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THREE WOMEN BEHIND a thwarted attack near Notre Dame Cathedral were radicalised by Islamic State commanders in Syria, and one had been engaged to an extremist who killed a priest in July, the Paris prosecutor revealed today.
Francois Molins spoke a day after three women were dramatically arrested over the failed attack that centred on a car discovered Sunday morning in central Paris. The car had been abandoned and was loaded with gas canisters. No detonators were found in the car.
“In the last few days and hours a terrorist cell was dismantled, composed of young women totally receptive to the deadly Daesh [Islamic State] ideology,” Molins said.
The women who spearheaded the failed plot included a 19-year-old whose father owned the abandoned Peugeot car. Her written pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State group was found by police, a security official said.
The teen, Ines Madani, stabbed a police officer with a knife and was shot in the leg yesterday evening in a raid south of Paris, police said. She is being treated in a hospital.
Five women and two men have been arrested in the case.
Sarah H’s two fiancés
One of the women detained in a police raid, referred to as Sarah H and who was wearing a veil, was betrothed separately to two French extremists who carried out deadly attacks this year, the Paris prosecutor said.
Sarah H was engaged to Larossi Abballa, who killed two police officials in Magnanville in June and filmed the aftermath on Facebook Live before dying in a police raid.
She was also betrothed to Adel Kermiche, who slit the throat of an elderly French priest during morning Mass in July before being killed by police, Molins added. He didn’t say when she was engaged to either man.
France’s interior minister described the pursuit as “a race against time” to find Madani and the two women with her before they could strike.
A man arrested yesterday also had ties to Abballa, one of the officials said.
“There’s a group that has been annihilated, but there are others,” French President Francois Hollande said today. “Information we were able to get from our intelligence services allowed us to act before it was too late.”
‘Rare and predictable’
A security official, who cannot be identified, said Madani had pulled a knife during the raid outside a small apartment building near the Boussy-Saint-Antoine train station.
In video filmed by a neighbour, a veiled woman, her face uncovered, is seen being carried away by police as she cries out “Allahu Akbar” or “God is the Greatest” in Arabic.
A plot conceived and carried out by a group of women would mark a new step in the Islamic State group’s attempts to sow fear in Europe.
“It’s at the same time rare and predictable,” Matthieu Suc, author of “Wives of Jihadis,” told France Info radio.
Women in the group do not take part in attacks, he said, but are there “to ensure the longevity of the caliphate” by having babies and providing moral support. But, he added, “there are often young girls, who are just as radicalised as the young men, and they also want the status of martyr, and they want to act.”
The car loaded with gas cylinders belonged to Madani’s father, who flagged her to police on Sunday 14 hours after the vehicle was discovered. Since then, authorities have worked frantically to untangle the relationships within the group and thwart what they increasingly feared was another plot.
More than one-third of the nearly 700 French citizens who have reached the war zones of Iraq and Syria are women, according to government figures. And officials have said for months that those being recruited by Islamic State in France are increasingly adolescent girls and young women.
If I started a cult in which the penalty for leaving the cult was death. Liberals would be jumping up and down in horror….yet they give Islam a pass…..go figure.
Far-right Conservatism is a problem alright.
Lol good one!
Similarities between Far-Right extremism AND fundamentalist Islam:
1) Homophobia
2) Xenophobia
3) Misogyny (the freedoms won by women in Christian dominated countries have been won by secularists, much to the annoyance of the Far-Right, who would prefer how women are treated under Sharia Law to be the status quo).
4) Cultural homogenity
5) Terrorism
6) Anti-establishment
7) Fascism (the term Islamofascism is derived from the Italian fascism of Mussolini’s dictatorship)
8) Intolerance of other religions
To sum up, the European Extreme Right and Islamic extremism share a xenophobic and anti-establishment ideology and an authoritarian, reactionary strategy. Moreover, they both exploit the population’s discontent regarding the existing economic, social, and political conditions.
spot on!
That would be correct, Tariq……and I’m against both.
Why should I give Islam a pass when I would not give Far-right extremism a pass?
By the way, that list sums up nearly all Islamic countries……so you can see why it’s worrying.
Islamic child marriage =The largest paedophile ring on the planet.
@TIZ, Don’t let the truth get in the way of your taqiyya lies. Fascism – an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. — Islamofascism – Islamic fascism (first described in 1933), also known (since 1990) as Islamofascism, draws analogy between the ideological characteristics of specific Islamist movements and a broad range of European fascist movements of the early 20th century, neofascist movements, or totalitarianism, ie Wahhabism, Salafism.
Nah Tariq….it’s your peado lot……. http://www.foreigndesknews.com/world/middle-east/germany-amidst-refugee-influx-child-brides-young-thirteen/
Nope, see above.
So………. I`ll take that as your “haven`t a clue” answer,huh Tariq?
He is Chris, he says to say hello to your ma for him.
Why my Ma ? Thought he was only interested in the young ones ?
You’ll have to ask her Chris, something to do with horses I think.
Your false prophet and his twisted ways are testament… He engaged in paedophilia himself, a pre pubescent Aisha, it is documented in your book of ill, the Koran. https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Pedophilia
@TIZ
@Tariq..Facts and history, do you deny it?
Ah Jan, it’s not a real story, I’ll tell you what is a real story though, paedo cult the RCC in the 21st century http://www.vatileaks.com/vati-leaks/pope-john-paul-iis-international-paedophile-ring-of-catholic-priests
Jan, do you believe the stories of Thor and his hammer? LOL!
Your false prophet loves riding horses ? No wonder, he has a winged horse, he wants that extra lift.
@Tariq, You have the debating capacity of a child, when faced with facts or questions that surely draw conflict within you, you turn to childish insults and deflection. You truly are pathetic in your ways.
Funny Tariq….Islam topics set you off in defence mode like a fire cracker….very unusual for an atheist.
@ Jan Are you for real? Calling someone childish after the “comments” you have just come up with, is quite evocative of how far you are from reality.
Muslim, atheist, multiple accounts etc.. You should get some help Tariq or whoever you call yourself today.. http://www.samaritans.org/news/free-call-samaritans-ireland
Jan, you are claiming the Qu’ran is fact and presenting it as fact, you’re a complete joke!
Tariq, did you forget to switch accounts there because that’s usually Petr’s line … ??
All religions are Shiite Tariq. I take the piss out of them all. No need to cry a tear over a bit of pis taking.
For anyone who isn’t aware or familiar, the account, ‘Suzie Sunshine’ is controlled by this radical character Liam Egan in Wexford, a mad fella, read about Suzie / Liam Egan here http://markhumphrys.com/liam.egan.html
Are extremists xenophobic? They seem to snap up recruits from anywhere. Granted, most become cannon-fodder shortly afterwards, but it’s hardly a demonstration of xenophobia to marry your troops off to foreigners, is it? Agree on the other common factors all right, (except the anti-establishment attitude – I reckon the leaders are just jealous that they don’t own all the elections).
Are you suggesting the script of your beloved Koran is nothing more than lies?? A book of deception??
Why are you getting so defensive Tariq /Liam/Petr? Is the mask slipping?
@Tariq
‘Suzie is Liam Egan’?
Seriously man, are you off your rocker with that comparison. There is absolutely not one iota of comparison between Suzie’s contributions and Liam Egan’s.
Chalk and cheese doesn’t even come close.
Tariq , ye nobody buys that line .. it’s boring now .you on the other hand have an account that’s says you are a proud Muslim .. Petr always claims that he’s an atheist .. now you’re saying you are an atheist … you’ve slipped and proved that you are the same person .. funny really
Joey……..Tariq….Petr….and Liam are the same person….to deflect he often calls a rival ‘Liam Egan’ to try to deflect from himself.
Usually he uses the Petr account to use that sad tactic….but he’s getting confused while switching between accounts.
LOL….just read that back Joey, and I make it appear as if you part of his accounts……sorry!
You know what I mean….Joey’s clean.
@Al Ca.
Haha….thanks a lot buddy…….fcuk Spartacus….I am Joey.
Joey , it’s just a distraction that’s all .. Tariq / Petr has spent ages on here talking to himself and replying to himself .. poor thing. .
@Al Ca.
Haha….thanks a lot buddy…….fcuk Spartacus….I am Joey.
Soz Al Ca and my sis Suzie, as you can see by my accidental double post #JeSuisTariq !! Please forgive me…..
Lol !
Fake account.
Thor rocks! Big hammer, lightning, rockin! Got his own comic, not ashamed to show his face either!
Trump right again, the families all have to go as well.
Trump has stated on record that he thinks the families (women, children) of terrorists should be killed.
Do you agree with that?
YES
These sewer rats should be terminated with extreme prejudice. All of them. And their families should be sent back to wherever they came from. Keeping Europeans safe should be top priority. Can’t understand why it is not.
@patrick, I said it at the time. His whole family and friends should have been rounded up and either executed or parachuted into Aleppo. I got lots of abuse for it but I now turn out to be right. Not unlike Mr trump.
@Margie, thankfully for people like ourselves and Patrick Watson et el, we can see through the liberal bullshit and call it as it is. The liberals will be defeated by people like us and from the ashes conservatism will arise.
Spokesman. The backlash is happening. my views were “uncool” a few years ago. Not anymore, more and more people are starting to see sense. I just hope it won’t be too late to turn the tide when the population of Europe finally says Enough!
YES
There are people here who would support killing the *children* of Islamic terrorists?
Good to know. At least you’re honest.
Has he Malachi. Have you a link because I find that hard to believe.
Sure Margie.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/
He later claimed that he didn’t say this, of course, presumably because advocating the slaughter of innocent children and others is a bit tasteless.
Ah c’mon not all of them.
Trump would etadicate ISIS on e and for all , much to the chagrin of Israel, Saudi Arabia, UK, snd Hilary Clinton.
Your heroic deeds will never be forgotten Spokesman. You’re sounding Churchillian. “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,in the fields and in the comments section of the Journal”
LOL! The spokesman strikes fear into the heart of ISIS, dealing them fatal blow after fatal blow with every comment he posts on The Journal! Talk about deluded.
@ margie remember step two: it’s not cool to be stupid.
@margie
You are always asking people for sources…
Could you please answer a few questions that I asked before?
Margie, a classic run and hide extremist.
yep
@Tariq
she/he calls her/himself an islamophobe, i.e. someone who is capable of hating a population because of their religious belief.
Margie is drawing up his Final Solution for all Muslims prouesse, warped.
It’s the beginning of the end of the beginning for liberal Europe. Conservatism will rise up and all liberals and terrorist will be defeated both on the streets and in the parliaments of Europe. We are seeing an end to the united states if Europe.
Liberal Europe, the period between the end of the Second World War and today. Conservative Europe, 1939-1945, can’t wait to see what you guys do this time!
There are disputes within Islamic fundamentalism about how fast one should go. Some are impatient, others prefer to wait and work slowly and politically towards the same goals.But the end of IS will not be the end of radical Islam in any way. The current revival of fundamentalist Islam has been going on for decades now around the globe and hundreds of jihadist groups are involved.
What’s it been like being inside ISIS Marlowemallow? Would you consider writing an article for The Journal on why you joined ISIS and when and how you’re going to execute the above plan?
Thanks Malachi. unfortunately Trump opens gob before engaging brain. But. I Would vote for him because he doesn’t deny that the problem IS Islam and thereby the first step in tackling the problem is taken.
No, he didn’t.
@ margie You surely know about “opening gob before engaging brain”. You are not even capable of answering a few questions. And if I’m not mistaken, Trump started his campaign by targeting the Mexicans.
@TIZ, there’s only so many ways to redress the imbalance of liberalism.
Oops! You thought you were posting from your Jan Sobieski account ‘The spokesman’, didn’t you? LOL! F__king amateur.
John, your definition of modern and attractive isn’t everyone’s you know. In fact large numbers of people worldwide don’t particularly like western Europe’s concept of modernity. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran and Dubai support Islamism and they are very wealthy states. What you call modernity is not the inevitable end point of history. Other cultures and people will follow their own course. History has no direction.
Here we have what the left would call eu citizens, human beings and how they have the same rights as the rests of us.
That’s bollux, these Muslims couldn’t give a monkeys about the indigenous Europeans or our culture should be shown the door sooner rather than later
“these Muslims bla bla bla” That’s just another prejudice.
The left are only here to remind you that every body has the same rights. Including you.
I’m not sure you would be saying that if and when they try pulling stunts in Ireland
Here here
@ Jan when did I say “terrorists are great”. That’s pretty nasty to spit such lie.
In some regards it’s a positive that all these toe rags are related and connected. It indicates that this a close knit and small affair mostly kids and brain washed amateurs. For now at least. Well done to the cops.
If ISIS is resorting to using women now they must be in the death throes. It’s not ideal that women are now their representatives. There is no equality in ISIS, women are property.
What?? There’s no court case so we can comment?
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war”
We need to start having a conversation soon.
Don’t know if its true our not, but its quite funny !!
Chris Cantwell, I thought it was the waterford Whispers.
I had to recheck first, thought it was myself
Gas!
Mental health gone mainstream in Europe. I feel sorry for people who actually have mental health issues. Not those who are excused in the media to hide Islam extremism. I know I’m a racist for making excuses. I’m tired of that excuse, can you call me anything else that I’m not. The answer is no.
She wasn’t “radicalised” in Syria she chose to go there and join..
So we start executing the extended families of terrorists?????
Why stop there, sure we may as well burn the ghettos from where they came.
In fact, we could extend this action to a type of final solution where we round them up and put them in camps until we can “process” them.
Why didn’t anyone think of this before.
These are the logical and barbaric conclusions of the thought process that accepts the killing of families who themselves have done no wrong.
How does that make you any different to those you dispise?
It’s not shite. He’s spot on. Anyone who advocates the murder of innocent children because they have the misfortune of being related to an Islamic terrorist is a malicious fool.
That’s a great point!! Not sympathising with them at all but guilt by association is wrong!!! How many Irish people were tortured and imprissoned purely because they were Irish!!!! Not every Muslim is a mad fuking lunatic jihadi!!!
Well Michael….
What can I say to such a genius level response to my post.
The skill you displayed in dissecting each of my points and exposing my foolishness is breathtaking.
Counterpoint after counterpoint you delivered in waves of logic and reason.
I’m on the floor unable to argue against such a worthy opponent.
David Mc Shite talking Shite…….. Churchillian stuff.
You are obviously a Master Debater.
Tell me….. Was it Harvard or Berkeley that fashioned such a mind?
You had me at Appropriate………
Punishing innocent people, especially children, for the crimes of their relatives is wrong, very wrong.
But, that’s exactly what Russia has done with its fundamentalists in Chechnya and elsewhere. In the short term it has been effective although it stores up long term resentment of course. The Russians did lower themselves close to the ethical standards of the jihadists but not quite to the level of Beslan.
And in the case of Russia it has not in fact ended in concentration camps. A repressive, dictatorial regime uninterested in human rights, yes, but not the Holocaust Part 2. We need to stop imposing that historical framework on everything.
I’m pointing this out not in support of such a strategy. It’s simply that those who oppose it will in future need to address these kinds of proposals head on and relying on the slippery slope to gas chambers argument won’t work because it’s not necessarily true. Nor will arguments that it’s ineffective, in the short term, because the unpleasant evidence from Russia is that it does work.
Would-be religious martyrs are not your average opponent. Threats against their families are one tactic that has been proven to cause them to reconsider. That’s why most Chechen jihadists are now in places like Syria, Kosovo, Libya and Austria.
The most civilized way to avoid following the Russian example would be to actually investigate all adult family members of the jihadists. In many cases it has become clear that they knew or must have known something of what their relative was planning.
But they’re not being investigated properly and that is why one of these women was still at large despite being the fiance of one of the priest-killers. If states fail to investigate and prosecute such people as being complicit in treason, calls for more barbaric measures will only increase.
Nawww violent jihad, see its a family affair! OUT!!
She ought to be locked up for good.
However, murdering the families of criminals – no matter how vile those criminals are – is in itself murder. If you can get away with this, why stop there?
Anyone who advocates killing persons who have not committed any crimes, men, women and children, or supports demagogues like Trump who boasts of his willingness to do so, is not fighting the terrorists, but joining them.
I know it’s just losers blowing off steam on the Internet, but indulging in such sick fantasies cannot be good for you in the longer term.
Send them back to the ISIS camp in Syria. Drop them out of the plane without a parachute.
You cannot just kill all these peoples families nor can you ship them back to Aleppo . Have we not learned from our previous mistakes that this is exactly what they want, (a paranoid Europe ) they want to see us broken. We must not drop to their level and execute them or send them into a war zone as then we are just as bad. These people are a small minority who need mental help not being bullied just like (trump wants to do) attempting to kill these people or send them away only aggravates the situation.
So the wimmins want to be martyrs too…. What the fluch is she going to so with her promised 72 Virgins, play world of warcraft and watch Star Trek every day??
fairly rubbish attack not even any detonators
Red Brigade they are not.
Anyway, It’s the thought that counts.
ISIL will soon come to an end when Raqa their capital falls
Even former friends Saudi Arabia and Turkey have gone against then now
Trump and Hillary are a bit behind the curve with plans to defeat ISIL
Raqa will have fallen by next January
That won’t particularly dent the activities of European IS members or IS in Bangladesh, Libya, the Sinai, Afghanistan, Nigeria etc. And even if or when IS is gone, another similar group will take its place. Just as IS replaced Al Qaeda.
Scaremongering rubbish, reminiscent of Orwell’s ‘perpetual war’. I’d say you have your lad in your hand thinking about it.
I like how this is news but god forbid we hear about what’s happening in Aleppo etc.
Subtle white/western supremacy.
There’s a bit more of an issue with getting reports from Aleppo as opposed to France Leighanna. By all means volunteer to travel there as a reporter to provide us with regular and accurate news reports if you’d like to see that situation redressed.
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