Posted on 01/11/2015 5:14:27 AM PST by the scotsman
'A Muslim shop worker has told how he saved "15 to 20" customers at a Jewish supermarket attacked by terrorist Amedy Coulibaly.
Lassana Bathily was out of the gunman's view when he stormed the Hypercacher store in eastern Paris with guns blazing.
A number of shoppers fled down stairs at the back of the shop, where they ran into the 24-year-old assistant, who thought the group could hide in a cold storage room in the basement.
He has been credited with helping the hostages - including a father and his young son - to survive the siege, in which four were killed by Coulibaly.
He told France's BFMTV: "I went to the freezer, I opened the door and a number of people came in with me.
"I turned off the light and the freezer. I told them to keep calm, to not make any noise."
After managing to escape through a goods lift and an emergency exit, Mr Bathily was initially suspected of being a terrorist accomplice.
He said: "I ran out, I saw police officers who told me 'Lie down! Hands on your head!'"
After explaining who he was, Mr Bathily was able to provide officers with useful information about the layout of the store and where customers had been hiding.
After police stormed the building and killed Coulibaly, some of the freed hostages thanked him and shook his hand, he said.
Explaining why he acted as he did, Mr Bathily said: "We are all brothers. It's not a question of Jews, Christians or Muslims.
"We were all in the same boat, we had to help each other to get out of the crisis."'
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Exactly — my first thought was “the exception that proves the rule!”
Nailed it. There are 100s of terrorist cells, members, and supporters in the U.S. Most of them are friendly and polite to all their neighbors. People expect them to act like surly terrorist. They don’t.
One might think they are an angry bunch yelling and screaming, but this
simply isn't true 95% of the time. They're polite and act respectful up to the
point of taking off the heads. Even then they talk calmly, it's how they gain
access into homes and trick their victims into compliance, by a reassuring tone
so they don't fight back until they're ready to cut heads off.
If you think for one second your Muslim acquintances are being friendly because
you think they like you, you are certainly gullible and have bought their deception.
You will see no sarcasm tag for this post. Wake-Up!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Hope he manages to leave the country discretely.
What hero? He made sure he got his own ass out of there pretty darn fast, while leaving women, children, and elderly to their fate.
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