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Knights of Pride’ wanted to turn France into Islamic Caliphate
Israel Hayom ^ | 22 March 2012 | Daniel Siryoti and Eli Leon

Posted on 03/23/2012 3:41:29 AM PDT by Candor7

Mohammed Merah belonged to extreme Salafi group that works to topple French democracy • Group’s website shut down with homepage reading: “Due to great pressures brought upon us, we have dismantled the Forsane al-Izza movement.”

Mohammed Merah, the confessed murderer of three children and a rabbi at a Toulouse Jewish school this week, was not a lone wolf, and on Wednesday the testimonies poured in about his involvement with a Salafi (extreme strand of Sunni Islam) group named Forsane al-Izza (FA).

The “Knights of Pride”- as the group’s name means in English - was founded in France about a year ago and was outlawed at the beginning of 2012. Up until it was outlawed, the group’s main function was to keep French security forces out of neighborhoods with a Muslim majority. The group expressed its opposition to French democracy, striving to create a Islamic Caliphate in its place. Forsane al-Izza’s leader and spokesman, Mohamed Achamlane, is of Algerian descent.

Forsane al-Izza worked against a French law which banned the wearing of hijabs (a veil worn by Muslim women in public), even provocatively calling on French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, to wear a hijab herself.

Meanwhile, the group has also posted videos on the Internet showing it was training for a future clash with French authorities. The “Knights” have also organized protest rallies in which they have called supporters “to fight against Sarkozy’s Jewish-Zionist government.”

Arab media has reported that while the group indeed mainly operates in France, it also had branches in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where its members have undergone training in al-Qaida camps.

The group’s website was shut down on Wednesday and the site’s homepage read: “Due to great pressures brought upon us, we have dismantled the Forsane al-Izza movement.”

Prior to the final announcement, their website carried a message saying “There is nothing but Islam. All Muslims must return to the ways of the original Islam, as it was thousands of years ago” – which is the main tenet at the core of Salafism.


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KINGS OF WAR.org.uk - blog: "ONLINE ATTRIBUTION OF THE FRENCH KILLER" (March 26, 2012) (Read More...)


Edition.CNN.com: "HOW DID MOHAMMED MERAH BECOME A JIHADIST?" by Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister (March 26, 2012) (Read More...)


Forum.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "MORE ABOUT TOULOUSE SHOOTER MERAH" (March 24, 2012) (Read More...)


YNET NEWS.com (AP): "FRENCH TERRORIST TRAINED WITH TALIBAN? Authorities investigating whether Mohammad Merah is among dozens of French Muslims who were trained by Taliban in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area" (March 24, 2012, 23:40/Israel News) (Read More...)

YNET NEWS.com: "BROTHER OF TOULOUSE KILLER 'PROUD'" (SNIPPET: "The older brother of Toulouse terrorist Mohammed Merah says that he is "very proud" of his sibling, French newspaper Le Point reported.") (Published: March 23, 2012, 16:46/Israel News) (Read More...)
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INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - Special to IPT NEWS: "FRENCH KILLINGS SHOW THE PATH FROM CRIME TO PRISON TO JIHAD" by Patrick Dunleavy (March 23, 2012) (Read More...)


UNDIPLOMATIC SERVICE - blog: "MOHAMED MERAH AND SHEIKH OLIVIER COREL OF ARTIGAT" by Matt Wahnsiedler (March 22, 2012) (Read More...)


Forum.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "Forsane Alizza: Progenitor of the Toulouse Shooter" (March 21, 2012) (Read More...)

ICT.org.il- INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COUNTER-TERRORISM: "Forsane Alizza: Background Brief" (March 2012) (Read More...)

MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch No. 4593: "Toulouse Shooter Affiliated with French Al-Qaeda Group Fursan Al-'Izza" (March 21, 2012) (Read More...)


O JIHAD - blog: "TOULOUSE KILLER ALLIES HIMSELF WITH AL-QAIDA" (SNIPPET: "French police has surrounded the house of the alleged Toulouse killer who shot dead three French soldiers, three Jewish students and a Jewish teacher in the Toulouse region over the past two weeks. The suspect was identified as Franco-Algerian Mohamed Merah, a 24-year old French citizen. He allies himself with Al-Qaida and claims he was trained in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. According to media reports Merah said he acted because of recent violence in Gaza and the killing Palestinians.") (March 21, 2012) [UPDATE: The shooter is dead. 3/22/12] (Read More...)
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21 posted on 03/30/2012 1:44:00 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/3507/hard-lessons-for-france-in-merah-case

For The Record - The IPT Blog

“Hard Lessons for France in Merah Case”

by IPT News • Mar 28, 2012 at 2:34 pm


22 posted on 03/30/2012 1:56:11 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17558564

30 March 2012 Last updated at 05:06 ET

“France arrests 19 Islamist suspects in dawn raids”

SNIPPET: “The raids were in Toulouse, the home of gunman Mohamed Merah, and other cities.”

SNIPPET: “Police have been hunting possible accomplices but sources said there was no direct link with the raids.”

SNIPPET: “Several of the raids were in Toulouse, particularly the Mirail quarter, sources told AFP.

But there were also raids in Nantes, which is believed to be a centre for the Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride) group, to which Merah had been linked by some French media.

It is a Salafist group that was dissolved by the interior ministry in an earlier investigation.”

SNIPPET: “Police sources told AFP that three Kalashnikovs, a Glock pistol and a grenade were seized at his home.

Other arrests took place in Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Nice and Le Mans.

Merah’s brother, Abdelkader, has already been charged with aiding him and police are hunting a third man said to be involved in the theft of a scooter that Merah used in all the killings.

Police also say a USB memory stick that was posted to the al-Jazeera TV channel containing the video he took of the killings must have been posted by someone other than Merah.”


23 posted on 03/30/2012 2:23:40 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: StonyBurk
...the Muslim—like the homosexual

But I repeat myself.
:O)

24 posted on 03/30/2012 2:31:10 AM PDT by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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A bit Off Topic:

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2733760/posts?page=17#17

Document:

ep00.epimg.net/descargables/2012/03/30/d61bac3fc1fa90da6d87e2edd6e1fbe4.pdf

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http://www.abc.es/20120330/espana/rc-cabecilla-islamista-valencia-habia-201203301731.html

“ESPAÑA / TERRORISMO

El cabecilla islamista de Valencia había propuesto a Al-Qaida matar a Aznar y a Solana

Quería acabar con el expresidente del Gobierno y el exsecretario general de la OTAN como castigo por “los crímenes cometidos contra los musulmanes””

MELCHOR SAÍZ-PARDO / MADRID
Día 30/03/2012 - 17.31h

SNIPPET: “Mudhar Hussein Almalaki, el cabecilla islamista detenido esta semana por la Guardia Civil en Valencia, había propuesto a Al-Qaida asesinar al expresidente José María Aznar y al exsecretario general de la OTAN Javier Solana como castigo por “los crímenes cometidos contra los musulmanes”.”

SNIPPET: “El pasado 22 de marzo, dentro de las webs y foros yihadistas que controlaba también hizo “exaltación” del Mohamed Merah, el asesino de Toulouse.

Almalaki, según la Guardia Civil, además distribuyó entre más de 70.000 usuarios de la web manuales sobre ataques terroristas y envenenamientos masivos.”

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http://forum.internet-haganah.com/showthread.php?748-Spain-arrests-quot-Al-Qaida-s-Librarian-quot

“Spain arrests ‘Al-Qaida’s Librarian’”
(March 27, 2012; Updated March 30, 2012)

SNIPPET quote:

The story identifies MHA as Mudhar Hussein Almalaki, and notes Almalaki’s involvement in the infamous ‘Hit List’ that was developed on the al-Shmukh forum and copied over to the Ansar al-Mujahideen Arabic forum. For background on that see:

Red lines
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007360.html

Jihadi hit list identifies alleged American asset in Iraq
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007375.html


25 posted on 03/31/2012 4:23:26 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Candor7

bump


26 posted on 11/14/2015 6:07:36 PM PST by piasa
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To: piasa; Fred Nerks

Three years later here we are after Mohammed Merah’s slaying of 3 French school children and a rabbi at a Toulouse Jewish school in 2012.

See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2862725/posts?page=1#1

The French government has not acted to effectively protect its people.That is plain.And now what will they do? If its anything like the past it will be little or nothing.


27 posted on 11/14/2015 8:57:52 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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