(Algemeiner) A prominent French imam has vowed to continue combating antisemitism and advancing interfaith dialogue with the Jewish community following an attempted attack on his mosque by a knife-wielding assailant.
“I’ve been living under police protection for years, I’m getting used to these situations but I’m still shocked,” Imam Hassen Chalghoumi told local news outlet Actu Seine-Saint-Denis in the wake of the incident last Friday at the mosque he serves in the Paris suburb of Drancy.
“But they won’t scare me, I won’t stop my fight,” he added.
Local police were warned in advance that a man armed with a knife was heading to the mosque when Friday prayers were being held.
