What about after the six months are over? Do French authorities actually believe that this mosque will then teach the importance of the freedom of speech and the necessity to reject Islam’s death penalty for blasphemy?
“French mosque shut over message linked to teacher beheading,” by Elaine Ganley, AP, October 20, 2020:
PARIS — A mosque in a Paris suburb is being closed for six months starting Wednesday night on orders from France’s interior minister in a crackdown following the beheading last week of a teacher.
A sign posted by the regional prefecture at the entrance of the Pantin mosque, northeast of Paris, said the house of worship would be closed for six months — with a six-month prison sentence for violators.
A terror investigation is under way into Friday’s beheading of Samuel Paty in another suburb, after he showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class earlier this month. His civics course led to parental complaints and threats.
The Pantin mosque is being punished for relaying a message on social media from the father of a student with a virulent complaint about the teacher. The father quoted his 13-year-old daughter as saying that Paty had asked Muslims to leave the classroom — a version that was contested by the teacher himself, according to press reports.
Paty, a history teacher at a middle school northwest of Paris, was beheaded by a 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, who was later shot dead by police.
As of Tuesday, 16 people, including students, were being held for questioning….
Authorities say the Pantin mosque has long had an imam following the Salafist path, a rigorous interpretation of the Muslim holy book.
Pantin was where an 18-year-old Pakistani refugee three weeks earlier attacked and injured two people with a meat cleaver lived….
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late Monday that the message relayed by the Pantin mosque mentioned the address of the school. In an interview with TF1 TV station, he also said authorities have closed 356 locations where people were radicalized since Macron took office in 2017.
Darmanin had previously said authorities were also looking into about 50 associations suspected of encouraging hate speech and the issue will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday….
RichardL says
I would like to hear how the closure is justified. After all, they did nothing different than what they did forever: preach sharia. If that is the reason for closing down we have to close down all terror clubs. But one for six months is merely for show.
If you have lived in France you understand that the country is gone. This time, nobody will help them against the enemy and the Frenchies are no fighters
mortimer says
Spain closed down all its mosques and deported all Muslims. France may have to do the same.
I’m sure they used some part of an anti-terrorism law.
Frenchies are actually fighters. Five million died in WWI. They fought very hard in 1939, but lost due to a lack of preparation and leadership.
The French fight best intellectually. Will French intellectuals rise to the occasion to defeat Islam?
I think we see they are fighting right now.
John says
I sent the French embassy in Washington DC a very nasty provocative Email message last night. They probably didn’t t like it but I more or less said that 100 years ago the French would’ve cut the heads off of these people when they had an empire, but now they bring flowers when the Muslim visitors they’ve invited in brutally killed one of their own citizens. Instead of kicking out the fucking visitor Muslims back to the Muslim shit hole countries they came from they bring flowers. The Muslims are laughing all the way to the takeover of Western Europe. I said western Europe because Poland and the Hungarians and the other eastern Europeans that lived under the fist of communism and survived the threat of Islam long before there was a Lenin or Stalin will not let these barbarianhs into their country. God bless them .
gravenimage says
I take your point, John–but probably better to send polite messages if you want them read.
Chrissie01 says
that is one weird sort of punishment.
It is like in Germany, you uncover some secret Nazi organization, and as punishment it is decreed that they can’t meet for 6 months…doesn’t make any sense at all.
Westman says
Charlie Hebdo v2.0 has been declared intolerable. This is a pivotal moment for Islam within France, sparking a rapidly growing understanding that Islam contains permanent endemic intolerance and justifications for aggression.
The teacher, Samuel Paty will be posthumously awarded France’s highest order of merit, the Legion d’Honneur, in a national ceremony. Tens of thousands of native French are demonstrating their support in the streets. The government is arresting known militants, some untelated to the killing as, “a message”.
The mosque of the killer, of course, is claiming that posting a condemnation of Samuel Paty on its website, had nothing to do with the beheading. Typical “logic”. Expect the equivalent of a fatwa to be uncovered. Only in Islam do clerics speak “hyperbole” that magically becomes reality via vigilantes.
Walder says
Would it not also make sense to forbid this Iman from ever again being allowed to “preach” ? and if he is not a citizen deporting him ?? and is he the only Iman in Mosque or just the “loudest” ??
Wellington says
Six months? This is in and of itself an enormous insult to the man beheaded and to his surviving family members.
What the Hell will it take? Maybe nothing because right now it appears that much of the West is determined to commit civilizational suicide in order to preserve the idea that Islam is something good.
Islam is not good. It is the pre-cursor of Nazism, only difference being that Islam preaches a master faith and Nazism preached a master race. Each harbors contempt for liberty.
Fortunately for mankind, Nazism was in power only 12 years (and even this was 12 years too long, especially the last 6). Unfortunately for mankind, Islam has had power for some 1400 years and this power is growing at present because political correctness, multiculturalism, wokeness, ignorance, stupidity, avarice and cowardice is on display dally by the Western elites and a lot of clueless “ordinary” people.
Not lookin’ good.
underbed cat says
I wonder how safe the other teachers will be in a school that has muslim students, who most likely know but will never say publically, they know or have heard why it happened from their own mosques or family members in their homes. This was a disgusting act of a faith and I hope the teachers family will be protected and moved to safety. Factual speech should have been allowed and understood long ago in France before the population surrounded the cities and now the population is in danger as the ideology is taught in the mosques that were allowed to be built.
Keith says
356 places closed where people were radicalized but you still can’t see the big elephant in the room
John says
Exactly, islamophilia running rampant,
Keith O says
Only Six months?
The Barracks should have been closed permanently using bulldozers and the rubble burnt, preferably with the imam inside.
The Israelis have the right idea when it comes to this sort of thing.
Destroy the infrastructure of anyone associated with a terrorist act as a pointed lesson to those who think they can get away with it.
b.a. freeman says
i think it would be better to pour pig urine and pig feces over the rubble. furthermore, it would have bee fitting if the f***ing a**hole who committed the murder had been buried doused in pig urine and stuffed into a pig skin, with ham in his mouth; his body should also have had its a** pointed towards mecca, and the body should have been buried after a week of rotting. of course, i’m certain that the body was buried within a day, and with its head pointed to mecca.
woke much, m. macron?
John says
Shut down every mosque in every civilized Nation and oust islam forever, barbaric totalitarian Ideology of Demonic male savagery needs to be BANNED Now. Filth of the World.
Check Burry says
6 months! Thatl do it