Why did they care? Why does everyone except the Islamic State know that it has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam? No doubt Pope Francis is on his way to Germany now to explain to these earnest young migrants, whose entry into Germany he insists it would be un-Christian to oppose, that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”
“Islamic State cell planned to murder critic of Islam in Germany,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, April 26, 2020:
BERLIN—A cell of Tajiki members of the Islamic State terrorist organization planned to execute a critic of Islam in Germany.
The German paper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported in mid-April that the now-arrested Islamic State cell “planned to assassinate the Islam critic Amir Masoud Arabpour M. from Neuss. The ex-Muslim, who converted to Christianity, repeatedly questioned the teaching of the Koran in YouTube clips. M. has been a considered an enemy of the radical Islamic Salafist scene since the beginning of 2019.”
The paper added that “On March 14, 2019, a member of the cell evaluated the surroundings of the targeted victim. According to the federal prosecutor, the goal was to shoot the Islam critic.”
The Iranian-born Amir Masoud Arabpour lives in the city Neuss near the major city of Düsseldorf in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia…