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TechnoratiFrench police stop Facebook call to cut Muslims' throats
French police are trying to track down the instigator of a Facebook page that called on people to cut the throats of Muslims on the Eid Al-Adha holiday. The page has been closed down but its author is being sought for breaking anti-racist laws.
Spotted by the Collective against Islamophobia, the page, reproduced on the collective's website, was headlined “Cut Muslims’ throats, not sheep’s”.
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It called on people all over the world to turn to Islamophobic murder on 6 November, the date of Eid Al-Adha which marks the end of the Haj, the piligrimage to Mecca which is one of the obligations of a good Muslim.
During the festivities Muslims sacrifice sheep in honour of Abraham, regarded as a prophet by Islam, Judaism and Christianity, to mark the biblical story of his willingness to sacrifice his son, Isaac, and the Angel Gabriel’s offer of a sheep as a substitute.
“At last we will be able to celebrate for a good reason,” the page declared.
The police have declared the page’s message “despicable words which are actionable under law”.
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