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Elderly priest killed in French church, attack claimed by Islamic State
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SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France, July 26 (Reuters) - Assailants loyal to Islamic State forced an elderly priest to his knees before slitting his throat and took several worshippers hostage in a French church on Tuesday before police shot the attackers dead.

It was the latest in a wave of attacks in Europe inspired by the Islamist militant group based in Iraq and Syria that is on the defensive against a U.S.-led military coalition in which France is a major partner.

The knifemen entered the church during morning mass near the northern city of Rouen, northwest of Paris, killing Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old parish priest, and taking four other people hostage, one of whom was seriously wounded.

"They forced him to his knees and he tried to defend himself and that's when the drama began," Sister Danielle, who escaped as the attackers slayed the priest, told RMC radio.

"They filmed themselves. It was like a sermon in Arabic around the altar," the nun added.

Police shot the attackers dead as they emerged from the church in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

Speaking at the scene of the attack, President Francois Hollande said Islamic State had declared war on France, which should "use all its means" within the law to fight the group.

The president called it a "dreadful terrorist attack" and told reporters the attackers had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, against which France has launched air strikes in Syria and Iraq. News agency Amaq, which is affiliated with Islamic State, said two of its "soldiers" were involved.

"The threat remains very high," Hollande said.

The White House condemned the attack and commended the French police for their "quick and decisive response."

The attack was the latest in a string of deadly assaults including the mass killing in Nice, southern France, on Bastille Day 12 days ago and four incidents in Germany, most recently a suicide bombing at a concert in Ansbach on Sunday.

Islamic State has called on its supporters to take action with any available weapons targeting countries it has been fighting.

The anti-terrorist unit of the Paris prosecutor's office is investigating the attack. Police said one person had been arrested.

Several French media reported that one of the knifemen was a local man who had spent a year in jail on his return from Turkey after being intercepted trying to travel to Syria, but had been freed on bail with an electronic tag pending trial for alleged terrorism offenses.

The prosecutor's office said the identification of the two suspects was still underway and it was too early to jump to conclusions about a possible link.

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Former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is expected to enter a conservative primary soon for next year's presidential election, jumped on the latest incident to accuse the Socialist government of being soft on terrorism.

"We must be merciless," Sarkozy said in a statement to reporters. "The legal quibbling, precautions and pretexts for insufficient action are not acceptable. I demand that the government implement without delay the proposals we presented months ago. There is no more time to be wasted."

The center-right opposition wants the government to put all Islamist suspects subject to a confidential security notice under administrative detention to avert potential attacks.

Far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who is also expected to run for the presidency, said both major parties had failed on security. "All those who have governed us for 30 years bear an immense responsibility. It's revolting to watch them bickering!" she said on Twitter.

Hollande insisted that the government must stick to the rule of law, which he said was the hallmark of a democracy.

Pope Francis condemned what he called a "barbarous killing."

"The fact that this episode took place in a church, killing a priest, a minister of the Lord and involving the faithful, is something that affects us profoundly," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said.

The attack heaped yet more pressure on Hollande to regain control of national security, with France already under a state of emergency 10 months ahead of a presidential election in which he is widely expected to seek a second term.

The Normandy attack came less than two weeks after a 31-year-old Tunisian, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, plowed his heavy goods truck into a crowd of revelers in the French Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people. Islamic State claimed that attack.

"Everything is being done to trigger a war of religions," tweeted Jean-Pierre Raffarin, a former conservative prime minister who now heads the Senate's foreign affairs committee.

Hollande visited the Normandy town with Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, meeting survivors of the church attack and members of the emergency services.

Cazeneuve has come under fire from conservative politicians for not doing enough to prevent the Nice attack, which prompted lawmakers to approve a six-month extension of emergency rule.

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Tue Jul 26, 2016 9:19pm EDT
Islamists attack French church, slit priest's throat

SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France | By Noemie Olive


Knife-wielding attackers interrupted a French church service, forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat on Tuesday, a murder made even more shocking as one of the assailants was a known would-be jihadist under supposedly tight surveillance.

As the attackers came out of the church shouting "Allahu akbar" (“God is Greatest”) they were shot and killed by police.

The men arrived during morning mass in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a working-class town near Rouen, northwest of Paris, where the 85-year-old parish priest, Father Jacques Hamel, was leading prayers.

"They forced him to his knees and he tried to defend himself and that's when the drama began," Sister Danielle, who escaped as the attackers slayed the priest, told RMC radio.

"They filmed themselves. It was like a sermon in Arabic around the altar," the nun said.

Three other worshippers were held hostage until the assailants were killed, one of them was badly wounded during the attack.

News agency Amaq, which is affiliated with Islamic State, a group France is bombing in Iraq and Syria as part of a U.S.-led coalition, said two of its "soldiers" had carried out the attack. Police said one person had been arrested.

France's anti-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins identified one of the attackers as 19-year-old Adel Kermiche, a local man who was known to intelligence services after his failed bids to reach Syria to wage jihad. [L8N1AC77W]

Kermiche first tried to travel to Syria in March 2015 but was arrested in Germany. Upon his return to France he was placed under surveillance and barred from leaving his local area.

But less than two months later he slipped away and was intercepted in Turkey making his way towards Syria again.

He was sent back to France and detained until late March this year when he was released on bail. He had to wear an electronic tag, surrender his passport and was only allowed to leave his parents home for a few hours a day.

The fact that he was still able to commit the attack will raise yet more questions over the intelligence services and legal procedures in a country still under a state of emergency.

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What The Media And The Church Are Not Telling You As To Why Muslims Beheaded A French Catholic Priest
And Why Europe Is In A War That Will Soon Wake Up Europe To Face Reality

By Walid Shoebat on July 26, 2016

‘They forced him to his knees. He wanted to defend himself. And that’s when the tragedy happened,’ said the nun, identified as Sister Danielle.

‘They recorded themselves. They did a sort of sermon around the altar, in Arabic. It’s a horror,’ she told BMF television. It was an Islamic sacrificial offering to Allah. Such a sacrificial system is part and parcel of Islam itself where Islamic history shares the story of Jaad bin Durham when Al-Kasri slaughtered him in the mosque on the Sacrifical Day 119 A.H. This set the precedent that using a human being as The Festival of Sacrifice is permissible is Islam. This is supported by several of the top most forceful theologians during the history of Islam like Al-Shafi’, Ibin Tayymiya, Bukhari, Dhahabi, Ibin Al-Qiyam, Darami and Ibin Katheer.

The Muslim Isis sympathizers even forced two nuns to watch as they filmed themselves slitting the throat of the French Catholic priest Jacques Hamel. The nuns went on to confirm that the Muslim terrorists performed “a sort of sermon”.

And this is not the first time Muslims offer a priest at the sacrificial altar. Francois Murad, another priest was offered in the same way:

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Western governments have not disseminated to the public what we have been warning about for a while. The ISIS Akri/Akra motto (which means ‘strongholds’ more on that later) is the call of Islam to hit the West in areas they are most comfortable.

The question everyone asks about is “when will the west wake up?”

It is better answered by another question, how did God wake up ancient Israel in the Bible? Persecution in France against the church will ultimately wake up the French that the war is not about sick and dying secular values which truly coverup the real situation. The Muslims have already invaded France as they did in the eighth century. One of the things they wanted to destroy was the Church of St. Martin and likewise recently they attacked France at Nice which was no accident. What the media is failing to mention is that Nice is a city that has been touched by the most holy saints, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. It was evangelized by St. Barnabas, who was sent by St. Paul himself.

This is a war of history. This is why we were ahead of the ballgame and wrote: The Prophecies Of The Muslim Invasion Of Europe Was Predicted By Saints And Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes. This “refinement by fire as gold is refined” is what God ordained in the biblical prophecies about the church, especially in Europe, the center of the church.

And what do we see today? Mr Hollande called for unity between French Catholics and members of other communities. ‘What these terrorists want to do is to divide us, and today after the death of this priest I am thinking of all the Catholics of France and expressing my support,’ he said. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls tweeted that he was ‘horrified at the barbaric attack’ adding: ‘All France and all Catholics are bruised.’ Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said he feared ‘everything is being done to trigger a war of religions.’

We have been writing for months now that Europe is the epicenter when it comes to Christendom’s coming war with Islam. Soon after, Islamic terrorism began to trickle heavily. Just in the last few weeks we had Muslims in Paris kill 130 people then 32 people and wound more than 300 at the Brussels airport and Maelbeek metro station, near E.U offices. Then A Muslim Frenchman of Moroccan origin stabs a police commander to death outside his home in a Paris suburb and kills his partner, who also worked for the police. Then Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring over 300. Then a train axe attack when a Muslim migrant wielding an axe and a knife went on a rampage on a regional train, seriously injuring four members of a tourist family. Then the Munich mall mass shooting by a Muslim named Ali Daud Sonboly shot dead nine people at a Munich shopping mall. And now a priest, literally, beheaded and sacrificed at the altar of sacrifice.



This is not just about ISIS. In France, there are many Muslims sympathetic to the Caliphate. Sid Ahmed Ghlam, 24, was arrested in April 2015 after he called an ambulance in Paris after shooting himself in the leg.

Investigators found an arsenal of weapons in Ghlam’s car, which was parked nearby, and at his student accommodation. It included Kalashnikovs, a police-issue pistol, and a number of bullet-proof vests.

Documents found at his flat and in a search of his computer and telephone, suggested Ghlam was in contact with a French speaker in Syria who had ordered him to carry out attacks on churches. These included the Sacre-Couer basilica in Paris, and places of worship including the one in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray targeted today. This is an attack on the church, the stronghold of Christendom, yet the Pope announces that dec 8th, 2015 is “the Jubilee year of mercy” when in reality it was the spark of war. We already see the horrors in Europe and in Turkey where Erdogan announced Constantinople ‘has been reconquered for Islam’.

THE ISIS PLAN
Where the media and governments failed is that they say that we are simply experiencing a war with ISIS, as if we are fighting a group on some distant land. This is far from the truth. The Caliphate mania is also carried out by Muslim migrants who came solely for this purpose. ISIS itself does not name their “martyrs” and only reveal such detail after western media announces them. If ISIS is carrying out these attacks, does not ISIS know whom they sent? In fact, when you read ISIS’s Al-Naba on the attack in Ansbach in Germany, ISIS stated:

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he [Muhammad Daleel] carried out his dilemma [of not being able to join ISIS] by carrying out the general call of the Caliphate state to all Muslims [that is] to target the crusaders in the ‘Aqr’ (stronghold) of their homelands as [best] as they could.

These terrorist acts are not connected to ISIS in anyway except the moral support. The other issue is that governments fail to explain ISIS’s goal in the West. The Caliphate minded Muslims use the Arabic motto “Fe Akra Deyarik Nakhoud Al-Ma’arek” which in English means “It will be in the strongholds of your community [the Crusaders community] where we will carry out our battles” as we pointed out from ISIS’s media. A church is the stronghold of Christianity that is on the list. The very church of the Gambetta (Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray) was on the hit-list and was known to the French government who left it without protection. This type of warfare is the Caliphate’s national anthem:

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