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Ammunition, IS propaganda found after France shuts mosque
2015-12-07
[IsraelTimes] Associated with Salafist branch of Islam, prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne is third in country to be shut down since Gay Paree terror attacks

Kalashnikov ammunition and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
propaganda videos were seized in raids following the closure of a mosque in the Gay Paree suburbs, French authorities said Sunday.

The prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne, around 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of the capital, was shut down last Wednesday following a large-scale police operation.

Associated with the traditionalist Salafist branch of Islam, it is the third mosque in La Belle France to be closed after the coordinated jihadist attacks on Gay Paree on November 13.

The prefect -- the highest representative of the state -- in the Seine-and-Marne department said Sunday "7.62mm ammunition for a Kalashnikov rifle and propaganda videos" for the Islamic State group had been found in raids linked to the closure of the prayer hall.

The locations of the raids were not given.

A revolver and jihadist documents were also found during searches at the homes of the mosque leaders, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said previously.

A total of 22 travel bans and nine house arrests for "radicalized individuals" have been issued as a result of the operation.

Police also found recordings of religious chants "glorifying the deaders of jihad linked to the terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
", the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, the prefecture added.

The recordings were found among a wealth of teaching material for youngsters in an undeclared madrassa, or religious school.

"No request was made to open a private school," the prefecture said in its statement.

Mohammed Ramdane, president of the local Muslim association in Lagny, had criticized the closure of the prayer hall on Wednesday, saying: "Nothing has been found. Nothing is hidden, we don't hide anything."
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  AP, turn it into a pig farm. The French make good pork dishes, use ground up Korans for mulch.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-12-07 16:27  

#4  Then they can build a park around it like the Trummerberg in Berlin. They can name it the Bummerberg after Baghdad Barry.
Posted by: JHH   2015-12-07 14:39  

#3  After it is closed down, it needs to be leveled and hauled away to a future holy site that contains a massive hill of Islamist rubble.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-12-07 14:26  

#2  Nothing has been found? Sounds like a challenge.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2015-12-07 11:27  

#1  The prayer hall in Lagny-sur-Marne, around 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of the capital, was shut down last Wednesday following a large-scale police operation.

More please.
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-12-07 09:59  

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