French police probe Facebook call to cut Muslim throats

Wall page had already been taken off

AFP | September 12, 2011



French police were today trying to identify a Facebook user who called "to cut Muslims's throats instead of sheep" during the Eid al-Adha feast, sparking the ire of Muslim and anti-racist groups.

"Police are carrying out an investigation to identify the author of these unworthy declarations," police said in a statement, adding that the Facebook "wall" page in question had already been taken down.

Following the posting, the French Muslim Council (CFCM) contacted police and the French anti-Islamophobia Collective (CCIF) contacted the social networking site to have the page removed.

The offending statement called on the world to mark the Feast of Sacrifice, known as Eid al-Adha, on November 6 by "cutting Muslim throats instead of sheep".

"We will finally have a good reason to celebrate," it said.

Muslims mark the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca by sacrificing an animal, often a sheep, in remembrance of Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son for God.

"This is a lamentable call to murder that could bring about a new Oslo," Abdallah Zekri of the CFCM told AFP, referring to July's massacre in Norway carried out by Islamophobe Anders Behring Breivik.

Zekri noted what he said was a rise in Islamophobia in France since President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party started a controversial public debate on French identity, Islam and immigration.

"Today it is easy to attack Muslims with impunity," Zekri said. (AFP) ASK

 

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