They are not dangerous, they are in danger! Refugees welcome!
“Ten years in prison for the Algerian Saber Lahmar, accused of having incited the departure to jihad,” translated from “Dix ans de prison pour l’Algérien Saber Lahmar, accusé d’avoir incité au départ au djihad,” Le Parisien, June 17, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
After a long stay in Guantanamo, “Sheik” Lahmar was cleared and welcomed to France in 2009. He then encouraged several people to leave for jihad, including a man who died in the region at the end of 2015.
The Algerian Saber Lahmar, tried in May in Paris for having incited candidates for jihad to leave for Iraq or Syria, was sentenced this Friday to ten years in prison by the court. The magistrates, who followed the requisitions of the national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat), also sentenced him to a two-thirds security period as well as a permanent ban from French territory.
The 16th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court, specializing in terrorism, considered that this man born in 1969 had, through sermons and conversations, “played an active role” in several departures with significant consequences.
Welcomed to France in 2009, Saber Lahmar officiated in a clandestine prayer room in Bordeaux and then regularly for Friday prayers in the mosque of Saint-André-de-Cubzac (Gironde). He was quickly considered a “religious guide” by members of the local Muslim community in New Aquitaine.
The court held against him sermons and remarks “where he justified the departure to Syria and Iraq,” established by recordings or testimonies of relatives, as well as conversations with people who left for the area, after their departure
The 16th chamber justified its decision by the significant “consequences caused” by the facts of “particular gravity” of which it is accused: in particular the departure of Othman Yekhlef, probably dead in the area at the end of 2015, as well as that of a couple and their five children.
PMK says
The 16th chamber justified its decision by the significant “consequences caused” by the facts of “particular gravity” of which it is accused: in particular the departure of Othman Yekhlef, probably dead in the area at the end of 2015, as well as that of a couple and their five children.
Why aren’t the people who followed this cleric’s advice to go to Syria and Iraq responsible for their own actions? They say this man ‘played an active role’, but where were the family members of those who left to fight in Syria and Iraq? How were these jihadists brought up? Othman Yekhief was clearly disposed to fight for jihad. Should it have been up to the cleric to talk him out of it? It’s what their faith preaches. We may derive some satisfaction from seeing him in jail, but what difference will it make? There are plenty more where he came from.
PMK says
If he had called for them to commit acts of jihad in France that would be another matter, but is the very act of encouraging others to travel to Syria or Iraq a crime in France? Syria and Iraq are sovereign nations.
CogitoErgoSum says
I would give him a medal for encouraging Muslims to leave France and fight Muslims elsewhere. It does not matter which Muslims come out the winner in fights between Muslims in Muslim countries since all Muslims are to fight Infidels every place they find them – including in France – so every Muslim that leaves France is a victory for France.
Fred Alan Medforth says
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gravenimage says
France: Muslim migrant cleric and former Guantanamo inmate gets 10 years for jihad incitement
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Really? A Jihadist from Guantanimo? Who ever would have thought it? I thought they were all innocent people who just happened to be on vacation on Afghan battlefields… sarc/off
Shema says
We are civilized. But for those who are not. Sometimes your just have to be real mean. What does that mean?
gravenimage says
He should be deported after serving his sentence. I don’t consider this “mean”.
Shema says
I don’t consider that mean either.
Although for someone who encourages others to murder, maim and cause harm to others, you would think that would deserve more than a sentence and deportation.