What’s that? A Muslim cleric? How did a man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly and communicating it effectively so spectacularly misunderstand the Religion of Peace? Why does no one other than me ever ask this question?
“Rambouillet attack: Jamel Gorchane was in contact with a Salafist imam,” translated from “Attaque de Rambouillet : Jamel Gorchane était en contact avec un imam salafiste,” Reflets, April 27, 2021:
This preacher, Béchir Ben Hassen, has a particularly disturbing profile.
The terrorist who carried out the Rambouillet attack was perhaps not totally a “lone wolf”. According to a source in Tunisia, Jamel Gorchane had been exchanging emails for several months with Béchir Ben Hassen, an imam already appeared in the radars of the French intelligence services.
On April 23, Jamel Gorchane, a 36-year-old Tunisian delivery driver with no criminal record, stabbed an administrative assistant at the Rambouillet police station in Yvelines. Stéphanie Monferme was the mother of two teenage daughters. Jamel Gorchane is similar to the profiles of the perpetrators of attacks in France since 2020: little linked to the Islamic State, using knives, easily accessible weapons, sometimes mentally unstable, little or not known to the intelligence services.
On his Facebook profile, Jamel Gorchane reposts numerous messages demonstrating his interest in political Islam and over time, claims that it is forbidden to attack the Prophet. But we are far from the profiles of radicalized at the time when the Islamic State was triumphant.
However, on his Facebook page, one of the “friends” of the terrorist from Rambouillet draws attention: it is Sheikh Bashir Ben Hassen, a Tunisian Salafist imam with a rather worrying background. And according to a source interviewed in Tunisia, Gorchane and Ben Hassen had been exchanging emails for several months.
Bashir Ben Hassen is one of the main figures of so-called “scientific” Salafism (Salafia îlmia). Born in 1973 in M’saken, he studied at the Umm Al Qura Institute in Mecca, as well as at the American International University of Islamic Theology and completed training courses at the Islamic and Cultural Center of…
Michael Copeland says
In case French authorities are looking for a motive here is a possibility:
“The idea of dying as a martyr provided a perfect escape from the frightening anguish of eternal punishment.
Tawfik Hamid
https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/The-development-of-a-jihadists-mind
James Lincoln says
Apparently, Bashir Ben Hassen was a pro-jihad islamic cleric.
We all know that jihad can take many forms, both kinetic and non-kinetic.
So, does this mean that there are actually anti-jihad islamic clerics?
born saturday says
is it a coincidence that islam chose to focus on terrorism in france, to the level of even threatening this country with civil war… i dont think so…. france is the strongest military power in europe and by far in the european union…. therefore the terrorism has to focus to prevent that country of intervening elsewhere if possible with the threat of mass terrorism, or civil war… specifically intervene in turkey, in which france as the victim of most of the terrorist attacks in europe, has shown interest…. turkey is responsible for the funding of almost all the mosques in the west for ten years now, whether they preach jihad or takiya
gravenimage says
France: Muslim who stabbed woman to death was in touch with pro-jihad Islamic cleric
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Not a surprise…
RichardL says
“pro-jihad Muslim cleric” is a pleonasm. Just saying.
Walter Sieruk says
This tragic incdent is yet another example of the vicious and murderous Islamic misogyny..
Islam what a awful and deadly religion !
Robert Half says
When the Almighty, Who has bestowed upon both Muslim and Jew, Catholic and PROTESTant, Buddhist and Animist, liberal and conservative, criminal and judge, attorneys and juries, atheists and agnostics and all the other “ists” going their own way never attaining to Truth, the beauty of nature, the abundance of life and all have failed to recognize it … think on the above story and compare and contrast it with the struggles of Arthur Boorman, whose tragic consequences were overcome like the hero he is. He’s on youtube, but this page won’t accept my direct URL. Look him up and see that catastrophic tragedy that is militant Islam as they fall into Hell daily.
gravenimage says
Robert, you think that just about everybody fails to recognize the beauty and goodness of life? You are more of a pessimist than I am.
I don’t think Diamond Dallas Page is a pessimist, either.