Gang boss jailed for torturing French Jew to death

By Thierry Leveque in Paris

Reuters

July 11, 2009 10:21am

Youssouf Fofana jailed for Ilan Halimi's death
Life in jail ... Youssouf Fofana was found guilty of the kidnap and torture of a young Jewish man in France / AFP

   * Gang boss jailed for torture
   * Victim was young Jewish man
   * Anti-Semitism on rise in France

THE leader of a group that called itself a "gang of barbarians" was sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court for kidnapping and torturing a young Jewish man for more than three weeks before leaving him to die.

The gang abducted 23-year-old Ilan Halimi in 2006, unsuccessfully tried to extort a ransom for their captive, tortured him until he was close to death and then left him near a train station. He died shortly after he was found.

The case shocked France and turned a spotlight on anti-Semitic violence in the poor, multi-ethnic suburbs around many big French cities.

Amid tight courtroom security, Youssouf Fofana, the gang's leader, who admitted killing Mr Halimi, was sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum penalty under French law, with a minimum period in jail of 22 years.

Twenty-four other gang members were handed sentences ranging from six months suspended to 18 years in prison. Two were acquitted.
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"I am pleased that the Paris court of assizes has recognised the anti-Semitic character of this crime," Francis Szpiner, a lawyer for Halimi's family said outside the courtroom.

"It was because he was Jewish that Ilan Halimi was killed and tortured. No one can challenge this judicial truth."

However he added that he was disappointed at what he said were lenient sentences handed to some of Fofana's accomplices and asked the Justice Ministry to seek an appeal.

Aside from the horrific details of the murder itself, the case attracted wide attention because of what it seemed to suggest about racial tensions and anti-Semitism in France. Many in the Jewish community say that anti-Semitic aggression among French youths of Arab and African origin has been on the rise in recent years, exacerbated by anger over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

According to several members of the gang, Mr Halimi was targeted because he was Jewish and was therefore believed to have money.

The trial, which lasted for more than two months, was held largely behind closed doors after clashes at the start of the hearing between radical Jewish militants and witnesses and relatives of some of the accused.

Fofana, a 28 year-old of Ivoirian origin, expressed no remorse and expressed defiance throughout the trial. On various occasions, he smirked at Hamili's relatives, shouted "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest!) and at one point threw shoes at lawyers.

He gave his date of birth as February 13, 2006, in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, the date and place of Mr Halimi's death and bombarded the magistrates investigating the case with letters full of anti-Semitic insults.

Among the 26 other defendants were young men accused of taking part in the abduction and guarding of the captive, and a girl who is alleged to have lured Mr Halimi into the Paris suburb of Sceaux where he was kidnapped.


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25764432-401,00.html

Notice that the dhimmi press doesn't dare say the *real* reason for the attack, Islam. I don't think there is any mention of the word there, they just vaguely refer to persons of Arab origin. Were these Christian Arabs? Hell no - they were muslim Arabs.

By the way, can you imagine the protests and riots worldwide, if a group of Jews captured a muslim civilian in France and tortured him to death?

How long can it be, before such hate crimes occur in Australia,
when ALL moslems believe that they are 'justified', in their Jihad against non-moslems?

ISLAM = = Jihad
ISLAM = = deception, lies, and violence [against non-moslems].
Jihad = = deception, lies, and violence [against non-moslems].



Another example, or ISLAM's provocation to violence...

Presented for a moslem audience - THE TRUTH OF THE JIHAD....

When Sheik Feiz Mohammed assumed his audience were only moslems, he seemingly proudly stated....

"We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam."
"There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid (holy warrior)."
"Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom."
"The peak, the pinnacle, the crest, the highest point, the pivot, the summit of Islam is jihad,"
"Kaffir ['unbelief'] is the worst word ever written, a sign of infidelity, disbelief, filth, a sign of dirt."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21074839-2,00.html




http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5363339,00.jpg
'Misunderstood' firebrand ... Sheik Feiz at his property in Sydney.



The 'softsoap', presented for a NON-moslem audience - THE DECEPTION OF THE JIHAD....

Only when non-moslems expressed their outrage at what Sheik Feiz Mohammed had seemingly, openly stated, and encouraged,
only after his views became commonly known, Sheik Feiz Mohammed THEN SAID, that his words [on his own DVD presention] had been 'misrepresented'....

"The jihad I speak of is not one of violence,"
"It is one of personal struggle against things like mischievousness, temptation and personal harm."
"I don't believe in suicide bombing."
"I don't believe in violence against others,"
"We denounce that. This is not Islamic law and it is not moral."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/19/asia/AS-GEN-Australia-Cleric-Controversy.php

Really?

But ISLAMIC religious texts and doctrine, clearly teach an obligation for all devout moslems, of unending war against Allah's enemies [all non-moslems].

The Hadith...

"Allah 's Apostle said, " I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' ...."
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/052.sbt.html#004.052.196


"Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad). The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in goodness)? He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah's Cause." "
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/002.sbt.html#001.002.025







ENOUGH OF CORROBORATING ISLAMIC TEXTS,
...BACK TO TODAY.

ISLAMIC doctrine about the Kafir, being espoused to moslem communities #1
[Kafir  = = 'unbelief']

"We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents.
Only between Muslims and unbelievers.
And the life of an unbeliever has no value.
It has no sanctity."
Quote, Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, a UK moslem community leader.

What Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad believes, is that as far as [true] ISLAM is concerned, non-moslems who reject ISLAM, and oppose the spread of ISLAM, can be 'lawfully' murdered by devout moslems - if moslems have the 'opportunity'.




ISLAMIC doctrine about the Kafir, being espoused to moslem communities #2

And, Anjem Choudary - another UK moslem community leader.
Here on YOUTUBE, he explains ISLAM, to the dumb Kuffar,

"...when we say innocent people, we mean muslims."
"....[not accepting ISLAM] is a crime against God."
"...If you are a non-muslim, then you are guilty of not believing in God."
"...as a muslim....i must have *hatred* towards everything which is non-ISLAM."
"...[muslims] allegence is always with the muslims, so i will never condemn a muslim for what he does."
"...Britain has always been Dar al Harb [the Land of War]"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maHSOB2RFm4


AND THOSE EXAMPLES REFLECT TRUE ISLAMIC DOCTRINE.




ISLAMIC law texts declare, whom moslems can lawfully kill,
....'unbelievers', especially 'unbelievers' who oppose the spread of vile ISLAM...

"Ibn 'Abbas reported that the Prophet said: "The bare essence of Islam and the basics of the religion are three [acts], upon which Islam has been established. Whoever leaves one of them becomes an unbeliever and his blood may legally be spilled. [The acts are:] Testifying that there is no God except Allah, the obligatory prayers, and the fast of Ramadan."...."
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/fus3_50.html#3.110

n.b. "Whoever......*becomes an unbeliever*.....his blood may legally be spilled."


The Koran.....

"Believers, obey Allah, and obey the Messenger! Those who disbelieve and hinder men from the Cause of Allah, He will not pardon [i.e. they are the enemies of Allah, kill them!]. Do not falter; become faint-hearted, or weak-kneed, crying for peace [i.e. slay them]. You have the upper hand [i.e. slay them].
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/047.qmt.html#047.033
v. 33-35

"Muslim Jailed for Torturing Jew to Death"

Whether it is Jews in France,
or Christians in Turkey,
...moslems sincerely believe that they are 'justified' by ISLAM, in their Jihad [violence] against non-moslems.




Slain evangelists were tortured, says Turkish doctor
April 20, 2007
MALATYA, Turkey --  Three Protestants murdered at a Christian publishing house in Malatya, Turkey, were tortured for three hours before their assailants slit their throats, a press report said Friday, quoting one of the doctors involved in the grisly case.
Dr. Murat Ugras, a spokesman for the Turgut Ozal Medical center, told the daily Hurriyet of hospital surgeons' fruitless efforts to save Ugur Yuksel, one of the three victims of the massacre at the Zirve (summit) publishing house, which distributed Christian literature.
"He had scores of knife cuts on his thighs, his testicles, his rectum, and his back," Ugras said. "His fingers were sliced to the bone.
"It is obvious that these wounds had been inflicted to torture him," he said.
The two others who were killed, Necati Aydin, pastor of Malatya's tiny Protestant community, and German Tilmann Geske, a Malatya resident with his wife and three children since 2003, were also tortured, press reports said.
........Gunaydin, 19, had reportedly made several visits beforehand to the publishing house to gain the confidence of the people working there, newspapers said.
The daily Radikal said that the German was the first to die and the two Turks were slaughtered only when police arrived at the door after receiving a call from a member of the Protestant community who grew suspicious when he found the office door locked.
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070420-064724-9427r  [dead link?]

Google,
"Slain evangelists were tortured, says Turkish doctor"
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22Slain+evangelists+were+tortured%2C+says+Turkish+doctor%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=





Cop this next LEGAL ARGUMENT, made in a Turkish [secular] court....

TERRORISTS [who killed 58 people] SHOULD NOT BE PROSECUTED,
....BECAUSE THESE MURDERERS ARE MERELY FULFILLING THEIR 'RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION', TO FIGHT AND KILL NON-MUSLIMS!!

20 Dec 2005
Jihad is 'Muslim obligation'
A lawyer defending al Qaida-linked suspects standing trial for the 2003 suicide bombings in Istanbul told a court that jihad, or holy war, was an obligation for Muslims and [so.....] his clients should not be prosecuted.
"If you punish them for this, tomorrow, will you punish them for fasting or for praying?" Osman Karahan -- a lawyer representing 14 of the 72 suspects -- asked during a nearly four-hour speech in which he read religious texts from an encyclopedia of Islam.
The November 2003 blasts targeted two synagogues, the British Consulate and the local headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank, killing 58 people.
The Arabic word jihad can mean holy war among extremists in addition to its definition as the Islamic concept of the struggle to do good.
Karahan spoke for three hours at the court in Istanbul.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2440692005   now a dead link. :(((

try...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/009487.php

A few young people I know came back from france.
They said the crime in paris is really bad. they went for a walk wearing hoodies and people crossed the road to avoid them.
given this report, I am not surprised.

any comments on these actions from muslims, abu the deceptive?