Mosque in French Town Where Priest Killed Was Inaugurated on Land Gifted by Church
I truly hope people don’t give up trying to coexist peacefully because that’s exactly what Da’esh wants—they don’t want any gray areas, just black & white, us & them, you’re with us or against us. That’s not my opinion, that’s according to their own writings.
ISIS’s goal from their own publication. A black & white world. What they call “grayzone” is our coexistence zone. pic.twitter.com/dDPqigam4t
— Iyad el-Baghdadi (@iyad_elbaghdadi) November 14, 2015
Here’s an archive.is link to the page (I ended up at the live page after following a link from a tweet, but wouldn’t recommend going there for what should be obvious reasons).
Added emphasis is mine:
SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France — The mosque in a northern French town where a local priest was killed on Tuesday was inaugurated 16 years ago on land donated by the Catholic parish to which he belonged. […]
The imam of the mosque said he was “stunned” by the murder of the local priest, Jacques Hamel, who he described as a friend.
“I don’t understand, all of our prayers go to his family and the Catholic community,” said Mohammed Karabila, who heads the regional council of Muslim worship for Haute Normandie.
It was in this mosque that the funeral ceremony was held for Imad Ibn Ziaten, a 30-year-old French paratrooper who was killed on March 11, 2012 by jihadist Mohamed Merah.
It was the first murder in Merah’s spree which also included the killing of three Jewish children and a rabbi outside a Toulouse Jewish day school over a week after, and the murders of two French Muslim soldiers several days before that. […]
Karabila said he had met with Hamel on several occasions and had been part of an interfaith committee for the past 18 months.
“We talked about religion and how to live together. It has been 18 months that civilians have been attacked, now they are attacking religious symbols, using our religion as a pretext. It is no longer possible,” he said.
He said he was “stunned by the death of my friend. He was someone who gave his life to others. We are dumbfounded at the mosque.” […]
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