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France: Police raid Shi’ite faith center, arrest three of its leaders in counter-terrorism swoop

Oct 2, 2018 1:46 pm By Robert Spencer

“We will not accept any form of terrorism or incitement of terrorism on our national territory.”

Sure. And given the policies of the Macron government regarding mass Muslim migration, and the stigmatization, demonization and persecution of everyone who dares to oppose the Muslim migrant influx, before too long jihad terrorism won’t be necessary anyway, any more than it is in Saudi Arabia.

“French police raid Shi’ite Muslim club in counter-terrorism swoop,” Reuters, October 2, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

LILLE, France/PARIS (Reuters) – French police raided a Shi’ite Muslim faith center and arrested three of its leaders for illegal weapons possession in pre-dawn swoops on Tuesday that government officials said were prompted by suspicion of links to terrorist organizations.

France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim community, remains on maximum alert after attacks in recent years in which Islamist militants and people inspired by radical groups such as Islamic State have killed close to 250 people.

Paris also accused Tehran on Tuesday of plotting to bomb an opposition rally in Paris earlier this year.

Some 200 police officers including elite troopers from Paris took part in raids that began under darkness at the Centre Zahra France and homes of a dozen of its members, in Grande Synthe near the northern port town of Dunkirk.

“This is a counter-terrorism operation,” the local prefect’s office said a statement.

“The activities of Centre Zahra France are under particularly close watch given its leaders’ clear support for several terrorist organizations and movements espousing ideas contrary to (French) republican values.”

Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said three people were put in custody after the discovery of illegal arms, and that a prayer room was being shut.

The raids coincided with an announcement that France had also seized assets belonging to Iran’s intelligence services and two Iranian nationals over a June plot to attack an exiled Iranian opposition group’s rally outside Paris.

Two sources said there was no direct link between the raids and the Iranian intelligence asset freezes.

However, a French diplomatic source said that while the two incidents were not linked, the raid on the Zahra aimed to show that Paris would also not tolerate radical Shi’ite groups.

It’s not linked … but we will not accept any form of terrorism or incitement of terrorism on our national territory,” the source said….

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  1. Wellington says

    Oct 2, 2018 at 2:12 pm

    Ah gee, the French police should have consulted christianblood first because per christianblood only Sunnis are a problem. The Iranian Shiite regime, Shiite Hezbollah, et al. are just fine (because Russia backs them and Russia under Putin can do no wrong).

    • christianblood says

      Oct 2, 2018 at 6:44 pm

      Wellington

      Two reasons for this police raid on the Shiite shrine in France:

      Firstly, over the past few months a Western-backed, anti Iranian terrorist group known as “Mujahedeen-e-Khalq” carried out several violent demonstration and threats against the Iranian government and its institutions in France. And it is very likely that the people in this Iranian religious shrine in France were responding to those threats from “Mujahedeen-e-Khalq” and were really scared for their lives, especially given what happened in Iran a few weeks ago were dozens of Iranian civilians and soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack there!

      Secondly, it is very likely there is also a very strong element of Anti-Iranian propaganda involved to discredit Iran and paint it as a supported terrorism. For more on the tension between Western-backed “Mujahedeen-e-Khalq” in France and the Iranian government watch the video clip below:

      • christianblood says

        Oct 2, 2018 at 6:53 pm

        Wellington

        Mujahedin-e Khalq, which is the reason of this police raid in the Iranian shrine in France is a murderous terrorist group supported mainly by the US and France. Please watch the short video clip below to know more about MEK:

        • christianblood says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 8:50 am

          InfidelLover

          I do agree with most of your points above, InfidelLover!
          I know the sin that Iran committed is that it won’t bow down to the empire! It won’t be a puppet for the empire and for that they are really, really hated by the empire!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 7:08 pm

          christianblood wrote:

          InfidelLover

          I do agree with most of your points above, InfidelLover!
          I know the sin that Iran committed is that it won’t bow down to the empire! It won’t be a puppet for the empire and for that they are really, really hated by the empire!
          …………………….

          christianblood has said this before–that all the horrors of the Islamic Republic of Iran are to be applauded because it just shows that Iran is not ‘bowing down’ to American values.

          Even after being asked to condemn Iran hanging gay people, vowing to “wipe Israel off the map”, and stoning women to death he will not do so.

          This is all orthodox Islam–not “resistance” as he has claimed.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 2, 2018 at 6:58 pm

        Looks as though christianblood is enraged that the ‘filthy Infidels’ have stopped his favorite Shia Jihadists from waging terrorism…

        • christianblood says

          Oct 2, 2018 at 7:07 pm

          gravenimage

          Oh no, Graven! I am sure this is another US-orchestrated propaganda stunt to demonize Iran which is the only independent, anti-imperialist country in the ME! See more of this below:

        • christianblood says

          Oct 2, 2018 at 7:17 pm

          Iran just called the whole France raid thing as a “false flag ploy” and they are absolutely, 99% right! See it below:

          https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/10/02/575862/Qassemi-France-MKO-bomb-Iran-Paris

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 2, 2018 at 7:50 pm

          Well, *of course* we should listen to the Jihadists against the ‘filthy Infidels’–they are not supposed to defend against Jihad…sarc/off

          And that idea that internecine Jihad between Shia and Sunnis does not exist is ridiculous.

          And Iran is claiming that there are “deep-rooted ties between Iran and France as well as other influential European countries”–in other words, that some European countries have been winking at the horrors of Islam in Iran, unlike the United States.

          Iran wants to make sure that the dhimmis in France do nothing to defend against Jihad.

          France should not enable Sunni *or* Shia Jihadists.

        • Wellington says

          Oct 2, 2018 at 8:22 pm

          Yeah, gravenimage, christianblood almost never disappoints. If he isn’t a troll, who the hell is?

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 2, 2018 at 8:51 pm

          Grimly true at this point, Wellington.

        • christianblood says

          Oct 2, 2018 at 9:05 pm

          Wellington

          Watch Rudi Juliani’s video above!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 2, 2018 at 10:27 pm

          I note that christianblood is incensed that Rudy Guiliani says that Iran deserves freedom–I’m sure he hates this notion.

          Is he also angry at Guiliani saying that Iran’s Mullahs have blood on their hands? It looks like it. And does christianblood think that his speaking critically about Iran having taken our diplomatic staff hostage is a bad thing? Again, it looks like it.

          Iran is indeed the enemy of freedom.

          The only real issue here is whether the MEK–the “People’s Mujahedin of Iran”–is any better. They may well not be. Certainly, the problem is that in Islam there are rarely *any* good guys.

          One of the shortcomings of the West is that we have a tendency to believe that those who oppose tyranny are for freedom–this, alas, is not always the case.

          Guiliani actually does broach this issue here–but is, I think, rather too quick to dismiss it.

        • christianblood says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 8:51 am

          gravenimage

          No Graven! I hate regime-changes!

        • kaboooooooooooooooom says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 1:30 pm

          Bang your head lightly against the wall each morning gravystain – at a minimum it will remind you that your neurons require re-connecting – with the potential for future fully restored cognitive capability.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 7:15 pm

          Do you hate *all* regime change? Surely you did not have a problem with ousting ISIS?

          The idea that the Mullahs deserve to stay in power in Iran in perpetuity–and that the people there never have any hope of living in anything but a brutal totalitarian Shari’ah state is terribly grim.

          That does not, of course, necessarily mean that this lot would be an improvement–but that is a separate issue.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 7:23 pm

          kaboooooooooooooooom wrote:

          Bang your head lightly against the wall each morning gravystain – at a minimum it will remind you that your neurons require re-connecting – with the potential for future fully restored cognitive capability.
          ……………………….

          So kaboooooooooooooooom is saying that stating that Iran is indeed the enemy of freedom is indicative of impaired cognitive capability? How appalling.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 2, 2018 at 11:48 pm

        When is the last time now that christianblood actually said anything critical of Jihad and Shari’ah?

        • kaboooooooooooooooom says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 1:36 pm

          When was the last, or even first, time you provided anything productive here gravystain? The majority of your “contributions” are uninformed, repetitive, inane units of semi-socialist propaganda – but then you are a product of San Francisco, ain’t you?

        • kabooooooooooooooom says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 2:10 pm

          When was the last, or first, time you provided anything of value here gravystain? The majority of your inane, uninformed, semi-progressive, propaganda dumps consist of repetitive agreement with other’s opinions or ad hominems against those whose opinions you don’t agree with.

          You are boring and lack original thought – but then you are from the pantheon of boring, San Francisco?

        • Wellington says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 6:40 pm

          Kab————————-: You are the boring one. You only provided insult and no argument. Gravenimage has literally hundreds of times at JW provided cogent arguments on sundry topics related to Islam and all you have is insult towards her on your side. Oh yeah, you’re boring too and, so far, I’ve detected no original thought from you, or for that matter, any real thought at all.

          You know or should know by now that christianblood is a rank apologist for anything Russian. He has stated such absurdities here at JW as “America is Anti-Christ” and “God bless Hezbollah.” And yet you go after gravenimage. I can only conclude you are yet another loon who posts here at JW. What a shame since your “contributions” can only be placed in the “useless category.”

          Eff off, doofus.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 6:57 pm

          kaboooooooooooooooom wrote:

          When was the last, or even first, time you provided anything productive here gravystain?
          …………………………….

          Is anyone here surprised that kaboooooooooooooooom does not consider opposing the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah to be productive?

          The only thing that kaboooooooooooooooom has ever “contributed” here is sneering at Anti-Jihadists.

          More:

          The majority of your “contributions” are uninformed, repetitive, inane units of semi-socialist propaganda – but then you are a product of San Francisco, ain’t you?
          …………………………….

          Wait–how is supporting freedom and democracy and opposing things like child “marriage”, forced marriage, rape, slavery, mass slaughter and Shari’ah totalitarianism “semi-socialist”?

          More:

          When was the last, or first, time you provided anything of value here gravystain? The majority of your inane, uninformed, semi-progressive, propaganda dumps consist of repetitive agreement with other’s opinions or ad hominems against those whose opinions you don’t agree with.
          …………………………….

          It seems that kaboooooooooooooooom is literally repeating himself in back-to-back posts here–oddly, while accusing an Anti-Jihadist of being repetitive…

          And no, opposing the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah is not “ad hominems”–does kaboooooooooooooooom even understand what this means?

          More:

          You are boring and lack original thought – but then you are from the pantheon of boring, San Francisco?
          …………………………….

          I did grow up in San Francisco–I agree with some of the ideas here, and disagree–sometimes quite pointedly–with others. Really, that is the whole point of thinking for oneself.

          I suppose that for kaboooooooooooooooom standing against the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah is indeed boring.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 7:00 pm

          Thank you so much, Wellington.

  2. pemba says

    Oct 2, 2018 at 4:01 pm

    too little, too late

    should have done long time ago

  3. Salome says

    Oct 2, 2018 at 4:37 pm

    All of this while, increasingly in the West, Christians are hated and reviled. Why? Do our worship services have to be monitored for incitement to violent insurrection? Do we have bomb making classes in Sunday School? Do our places of worship serve as cover for weapons exchanges?

  4. Georg says

    Oct 3, 2018 at 4:46 am

    “We will not accept any form of terrorism or incitement of terrorism on our national territory.”

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