STRASBOURG, France — One was a well-liked elementary school assistant. Another was a hard-working cargo handler. The third was a friendly grocer. They were longtime friends in their quiet suburban neighborhood, and they joked with teenagers and greeted children with a smile.
Yet in the early hours of Nov. 20 agents from France’s internal security agency swooped down, plucking the three and one other from their apartments, charging them with plotting a terrorist attack, and locking them up in a prison outside Paris. Here was a new type of terrorism arrest: decently paid men in their 30s giving no warning signs of radicalization — no beards, no robes, no proselytizing.
And unlike many troubled youths in Paris and Brussels who have latched onto the Islamic State, they did not live on the margins. They had stable jobs and no previous brushes with drugs or crime.
It is their sheer normalcy that has had a thoroughly unsettling effect on the authorities and residents alike.
“Nobody saw anything,” said Olivier Bitz, Strasbourg’s deputy mayor in charge of counter-radicalization. “And that is profoundly disconcerting. It is profoundly destabilizing for society. Now, the threat can come from anywhere.” “It calls for heightened vigilance,” Mr. Bitz added. “These are not people who are outside French society.”
In the days that followed the arrests, French authorities congratulated themselves on nipping in the bud what they called a “deadly” plot. The men were set to “go into action imminently,” François Molins, France’s chief terrorism prosecutor, said in Paris soon after the arrests.
“The Strasbourg terror cell had instructions to get weapons, given by a commander in the Iraq-Syria zone,” Mr. Molins said, adding that weapons and pledges of allegiance to ISIS were found in searches. (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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THIS IS THE MUSLIM DOCTRINE OF TAQIYYA UP CLOSE:
LIE TO ALL CHRISTIANS (AND INFIDELS)
Taqiyya is practiced once they are allowed into a country (feigning refugee status).
<><> (a) Muslim refugees have pretended to convert to Christianity;
<><>(b) an Islamic gunman gained entrance to a church by feigning interest in Christian prayers.
Examples abound on a daily basis.
In Turkey, to get close enough to a Christian pastor to assassinate him, a group of Muslims including three women feigned interest in Christianity, attended his church for over a year, and even participated in baptism ceremonies.
Said the pastor: "These Muslim people had infiltrated our church and collected information about me, my family and the church and were preparing an attack against us."
" Two of the Muslims attended our church for over a year. They acted like family."
Thanks for posting the excellent information.
I also read that Muslims are allowed to lie and pretend, if that helps them achieve their goals.
Their pretense helped them avoid scrutiny for a long time.
When will people really wake up and realize what is going on?