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France: Imam at Paris jihad murderer’s mosque was to be deported, order was rescinded

Oct 11, 2019 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Why was the order rescinded? French authorities were likely afraid of charges of “Islamophobia.” The denial and willful ignorance regarding the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and the demonization and marginalization of those who call attention to that threat — it all has consequences.

“Questions about an imam of the Gonesse mosque, frequented by Mickaël Harpon,” translated from “Questions sur un imam de la mosquée de Gonesse, fréquentée par Mickaël Harpon,” by Louise Couvelaire, Le Monde, October 10, 2019:

Hassan El-Houari is an overwhelmed imam. By the suspicions hanging over him and the Muslim community of Gonesse (Val-d’Oise); by accusations of radicalization of which his colleague Ahmed Hilali is the target. Since Mickaël Harpon killed four officials in the Paris Police Prefecture on Thursday, October 3, the responsibility of the mosque of the Fauconnière and its imams has been discussed. And especially that of Ahmed Hilali, 35 years old.

Moroccan, the man is accused of preaching a Salafist Islam, which could have influenced the officer of the Intelligence Directorate of the Prefecture of Police (DRPP). In 2015, he was the subject of an order of obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), which was then rescinded. The fact that he has not been deported fueled, since Tuesday, a controversy.

It is Ahmed Hilali who has officiated the five daily prayers, from Sunday to Thursday since April 1, 2017. Prayers regularly attended by Mickaël Harpon, sometimes twice in one day, in the morning and in the evening. “I saw him, but he was very quiet, I never spoke to him, I did not know anything about him, I did not know his name or his profession,” says Ahmed Hilali.

Contrary to the information circulated, Mr. Hilali, married with two children, was never the principal imam of the mosque. He never preached, neither on Fridays nor on other days. At least, not at Gonesse. He is just leading the prayers. “It is I who preach every Friday since 2015, it is I who fix the content of the speech at the mosque, and I do not know either the Muslim Brothers nor the Salafists,” says Hassan El Houari, 46, also from Morocco but naturalized French in 2005. “I cannot be naive at this point! I would have realized it, if he was an integrist.”
Known to intelligence services

On the other hand, Ahmed Hilali gave the sermons at a mosque in Sarcelles for three years. A collaboration that went wrong. He was fired. Reason? “He arrives with the appearance of an angel and then little by little, he turns everyone against each other,” says one of the faithful of Sarcelles. “He sows disorder, divides, blows on embers – speaking of the Jews in particular – and fills the mosque with bad people. He is a mixture of thug and radicalized. The community has even sent an emissary to his home village in Morocco to investigate him.” “He is anything but an imam! He has no training or legitimacy,” says the mosquegoer.

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Filed Under: Featured, France, immigration, mosques, Muslim clerics Tagged With: Ahmed Hilali, Hassan El-Houari, OQTF, Paris


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  1. mortimer says

    Oct 11, 2019 at 5:25 pm

    The mosque leader Hassan El Houari claims he DID NOT KNOW that Hilali was a radical? (Sure, pal, whatever you say.) But the French police intelligence knew Hilali was a radical.

    Can it be a mere coincidence that Mickaël Harpon attended so many services led by radical mullah Ahmed Hilali “who has officiated the five daily prayers, from Sunday to Thursday since April 1, 2017” ???

    Surely, Harpon was attracted by Hilali because Harpon knew Hilali was radicalized.

    Meanwhile, mullah Hassan el Houari claims he is not ‘naive’ and would spot a radical due to his deep knowledge of things Islamic.

    However, here is the point: if a man who studied all the Islamic source literature cannot spot a radical, then who could? The French police spotted Hilali … and the French cops are certainly not as well-informed as el Houari about Islam.

    I find el Houari’s self-defense hard to believe, don’t you?

  2. mortimer says

    Oct 11, 2019 at 5:30 pm

    The case of Harpon shows that mullahs need to be paranoid about even the quiet, silent men who enter their mosque.

    What a religion ! Muslims must all look sideways at the person beside them in the mosque to see if the guy is becoming a radical !!! Or to see if he has a bulge in his coat that could be explosives !!

    Hey, lebel, do you spot the radicals at your mosque or do you know them all be their first name?

  3. abad says

    Oct 11, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    Deport him and shut down the mosque.

    Islam can never be French.

  4. Lavéritétriomphera says

    Oct 12, 2019 at 9:18 am

    Nobody wants them, excepted probably the Islamic state.

  5. Angemon says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 6:33 am

    “He arrives with the appearance of an angel and then little by little, he turns everyone against each other,” says one of the faithful of Sarcelles. “He sows disorder, divides, blows on embers – speaking of the Jews in particular – and fills the mosque with bad people. He is a mixture of thug and radicalized.

    But not unislamic…

  6. infidel says

    Oct 13, 2019 at 6:39 am

    “He arrives with the appearance of an angel and then little by little, he turns everyone against each other,” says one of the faithful of Sarcelles. “He sows disorder, divides, blows on embers – speaking of the Jews in particular – and fills the mosque with bad people. He is a mixture of thug and radicalized.

    Most Muslims fit this bill, esp the devout ones. In any org, they play the max politics. At the UN, it is Pak and Turkey and Iran that play the max politics and less self development. A veritable cancerous curse on humanity.

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