An imam? But how did he overlook all the Qur’an’s teachings of peace and tolerance that are so blazingly obvious to imams such as Pope Francis?
“French police arrest five, including an imam, in connection with knife attack on Paris police station,” by Henry Samuel, Telegraph, October 14, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
French police arrested overnight five people, including a Salafist imam, in connection with Mickael Harpon, the IT expert at Paris police headquarters who killed four colleagues in a knife attack this month.
Police swooped on the individuals in three locations in the northern suburbs of Paris around near the home of Harpon, 45, who was killed at the end of his stabbing spree on October 3.
The murders sparked soul-searching over how a man who converted to Islam 10 years ago and had adopted increasingly radical beliefs escaped detection despite working at a police intelligence unit whose job is to identity terror threats.
One of the people detained on Monday was an imam who preached at a mosque Harpon attended in Gonesse and who is on France’s “Fiche S” list of potential security threats.
Last week, the mayor of Gonesse announced that the Muslim association which employed the imam, who followed the hard-line Salafist branch of Islam, had dismissed him.
Detectives suspect that Harpon had been in close contact with the imam in the months before his killing spree.
Investigators also found that Harpon had a USB key holding propaganda videos of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) as well as details on dozens of officers, raising fears he intended to pass them to other radicalised Islamists….
A former domestic intelligence agent in contact with colleagues told Le Journal du Dimanche: “They all told me: ‘We knew he was radicalised’. I deduce that people on the ground were aware but that information failed to rise through the ranks.”…
And why not? For fear of “Islamophobia” charges. Of course.