One would almost get the idea that Abdoullakh Anzorov’s act had something to do with Islam, if it weren’t for French authorities assuring us that Islam is wonderful in every way, and it’s only “distortions” of it that should cause anyone any concern. The challenge that French authorities face in this is convincing people like Anzorov and his accomplices that they’re getting Islam all wrong, and that the non-Muslim Emmanuel Macron, he’s the one who has it right.
“Conflans attack: new arrests after the assassination of Samuel Paty,” translated from “Attentat de Conflans : nouvelles gardes à vue après l’assassinat de Samuel Paty,” by Jean-Michel Décugis, Vincent Gautronneau and Jérémie Pham-Lê, Le Parisien, December 8, 2020 at 6:52 p.m., modified December 8, 2020 at 8:27 p.m.
How deeply was Abdoullakh Anzorov, the terrorist responsible for the death of Samuel Paty, virtually anchored in the jihadist movement? According to our information, investigators from the Anti-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (SDAT), who are continuing their investigation into the death of the 47-year-old history and geography teacher, on Monday morning arrested five young adults suspected of being part of the terrorist’s entourage. Originally from Seine-Maritime and Haute-Loire, these young people aged 18 to 21 are all of Chechen origin, like the terrorist. Their custody can last up to 96 hours.
According to a source familiar with the matter, these five men would all have been in contact, at least virtually, with 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov. They are particularly suspected of having conversed on messengers of the jihadist sphere with the assassin of Samuel Paty, who was killed on October 16 at his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines). Investigators are also investigating to find out whether some of these young people of Chechen origin may have had contact with the terrorist beyond this virtual world.
Three young people indicted for “terrorist criminal association”
Since the death of Samuel Paty, investigators have observed the essential role of the digital jihadist movement in the radicalization of Abdoullakh Anzorov. The 18-year-old adult was thus in contact, through messaging or social networks, with many who were radicalized, including at least one jihadist living in Syria. In France, three young men are already indicted for “terrorist criminal association” and imprisoned. All of them had virtual contacts evoking jihad and radicalization with the terrorist. The first, Yussuf C., was arrested a few hours after the heinous attack. On November 3, two 18-year-old men were in turn arrested by the DGSI. These three young adults were in contact with the assassin of Samuel Paty in a Snapchat group initially called “La Zik c’est Haram”.
The terrorist regularly published photos of the Daesh flag, reminders of religious order. A few minutes before his act, he had sent his virtual friends a new message in the form of a farewell: “Say prayers for me, I will pass trials today and I hope that thanks to the help from Allah I will be successful.” None of them had tried to stop him or warn the authorities. A 17-year-old girl, close to a member of this group but not part of it, is also being prosecuted.
Beyond the digital entourage of Abdoullakh Anzorov, ten people with disparate profiles are already indicted in this case, mainly for “complicity in a terrorist assassination”. First there is Brahim C., father of a student at the college where Samuel Paty taught. It is this 48-year-old man who launched a controversy on social networks after the course on freedom of expression given by the history-geo teacher. In this smear campaign, he had been assisted by a second indicted person: Abelhakim Sefrioui, an Islamist militant S, who had given a wide response to the controversy by recording in turn a video. According to the version of the investigators, it is these publications on social networks that would have pushed the terrorist to take action.
Five middle school students prosecuted for “complicity in murder”
In his macabre project, he had also received the help of two friends. Originally from Evreux like Abdoullakh Anzorov, they admitted having accompanied the terrorist during the purchase of a knife or having taken him to the Paris region, but never had knowledge of his intentions. Five schoolchildren are also being prosecuted for “complicity in murder”. Antiterrorist officials accuse them of being on the lookout while the terrorist waited for his future victim or of having pointed out Samuel Paty to his assailant.
Michael Copeland says
Will French authorities slowly realise that Islam itself qualifies as a “terrorist criminal association”?
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/10/participating-in-a-terrorist-criminal-association/
mortimer says
They may realize it, but they dare not say so in public until after they start receiving their pensions.
mortimer says
Abdoullakh Anzorov’s act has everything to do with Islam. Jihadism is the fully-developed, matured fruit of Islamic teachings found in Islam’s earliest, primary source texts: the Sira, hadiths and Koran.
Jihadism is an inseparable part of Islamism (political Islam). In the words of Islam-expert Fr Henri Boulad SJ:
“Islamism is not a caricature, nor a counterfeit, nor a heresy, nor a fringe or atypical phenomenon versus classical, orthodox, Sunnite Islam.
To the contrary, I think Islamism is naked Islam, Islam without a mask and without paint, Islam perfectly consistent and true to itself, an Islam that has the courage and lucidity to go all the way to its ultimate conclusions and final implications.
Islamism is Islam in all its logic and in all its rigour. Islamism is present in Islam as the chick is present in the egg, as the fruit is present in the flower and as the tree is present in the seed.
Islamism is political Islam, the bearer of a project for a model society and whose aim is to establish a theocratic state based on Sharia, the only legitimate law—since it is divine—since it was revealed and enshrined in the Koran and Sunna—it’s a law that applies to everything.
Here is an all-inclusive and all-encompassing project, one that is total, totalizing and totalitarian.
‘Submission’ to God, which is the meaning of the word ‘Islam’, is also demanded of the believer towards the State.
Political power is thus entirely devoted to a religious mission.
Islam is the merger of politics and religion.”
French orginal:
« L’islamisme n’est ni une caricature, ni une contrefaçon ni une hérésie ni un phénomène marginal et aberrant par rapport à l’islam classique orthodoxe sunnite.
Je pense au contraire que l’islamisme, c’est l’islam à découvert, l’islam sans masque et sans fard, l’islam parfaitement conséquent et fidèle à lui-même, un islam qui a le courage et la lucidité d’aller jusqu’au bout de lui-même, jusqu’à ses dernières implications.
L’islamisme, c’est l’islam dans toute sa logique, dans toute sa rigueur. L’islamisme est présent dans l’islam comme le poussin dans l’œuf, comme le fruit dans la fleur, comme l’arbre dans la graine
Mais qu’est-ce que l’islamisme?
L’islamisme, c’est l’islam politique, porteur d’un projet et d’un modèle de société visant à l’établissement d’un état théocratique basé sur la sharia, seule loi légitime – parce que divine – telle que révélée et consignée dans le Coran et la Sunna, une loi qui a réponse à tout.
Il s’agit là d’un projet global et globalisant, total, totalisant, totalitaire.
Le pouvoir politique se voue donc entièrement à une mission religieuse.
C’est l’annexion de la politique par la religion. »
srikrishnachaitan says
Macron knows Islam is violent but he foolishly believes one day there will be Islam with French republican values
mortimer says
JIHADISM IS NOT A DEVIATION OR DISTORTION OR A FRINGE PART OF ISLAM – Fr Henri Boulad SJ
What is striking about Islam is its extraordinary inclusiveness. For in Islam, there is an indiscriminate and inextricable co-mingling of the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the temporal, the religious and the civil, of the public and the private. Islam covers and embraces all aspects of life and society. It is in this sense that I said above that Islam is all-inclusive and all-encompassing, total, totalizing and totalitarian.
Jihad is not a fringe part of Islam or an appendage. It constitutes a main obligation for a believer.
Islam is imposed by force and generally has only yielded to force.
Ce qui frappe dans l’islam, c’est son extraordinaire cohésion. Car dans l’islam se mêlent indistinctement, inextricablement, le sacré et le profane, le spirituel et le temporel, le religieux et le civil, le public et le privé. L’islam couvre et embrasse tous les aspects de la vie et de la société. C’est en ce sens que je disais plus haut que l’islam est global et globalisant, total, totalisant, totalitaire.
L’idée d’un islam laïc est en soi une hérésie. Il contredit l’essence même de l’islam.
Un dernier point: le djihâd. Le djihâd n’est pas un aspect marginal, un accessoire de l’islam. Il constitue une des obligations du croyant.
L’islam est la religion de la force.
Il s’impose souvent par la force et ne cède en général qu’à la force.
annonymos says
He should beheaded as well. Ghasas law in Islam.
gravenimage says
As you know perfectly well, in Islam there is no “eye for an eye” if the victim is A) an Infidel, and B) considered a blasphemer. In that case they are fair game for any Muslim to murder.
Pretending that Islam condemns such barbarism is dishonest.
newsupplements says
I think they hope that the “new Islam” which is a bunch of well meaning types who believe in a God of good character who does not demand anything from you in your behaviour bar that of reaching out towards others in a spirit of care and love…eh hmm. Nothing wrong with that until they decide they have A HOTLINK TO A JEALOUS AND TEMPERAMENTAL GOD as instructed in the quran and come to slit your throat at night to please him as they just can’t live with his displeasure and you’ll be OK anyway because he will LOVE YOU FOREVER. I think we will are leaving hot coals for our children to dance on surrounding them with Islamic Muslims as is the case in many places where there are now Muslims and there were none before.
gravenimage says
France: Before beheading man for Muhammad cartoon, Muslim migrant asked for prayers and ‘help from Allah’
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God, I hate Islam.
Linda Rivera says
Before beheading man for Muhammad cartoon, Muslim migrant asked for prayers and ‘help from Allah’
Warlord Mohammad’s god of MASS MURDER will certainly help him break the eternal, unchanging Laws of the HOLY ONE – You shall not murder.
For 1,400 years, Mohammad’s followers have taken great delight in breaking the Laws of our Precious, Awesome Creator for their god.
Muslims savagely slaughtered hundreds of millions of our precious non Muslim brother and sister innocents – martyred because the innocents didn’t believe in the Muslim god.