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French city to shut down jihad-preaching mosque to “thwart possible terrorist attacks”

Feb 6, 2019 3:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

“Fearing potential terrorist attacks, the south-eastern city of Grenoble will temporarily close a mosque in which imams were allegedly calling for ‘armed jihad.’ Over 400 worshippers attended the mosque each day….Last year, it emerged that mosques in Aix-en-Provence, Sartrouville and Marseille were also closed for preaching radical Islamism. The move came after a string of terrorist attacks sent shockwaves across France, leaving multiple people killed and injured.”

French authorities have so far forced the closure of about 20 mosques.

The jihad-inciting preachers of these mosques routinely reference Quranic verses and Hadith passages to justify their hate and call to jihad. Meanwhile, many people refer to statistics to advance the notion that there is only an “insignificant” minority of jihadist Muslims. But what about the hundreds of Muslims who sit in these mosques throughout the world and listen to such sermons? That many Muslims listen to jihad preaching and do not report it telling.

“Grenoble itself witnessed a terrorist attack in 2015, when a man was found beheaded at a local factory and an Islamist flag was seen flying over the facility.”

When Austrian leader Sebastian Kurz shut down 7 mosques for jihadist preaching, he received death threats.

Social justice warriors continue to mislead people and tell them that counter-jihadists are paranoid perpetrators of conspiracy theories, but the facts are otherwise.

Given the widespread problem of jihad-inciting mosques, mosques need to be monitored. Muslims should welcome this as necessary for the well-being of their host nation, but the fact that mainstream Muslim leaders are quick to hit the “Islamophobia” button signifies a lack of interest in the well-being of infidels, and a lack of integration. Those who pontificate about diversity, pluralism, tolerance and human rights should have equal expectations of all groups. It is near impossible to imagine Christians, Jews and Hindus sitting in their places of worship listening to calls for the death of Muslims and other unbelievers.

“French city to shut jihad-calling mosque to thwart possible terrorist attacks,” RT News, February 6, 2019:

Fearing potential terrorist attacks, the south-eastern city of Grenoble will temporarily close a mosque in which imams were allegedly calling for “armed jihad.” Over 400 worshippers attended the mosque each day.

The Al-Kawthar mosque, located in a populous Rue des Trembles district of Grenoble, has become fertile soil for disseminating “ideas and theories that provoke violence, hatred and discrimination,” the local prefecture said. It claimed the imam legitimized “armed jihad… Sharia and discrimination against women.”

The imam’s sermons allegedly stirred up hatred towards those practicing other religions. It is thought that over 400 Muslims attended the Al-Kawthar each day, according to French media.

The mosque will now be shut for six weeks and its assets will be frozen. To do so, Grenoble authorities invoked a specific French law which deals with prevention of terrorist attacks and threats to national security.

The city, which is home to over 162,000 residents, accommodates 20 mosques, including the Al-Kawthar, according to a local Muslim-oriented website.

Last year, it emerged that mosques in Aix-en-Provence, Sartrouville and Marseille were also closed for preaching radical Islamism. The move came after a string of terrorist attacks sent shockwaves across France, leaving multiple people killed and injured.

Grenoble itself witnessed a terrorist attack in 2015, when a man was found beheaded at a local factory and an Islamist flag was seen flying over the facility. A 35-year-old man, Yassin Salhi, was arrested in the manhunt that followed. It later transpired that the victim of the attack was his boss.

In 2016, French authorities closed around 20 mosques considered to be spreading violent extremism……

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  1. observer says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 3:19 pm

    Oh joy !!!!
    I’d like to have texted first two words in caps but am not allowed to.

    • Bob Smith says

      Feb 7, 2019 at 10:42 am

      M1 – Shutting down mosques involved in any jihad attack.
      M2 – Arrest mullahs involved.
      M3 – Follow, and confiscate, all jihad money back to its source.

      RICO-M3 at – https://rico-m3.blogspot.com/

  2. Ashley says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    As much as this is welcome news it isn’t even a drop in the bucket.

    The imam in question will no doubt hold “Qur’an Study” groups at his home. He’ll make YouTube videos. He will disperse pamphlets. He will take to social media.

    In other words, he will find creative vehicles to spread hate against infidels during his time out.

    This six week “suspension” is merely tokenism.

    Yes…mosques are a hotbed for wannabe jihadists. So are prisons. So is the internet.

    So is the Qur’an.

    • Dawne says

      Feb 7, 2019 at 6:26 am

      very true

    • observer says

      Feb 7, 2019 at 8:08 am

      Believe me Ashley when I tell you I have no illusion/s that this horror will be over anytime soon. I hope I won’t be around in 10 years time.

      Any small victory – no matter that it leaves barely a trace – has me lift a tad.
      God knows, I need any lift I can get whilst I feed at this trough of horror.

      I doubt there will be many on the earth who will experience the miraculous good fortune of seeing these demonic perpetrators of death disappear – I’d be an infant with a dummy (pacifier) in my mouth if I believed that.

      Anyway, the above aside…
      Here’s to Robert Spencer and the courageous Team of truth-bearers who risk so much to keep us updated…
      Thank you so very much

  3. somehistory says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 3:27 pm

    Close them all permanently. The only way to stop terror from islam is for there to be no more islam. Of course, closing the many barracks will just cause the devout moslims to meet in secret places and plan their terror.

    • keith Oades says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 3:59 pm

      WOW, The cheese eating surrender monkeys finally grew a set of balls,,,,temporarily!
      A watch list is useless if all you are going to do is watch.
      Detain, Deport or detain, charge, trial, execute.

    • Westman says

      Feb 7, 2019 at 10:16 am

      And how many automobiles will now die in Grenoble after mosque closings? And will more automobiles and public refuse receptacles now feel “Allah’s Punishment” as the ever-offended express outrage with their native action?

      Ah, Poor France, home of the involuntary martyrdom of automobiles, we knew her well.

  4. James Lincoln says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    Jihad Watch readers, I need help with this:

    Are there any mosques – anywhere – that NEVER “reference Quranic verses and Hadith passages to justify their hate and call to jihad” ?

    In other words, are there imams who preach a strictly westernized / sanitized version of Islam, without the use of ANY violent passages, suitable for public consumption?

    I’m serious, I do not know the answer to this…

    • Raja says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 5:16 pm

      You are seriously kidding James,

      None to my knowledge, where a mosque doles out sanitized Islam . BTW there is nothing like sanitized version of Islam that exists except for Left and their cronies.This is a pure power grabbing tool in democracies.

      One Italian author famously said something like this, if my memory serves me right: While a jihadist cuts the neck of an infidel a moderate helps him accomplish the same…(paraphrased)

      Raja

      • Singh The Sikh says

        Feb 7, 2019 at 10:20 pm

        A jihadist sharpens knife to cuts infidel’s neck while a moderate holds down the infidel and keep him off guard with soothing words, ‘don’t worry, Islam is a religion of peace’.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 5:54 pm

      The sanitized version is promoted to non-muslim visitors on Open Days, and Interfaith Meetings.

    • James Lincoln says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 7:11 pm

      Thank you Raja and Michael – you confirmed what I had already thought to be true.

      All mosques that preach this hatred in Western countries need to be closed down.

      • Raja says

        Feb 7, 2019 at 12:35 pm

        James, You are always welcome. God bless…

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 9:24 pm

      I think the widely accepted estimate is that 84% of Mosques in the US are “extremist”. One presumes by this it is meant that they preach Jihad.

      Even if there are around 16% of Mosques that manage to ignore these orthodox Islamic horrors, that is just a drop in the bucket.

      • somehistory says

        Feb 6, 2019 at 11:00 pm

        g,
        Reports of the % are those that have literature on jihad. If their “book” is read, or quoted and sermons spoken that “encourage” moslims…the “encouragement” has to be in following what is written in the “book” which is full of commands to slaughter those who refuse to convert.

        The estimate you give of 16% are only those where no “radical” literature has been found or no outsider has actually heard the cleric/imam encourage violence. But, even that number must have the book from which all of their teachings originate.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 7, 2019 at 10:29 pm

          Likely true, Somehistory. Of course, even if it were true that 16% of Mosques do not teach any of the violence of Islam–which I agree is unlikely–we would still be in *serious* trouble.

  5. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    I’m always a little encouraged when I hear about a closed mosque, but it seems wholly inadequate considering the magnitude of the problem. Given the fact that islamic doctrines are the impetus for mass murder and terror, and given the fact those same doctrines are promoted in all mosques as sacred truth to be followed, it hardly seems enough to close a handful when there are thousands of them. By analogy, imagine if I started my own religion with a “holy” book that contained violent maxims against, let’s say, black people. And lo-and-behold hundreds of black people start showing up dead by the hand of my followers. I doubt very much that I would be excused of culpability even though I did not explicitly speak that terror as a verbal command. I bear some measure of responsibility if I simply declare my doctrines to be the word of god that must be followed. And if I threaten my followers with death for leaving the “faith” then that solidifies the criminal intent and nature of my enterprise even more. I shouldn’t be too surprised if the FBI and government shuts my “church” down as some kind of murderous RICO racket. And that basically is what muslims do, promote violent doctrines as divine truth to be followed, or worse, they just tell the followers to go out and kill and terrorize. And we know the consequence of that, written in the blood of millions. Either way it’s all so criminal-like to me…

    And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah~Allah, god of the muslims.

    …slay the idolaters wherever you find them… ~Allah, god of the muslims.

    …fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.

    Islamic doctrines provide the “moral” and religious foundation for any muslim who chooses to advance islam through murder and aggression. And the imams that promote those violent teachings need not explicitly state the violence to be guilty. It’s enough to hold those doctrines up as divine commands to be followed. And this ain’t merely about the terrorism muslims do, it’s about every manner of aggression they exercise against us, in our schools, our politics, in government, up to and including the murder and rape of our people. It’s not enough to say that most muslims are peaceful and nice, not if it ignores the deeper reality of their complicity in destroying our nation(s) and peace. Islam is dirty from top to bottom. There’s little peace in islam when practically everything they do is designed to tear us down to the point of destruction. I suppose some of them could be described as “big” enemies, and some of them small. But at the end of the day, they’re all our enemies for allah.

    • Raja says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 5:19 pm

      Very good analysis. Agostino Armo Pellegrini…

      Raja

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 5:51 pm

      Quite so.
      “… disseminating “ideas and theories that provoke violence, hatred and discrimination,” the local prefecture said.”
      Violence, hatred, and discrimination are standard Islam: nothing twisted, perverted, or misunderstood.

      “Violence is the heart of Islam” – Ayatollah Yazdi
      “..between us and you enmity and hatred forever…” – Koran 60:4
      Muslims are “merciful to each other but ruthless to the unbeliever” – Koran 48:29
      “Battle, animosity, and hatred, directed from the muslim to the unbeliever, is the foundation of our religion” – Osama bin Laden

  6. Tama says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 5:16 pm

    Of course the ass bow could always happen in the home and made up later, except for the rule of pushing izlum first.
    Then if an Allah discreet invalidates it in any way it has to be repeated:/
    ..eew this is a clean wriring:
    https://ing.org/working-with-muslim-employees/

  7. Raja says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 5:38 pm

    In my opinion the French govt attorneys are not competent enough to deal with Islamic terror because logically any other murderous cult can easily be convicted in courts of France (and elsewhere)

    A good attorney comes for a price and with so much terror they might be scarcer to find.

    How can a govt fight terrorists with inept and cowardly attorneys especially since they are on the rolls of government? Would any other pricey attorney do the job?This is a sure sign of weakness of France like the rest of West. Other so called second and third world nations are just as helpless.

    God save the planet from Islam…

    • Lavéritétriomphera says

      Feb 7, 2019 at 11:24 am

      I would not say French government lawyers are not competent enough. Our government has currently other fish to fry. It seams they are exceeded by the yellow vests.

  8. Dogman1947 says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    Alas, the Pope will enter the fray and explain this is wrong. The left will be at the Pope’s side reinforcing that it is Islamophobic to close the mosque. Then Macron will apologize and convert to Islam.

  9. Wellington says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 8:56 pm

    A mosque anywhere in the world that would counsel against jihad (not the so-called spiritual kind which constitutes only about 3% of references in the Islamic texts) would be akin to a Christian church, let’s see here, asserting that love is all that matters and so same-sex marriage is just peachy—and Jesus would have approved and only a bigot would aver otherwise.

    Unfortunately, many Christian churches buy into the nonsense about same-sex marriages and, fortunately, this at least does not lead to any major kinds of violence—or really violence at all, just exasperation of a high order by non-violent, traditional Christians. Not so for any mosque which, if any really do exist, would preach against jihad as holy war. Said mosque would almost surely be gutted or utterly destroyed quickly by Muslims who read the Islamic texts correctly. (N.B., “correctly” is the key word here.)

    Thus in microcosm can one see the difference between Christianity and Islam. That is, of course, assuming one does not have pc/mc blinders on. Huge assumption I readily admit.

  10. gravenimage says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    French city to shut down jihad-preaching mosque to “thwart possible terrorist attacks”
    ……………………….

    Always good to hear some sanity out of France.

    But will authorities there deport the Imans? Will they investigate the Mosque-goers and their associates? Will they even ask these questions?

    • Rufolino says

      Feb 7, 2019 at 4:07 am

      Sanity of a kind, seized on by all looking for hope.

      But how insignificant, and what a terrifying reminder of the true problem at hand !!

      Mosques are preparing European Moslems for the takeover of Europe in 20 years time, or 40 years…whenever…

  11. abad says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 11:42 pm

    Shut down the mosques and Islamic centers and schools and start deporting these Moslems who are a threat to France and French culture.

  12. Clive delmonte says

    Feb 7, 2019 at 2:59 am

    Hooray !! Perhaps there is some common sense left in France after all.

  13. Lavéritétriomphera says

    Feb 7, 2019 at 3:37 am

    @kheit Oades,

    (?)
    Marine Le Pen asks the salafist mosques to be closed, and the radicalized strangers to be deported.

  14. Simo Hayha says

    Feb 7, 2019 at 7:13 am

    I can’t help but wonder if “Authorities” will search these “closed” mosques for weapons and explosives secreted away in preparation for the NEXT jihad attack… Just sayin’

  15. Lavéritétriomphera says

    Feb 7, 2019 at 10:12 am

    Not just “closed” mosques, apartment too and illegal weapons are widespread.
    Sport shooting is common in France and CNN is right :
    “That said, the tradition of gun ownership is deeply embedded in many strata of French society. In the countryside, hunting is a way of life and leisure — more prevalent than golf or tennis as weekend recreation. In regions like Sologne, some of the great families of France have practiced hunting back to the Middle Ages. La chasse (the hunt) is the preferred weekend pastime”.
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/opinions/france-america-gun-laws-opinion-andelman/index.html.

  16. Giacomo Latta says

    Feb 7, 2019 at 10:31 am

    It’s only right that muslims should complain about the lack of integration. For some reason almost none of these filthy kuffir are interested in integrating into islam. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

  17. Marigold says

    Feb 8, 2019 at 1:55 am

    162,000 residents and 20 mosques! Anybody good at maths who can work out the number of citizens per mosque? I am not very good at maths but it seems a lot to me and everyone choc ful on Fridays .Also I wonder how many Christian Churches there are with probably a couple of dozen going there every Sunday.

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