Man jailed for knife attack aimed at French magazine Charlie Hebdo
[IsraelTimes] A Gay Paree court sentences a Pak man to 30 years in jail for attempting to murder two people outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo
...Pix/Charlie-Hebdo-Life-of-Mohammed-Part-1-238x350.jpgA lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
in 2020 with a meat cleaver.
When he carried out the attack, 29-year-old Zaheer Mahmood
…more fully Zeheer Hassan Mehmood from Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab province, whose dear papa avowed himself terribly proud of his son for his actions. Of some small interest, when first arrested the miscreant was identified as Ali, age 18, and then as Hassan A., 18… wrongly believed the satirical newspaper was still based in the building, which was targeted by Islamists a decade ago for publishing cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.
In fact, Charlie Hebdo had moved in the wake of the storming of its offices by two al-Qaeda-linked masked button men, who killed 12 people including eight of the paper’s editorial staff. The killings in January 2015 shocked La Belle France and triggered a fierce debate about freedom of expression and religion.
Originally from rural Pakistain, Mahmood arrived in La Belle France illegally in the summer of 2019. The court heard how Mahmood was influenced by radical Pak preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who had called for the beheading of blasphemers.
Khadim Rizvi, who died in 2020, was the Punjabi founder of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, which campaigned on the death penalty for blasphemers, the establishment of Sharia law, and calling out huge mobs to protest about such things. Mahmood was convicted of attempted murder and terrorist conspiracy and he will be banned from La Belle France when his sentence is served.
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