
Stan Lee says
The Islamic State selected a most-likely,major European country as a target. A French government is far more likely to surrender instead of fight for its survival. And, surprisingly enough, it is Germany which is second-only to the professional surrendering of France.
Can you imagine that in the EU a prize exists for a journalists’s activity against discrimination? And, obviously, it’s a prize for far more than journalistic writing against “discrimination” which is usually what is expected from journalists, not attacks meant to kill with any lethal weapon at hand? And, is it really for “journalists”, or anyone willing to attack any individual wearing the uniform of his country, and charged with maintaining the peace at an ancient religious site which has become a destination for tourists and no longer much visited by France’s religious if they still exist? What did the man do to this “Journalist” to be the the victim of an attack with a lethal weapon, wear a police uniform?
The injury of this hammer attack is upon the innocent French peace officer, a so-called “Journalist Price” is a misrepresentation by EU to mask encouraged vicious attacks upon those wearing uniforms of their governments. and the prize for the act should have been death for an attack that could have been fatal for the police officer.
It remains to be seen how the French government will apologize for the police officer’s attempt to risk no more than the hammer-to-head blow he suffered from this free-loading Algerian “prize winner.”
His attack should result in a prison sentence by a French court, then removal of any entry visa to France, if not an entire EU. He should serve time and be deported permanently.
France’s legacy of democracy for all has been seriously corrupted by its manipulation of the EU.
The Islamic attacker is likely to receive another “prize” and a French hero’s medal!
Disgusting, isn’t it?
Baucent says
“Eight years later, this Tuesday, the award-winning journalist cried “this is for Syria” while hitting a policeman with a hammer in front of France’s most iconic cathedral.”
Apparently Ikken now believes the sword is indeed “mightier than the pen.”