Mr. Bathily is obviously a decent guy and one of those elusive moderate Muslims. Kudos to him.
“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.”’
Very rare to hear a moslem say this - especially one indoctrinated in the Middle East say that...
The locals in Iraq made “nicey nice” to me as well - I gave them medicine, food, security - but then again - my teams and I were heavily armed at the time...If I returned this very day, I guarantee I would be slaughtered within minutes!
As much as I despise Mohammed for the murdering, thieving, raping, slave trading genocidal savage that he was, I remember an interesting story from the Laura Ingals Wilder books.
I think this is a true story.
Laura’s husband, Almonzo Wilder, was given that name, because of a Mohammedan, Al Monsour, who saved the life of one of his ancestors who was wounded in a battle with the Mohammedans. As a result, Wilder’s ancestor promised Al Monsour that there would be a man named after him throughout the generations of Wilder’s descendants. The name was contracted to Almonzo.
The proverbial one in a million. However, despite what the Left will say, the exclusion doesn’t prove the rule. Most Muslims support the “radical” cause. It’s nice that this guy did the right thing.
My first thought on seeing his name was concern for his safety among his coreligionists in France.
I wonder if this brave man will end up with a Fatwa on his head, for saving the Infidel.
Good for him!
He was no doubt scared they were going to kill him as well.
He was trying to save his own butt.
Oscar Shindler, move over. Thank you sir!
Now he’ll be on the terrorists’ hit list.
Aha! 'bout time damn some reporter had the balls to use the word "Muslim" when reporting on this story.
I fear for this man, as too much publicity might bring him unwanted Islamic attention. I wonder if he would not have preferred anonymity. Also, how did he, a Muslim, end up working at a Kosher butcher shop, serving Jews? I would have thought that Islam would have made that verboten.
Good for him but so what? That does nothing to address the real and present danger coming from Islam, multiculturalism and tolerance.
The point is that the normal and decent people of the Muslim community don't seem capable of acting as a political and social counterweight to the Islamists, either due to passivity, fear, or conflicted loyalties (i.e. not wanting to betray "one of their own", no matter how terrible they acknowledge him to be). It's kind of analogous to how the normal working and middle-class blacks in America can't seem to act as a political and social counterweight to the thugs and race-victim hustlers. That's why this guy stands out.
Poor guy is toast.
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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.