[ April 25, 2024 ]
Mohamed Tataï, the imam of the Empalot Mosque in Toulouse, France, was charged on Wednesday for inciting racial hatred following anti-Semitic statements made in Arabic during a preaching session in December 2017.
Last September, the prosecutor’s office in Toulouse opened a judicial investigation into the hatred speech of Mr. Tataï, a 55-year-old Algerian national presented as a “moderate” imam.
Two counts of indictment were retained: “public provocation to hatred or violence on the grounds of origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion” and “public provocation by means of communication to the public by electronic means to hatred or violence on the grounds of origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion”.
On June 23, the day after the inauguration of the mosque in the Empalot district of Toulouse, the Prefect of Haute-Garonne, Pascal Mailhos, alerted the public prosecutor’s office in Toulouse to facts “likely to constitute incitement to hatred”, through remarks broadcast on the Internet in a video. The poor quality video showed a preaching from late 2017 in a prayer room in the Empalot district of Toulouse. Mohamed Tatai is seen speaking in Arabic in clearly anti-Semitic terms.
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“There’s a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him”
According to the Arabic to French translation, Mohamed Tatai reportedly said: “(The Prophet) told us about the final and decisive battle: the Last Judgment will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews… Jews will hide behind the rocks and the trees and the rocks and the rocks and the trees will say:” O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew who hides behind me, come and kill him”.
What the media avoided to mention is that what the moderate imam said is a direct quote from the Quran, because it would mean that the Quran itself is inciting hatred – a reality we all know to be true, but is taboo.
Faced with the controversy, Mohamed Tataï defended himself by denouncing “a crude montage” and remarks “out of context”. “In my preaching, I was not aiming at Judaism or the Jewish people,” he said in a La Dépêche interview.
Following these broadcasts, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office commissioned sworn experts to translate these sermons.
It was at the end of the verifications “of the content and methods of its dissemination” that the head of the Toulouse Public Prosecutor’s Office decided to entrust the investigations to two investigating magistrates.
Mohamed Tataï was the subject of an open hearing in early September at the premises of the Toulouse Regional Judicial Police Service, which is in charge of the investigation.
The representative council of Jewish institutions in France (Crif) Toulouse-Midi-Pyrénées had announced its intention to file a civil suit.
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14 Comments
5 years ago
The koran IS HATE SPEECH, if there ever was any!
5 years ago
these white french folks are the descendents of the vichy french…they are used to subjugating themselves to evil. this time, though, the american army will not be coming to save them
5 years ago
Another moderate muslim that is not quite as moderate as they want us to believe they are.
It is amazing how the “radical” in the muslim brain always seeps through. No matter what they say.
There is no such thing as a moderate muslim.
5 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
President Erdogan states there are no moderate Muslims. ‘You either are Muslim or you are not.’
5 years ago
Moderate Muslims are a figment of the imagination, a ruse conjured by the governments of Progressive-Leftists, the left-wing aspirant Jihadi, and the mainstream media. The above mentioned are one of the same, Islamists bent on the ruination of Western culture and are succeeding. The EU and Britain’s infliction and affliction of this incurable disease is pandemic while nurtured by the Leftist-Fascists of the West. There is no panacea but the overthrowing of the treasonous governments and their ally, Islam.
5 years ago
Just like citizens of the censorshipdatorships don’t know that unjust Muhammad incited to the murder of Jews & atheists, they’re not being informed that Algeria had a surge of enslavement of Africans lately.
Unjust Muhammad said his unproven deity had turned Africans black so African’s descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks & today Africans are enslaved from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania.
5 years ago
Imams in their own way are far more dangerous than suicide bombers, they have the power to sway and influence the minds of millions of people around the world, poisoning and brainwashing them with violent ideologies from a very young age.
5 years ago
The quote is not from the holey quran it’s from an “authentic” ahadith and there are three “authentic” ahadith that say practically the same thing about this subject (i.e. killing Jews):
“Allah’s Apostle said, ‘The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”‘”
Ishaq:441
In Sahih Muslim: Book 041, Number 6985:
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
Bukhari:V4B52N177
“Allah’s Apostle said, ‘You Muslims will fight the Jews till some of them hide behind stones. The stones will betray them saying, “O Abdullah (slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.”‘”
5 years ago
there are no moderate muslims
5 years ago
Reply to
mudpuppy6
I believe that you are wrong. There are moderate muslims. A moderate muslims is someone who ask to kill Jews and Christians, and to hang homosexuals. The extremist kill them.
5 years ago
There is no such entity as a moderate Muslim.
5 years ago
Reply to
jkarna
Yes,only one who has not elected to practice faithfully their religion, but given the opportunity may well change his attitude. Living amongst Muslims is akin to living with a time bomb,never knowing when it may explode. Myself, whenever I see a Muslim with a backpack or a woman in a burka I can’t help but think will it explode?
5 years ago
“Well,you see, Your Honor, I was only quoting our Holy Book,the words of the Prophet, we do have freedom of religion here in France,right?”
