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France: Muslim wife of convert to Islam who murdered four cops is arrested, “terrorism cannot be ruled out”

Oct 3, 2019 2:22 pm By Robert Spencer

But knowing French authorities, they’ll certainly do everything they possibly can do in order to rule it out. We will doubtless start hearing soon about how Michael Harpon was mentally ill, or was harassed by “Islamophobic” colleagues, or both.

“Deaf Islamic convert is named as Paris police HQ attacker: IT worker who fell out with supervisor ‘after he refused to deal with women’ slaughters four colleagues, including female officer, with a knife – as police arrest Muslim wife,” by Jack Newman, Tim Stickings and Peter Allen, MailOnline, October 3, 2019:

A deaf civilian police worker who had recently converted to Islam was shot dead in Paris today after murdering four colleagues with a ceramic knife following a ‘dispute over working with female colleagues’.

Michael Harpon, 45, caused the bloodbath in the French capital’s historic Police Prefecture, next door to Notre Dame Cathedral.

Investigators have not ruled out a possible terrorist motivation for the Thursday afternoon attack, which left a woman and three men dead.

All were repeatedly stabbed by Harpon, who had worked in the IT department at the Prefecture since 2003, in the worst loss of French police lives in a single day since World War II.

Harpon had recently been reprimanded by his female boss over his refusal to interact with women, Actu17 reported.

Within hours of the attack, anti-terrorist officers had raided Harpon’s flat in an apartment block at Gonesse, a suburb some 12 miles from the scene of the attack.

His wife, Iham, was arrested, as an investigating source said that the nature of Harpon’s attack corresponded with similar ones carried out by terrorists affiliated to Islamic State and Al-Qaeda.

‘An investigation has been launched into a grudge the assailant may have held against his colleagues, but terrorism cannot be ruled out,’ said the source.

‘Many of those involved in similar attacks on the police have been Muslim converts influenced by radical terrorist groups.’

Christophe Crépin, spokesman for the union France Police Policeman in Anger, told The Telegraph: ‘I know this man. He worked in IT and he had long-running problems with his superior. He stabbed her first and then colleagues intervened and were stabbed as well. I am told he then got hold of a firearm.’

Harpon, who was deaf since childhood, was originally from the Caribbean island of Martinique – a French overseas territory.

He had been married since 2014, and converted to his wife’s religion in 2018 before they had their first child together….

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  1. mortimer says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 2:33 pm

    A Muslim who HATES working with a woman supervisor or women colleagues! Imagine! So much like Sharia law, isn’t it? Gender segregation.

    And when a MUSLIM hates and murders women, it isn’t a HATE CRIME when a Muslim does it. But it ‘just might be’ terrorism. Let’s not be hasty. Muslims are involved and they might commit … even more terrorism somewhere else. Mightn’t they? Let’s tippy-toe because Muslims are touchy, aren’t they?

    Such a peaceful religion in which the believers react ‘peacefully’ when provoked. (sarc/off)

    Where did Harpon learn that Islam mandates warfare against non-Muslim kafirs?

    • Ajay says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 2:46 pm

      Dead right bro 👍

    • TattoedMan77 says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 7:08 am

      I suspect he wouldn’t be adverse too interacting with females if they were white and ten years old?

  2. terry sullivan says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 2:34 pm

    terrorism here seems the wrong word–it is islamic activity as stated in koran–smite your enemies?

  3. mortimer says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 2:38 pm

    I guess Harpon’s wife failed to teach him the ‘peaceful teachings’ of Islam. We hear so much about these supposedly ‘peaceful’ teachings, but instead I find the following in the Koran … which are NOT AT ALL ‘PEACEFUL’ …

    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.

    • Ajay says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 2:44 pm

      👍

  4. Ajay says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 2:43 pm

    Next time, with incidents such as this, wait a while, and I am sure there would emerge a muslim connection. Exactly what happened here. I was almost sure of it.

    • FYI says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 8:11 am

      The first time I heard the news I was willing to keep an open mind about it;we don’t want to jump to conclusions do we or be called “islamophobic”?

      An attack could be by the far right,far left{“bolshevik fascists”} a random madman etc

      It is better to wait for more information to clarify the situation before making any judgement.

      But I suspected it most likely WAS islamic due 1)to the brutality of the murders[which are sanctioned in allah’s ‘holy’ koran}and 2)the fact that the victims were cops and 3}It was in Paris at a police HQ{ A prime islamic target in an ‘infidel’ city}

      Lo and behold what did I read this morning?Yes,the culprit was a CONVERT to islam..

      Of course he was:islam gives PERMISSION via the koran and the “prophet” muhammed’s immoral sunnah to do whatever evil you like and get away with it.

      It will always attract those who delight in evil and think they have religious justification for their murderous wickedness.

      Never trust these converts to islam:ask yourself WHY they converted to such a cult,what is their agenda{=JIHAD here in the Dar al Harb,the West}…

  5. Jay says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    France is lost!! Pm Macron should be arrested too! The unfettered invasion/immigration of Muslims with
    no acclimation to French life and traditions NEVER works! Pm Churchill is not resting easy today!
    He saved France once – who will save France now?? I pray for the fallen officers and their families! RIP.
    France needs to remain strong and French, but at what cost?? The Muslim invasion brought demands
    for welfare, health care, no go zones, crime beyond comprehension, anti semitism, the destruction of Catholic Churches across France including Notre Dame, infiltration into French schools with the intention to destroy them, and tourism has been destroyed as well!! It’s complete insanity. Just like Germany, England, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Spain, Italy, etc etc., Muslims are destroying French soverignity a little each day! Poland and Hungary are standing strong with God’s help and protective border walls!!
    God bless and save France. Only he can!!
    God bless America!! Trump,2020. Our only hope!🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • LytchZam says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 2:25 am

      When you copy ‘n paste, it often f’s up your paragraphs and alignment.

  6. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 3:08 pm

    Once the police knew — many months ago — that he had converted to Islam, that he had fought with his female supervisor over his refusal, as a Muslim, to interact with female colleagues, should he not have been fired? Or was there fear that his firing would be taken as.a sign of Islamophobia, and his female supervisor been taken to task, and punished — demoted? – for taking such. step. One can just imagine how Le Monde would have thundered against her.

    The police are said to be looking into a “terrorist crime.” Michael Harpon may not have been intent on “striking terror” into Infidels, but only into settling scores with his female superior, and what better way to settle scores than to stab her to death. This was certainly a crime prompted by Islam. It was the result of his Islamic belief that Unbelievers — the “most vile of created beings” — had no right to give orders to him, who was now a member, since his reversion, of the “best of peoples.” No doubt his Muslim wife let him know that it was wrong, iit was intolerable, that not just an Infidel but a female Infidel, thus doubly inferior to him, had dared to tell him that he had to obey the rules. She deserved death. And if other Infidels tried to stop him, he thought nothing of killing them. One, two, three, four. They were Unbelievers. They deserved to die. The Qur’an told him so, in so many places.

    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 3:55 pm

      Hugh Fitzgerald,

      At least in the United States, an employee must be able to:

      “Perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.”

      This is right from the Americans with Disability Act.

      Interacting with female colleagues certainly would qualify as an “essential function” of the job.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 5:35 pm

      … should he not have been fired?

      A good guess is that they don’t even have that thought anymore. Well, maybe they’ll think it but no way will they say it. Career preservation ranks high on the levers Islam pulls. Once they’re in, they are in like Flynt.

      • c says

        Oct 4, 2019 at 4:39 am

        Flynn, not Flynt.
        As in Errol Flynn.

    • Rufolino says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 4:34 am

      “When you tolerate the intolerant, intolerance will win, and then there will be no more tolerance !”
      (Karl Popper.)

      Happening in Europe fast.

  7. Bud says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 3:14 pm

    A ceramic knife. Wouldn’t that get past any metal detector, assuming they had one? Might suggest premeditation.

    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 3:44 pm

      Bud,

      Maybe, maybe not. Many ceramic knives contain a metallic component, but not all.

    • KRJ says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 1:17 am

      Yes that’s the whole point. French media admitting the ceramic knife was premeditation.

  8. somehistory says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 3:29 pm

    moslims are taught to give in to rage without any provocation. This “convert” gave in to his rage and the fact that his new religion said he didn’t need to respect women gave him an excuse.

    Either it was moslim rage against having to deal with females…who are just below dirt in the male moslim mind…or it was moslim terrorism, or a combination of both.
    Either way one looks at it, islam is the cause. Other things that may have figured in are secondary to the real reason.
    How much influence did his moslim wife have to do with his conversion? He probably had a psychopathic personality and islam fit in nicely to bolster his ego and lead him to become a murderer.

    • Rufolino says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 4:38 am

      Islam helps you develop “a psychopathic personality” even if you didn’t have one.

  9. somehistory says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    The news item on the AFP has a list of the terror attacks by moslims on the citizens of France.

    • Paul says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 5:26 pm

      Spanish press reporting the Islamic connection. Just saw a headline about “radicalized police employee”. Meanwhile, BBC is reporting the killer recently converted to “Asian”. 😉

  10. aDhimmiSaysWhat? says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 3:42 pm

    Do a Google search: ‘France stabbing’. Oddly enough, Jihadwatch is the only publication to mention that the perpetrator was a recent convert to Islam.

    • Trick_or_Treat says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 6:12 pm

      Oh, shocked to the core to hear that.

      But, I mean, what connection would him being a recent convert to islam have to do with him suddenly murdering multiple people? Like, it’s not as if some kind of pattern of connection between being a recent convert to islam and then suddenly murdering people has any common historic precedent, is it?

      Hello, I said, IS IT?!

  11. James Lincoln says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 3:48 pm

    Use duckduckgo.com…

    • joanofark06 says

      Oct 5, 2019 at 8:35 am

      Or see above…

  12. Angemon says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    <blockquote‘Many of those involved in similar attacks on the police have been Muslim converts influenced by radical terrorist groups.’

    “Radical terrorist groups” – you mean islamic terror groups…

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 4, 2019 at 11:38 am

      Sly deflection. Well spotted.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 12:25 am

      Yep.

  13. Shockadelic says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 5:13 pm

    If you refuse to interact with your colleagues (whoever they are) you should be fired.
    But they wouldn’t do that, as they feared legal retaliation. Not only for “discrimination” over religion, but also disability (deafness).

  14. Mike says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 5:21 pm

    Very obvious what the motivation was.It is mentioned on Australian tv news that he was a recent convert to Islam and that his wife has been arrested.

    • Trick_or_Treat says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 6:17 pm

      Yes, well we ‘can’t really go jumping to conclu……YES, IT’S MUSLIMS! (again).

  15. Savvy Kafir says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    Yet another excellent illustration of why Muslims have no business living in the civilized world — and why we should never trust any of them, or turn our backs to them. When Muslims are in the vicinity, we should always be at Condition Yellow, at the minimum. It’s also a reminder of how potentially dangerous a jihadi with a knife can be.

  16. gravenimage says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    France: Muslim wife of convert to Islam who murdered four cops is arrested, “terrorism cannot be ruled out”
    ……………..

    Y’think?

  17. abad says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    France needs to start deporting Moslems and Moslem converts. Islam has no place in France nor French culture.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Oct 3, 2019 at 9:54 pm

      Agreed! They all must go! Or eventually, France will cease to be France.

      The world does not need another Islamic hell-hole nation — especially in the heart of Europe, replacing one of the world’s greatest cultural centers.

      The Muslims need to go — every last one of them — no matter what it takes, and no matter what the cost.

  18. Billy Chickens says

    Oct 3, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    Knew it! First I heard of it, I thought to myself – “Yep. A Muslim did it.”

    How it it that I am always right? Hmmmm…..Because Islam is always wrong?

  19. SweetLadyMary says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 4:18 am

    The wife was probably involved. The son is next in line to commit crimes against non Muslims.

  20. Paul says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 7:04 am

    Le Figaro is now reporting that another police officer who lived in the same apartment block as the murderer heard him shouting “Allah Akbar” twice at 3AM the night before the attack. http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/info-le-figaro-selon-un-temoignage-le-tueur-de-la-prefecture-de-police-aurait-crie-allah-akbar-la-nuit-precedente-20191004

  21. TattoedMan77 says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 7:13 am

    Perhaps the mosque he attended should be investigated?
    Does anyone remember the Denis Quad film Savior from the 90’s? Even then “French” muslims were blowing up resturants.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 6, 2019 at 12:36 am

      Yes–the Mosque and all of his associates should be investigated, as well.

  22. KWJ says

    Oct 4, 2019 at 10:32 am

    If he had “long running problems” with his female supervisor he should have been fired. This would be considered a hate crime against gender. I don’t know French employment laws, but in my state you can be fired at will with no reason-a simple “unfit for the position will do.” If people feel they were discriminated against based on race. Religion, creed, gender they could try to sue so that’s why all reprimands should be documented in the employees file.

    Reasonable accommodations do not include not interacting with women employees. I think all potential employees should be asked up front if they have an limitations that would affect their ability to work at the company. The person should be upfront and say “I don’t like working with women” or “I will not serve alcohol or pork” which has been a problem with people who converted after being at the job. Of course, Islamist groups want to ban alcohol, pork and anything against sharia law.

    They tried to advance gender segregation on busses in England. They tried at a conference at a La Quinta inn in the US at a conference and set up a screen between the men and women. When La Quinta found out they cancelled the conference-good for them. When a French female journalist went to a Muslim enclave in Paris she was ousted from a cafe that didn’t allow women because “We do things differently here.” She said, “But this is Paris!” and filmed this which I watched in video.

    Clearly, this is Muslims not assimilating and following 7th century rules. If he had been fired it’s not to say he wouldn’t be aggrieved and done this anyway. French authorities should recognize that these are normal Islamic laws and no terrorism or affiliation with a terrorist group is necessary but someone like at a mosque or reading the Qur’an or his wife telling him is all that is needed. It is not extremist behavior but normative. Saudi Arabia separates men and women like a partition at Starbucks and places. Iran does not allow women and men to shake hands, they have to tap their chest as a greeting; also women are not allowed at male sporting events there. Gaza, which females support while anti-Israel has become more strict about gender blending.

    One of the terrorists in England in that stabbing spree among cafes had also become more religious, his mother said. He worked at a restaurant and started to not want his mother to come in to it which surprised her. It isn’t that he was radicalized because Muslim clerics at mosques, videos or wherever teach this Salafist and true to form sharia law. One can call it conservative but even some communities in countries that do not ban gender mixing still do it anyway. For instance, when I said to a friend in Iran (not looser Tehran) to talk to a girl in a store or take photos so I could see a typical grocery store, he said people get upset at that. In Corsica, a man took a picture of a Muslim woman on a beach and he was attacked by a mob with harpoons and axes but saved by someone else.

    This has been imported to secular Western countries. Not every single Muslim but these are attitudes that persist and are not just cultural but also Islamic. Leftist women who coddle Islam are some kind of extraordinary idiots who may think that their attacks on non-Muslim men’s chauvinism or misogyny will be heeded by all Muslim men…obviously it hasn’t as I gave some examples.

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