(Brussels Signal) On the fifth anniversary of the brutal beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty by a radical Islamist, Abdelali Mamoun, imam at the historic Grande Mosquée de Paris, said Muslims were tired of it and felt “ostracised.”
During an interview with public broadcaster Franceinfo yesterday evening, Mamoun described the annual remembrances as a source of pain for France’s Muslim community, framing it as part of a broader pattern of discrimination and scapegoating.
Paty, 47, was decapitated in 2020 by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, Abdoullakh Anzorov, after showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class on free expression.
The attack, claimed by the Islamic State, shocked France and prompted President Emmanuel Macron to declare “Islamist separatism” a national security threat.
