It has a new imam. What other steps have been taken to ensure that it won’t preach jihad violence and Sharia blasphemy laws now? Nothing of that kind has been done, of course.
“New start for Paris mosque closed after teacher’s murder,” The New Arab, April 9, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Paris mosque that became a focal point in the controversy over the place of Islam in France reopened on Friday after a six-month closure following a clampdown on Islamist radicals sparked by the beheading of a teacher last October.
Some 200 worshippers returned for Friday prayers at the 1,300-person capacity mosque in Pantin on the northern outskirts of Paris, an AFP correspondent said.
Samuel Paty, 47, was attacked on his way home from a junior high school northwest of the capital where he taught history and geography, after showing his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
French police launched a series of raids targeting Islamist networks mainly in the Paris region after Paty’s gruesome murder and ordered the shutdown of the Pantin mosque, which has some 1,500 worshippers.
The mosque in the densely-populated Seine-Saint-Denis suburb northeast of Paris had shared a video on its Facebook page, days before Paty’s death, railing against the teacher’s choice of material for a class discussion on freedom of expression.
A fierce online campaign against Paty and the school preceded the murder, led by the father of a schoolgirl who accused the teacher of disseminating “pornography” for showing a cartoon of the Prophet naked.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin conditioned the mosque’s reopening on the departure of both the director and the iman [sic].
The iman [sic], who trained in Yemen and is suspected of being close to a radical Islamist movement, quickly resigned following Paty’s murder.
After initially refusing to step down, director M’hammed Henniche ended up agreeing so that a million-euro building project intended to replace the current mosque might go ahead.
Henniche – a 50-year-old entrepreneur who has rubbed shoulders with high-profile politicians including former French president Nicolas Sarkozy – called sharing the video “a blunder” and apologised….
“It is an injustice repaired, there is only joy”, Ismael Toure, a volunteer at the mosque, told AFP.
“The closing of our mosque was just to make an example. Otherwise what did the Pantin mosque have to do with the teacher’s murder?” he asked….
“It’s a good thing that the mosque can reopen. The director made an inexcusable mistake in sharing this video. But punishing all the worshippers was unfair,” said the Socialist local mayor Bertrand Kern.
PRCS says
“It has a new imam.”
Meet the new imam. Same as the old imam.
mortimer says
The new imam follows the same canonical texts as the old imam. The Islamic texts are perfect, complete and eternal so Islam cannot change.
“Whoever changes his religion, KILL HIM.” – Mohammed
gravenimage says
Grimly true, PRCS.
Fred Alan Medforth says
Vienna terror mosque reopens – Further arrest after terror attack in Vienna, Austria
Following another arrest in the case of the Islamist attack in Vienna last autumn, the suspicion that the attacker was part of a network has been strengthened. As became known at the weekend, the Austrian special unit “Cobra” had arrested a 21-year-old Austrian with Egyptian roots on Friday morning.
He is suspected of having obtained the assault rifle used by Kujtim F. to kill four people and injure several others on November 2, 2020. Like the assassin, the suspect who has now been arrested received welfare payments. In the meantime, more than 20 Islamists have been arrested, including some in Switzerland, who are said to be part of a network.
According to German security authorities, Kujtim F. had also had close ties to Germany. Muslims in Osnabrück contacted him via Facebook and Instagram until shortly before the attack in early November. The group had run a secret prayer room and organised paintball games in Rheine, Westphalia, among other places, to train to fight against ” infidels”.
Meanwhile, the reopening of a mosque in Vienna, which had been closed after the attack, is causing criticism. The bomber is also said to have been active in the Tewhid mosque. The internal arbitration court of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGÖ) has now decided to return legal personality to the community.
Austria’s Minister of Culture Susanne Raab ( Austrian People’s Party) called the decision “absolutely incomprehensible and irresponsible”. This is precisely the mosque “where the Vienna bomber stayed several times and where, according to the security authorities, his radicalisation was encouraged”. Moreover, the Islamic Religious Community itself had described the mosque as a Salafist institution.
Raab demanded that the IGGÖ “act consistently and with all determination against any form of extremism. Mosques are not a lawless area,” the Austrian People’s Party politician told the APA news agency. Once again, she said, the planned tightening up of the law to prevent extremism was necessary.
https://medforthblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/vienna-terror-mosque-reopens-further-arrest-after-terror-attack-in-vienna-austria/
Wellington says
The photo alone speaks volumes resecting how awful and stupid Islam truly is. Damn risible too.
You pray with your butt in the air to your fictional deity? Well then, you’re an idiot and you have a right to be an idiot but you don’t have a right to inflict your idiocy on mankind as a whole.
But this is exactly what Islam does, i.e., it with great regularity inflicts its idiocy upon the entire human race and, so often, with force aplenty too. And it will use freedom in free nations to destroy freedom—so parasitic, destructive and sick is the Islamic creed.
I detest Islam. No one who prizes liberty should do otherwise. Might as well admire Nazism or Marxism as admire Islam. Yes, a very unholy trinity here and all three of which are so deserving of zero respect or accommodation.
Jim says
I guess I am an awful person, but I sort of liked France before, when it was not part of the Islamic empire, when the people who lived there were Christians and Jews and believed in Western values, French culture. The country that had all the wonderful art and architecture and people spoke French with a French accent. I do not know why the Islamic world does not have enough countries, there are 51 already, I think. Is that not enough for them, or do they need still more countries in their orbit? Perhaps the Chinese could build some big islands for the next Islamic state instead of colonizing France or England or Sweden or Germany. But I guess I must be a racist bigot to even think of such ideas.
gravenimage says
Good post.
rubiconcrest says
Justice would be closing mosques permanently for endorsing jihad. Emphasis on the period.
BlackSabbath says
Caterpillar Inc is an American massive bulldozer making company. These dozers are perfect for mosques. My favorite is the D8T model (https://www.cat.com/en_MX/products/new/equipment/dozers/large-dozers/1000031708.html). People of France, time to go shopping.
James Lincoln says
BlackSabbath,
Agree, great specs on the Cat® D8T dozer – mosque ready!!!
tim gallagher says
Again, a pathetic lack of willpower. The mosque should have been permanently shut down. I guess in France, with over 8% Muslims in their population, they would be scared of the violent reaction from the Muslim invaders if they had said, nope, bugger off, this mosque is gone for good.
Ilya says
there are already 12% of them, if not more
gravenimage says
The usual number given is 8%–but that has not been updated for some time…
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, Ilya. I believed that France was in big trouble with a little over 8% Muslims in their population. At 12%, all I can say is, holy shit, France is in huge trouble. gravenimage, I remember one of the commenters here at Jihad watch, maybe a couple of months ago, saying that France had over 8% Muslims and I thought, that is really bad news.
gravenimage says
Yes–these are the worst numbers in the West.
Fred van de Bunt says
Mister Paty was beheaded on the 16th of October.
Shortly after that, the Patin mosque was closed for six months. The mosque went straight into appeal, and the appeal served on the 26th of October, 10 days after the murder.
The appeal was lost, because of good reason -among others- for: “…attendance by “people involved in the jihadist movement””
https://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2020/10/26/l-imam-controverse-de-la-mosquee-de-pantin-a-decide-de-se-mettre-en-retrait_6057428_1653578.html
Within half a year the mosque opens already?!
Like in a happy ending fairy tale, all the jihadists that frequented this mosque, vanished into the sky…
You believe that?
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
As I said soon after the Islamic slaughter of the French schoolteacher, they should have bulldozed the mosque and erected a monument in honor and memory of Samuel Paty.
Wellington- to your point, the iconic picture shows men looking for someone’s lost contacts. A frequent occurance in mosques these days and why it is often used to reflect the goings on inside modern day mosques. Nothing more, nothing less.
gravenimage says
France: Mosque that was closed after beheading of teacher over Muhammad cartoon reopens
………………
Utter madness–this will just be more of the same.
And why has Imam M’hammed Henniche not been deported?
Andrew Blackadder says
muslims around the World are laughing in our faces regrading our level of tolerance as they see that as our weakness while we see it as our strength.
islam teaches revenge and when they see no reaction from us to their violence towards us, then they see that as our weakness.
There has never been a religion that arrived on our shores from far away that have caused so much trouble mayhem, chaos, demanding, and yet there are still foolish Europeans that cannot see the damage done already.
I watch from afar as my beautiful European cultures are destroyed by savages, and even helped in its demise by “Liberal” Europeans.
You couldnt make this shit up…
May you live in interesting times…… Which is NOW….
Jayell says
Did the authorities think to install surveillance equipment in this ‘place of worship’ before they allowed it to re-open?
Penny says
Sometimes I think the British and French Gov’t officials try to assist the muslims in murdering people in hopes they themselves will be the last Christians to get their throats cut.
Giacomo Latta says
”The director made an inexcusable mistake in sharing this video. But punishing all the worshippers was unfair”
And was Mr. Paty treated fairly? As long as we are dishing out personal opinions why not serve up yours on the death of Mr. Paty? After all, without the gruesome slaughter of Mr. Paty no one would ever have heard of you, Mr. Kern.
OLD GUY says
Thats the beauty of the muslim world domination plan. They are using religion as a tool to infiltrate countries with their migrant invasion forces. Unfortunately for France and much of Europe they have allowed and supported the Muslim migration of an enemy into their countries. Open borders is the downfall of a country as your enemies will simply walk in and take your country and society over.
Islam is a Dictators dream for controlling a society built on fear and violence against anyone who questions its authority or rule.
Say NO to Islam!