Islam - Current Day > Pseudo-Christian Muslim Migrant attacks toddlers in French playground; Muslim husband's horrific response to wife becoming a Christian

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Horror as nursery children ‘stabbed by Syrian refugee’

at French playground

News.com.au, June 8, 2023:

A Syrian asylum seeker has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of stabbing four children at a play park in the French Alps.

The man allegedly attacked the children, who were aged about three years, and an adult in French city of Annecy at 9.45am on Thursday.

Two of the children and an adult sustained life-threatening injuries….

The suspect was arrested by police soon afterwards following a brief struggle close to the park, which is in a square in the Alpine town, The Sun reports.

The knifeman was identified by the French Interior Ministry as Abdalmasih H., aged 32.

“He arrived in France in 2022, and had refugee status,” said a spokesman.

An eyewitness, who asked not to be named, said: …“He wanted to hurt as many people as he could. He caused carnage….

Meanwhile, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez tweeted: “Horror again. This attack on children is the height of the abomination.”

“I extend my full support to the victims and their families….

France: Syrian migrant who stabbed children claims to be Christian,

said ‘In the name of Jesus Christ’ during stabbings

JUN 8, 2023 11:00 AM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Is he a Christian? It’s certainly possible. His name has been released as “Abdelmasih H.,” and Abdelmasih means “Slave of the Messiah,” or “Slave of Christ.” Jesus is, however, referred to as “al-Masih” in the Qur’an, so this is a name Muslims could have as well.

If he is a Christian, he did not stab these children in accord with any Christian teachings, as there are no Christian teachings that call for such violence.

It is also possible that he is a Muslim who is claiming to be a Christian, in accord with Muhammad’s dictum “War is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.268). He may have decided to shout about Jesus Christ during the stabbings in order to confuse authorities and the media, and to deflect attention away from Islamic jihad. There are other possibilities as well. Some Muslims entering European countries in recent years have claimed to be Christian because they believe that doing so will strengthen their claims for asylum. Abdelmasih H. may also be a convert to Christianity who later returned to Islam, and then had to do something to outweigh his sin of apostasy on Allah’s great scales of his good and bad deeds (Qur’an 21:47). A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” (Bukhari 4.52.44)

Remember also the case of Enzo Almeni, who converted to Christianity to get asylum in the UK, then returned to Islam and became a jihad suicide bomber; after his attack, he was widely reported as being a Christian, without much attention given to his return to Islam.

An update on this story...

LIVE – Children stabbed in Annecy: ‘No apparent terrorist motive,’ according to the authorities

translated from “EN DIRECT – Enfants poignardés à Annecy : «Aucun mobile terroriste apparent», selon les autorités,” 

by Clara Hidalgo, Le Figaro, June 8, 2023:

The suspect’s motive, taken into custody on Thursday, remains to be determined. An investigation for assassination attempts has been opened.

The Syrian who attacked young children with a knife in Annecy, two of whom have a vital prognosis, said twice in English during the attack “in the name of Jesus Christ,” we can hear in a video consulted by AFP and Le Figaro, then confirmed by a source familiar with the matter.

The assailant, who was wearing a Christian cross when he was arrested, presented himself as a “Christian from Syria” when applying for asylum at the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra) on November 28, 2022.

A lot of people call themselves Christians but have no evidence in their life that the Spirit of God lives within them. Abdelmasih H. behaved in a manner consistent with Islam, not Christianity. Jesus made it clear that anyone who harms children will pay a severe price. This is one of the reasons I write this blog, to warn those who destroy children's lives through abuse and/or sexual abuse that their Judgement will be stunning.

Unlike the Quran, there is no justification for hurting children in the Bible. This man is no Christian, he is a radicalized Muslim and, like all radicalized Muslims, is thoroughly insane.

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Uganda: Muslima becomes Christian, husband screams

‘Allahu akbar,’ beats her, leaves her to be eaten by wild animals

JUN 7, 2023 12:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.

This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”

Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”

Meanwhile, Islamic law stipulates that the “contract of protection” is ended and a non-Muslim’s life is forfeit if he “leads a Muslim away from Islam” (Reliance of the Traveller 011.10).

Christian Woman Starved, Left in Wild Animal Park

Morning Star News, May 30, 2023:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim upset with his wife’s conversion to Christianity in western Uganda denied her food and left her in a national park with wild animals, she said.

Sharifa Muhando, 27, of Kasese town, said her husband beat her and kept her from food for a week after learning that she had put her faith in Christ. The mother of a 2-year-old boy had kept her faith hidden from her husband, Musa Bwambale, and other relatives after accepting Christ on July 9, 2021.

On May 10 at about 7 p.m., Muhando prayed in her room, read from her Bible and fell asleep, she said.

“Unfortunately I left the door open,” Muhando told Morning Star News from her hospital bed. “My husband came back from his place of work and called me, and I didn’t respond because I was deep in sleep. He opened the door and found me with my Bible and a notebook on my chest. He shouted, ‘Allah Akbar [God is greater]!’”

The shouting of the jihadist slogan woke her.

“I was terrified after seeing him; he asked me what the matter was,” she said. “I answered him that this is a holy book. He got annoyed and beat me that night and told me that he was punishing me for leaving Islam, and that he will automatically be rewarded in Jannah [paradise] by Allah.”

Since that night he kept her from eating, she said, adding that after two days he threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

On May 17, Bwambale took her to nearby Queen Elizabeth National Park, she said.

“My husband said he had received a dream from Allah of taking me somewhere,” Muhando told Morning Star News. “He took me on his vehicle and dumped me inside Queen Elizabeth National Park to be eaten by wild animals.”

Yeah, that sounds like Allah!

Islam - Current Day > Genocide by Torture; Murder by Whats App? Annecy Terrorist a Muslim not a Christian; BBC refuses to call deadly attack terrorism

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Bangladesh: Islamic radicals tortured Hindu family brutally

in Maymensingh

Hindu Post, June 10, 2023:

…the affected Hindu family has been living at Dhanikhola village under Trishal Upozila of Maymensingh district. It is alleged that for past few months, Islamic radicals were trying to evict the family. They allegedly threatened the family to leave the country. But they didn’t care the threats.

Lots of cops in Bangladesh, but, apparently, not for Hindus

In the morning of 8th of June, Islamic radicals led by Muhammad Jalil and Muhammad Manna attacked the Hindu family. They damaged the house. When resisted, family members were brutally tortured. Women were not spared. Radicals beaten the women….

The affected Hindu family alleged that police is not taking any steps to arrest the accused radicals.

Of course not, the police are Muslim.

Murder by Whats App - State Sanctioned

Pakistan to hang Christian for ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp images

sent by Muslim

by Simon Caldwell, 

Catholic Herald, June 6, 2023 

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian to death after he received cartoons of Mohammad, the founder of Islam, in a WhatsApp chat message to his phone.

Nouman Asghar, 24, of Bahawalpur in Punjab, was convicted of blasphemy under 295-c of the country’s Penal Code, which carries the death penalty.

According to Fides news agency, he and his family argued that the drawings of Mohammad were sent to him by Bilal Ahmad, a young Muslim whom the police did not arrest.

The same drawings were also sent via WhatsApp, a social media platform, to Sunny Mushtaq, the Christian cousin of Ashghar, who is awaiting sentencing for blasphemy from the same Bahawalpur Magistrates Court.

Trainee Sub-Inspector Fraz Ahmed of the Faqirwali Police Station in Bahawalnagar said the pair were arrested in July 2019 after he received “secret information” that Mushtaq had printed the sketches and was showing them to other people.

I wonder, did the 'secret information' come from the same source as the Whats App cartoons? Is someone after somebody's house, or land, or sister?

Aneeqa Maria Anthony, a lawyer from The Voice legal group which is supporting the pair, said he was disappointed by the sentencing of Asghar.

He said: “The magistrate ignored all the procedures and dismissed all the evidence in favour of the accused.

“He only wanted to complete his ‘sacred duty’ to punish an alleged blasphemer,” he told Fides news agency.

“We expect the same fate for Sunny Mushtaq. They were arrested for a teenage game. Their families are suffering greatly.

“Our legal team at The Voice is doing everything necessary to grant them justice, helping their families and standing by their side in these dark and difficult times.”

Mr Anthony described the prosecution of the two men as “another example of the misuse of blasphemy laws” under which scores of Christians have been prosecuted, often following fabricated allegations….

Pakistan ranked seventh on Open Doors’ 2023 list of the world’s most dangerous places to be a Christian, up from eighth the previous year.

As we suggested from the beginning...

The Annecy terrorist is a Syrian Muslim named Selwan Majd

translated from “Le terroriste d’Annecy serait un Syrien musulman nommé Selwan Majd…,” 

by Christine Tasin, Resistance Républicaine, June 12, 2023:

Here is what is circulating from Syrians living in France and Germany who recognized the madman of Allah.

And this was confirmed by relatives of Father Boulad in Alexandria…

From the beginning we say that it cannot be a Christian... and that it is signed by (has all the signs of) a Muslim...

The assailant is believed to be a Syrian refugee named Selwan Majd ...

He claimed his name was Abd El-Messih Hanoun, but his real name is "Selwan Majd", a refugee from Al-Hasakah in northern Syria.

He had traveled to Turkey with false papers where he met a Swedish tourist and made her believe he was a Muslim who had converted to Christianity.

He married her in Sweden under the false Christian name, but the Swedish authorities doubted him and refused to grant him citizenship, later his wife separated from him.

In France he went to seek help in a church but the church also doubted him.

He committed his crime by wearing a cross, claiming he was a Christian in order to hide his terrorist genes.

Unfortunately the European authorities have acquired a lot of false information recorded either by the refugees themselves or by the Turkish authorities.

Thousands of people infiltrated European countries and became sleeper cells.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....

BBC refuses to name the suspect here or even suggest that this was a terrorist event. But like the story immediately above, it has all the markings of a Muslim terrorist. It's disgusting that BBC does not even mention the possibility. It's sad that the British Broadcasting Corp has turned its back on Brits.

Man arrested in Nottingham after three killed, three hurt by van

By Paul Godfrey

 

A 31-year-old man was arrested after three people were found killed and three others were injured by a van in Nottingham, 130 miles north of London. Photo by Lindsey Parnaby/EPA-EFE

June 13 (UPI) -- A male suspect is being held on suspicion of murder after three people were killed and three others were injured in the early hours of Tuesday in the city of Nottingham, 130 miles north of London, police said.

The 31-year-old man was arrested after police were called to the center of the city just after 4 a.m. local time where two people were found dead in the street. Officers were then called to another incident nearby where a van had attempted to run over three people, Nottinghamshire Police said in a news release.

A third person, a male, was also found dead in a road 1.6 miles to the north.

Declaring a major incident across the city police flooded the area with officers, some armed, cordoned off roads. Tram services were also suspended by Nottingham Express Transit.

"This is a horrific and tragic incident which has claimed the lives of three people. We believe these three incidents are all linked and we have a man in custody," said Chief Constable Kate Meynell.

Meynell added the investigation was in its "early stages" and that several roads would remain closed as authorities look to determine what happened.

An eyewitness told the BBC he saw a young man and young woman being stabbed on the road outside his house.

"I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing -- four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road. The girl stumbled towards a house and didn't move," the witness said.

He said that after emergency services arrived paramedics spent about 40 minutes trying to resuscitate the two victims.

An eyewitness to the arrest in the Forest Fields area of the city 1.5 miles away from where victims were driven at, told of being woken up by what he thought was gunfire after which he saw a person being tasered, pulled from a van and arrested by police.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she had spoken with police chief Meynell about the incident and was receiving regular updates.

"I am shocked and saddened that three people have lost their lives today in Nottingham. My thoughts are with those affected by this incident. I am thankful to the emergency services for their response."

Are we going to pretend that these were not acts of Islamic terrorism?

Islam - Current Day > Int'l Footballer tries to honour-kill his little sister; Muslim murders 15 y/o "whore" pregnant girlfriend; 18 Muslims booked for mass conversions; Toddler stabber charged with attempted murder

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Yvelines: an Algerian international footballer arrested for

attempted murder of his little sister

Translated from “Yvelines : un footballeur international algérien arrêté pour tentative de meurtre sur sa petite sœur,” 

Valeurs Actuelles, June 5, 2023

A family dispute that escalates. Sunday, June 4, an international football player of Franco-Algerian nationality, (read: Muslim) was arrested by the police in the Yvelines for having strangled his sister, reports Le Parisien. The police intervened around 6:45 p.m. this Sunday evening, at the home of the parents of this football player, located in Maurepas. A dispute would have broken out between this man and his little sister, aged 15, for a reason that is still unknown. The athlete strangled his sister. In fact, the police, called by the parents to put an end to this violence, found red marks on the girl’s neck and scratches on her arms.

The victim’s brother was apprehended and taken into custody for attempted murder at the Élancourt police station, to prevent any attempt to escape. This international player would have been selected nineteen times for the Algerian national team since 2013. He was trained in Trappes and Paris Saint-Germain and played for Olympique Lyonnais, then in Italy and Germany, before finishing his career in Qatar, on the club of Al-Gharafa SC.

Despite the request of the police, his younger sister has still not filed a complaint. The footballer will be interviewed by investigators while in police custody and the Versailles prosecutor’s office has 48 hours to decide what to do with this case.

France: Muslim soccer player tries to strangle his 15-year-old sister to death

JUN 9, 2023 1:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)

In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)

And according to Islamic law, “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).

Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”

Yvelines, Paris

Isn't it time that French schoolgirls are taught what Muslim boys actually think of them?

Trial of Muslim who murdered and burned body of 15-y/o ‘whore’

girlfriend pregnant with his child is a milestone in France

Remix News, June 6, 2023

The trial of a man accused of murdering a 15-year-old pregnant schoolgirl in France began on Monday at the court for minors in the department of Oise, just north of Paris.

Shaïna, the victim whose name has been changed, was murdered on Oct. 25, 2019. She was pregnant and had been a long-time sufferer of sexual abuse. She has become one of the symbols of violence against women, living in a neighborhood where rumors and injunctions against young women are even more prevalent than elsewhere.

After having been sexually assaulted in 2017 at the age of 13, had only just begun to overcome her trauma in 2019 and had been returning to a normal life when her charred body was found in a burned-out garden shed.

Shortly afterward, rumors began to swirl that the murderer was a man named Driss after local police in the commune of Creil received several anonymous calls denouncing the young man. A few days later, one of Driss’ friends spontaneously went to the police station to give evidence: Driss had confessed to him that he had killed Shaïna. The suspect had allegedly told his friend, “I smoked her.”

The friend explained that Driss had invited Shaïna to the garden shed with the intention of killing her and that he had hidden a kitchen knife, a pair of gloves, and a bottle of petrol in the shed. He wanted to kill Shaïna because she was pregnant with his child and he didn’t want to have a child with her.

Held in custody since his arrest, Driss is said to have bragged about the murder to two of his fellow inmates. His comments reveal the contempt he feels for Shaïna. When asked by a cellmate why he was in prison, he reportedly replied “proudly with a smile that he was there because he had killed his girlfriend, who was a whore he had impregnated, and that he didn’t want his mother to find out because he was a Muslim.”…

France: Man killed girlfriend because he had impregnated her and

didn’t want his mom to find out, as he was Muslim

JUN 8, 2023 4:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

He doesn’t seem to have valued the life of his girlfriend very highly. Might this attitude have arisen from the attitudes toward women that Islam inculcates?

The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34

Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127

The Qur’an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth as you will” — Qur’an 2:223

It declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man: “Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as you choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her” — Qur’an 2:282

It allows men to marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave girls also: “If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if you fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly, then only one, or one that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice” — Qur’an 4:3

It rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter: “Allah directs you as regards your children’s inheritance: to the male, a portion equal to that of two females” — Qur’an 4:11

It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” — Qur’an 65:4

Islamic law stipulates that a man’s prayer is annulled if a dog or a woman passes in front of him as he is praying. “Narrated ‘Aisha: The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, “Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people).” I said, ‘You have made us (i.e. women) dogs.’ I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away. for I disliked to face him.” — Sahih Bukhari 1.9.490

Another hadith depicts Muhammad saying that the majority of the inhabitants of hell are women:

“I looked into Paradise and I saw that the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I saw that the majority of its people are women.” — Sahih Bukhari 3241; Sahih Muslim 2737

When asked about this, he explained:

“I was shown Hell and I have never seen anything more terrifying than it. And I saw that the majority of its people are women.” They said, “Why, O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “Because of their ingratitude (kufr).” It was said, “Are they ungrateful to Allah?” He said, “They are ungrateful to their companions (husbands) and ungrateful for good treatment. If you are kind to one of them for a lifetime then she sees one (undesirable) thing in you, she will say, ‘I have never had anything good from you.’” — Sahih Bukhari 1052

And in another hadith:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) went out to the musalla (prayer place) on the day of Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr. He passed by the women and said, ‘O women! Give charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the people of Hell.’ They asked, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religious commitment than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.’ The women asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is deficient in our intelligence and religious commitment?’ He said, ‘Is not the testimony of two women equal to the testimony of one man?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Is it not true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religious commitment.’” — Sahih Bukhari 304

Another statement attributed to Muhammad: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning.” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460

Not God's angels, of course, but Allah's.

Oise, France

India: 18 Muslims booked for illegal mass conversion of Hindus;

pregnant Hindu poisoned to death for not converting

JUN 10, 2023 11:00 AM 

BY ASHLYN DAVIS

Jihad Watch

While Islamic propagandists routinely cry about Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s strong-arming of minorities, it turns out the Islamists in the state are still thriving and engaging in unsavory activities with unrestricted liberty. Whether it is their involvement in love jihad or mass conversions, they refuse to back down. In May, the Uttar Pradesh police in Azamgarh arrested a gang of Muslims who had organized a mass conversion of underprivileged Hindus, and arrested 18 members as accused. They had allegedly targeted a slum area and decorated it in the manner of an Islamic shrine; they then organized qawwali performances and religious discourses in front of large gatherings.

Among those arrested in the crackdown was the mastermind, a man named Sikandar; the police are now hunting for those who have been illegally converted or were approached for the conversion. Additional forces were also called in to avert resistance during the arrest. Police have confirmed that Sikander and his accomplices had decorated the slum in the Devgaon area’s Chirkihit village, and proselytized the targets with “lucrative offers.” Amid all this, Sikandar would criticize Hinduism and praise Islam in order to initiate poor Hindus into the Islamic fold. During interrogation, Sikandar and others confessed to mobilizing people for conversion at this event, as well as to receiving funds. The accused have been charged under the Uttar Pradesh Unlawful Religious Conversion Prohibition Ordinance, which calls for prison terms of up to ten years for conversions through “misinformation, force, unlawfully or by any other such deceitful and dishonest means.”

In other news from the state, a 23-year-old pregnant Hindu woman was allegedly raped and poisoned to death in Shahjahanpur for not converting to the faith of the accused, Mohammad Naved. The victim was from a marginalized section of the Hindu community and was employed at a local hospital. She was three months pregnant at the time of the incident. Police sources state that she was in a relationship with the accused, who had initially presented himself to her as a Hindu. She was brought to Shahjahanpur’s district hospital on the night of Saturday, May 27, by Naved and his friend Farhan Khan, who introduced the victim as Naved’s wife, Zoya Siddiqui. The hospital staff noticed that they tried to flee after the woman was declared dead, and informed the police. The police caught both and found out that the details that they had given to the hospital were incorrect.

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French stabbing suspect indicted on attempted murder, weapons charges

By Don Jacobson

 

Makeshift tributes are shown Friday at the scene of a knife attack at a park in Annecy, France. The suspect made an initial court appearance Saturday where he was indicted on attempted murder charges. Photo by Gregory Ros/EPA-EFE

June 10 (UPI) -- A man suspected of stabbing four children at a playground in the French Alps this week is facing charges of attempted murder following a Saturday court appearance, prosecutors said.

The 31-year-old suspect, identified as Abdalmasih H., was indicted on counts of attempted murder and wielding a knife in committing a criminal act during a court session n Annecy, France, local prosecutor Line-Bonnet Mathis told reporters.

The suspect, a Syrian refugee who has lived in Sweden since 2013, has refused to speak to authorities in the 48 hours since his arrest and had to be transported to the courtroom in a wheelchair after cowering on the floor of his jail cell, according to French media reports.

Mathis said the four children injured in the attack, aged between 1 and 3 years, received a total of 11 knife wounds in Thursday's attack in a park located near the Pont des Amours in Annecy, a city of 125,000 located about 25 miles south of Geneva, Switzerland.

She confirmed their lives were no longer in danger. One of the victims, a British girl aged 15 months, will be released from the hospital in a matter of days, she said.

President Emmanuel Macron visited some of the children in a hospital in Grenoble and visited emergency workers in Annecy on Friday.

French authorities have insisted there is no indication the attacks were motivated by terrorism or politics. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told broadcaster BFMTV Friday the suspect "obviously not someone radicalized."

The man twice shouted "In the name of Jesus Christ" during the stabbing attacks and was wearing a crucifix pendant as one 24-year-old man tried to fight off the assailant using a backpack.

But his rampage has nevertheless served to ramp up tensions in France over immigration as conservative politicians highlighted the suspect's refugee status.

"The investigation will determine what happened, but it seems like the culprit has the same profile that you see often in these attacks," the head of the right-wing Republicans party, Eric Ciotti, told Radio France International.

In other words, the MO was exactly like that of dozens of radicalized Muslims before him.