An imam? But how did he overlook all the Qur’an’s teachings of peace and tolerance that are so blazingly obvious to imams such as Pope Francis?
“French police arrest five, including an imam, in connection with knife attack on Paris police station,” by Henry Samuel, Telegraph, October 14, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
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….
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.”…
And why not? For fear of “Islamophobia” charges. Of course.
Chris D says
When you are more afraid of being called Islamophobic than the safety of your coworkers and fellow citizens… You govern and manage security poorly. And people will die due to Muslim Salafist and Extremist terrorism.
What should be a wake up call – why don’t fellow Muslims who see this REPORT it?
Ask CAIR – they’ve been busy putting up posters in radical mosques telling Muslims to NOT cooperate with authorities. They should be arrested as an accomplice to these murders.
mortimer says
Yes. Political correctness costs lives. Case in point.
St. Ferdinand III says
Police, media, politicians will be baffled.
They will ignore the Moslem cult’s unholy books, practices, culture, attitudes and Jihad. Instead fully bewildered and confused they will search for ‘root causes’ in;
-poverty
-isolation
-mental illness
-group dynamics
-racism by the white French culture
-Marine Le Pen
-a lack of employment, education due to racism
-co-worker intolerance
-workplace stress
-not enough hugs and love
etc.
James says
I agree. The sociologists with their leftist ideology have no tools to diagnose and treat Islamism. Like the pope or Merkel or Macron or Noam Chomsky. It is all the fault of decent people who never do anything to harm Muslims. We just have to display compassion and there will be reciprocation. But this reciprocation will probably not occur until hell freezes over or heaven runs out of virgins.
mortimer says
Mickael Harpon learned that jihad is the duty of ALL MUSLIMS … the mullahs helped him in his study of Islam’s authentic jihad doctrine. Jihad is a war to establish the political supremacy of Muslims over non-Muslims.
Jihad defined in the Koran:
Koran 9:111-112: (q-t-l = Fighting to the death in Allah’s cause)
“Verily Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties; for theirs (in return) is Paradise. They fight in His cause, so they Kill (others) and are killed. It is a promise in truth which is binding on Him.”
-Definition of jihad from Dictionary of Islam:
Jihad is “a religious war with those who are unbelievers (kufaar) in the mission of Muhammad. It is an incumbent religious duty, established in the Quran and in the Traditions as a divine institution, enjoined specially for the purpose advancing Islam and repelling evils from Muslims.”1
-Modern Praise of Jihad:
In an introductory note to an article “Jihad in the Qur’an and Sunnah” by Sheikh Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid, ex-CHIEF JUSTICE of Saudi Arabia and of the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, Abdul Malik Mujahid, General Manager of Maktaba Dar-us-Salam, Saudi Arabia on the website (www.islamworld.net) writes:
“Jihad is regarded as the BEST THING, ONE CAN OFFER VOLUNTARILY. It is SUPERIOR to non-obligatory prayers, fasting, Zakat, Umra and Hajj as mentioned in the Qur’an and the Ahadith of the Prophet(pbuh). The BENEFITS OF JIHAD are of GREAT EXTENT and large in scope, while its effects are far-reaching and wide-spreading as regards Islam and the Muslims.”
The above understanding of jihad is normative in the Islamic community, rather than an aberration.
mortimer says
The French know that jihadism is rampant in France, and they are not naïve about it, even though it is still politically incorrect in France to discuss jihad-terrorism.
The only way to stop jihad-terrorism is to convince Muslims that the Koran is not the literal words of a deity, but the words of humans. Modern scholarship shows that the Koran has human ‘fingerprints’ all over it.
mortimer says
1) The Koran is the political manual of jihad.
2) The Sira is a strategic manual of jihad.
3) The Hadiths are a tactical manual of jihad.
Message to French police intelligence: kindly memorize above.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Death of France by a thousand cuts. People will look back 100 years from now and wonder incredulously as to how a once proud culture could be undermined by a group of third world thugs spouting a fascist political ideology. Didn’t they learn from their time fighting nazism not to excuse, condone, or invite snakes into their midst?
Thomas Richard says
Islam is a snake in a dragon’s cloak……..
Walter Sieruk says
Those five –jihad minded Muslims ,including an imam, who were arrested in France because other connection with murderous knife jihad attacks is a reminder of those other Islamic murder attacks which occurred on November 13,14 in Paris in which 130 people were killed and another 494 had been wounded is because of those jihad-minded Muslim males who are so extremely deluded and irrational because they really believed in the nonsensical , strange and far –fetched doctrine contained in the Koran, of sex-filled paradise with black eye- houris, virgins, in it for the male Muslim who dies as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam fighting in the jihad. As, this bizarre Islamic doctrine of a houris -filled place is found in the Koran in, for example, 4:54. 55:56. 78:31. So this odd and outlandish Koranic doctrine inspired many young Muslims males to commit many horrendous, ruthless, heartless and murderous actions of jihad violence. Those vicious jihadists’ massacres that occurred in Paris was most wicked and hideous. That extreme deadly evil caused by those jihadist/Muslims with their firm but blind unquestioning belief in the weird and false doctrine from the Koran of such a houris, filled paradise that had the outcome of mass murder and chaos in the city of Paris.
This is a very strong reminder of the wise statement written by the French philosopher, Voltaire, who wrote “As long as men continue to believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
Angemon says
Where does the buck stop?…
Anna Yelena says
La France est perdue, point final.
somehistory says
But they allowed his wife to go. She, at the least, encouraged him before the murders.
The ” real fear” of being labeled as a harbor for the ****fake**** fear…is a killer.
It kills the Truth, it kills courage to speak the Truth, and it kills people by allowing murderers like this fool for satan to walk about, have secure access to information he used to harm others, and *get paid* to infiltrate the intelligence on his fellow terrorists. This “fear” of the fake fear allowed this terrorist to buy a knife with which he could bypass the security at the gate and murder four people.
Real fear of a fake fear is a real killer.
FireFox says
Good God we’ve become stupid sheep.
Islam must be treated in the same manner that Nazism and Communism was post WW2 where it was recognized as the enemy of freedom and democracy world-wide. The threat to national security was recognized in the 1952 USA Immigration and Nationality Act.
On a measure, Islam and its 7th century barbaric philosophy is far worse than either Nazism or communism!
There is nothing in Islam that is good for the world outside of Islam – not one thing – and there never will be!
Islam is 1400 years of expansionist barbaric invasions, wars, terror, genocides and a supremacist obliteration of cultures for their god of hate and death.
Nothing has changed with Islam.
It produces the same cancer in the mind of every moslem: they are superior, we are the kafir.
Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan weren’t enough proof of the insanity and evil of Islam????
The childless Macron, friend of the childless Merkle, and the childless May, and the childless Junker opened up the floodgates to this evil.
Each have sold their soul.
And to what personal benefit for these childless leaders??
They have betrayed the future of our children.
Tattooed Man77 says
So the narrative changed from:
Nothing To Do With Terrorism
Mental Illness
Lone Wolf
To finally:
Mosque involvement?
Who but a vile way-cist would have thought?