“He said Mikhaël H and his wife, 38, who is being questioned by police as a suspected accomplice, exchanged 33 SMS messages between 11.21am and 11.50am on Thursday. He said the subject matter of these messages were ‘exclusively religious’ and ended with the words: ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘Follow our beloved prophet Mohamed and reflect on the Qur’an.'”
Will this lead French authorities to begin to study what aspects of Islam lead some Muslims to murder people and think they are performing a righteous act. Of course not. That would be “Islamophobic.”
“Paris police attacker a radicalised Islamist, says French prosecutor,” by Kim Willsher, Guardian, October 5, 2019 (thanks to Kamala):
A police administrator who stabbed and killed four people at Paris’s police headquarters on Thursday was a radicalised Islamist who slit the throat of at least one of his victims, the French anti-terrorist prosecutor revealed on Saturday.
Mickaël H acted with premeditation, buying two knives shortly before the attack on Thursday lunchtime in the centre of the city, and exchanging more than 30 religious text messages with his wife.
France’s national anti-terrorist prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, said several elements led police to believe it was a terrorist attack and said they had been able to retrace the actions of the attacker “with precision” thanks to CCTV and his electronic pass giving access to the police building….
He joined the police in 2003, and worked as a computer expert with the surveillance department. He had no criminal record but appeared in court on charges of domestic violence in 2009. “We are now looking into motives and accomplices to this attack,” Richard said.
He said Mikhaël H and his wife, 38, who is being questioned by police as a suspected accomplice, exchanged 33 SMS messages between 11.21am and 11.50am on Thursday. He said the subject matter of these messages were “exclusively religious” and ended with the words: “Allahu Akbar” and “Follow our beloved prophet Mohamed and reflect on the Qur’an”.
“These SMS, if not explicit about any possible attack, nevertheless were sent only 30 minutes before the knives were bought,” Ricard said. He added the attacker was believed to have been in contact with others thought to belong to “a Salafist movement”.
Witnesses have told police the attacker showed signs of radicalisation, notably expressing support for Islamist actions, his reluctance to have contact with women, justification of the 2015 attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and changing his dress several months ago from “western clothing to that suitable for the mosque”.
Ricard said the investigation had become one for anti-terrorist investigators because of “a combination of elements … the premeditated character of the attack, his professed desire to die during the attack, the nature of the attacks and the injuries inflicted on at least one of the victims, the context of latent radicalisation and the exclusively religious message sent before the attack”.
Wellington says
Radicalized Islamist = a devout Muslim who wishes to implement as many of the horrendous dictates (e.g., death for apostasy) found throughout the Islamic texts (Koran, ahadith and sira) and as upheld by every major school of Islamic theology, Sunni or Shiite, to this very day (this would include, per Suras 4, 23, 33 and 70 of the Koran, the sanctioning of rape of non-Muslim women—yes, Islam is this sick).
Words often times matter and the continued verbal rot about “radical Islam,” “radicalized Islamist,” “Islam” v. “Islamism,” etc. only obscures and gives cover to the essence of the problem. The essence of the problem is Islam—all of it.
Instructive how word games regularly mask true intentions or just plain reality. As another example, a non-Islamic one, when Leftists (pretty much the same as Democrats here in America) talk about “investing” in education, what they really mean is spending more in an attempt to fix a very broken educational system in America which has virtually nothing to do with the amount of money spent on students but rather with such things as the corruption of the curriculum due to political correctness, continued, unsustainable pensions going to the teacher unions, and the breakdown of the traditional family, the last of which no amount of money can fix as long as an enlightened moral code is not followed.
DHazard says
Parphrasing Robert:
So far I don’t see anybody claiming mental illness was involved in the murders. The now discovered religious motive is left unelaborated in the broader media (as usual), always leaving that last door open for one imam somewhere to call them fake Muslims.
More importantly, will the phenomenon of people converting to Islam, or practicing it way more severely than normal, and then deciding that the most important thing to do in life is kill non Muslims or wrong Muslims, will that phenomenon ever be seriously studied. NOPE! There are Black Holes inside several professional fields where Islam sucks up all investigation and criticism, a fact that is no longer under wraps: Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, Psychology, Philosophy, Politics, Women’s Studies, Feminism, Anything Middle Eastern Studies, and more.
In this case it took several days for the French Authorities to determine motive, which must be have been a painful time for people who are absolutely NOT Islamophobic.
mortimer says
Harpon was an IT specialist. Harpon committed a POLITICAL ACT by attacking the police of France … the leading ‘CRUSADER’ country in the minds of jihadists … FRANKS = CRUSADERS.
Apparently, no one thought that going to the mosque twice daily was sufficiently ‘insane’. Harpon’s ‘overvalued ideation’ gave him permission to count the lives of the dirty kufaar as having little instrinsic value.
For Harpon, the lives of the dirty kufaar were ‘MUBAA’ (licit for taking). This is a basic principle of the JIHADIC IDEOLOGY which is part of ISLAMISM … political Islam.
mortimer says
Mikhaël Harpon said, “Follow our beloved prophet Mohamed and reflect on Qur’an”
Such as …
FOLLOW THE WORDS OF MOHAMMED …
-“Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
I heard the Apostle of Allah say: When you enter into the inah transaction (become businessmen), hold the tails of oxen (become cattlemen), are pleased with agriculture (become farmers), and GIVE UP CONDUCTING JIHAD, Allah will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you RETURN to your ORIGINAL religion.” (namely, RETURN to ‘JIHAD’) – Sunan Abu Dawud Book 23, Number 3455
– “A man came to Allah’s Apostle and said, ‘Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad in reward.’ He replied, ‘I do not find such a deed.'” – Bukhari:V4B52N44
– “Allah’s Apostle was asked, ‘What is the BEST DEED?’ He replied, ‘To believe in Allah and His Apostle Muhammad.’ The questioner then asked, ‘What is the next best in goodness?’ He replied, ‘To participate in JIHAD, religious FIGHTING (q-t-l = fight to the death) in Allah’s Cause.'” – Bukhari:V1B2N25
– I have been commanded to FIGHT (q-t-l = fight to the death) the people until they bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped by Allah and that Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah. – Hadith 129.36.22
– Allah’s Apostle (Muhammad) said, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.’” – Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 84, Number 59, Narrated Abu Huraira
REFLECT ON THE KORAN …
The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.
Angemon says
Was he afraid his wife would be disobedient?…
gravenimage says
Good question…
Michael Copeland says
French police could always copy London police concerning the dead attacker:
“We may never know his motivation”.
gravenimage says
France: Muslim who killed 4 exchanged texts with wife, “Follow our beloved prophet Mohamed and reflect on Qur’an”
……………………
Which led him to murder four of his former colleagues…
This is Islam in action.