France: Muslima who plotted jihad massacre at church on Easter weekend had photo of Samuel Paty

Samuel Paty was the schoolteacher who was beheaded for showing a cartoon of Muhammad. As far as jihadis are concerned, showing the cartoon was an attack by Christians, as they consider all the French people to be despite French secularism and widespread atheism, against Islam. Accordingly, an attack against a church is a proportionate and correct response, in line with the principle of eye-for-an-eye retaliation in Qur’an 5:45 — an attack on Islam leads to an attack on Christianity. The principle of the freedom of speech, so important to those who value free societies, doesn’t enter into this reasoning at all.

An update on this story. “France To Charge 18-year-old Woman For Plotting Attack On Church On Easter Weekend,” by Bhavya Sukheja, Republic World, April 8, 2021:

The French anti-terror prosecutors on April 8 said that they would seek charges against an 18-year-old woman accused of plotting a jihadist attack on a church over the Easter weekend. According to the Associated Press, the woman, identified as LB, was arrested over the weekend at her home in Beziers. She was arrested as part of an anti-terrorist investigation into a suspected attack plot targeting the city of Montpellier.

On Thursday, the anti-terror prosecution unit PNAT said that the 18-year-old will now face an anti-terror magistrate on charges belonging to a criminal terrorist conspiracy and possession of explosive devices. In a statement, the unit said that the investigation had been opening following intelligence concerning the threat of an attack on a church over the Easter weekend. Further, PNAT added that during the raid on her home, police had even found an image of Samuel Paty, the schoolteacher who was killed in October 2020 after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

PNAT said that they also seized documents describing “several plans for violent action”, others referring to the Islamic State group and nazism, and a map of a church near her home in the southern city of Beziers. Earlier this week, Mayor Robert Menard had even said that the 18-year-old had “boosted” [sic] to neighbours about watching Islamic State videos….