Massacre of French Jewish Children Was Muslim Terrorist Attack
The Washington Post and France24 have reported that French police have raided a Toulouse home to arrest the suspect
in the shooting deaths of three children and an adult at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. The suspect, an Algerian-born French citizen, reportedly told the police that he committed the killings “to avenge Palestinian children” – ironic at a moment when Palestinians have been shooting rockets into Israel. According to the Washington Post report,
Gueant described the suspect as a French citizen, 24, who has spent time with Islamic groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan. News reports said he was of Algerian origin and had invoked the al-Qaeda terrorism network in his contacts with police in shouted conversations through the locked door of an apartment.
The rise of Islamic extremism has been a concern in Europe for some years, but so far, France has been spared the horrors of Islamic terrorism. Now it joins Holland, Spain, and England in confronting the dangers posed by radical Islam as it spreads through our communities in the West.
UPDATE
France24 reports that the suspect targeted French Muslim members of the military in his first shootings as “Arab soldiers are prized targets for groups like Al-Qaeda, which regards Muslims who fight for Western armies as traitors.” Having filmed the attacks as he committed them, the suspect has told French officials that he plans to place the films online. With the Internet now the most powerful recruiting tool of Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups, such films have become standard in the efforts to spread their influence and teachings, and are frequently watched by radicalizing Muslim youth in Europe and elsewhere in the West.
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