Prominent French imam: Mohamed Merah is unworthy of sharing the prophet’s name
Hassen Chalghoumi says Toulouse shootings were attacks on all of humanity
French students in a moment of silence the day after gunman Mohamed Merah murdered three children and a teacher at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, March 2012 (photo credit: Michel Spingler/AP)
Hassen Chalghoumi, the prominent imam of the Drancy mosque in Seine-Saint-Denis near Paris, was quoted by Israel Radio on Thursday strongly condemning the Monday attack at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse that killed four Jews.
Chalghoumi said that the murderer, Mohamed Merah, is unworthy to bear the name of the Prophet Muhammad. He added that the attack in Toulouse was not only against Jewish children and French soldiers, who were killed in an earlier attack by the same gunman, but against all of humanity.
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