A Malian Muslim by detrimentum 2015/01/16 06:12
The Muslim who risked his life at a Paris
kosher market to save seven Jews:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
personally thanked him. French politicians called for him to be awarded France’s highest honor. And
now, just days after a deadly terrorist attack hit a
Parisian kosher store, he was dubbed the “Malian
Muslim,†the man who risked everything to save
the lives of some Jews.
As French authorities stitched together the details
of what transpired during last week’s days of
terror, a cast of villains and heroes emerged. There
were the French police officers who died during
the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and
the female officer an Islamist militant gunned down in southern Paris. Then there was the owner
of a printing plant who distracted gunmen while a 26-year-old colleague escaped. And finally —
perhaps most incredibly — there’s the Malian
Muslim.
On Friday afternoon, as a string of terror attacks
roiled France, 24-year-old Mali citizen Lassana
Bathily was at work in the underground
stockroom of a kosher market named Hyper
Cacher near the Porte de Vincennes in eastern
Paris. He heard gunman Amedy Coulibaly enter the store and open fire, killing four customers, it was
later learned. Then, according to witnesses interviewed by the Associated Press and accounts in French media, Bathily ushered more than a
dozen customers downstairs. He then killed the
lights and turned off the stockroom’s freezer.
“We were locked in there,†the Muslim man told French channel BFMTV, as the New York Times reported. “I told them to calm down, not make any noise, or else if he hears that we’re there, he can
come down and kill us.â€
So the customers shivered inside the freezer for
hours. “We’re very afraid, and we’re very cold,â€
one woman told a friend in a phone call that
evening around 5 p.m., reported The Washington Post’s Griff Witte. “Tell the police to hurry.†But someone had to get word to the police. The
shop was barricaded with metal blinds, and
Coulibaly bragged to cops he had already killed four people and was planning on shooting more.
So Bathily came up with a plan. He said they could
get out through a fire escape to speak to police.
According to Bathily, he asked others to come with
him, but they declined, worried the gunman would
hear them.
Bathily slipped out of the basement and walked
out of the building to meet police, who initially
thought he was perhaps an accomplice. They
ordered him to lie down and put his hands behind
his head. The moment’s drama was captured by
French television station Europe 1: Bathily spent the next 90 minutes in cuffs before he managed to convince authorities he was who
he said he was. He told the cops he wasn’t alone.
There were more than a dozen other hostages
locked inside the store’s freezer. And what’s more,
he said, he had something that could help French
forces break into the kosher mart: a key to unlock the supermarket’s metal blinds. That key and
information about the store’s layout he provided
to police would prove invaluable, police officials told the Associated Press. They could barge through the market’s front door without putting
the hostages in more danger, he told them.
And that’s exactly what the police did, soon killing
the gunman. Following the melee, praise for the Malian Muslim’s
heroics came from all quarters. “They were saved
thanks to the Muslim employee of the
supermarket,†Albert Guigui, the chief rabbi of
Brussels and a relative of one of the hostages, told the Sunday Times. “He pushed them towards the
back of the shop and down the cellar. It’s thanks
to him that they were saved.†One of Bathily’s
former co-workers got the newly minted hero on
the phone an hour after the hostage crisis ended,
and was in awe of his friend. “The guy was so courageous,†Mohammed Amine, 33, told the Associated Press.
Bathily was more taciturn about what he did. When
the hostages finally emerged from the basement,
he told French media, they thanked him. “They
congratulated me,†the New York Times quoted him saying. “They said, ‘Really, thanks for thinking
of all these ideas.’ I said, ‘It’s nothing. It’s life.’ â€
:P
The Muslim who risked his life at a Paris
kosher market to save seven Jews:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
personally thanked him. French politicians called for him to be awarded France’s highest honor. And
now, just days after a deadly terrorist attack hit a
Parisian kosher store, he was dubbed the “Malian
Muslim,†the man who risked everything to save
the lives of some Jews.
As French authorities stitched together the details
of what transpired during last week’s days of
terror, a cast of villains and heroes emerged. There
were the French police officers who died during
the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and
the female officer an Islamist militant gunned down in southern Paris. Then there was the owner
of a printing plant who distracted gunmen while a 26-year-old colleague escaped. And finally —
perhaps most incredibly — there’s the Malian
Muslim.
On Friday afternoon, as a string of terror attacks
roiled France, 24-year-old Mali citizen Lassana
Bathily was at work in the underground
stockroom of a kosher market named Hyper
Cacher near the Porte de Vincennes in eastern
Paris. He heard gunman Amedy Coulibaly enter the store and open fire, killing four customers, it was
later learned. Then, according to witnesses interviewed by the Associated Press and accounts in French media, Bathily ushered more than a
dozen customers downstairs. He then killed the
lights and turned off the stockroom’s freezer.
“We were locked in there,†the Muslim man told French channel BFMTV, as the New York Times reported. “I told them to calm down, not make any noise, or else if he hears that we’re there, he can
come down and kill us.â€
So the customers shivered inside the freezer for
hours. “We’re very afraid, and we’re very cold,â€
one woman told a friend in a phone call that
evening around 5 p.m., reported The Washington Post’s Griff Witte. “Tell the police to hurry.†But someone had to get word to the police. The
shop was barricaded with metal blinds, and
Coulibaly bragged to cops he had already killed four people and was planning on shooting more.
So Bathily came up with a plan. He said they could
get out through a fire escape to speak to police.
According to Bathily, he asked others to come with
him, but they declined, worried the gunman would
hear them.
Bathily slipped out of the basement and walked
out of the building to meet police, who initially
thought he was perhaps an accomplice. They
ordered him to lie down and put his hands behind
his head. The moment’s drama was captured by
French television station Europe 1: Bathily spent the next 90 minutes in cuffs before he managed to convince authorities he was who
he said he was. He told the cops he wasn’t alone.
There were more than a dozen other hostages
locked inside the store’s freezer. And what’s more,
he said, he had something that could help French
forces break into the kosher mart: a key to unlock the supermarket’s metal blinds. That key and
information about the store’s layout he provided
to police would prove invaluable, police officials told the Associated Press. They could barge through the market’s front door without putting
the hostages in more danger, he told them.
And that’s exactly what the police did, soon killing
the gunman. Following the melee, praise for the Malian Muslim’s
heroics came from all quarters. “They were saved
thanks to the Muslim employee of the
supermarket,†Albert Guigui, the chief rabbi of
Brussels and a relative of one of the hostages, told the Sunday Times. “He pushed them towards the
back of the shop and down the cellar. It’s thanks
to him that they were saved.†One of Bathily’s
former co-workers got the newly minted hero on
the phone an hour after the hostage crisis ended,
and was in awe of his friend. “The guy was so courageous,†Mohammed Amine, 33, told the Associated Press.
Bathily was more taciturn about what he did. When
the hostages finally emerged from the basement,
he told French media, they thanked him. “They
congratulated me,†the New York Times quoted him saying. “They said, ‘Really, thanks for thinking
of all these ideas.’ I said, ‘It’s nothing. It’s life.’ â€
:P
TheOne 2015/02/15 19:10
So what?
What does it prove?
That don't believe those 99 muslims who want to kill all jews & believe a single one? Perhaps he was muslim by just name & actually atheist by beliefs who knows..
And if you say that terrorism is a Jew conspiracy then why point out the religion of the saver? Aren't you insecure about your religion? Perhaps you won't get more converts.. Finding a pin in the heap of swords doesn't prove a sword peaceful.
Quote: ethereal: The Muslim who risked his life at a Paris
kosher market to save seven Jews:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
personally thanked him. French politicians called for him to be awarded France’s highest honor. And
now, just days after a deadly terrorist attack hit a
Parisian kosher store, he was dubbed the “Malian
Muslim,†the man who risked everything to save
the lives of some Jews.
As French authorities stitched together the details
of what transpired during last week’s days of
terror, a cast of villains and heroes emerged. There
were the French police officers who died during
the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and
the female officer an Islamist militant gunned down in southern Paris. Then there was the owner
of a printing plant who distracted gunmen while a 26-year-old colleague escaped. And finally —
perhaps most incredibly — there’s the Malian
Muslim.
kosher market to save seven Jews:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
personally thanked him. French politicians called for him to be awarded France’s highest honor. And
now, just days after a deadly terrorist attack hit a
Parisian kosher store, he was dubbed the “Malian
Muslim,†the man who risked everything to save
the lives of some Jews.
As French authorities stitched together the details
of what transpired during last week’s days of
terror, a cast of villains and heroes emerged. There
were the French police officers who died during
the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and
the female officer an Islamist militant gunned down in southern Paris. Then there was the owner
of a printing plant who distracted gunmen while a 26-year-old colleague escaped. And finally —
perhaps most incredibly — there’s the Malian
Muslim.
So what?
What does it prove?
That don't believe those 99 muslims who want to kill all jews & believe a single one? Perhaps he was muslim by just name & actually atheist by beliefs who knows..
And if you say that terrorism is a Jew conspiracy then why point out the religion of the saver? Aren't you insecure about your religion? Perhaps you won't get more converts.. Finding a pin in the heap of swords doesn't prove a sword peaceful.
Xiao Zen 2015/02/16 02:33
On the contrary I believe she's very secure in her beliefs certainly more secure in hers than you are in yours. Empty vessels make the most noise after all and you certainly have been making a lot of noise this morning.
Quote: TheOne:
So what?
What does it prove?
That don't believe those 99 muslims who want to kill all jews & believe a single one? Perhaps he was muslim by just name & actually atheist by beliefs who knows..
And if you say that terrorism is a Jew conspiracy then why point out the religion of the saver? Aren't you insecure about your religion? Perhaps you won't get more converts.. Finding a pin in the heap of swords doesn't prove a sword peaceful.
So what?
What does it prove?
That don't believe those 99 muslims who want to kill all jews & believe a single one? Perhaps he was muslim by just name & actually atheist by beliefs who knows..
And if you say that terrorism is a Jew conspiracy then why point out the religion of the saver? Aren't you insecure about your religion? Perhaps you won't get more converts.. Finding a pin in the heap of swords doesn't prove a sword peaceful.
On the contrary I believe she's very secure in her beliefs certainly more secure in hers than you are in yours. Empty vessels make the most noise after all and you certainly have been making a lot of noise this morning.
detrimentum 2015/02/16 05:51
It proves that a muslim managed to prove people like you, with your stereotypes wrong... And the muslim population in Israel? Are they atheists too? insecure in my faith? I'm not muslim.... So I'm not sure how this makes me insecure. but so you know, I'm terribly secure... And no, I'm not the converting kind.
Do you know what i see when I see you? A terrorist. With your hate and your intolerance. Terrorizing muslims and christians Because they choose to believe in God.
Quote: TheOne:
So what?
What does it prove?
That don't believe those 99 muslims who want to kill all jews & believe a single one? Perhaps he was muslim by just name & actually atheist by beliefs who knows..
And if you say that terrorism is a Jew conspiracy then why point out the religion of the saver? Aren't you insecure about your religion? Perhaps you won't get more converts.. Finding a pin in the heap of swords doesn't prove a sword peaceful.
So what?
What does it prove?
That don't believe those 99 muslims who want to kill all jews & believe a single one? Perhaps he was muslim by just name & actually atheist by beliefs who knows..
And if you say that terrorism is a Jew conspiracy then why point out the religion of the saver? Aren't you insecure about your religion? Perhaps you won't get more converts.. Finding a pin in the heap of swords doesn't prove a sword peaceful.
It proves that a muslim managed to prove people like you, with your stereotypes wrong... And the muslim population in Israel? Are they atheists too? insecure in my faith? I'm not muslim.... So I'm not sure how this makes me insecure. but so you know, I'm terribly secure... And no, I'm not the converting kind.
Do you know what i see when I see you? A terrorist. With your hate and your intolerance. Terrorizing muslims and christians Because they choose to believe in God.
TheOne 2015/02/18 05:45
When one foolishness gets screwed, other ones got to get insecure
Quote: ethereal:
It proves that a muslim managed to prove people like you, with your stereotypes wrong... And the muslim population in Israel? Are they atheists too? insecure in my faith? I'm not muslim.... So I'm not sure how this makes me insecure. but so you know, I'm terribly secure... And no, I'm not the converting kind.
Do you know what i see when I see you? A terrorist. With your hate and your intolerance. Terrorizing muslims and christians Because they choose to believe in God.
It proves that a muslim managed to prove people like you, with your stereotypes wrong... And the muslim population in Israel? Are they atheists too? insecure in my faith? I'm not muslim.... So I'm not sure how this makes me insecure. but so you know, I'm terribly secure... And no, I'm not the converting kind.
Do you know what i see when I see you? A terrorist. With your hate and your intolerance. Terrorizing muslims and christians Because they choose to believe in God.
When one foolishness gets screwed, other ones got to get insecure
TheOne 2015/02/18 05:49
I think your ears are Ultra-roohani and you had a good amount of your "username" recently that you're hearing the noise of my posts instead of the bombs' blowing up beside you.. no surprise, your kind talk this foolish always.. perhaps you'll declare me Juice conspiracy shortly
Quote: Opium:
On the contrary I believe she's very secure in her beliefs certainly more secure in hers than you are in yours. Empty vessels make the most noise after all and you certainly have been making a lot of noise this morning.
On the contrary I believe she's very secure in her beliefs certainly more secure in hers than you are in yours. Empty vessels make the most noise after all and you certainly have been making a lot of noise this morning.
I think your ears are Ultra-roohani and you had a good amount of your "username" recently that you're hearing the noise of my posts instead of the bombs' blowing up beside you.. no surprise, your kind talk this foolish always.. perhaps you'll declare me Juice conspiracy shortly
detrimentum 2015/02/18 08:15
Sorry, what?
Quote: TheOne:
When one foolishness gets screwed, other ones got to get insecure
When one foolishness gets screwed, other ones got to get insecure
Sorry, what?
Xiao Zen 2015/02/18 08:30
You assume much but know very little, a good thing then that facts presented rule debate and not your ravings. If you were other than you are I might actually pity you, as things stand however I am apathetic.
Bigotry is about as interesting and mentally stimulating as watching paint dry, yet intellectually deficient dullards cling to it as a drowning man to anything afloat within arms reach. Were I you, I would put my energy into something more productive, such as improving your reach.
Quote: TheOne:
I think your ears are Ultra-roohani and you had a good amount of your "username" recently that you're hearing the noise of my posts instead of the bombs' blowing up beside you.. no surprise, your kind talk this foolish always.. perhaps you'll declare me Juice conspiracy shortly
I think your ears are Ultra-roohani and you had a good amount of your "username" recently that you're hearing the noise of my posts instead of the bombs' blowing up beside you.. no surprise, your kind talk this foolish always.. perhaps you'll declare me Juice conspiracy shortly
You assume much but know very little, a good thing then that facts presented rule debate and not your ravings. If you were other than you are I might actually pity you, as things stand however I am apathetic.
Bigotry is about as interesting and mentally stimulating as watching paint dry, yet intellectually deficient dullards cling to it as a drowning man to anything afloat within arms reach. Were I you, I would put my energy into something more productive, such as improving your reach.
TheOne 2015/02/18 08:35
No matter how much you decorate your post, your jihadi biradars will simply blast themselves like BOOM! That's simplicity.
Quote: Opium:
You assume much but know very little, a good thing then that facts presented rule debate and not your ravings. If you were other than you are I might actually pity you, as things stand however I am apathetic.
Bigotry is about as interesting and mentally stimulating as watching paint dry, yet intellectually deficient dullards cling to it as a drowning man to anything afloat within arms reach. Were I you I would put my energy into something more productive, such as improving your reach.
You assume much but know very little, a good thing then that facts presented rule debate and not your ravings. If you were other than you are I might actually pity you, as things stand however I am apathetic.
Bigotry is about as interesting and mentally stimulating as watching paint dry, yet intellectually deficient dullards cling to it as a drowning man to anything afloat within arms reach. Were I you I would put my energy into something more productive, such as improving your reach.
No matter how much you decorate your post, your jihadi biradars will simply blast themselves like BOOM! That's simplicity.
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