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France: Muslim “girl in search of recognition and love” on trial for botched jihad attack on Notre Dame Cathedral

Sep 24, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

How does a jihadi girl get recognition and love? A few fuel-doused gas canisters at a renowned Christian cathedral should do the trick.

“Suspected female jihadists on trial for botched terror attack on Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral,” France 24, September 23, 2019 (thanks to Henry):

Five women go on trial at a special Paris court on Monday for attempting to blow up a car near Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2016 in what prosecutors say was a failed jihadist attack.

The women, now between the ages of 22 and 42, are charged with attempting to explode a vehicle laden with fuel-doused gas canisters in the shadow of the medieval monument in central Paris….

According to unnamed sources, the women had also been plotting other attacks and were looking at train stations in Paris and the city’s southern outskirts, as well as police officers, as potential targets….

One of the women, now 22, is considered the key player in the failed attack. She was just 18 when she and her co-defendants joined a channel on the social network Telegram that was run by one of France’s most notorious jihadists, who is believed to be linked to a gruesome attack on a French priest in Normandy and the killing of a French police couple at their home.

According to court documents, the women sent the jihadist videos pledging their allegiance to the IS group. He is currently the subject of an international arrest warrant and will be tried in France in absentia. He is believed to have been killed by a drone strike in 2017 around the Iraqi city of Mosul, but while US authorities have confirmed his death no proof of death has been officially reported to the French courts.

One of the defendant’s lawyers has previously said his client was vulnerable to the IS group’s recruitment efforts because she was “a girl in search of recognition and love”.

Prosecutors say the attempted explosion could have killed dozens of people in one of the French capital’s most touristed neighbourhoods. It came after a string of Islamic extremist attacks that deeply shook France and hardened its security stance.

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  1. Liz says

    Sep 24, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    I thought the person responsible for the bombing threat was sentenced the same time the Cathedral set ablaze… Is this a different bombing threat or is it a trial for more who were connected to it? Does anyone know? Thx 🙂

    • Guy George says

      Sep 24, 2019 at 2:13 pm

      The bomb threat was formally way earlier many month before the Cathedral was set on fire.
      But they had plans to chop the Cathedral. And then the fire.
      I won’t forget the fire, I was in front of the Cathedral, breathing tons of fumes including lead

      • jayell says

        Sep 24, 2019 at 3:15 pm

        The other person who had explicit plans to ‘chop the Cathedral’ about 74 years ago was, of course, Adolf Hitler. It was on his ‘must do’ list to make is mark on the place if his armies were forced out of Paris; his gesture of appreciation to the people of Paris, if you like, for the ‘welcome’ they gave him – voluntarily or otherwise (no doubt more ‘otherwise!). One gets the impression that these five muslim women are following the example of their kindred spirit from the Third Reich to show their own appreciation in the only way they apparently know.

        • Guy George says

          Sep 24, 2019 at 7:38 pm

          well, it was worse than toppling the Cathedral, it was burning Paris to the ground, including the Cathedral rooftop. All of it. But Dietrich von Choltitz fell in love with the City.
          But yes, the brothers in arms Mooslims and National-Socialists achieved to burn the Cathedral. Finally!

      • Liz says

        Sep 25, 2019 at 4:16 pm

        Hi, I can’t imagine watching it in person, it was heartbreaking from a distance.

        The sentencing I was asking about took place on April 12, 2019 for the attempted bombing in 2016. The fire was on the 15th. I am wondering if this story above is about part of the same group or if there were multiple unsuccessful attacks on the Cathrdral via Jihadettes in 2016.
        https://www.thejournal.ie/france-jails-jihadist-woman-accused-over-foiled-terror-attack-in-paris-4590216-Apr2019/

        I don’t like the coincidence of the 12th to the 15th and think there is possibly more to the story.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 24, 2019 at 9:09 pm

      Liz, this is different. The fire at the cathedral may have been an accident; this plot certainly was not.

      • Christopher Kelley says

        Sep 25, 2019 at 11:33 pm

        Gravenimage, take a look at the linked article. The first court hearing for “three Islamic women” was on April 12 of this year, & their trial was to begin September 23. They used “Telegraph”, &c.
        These do appear to be the same culprits.
        The roof fire, days later, is still, to my mind, highly suspicious. Experts who had worked on the roof in the past were certain that the fire they witnessed had characteristics which did not mesh with what these men knew was up there. However, given the “political climate” in Paris, it is virtually certain that “games will be played” to placate certain “minority communities” and their “aggrieved feelings.” Truth is likely to fall victim.

        The MIRACLE is that the gothic structure did NOT collapse, and even such things as delicate as the great organ were INTACT. Much of the medieval stained glass survived, despite ferocious heat… and the candles lit by those who’d come to pray that afternoon still flickered…
        GOD BE PRAISED!
        But may the lunatic moon god of Arabia meet his doom, and soon!
        His self-confessed false prophet is already there.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 25, 2019 at 11:55 pm

          Christopher, it has not been determined if the fire at Notre Dame was a Jihad terror attack, or was deliberately set at all.

          I am not making a case for this being accurate–I know there is a lot of suspicion over this–just saying that there is no official determination that these Jihadists had anything to do with the destruction at Notre Dame.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 24, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    Those five Muslim women who attempted to burn down “a renowned Christian cathedral” as the above article put it. Were ,no doubt, incited to commit that action of arson by Muslim males,

    Nevertheless , this is a strong reminder that this twenty –first century “War of Ideas” is that of a great a conflict and a clash between Christianity and Islam. As explained by the Christian author, William Wagner,, in his book which is entitled HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD had explained on page 155 about a meeting that he had with a Muslim cleric , which reads “Several years ago one Imam told me that ,prior to 1990, the greatest enemy to Islam was Communism but now it is the Christian missions.” Further, on page 208 the Wagner had written about some zealous Muslims that “They have failed to stop Christian missions. They see Christian missions as their number one enemy.” On the very next page the reader is informed that “Christianity remains the number one buffer against Islam, a fact readily recognized by those who seek a world wild ummah.” [1]

    [1] Ummah – The community of all those who affirm Islam.

    Furthermore , in that same book by Wagner on page 195 the reader is informed “Of all the continents of the world, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategist who are seeking world dominance.”

    Therefore, the Europeans would be wise to be on guard.

    • Alexios Comnenus says

      Sep 24, 2019 at 4:45 pm

      I’m sorry but the Europeans intend to be islamized. All good people are writing here it’s good but it is with no effect. The political climate of western Europe has to be altered. The Christian Faith must be promoted and stop the islam invasion.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 24, 2019 at 9:04 pm

        Please don’t preach surrender here. It is *good* that people are opposing Islamization.

      • Kerry Wade says

        Sep 25, 2019 at 3:28 am

        Yes Alexios we need more than words

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 24, 2019 at 2:20 pm

    it may rightfully said that this Muslim attempt to burn down Notre Dame Cathedral is outrageous.

    Those Muslim migrants who were allowed to enter France along with the other countries of Western Europe with result in them not only being ungrateful but even worse yet many of those Muslim migrants becoming so very arrogant to the point that they became criminals . As in some of them engaged in rioting and even rapes of the European girls and women. In addition to this vile brutal behavior by the heinous Muslim who were kindly permitted to enter the nations of Europe to live, As the countries of ,for example France, Germany Sweden, Denmark etc. This unthankful Islamic spirit on the part of those lawless violent Muslims who immigrated to the countries of Europe may be explain, in part, by the fact that the Muslim fundamentalist group that even had the president of Egypt assassinated in the month of October of the year 1981 has a fifty –five booklet that is was written only for Muslims fundamentalists but was later discover by non-Muslims. This booklet’s title is THE NEGLECTED DUTY. One scholar, Johannes Jansen who had thoroughly investigated Islam and Islamic terrorism has even discover that those Muslims, who had entered Europe of behaved in violent and heinous ways,as this arson attempt , they are actually action out what they view and a sacred individual duty of the jihad as by engaging in awful violent criminal action,as arson, in non-Muslim lands . As Jansen revealed that jihad booklet of Islam “contains all the ideological material needed to justify the attacks of 9/11 or any other acts of terror committed to frighten non-Muslims. And he thinks the document explains the criminal behavior of suburban and center –city immigrant youngsters in many European cities; its author clearly ‘sees Islam as license to kill rob and commit arson.’ “ [1] Nevertheless, many of the apologists for Islam still have that blatant gall , in spite of all the facts of reality, to actually make the claim the Islam is a “peaceful religion.”

    What a totally false claim to make that Islam is “a peaceful religion “What Bull! A “peaceful religion” indeed.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq pages 308, 309.
    I

  4. Angemon says

    Sep 24, 2019 at 2:23 pm

    He is believed to have been killed by a drone strike in 2017 around the Iraqi city of Mosul

    Good.

  5. Infidel says

    Sep 24, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    They should have just thrown her in a cell w/ one or more known serial rapists. She’d have found all the recognition and love that she desired 👿👿👿

  6. gravenimage says

    Sep 24, 2019 at 9:07 pm

    France: Muslim “girl in search of recognition and love” on trial for botched jihad attack on Notre Dame Cathedral
    ……………………

    When I was a teenager, I was in search of recognition and love. I went to university, got some of my work published, and found a boyfriend. I’m sure others have similar stories. I didn’t try to burn down one of mankind’s greatest treasures.

    Think what this says about Islam.

    • Battle says

      Sep 24, 2019 at 10:48 pm

      Islam is overwhelmedly run as a religion of convert, pay protection money or die.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 25, 2019 at 4:34 pm

        Exactly, Battle. Infidels are offered the choices of conversion, dhimmitude, or death.

    • Battle says

      Sep 24, 2019 at 10:52 pm

      Was supposed to be a new, not a reply.

  7. Veracious_one says

    Sep 25, 2019 at 1:41 am

    too bad they didn’t try going to a church instead of a mosque….

  8. Battle says

    Sep 25, 2019 at 2:04 am

    Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. Blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.
    Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

  9. Richard says

    Sep 26, 2019 at 8:26 am

    If somebody did that to one of their mosques, the muslim masses would be baying for blood. Bring back la guillotine and send them to hell.

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