Posted on 07/26/2016 8:15:17 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Two men claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group killed a priest and seriously injured another person in a church on Tuesday in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen in Normandy. Our Observer, who describes his town of 30,000 residents as a quiet one where different communities coexist in peace, was taken aback by the attack.
“The priest often lent a room in the church for other religious communities to use”
Kalminthe Gomis, 39, is an entrepreneur who runs a Facebook page on which residents of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray discuss local events. He currently lives in Rouen, but spends a lot of his time in the suburb where he grew up and where his parents live.
Our family is Catholic. My mother goes to this church every day. Luckily, she’s currently on vacation in her native country, Senegal, so she wasn’t there today. I spent a lot of time at the church when I was younger, where I took part in youth activities, but these days I mainly go there for weddings, baptisms and holidays. Many of the churchgoers are of African origin, and there’s always a big turnout for Sunday mass.The priest who was killed, father Jacques Hamel, was a very kind man, very involved in the local community. Whenever members of other religious communities – be they Catholic or Muslim – needed spaces for their activities, he would offer them the use of a room in the church.
"I was worried that an attack could take place in the centre of Rouen, if anything, but I never thought it would happen here"
There’s a Muslim prayer room near the church, and there have never been any tensions between the two communities – we pray separately, but we say hello to each other, we smile. When I was little, my Muslim friends were often invited along on youth activities organised through the church. And today different communities truly coexist in peace in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. For a long time, I worked as an educator in a youth centre, and I never heard any of the kids expressing radical leanings.
That’s why it’s really difficult for us to understand why something like this has happened here. I was worried that an attack could take place in the centre of Rouen, if anything, but I never thought it would happen here… and even less that it would be carried out against a church whose members are so diverse, a church that stands in solidarity with other religious communities. We had never heard of any threats whatsoever against the church. It just makes no sense.
According to a November 14 article in French daily Le Parisien, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray has had at least one brush with extremists in the past. Several young men from the region who had made plans to join the ranks of the Islamic State group met in a mosque in the town.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I just can’t understand why:
The lion mauled me.
The monkey attacked me.
The racoon ate off my baby’s face.
The viper sank its fangs into me.
WHY? Because their entire country is a SOFT TARGET and GUN FREE ZONE!! That’s why!!
What naive fools.
They want the fear to be everywhere.
That is the goal of terrorism.
Silly frenchie, you thought that "moderate" muslims were a real thing? They are just dormant when they don't have the numbers, once they have them the masks come off.
“The priest often lent a room in the church for other religious communities to use”
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Oh, dear, someone should have told the killers that because I am sure that would have led to their forbearance instead of killing. /s
Oh shut up silly woman,
you knew damn well what I was when you let me in!
Yes, the proximity to Calais is very likely a factor in this bloody crime. I’m surprised Normandy hasn’t boiled-over with similar activity before now.
Why? Because your EU leaders have given them license to do as they wish to infidels.
French Government Hid Evidence Of Gruesome Torture During Bataclan Massacre
EXCERPT:
The refusal of European governments to acknowledge the severity of Islamist terrorism has reached an insane level.
The French government was eager to suppress the gruesome acts of torture committed by Islamist terrorists when they slaughtered scores of people at the Bataclan last November, and did not release the evidence that was made available from testimony of police witnesses who vomited when they saw what happened on the second floor of the nightclub.
Some of the torture inflicted by the Islamist murderers included gouging out eyes, castrating men and stuffing their testicle in their mouths, stabbing women in their genitals, raping them, and ripping their eyes out. The murderers also filmed their actions to use as ISIS (Daesh) propaganda.
Investigators did not release the bodies of the victims to their families because they were too gruesome to view. One investigator testified, “Bodies have not been presented to families because there were beheaded people there, the murdered people, people who have been disemboweled. There are women who had their genitals stabbed.”
(...)
http://www.dailywire.com/news/7505/french-government-hid-evidence-gruesome-torture-hank-berrien
And even after this crystal clear lesson, they still don’t understand.
Muslims must be tearing their hair out in frustration.
Teddy bears. You need more teddy bears. And candles. More candles. And flowers,...
They need to read the Hadith and they will understand what jihad is. All muslims except those who are disabled/crippled must fight and kill in jihad otherwise they lose points when they go to muzzie heaven.
The hadith is basically 60% of the muzzie religion, it is the blueprint of how mad mohammed lived his life. Every good muslim must copy him in their daily activities. The koran only accounts for about 14% of the belief system and the Sira another 26%.
Bill Warner has studied and translated these books for easy reading
Here’s the hadith. https://www.amazon.com/Hadith-Taste-Islam-5/dp/1936659018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469577812&sr=8-1&keywords=hadith+taste+of+islam
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