(Radio France) France’s Muslim community is “horrified … profoundly shocked” by the killing of Samuel Paty, according to Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith. He said the teacher’s brutal murder was an insult to the memory of the Prophet Mohammed and a travesty of his message.
“French Muslims are shocked and hurt,” said Moussaoui in a radio interview, asked about how members of his community had reacted to the killing of Paty, who was targeted for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a class on free speech.
Moussaoui made a point of being at Wednesday’s national tribute to Paty at Sorbonne university, as a representative of his faith, to express the sympathy and the solidarity of French Muslims.
