Muslims attended a Catholic mass across France to show interfaith solidarity and sorrow over the killing of a Catholic priest by two teen jihadists The French Muslim Council urged Muslim people to show “solidarity and compassion” in the wake of the priest’s murder “Being united is a response to the act of horror and barbarism,” a top imam said Muslims attended Catholic mass across France to show interfaith solidarity and express sorrow following the gruesome murder of a French Catholic priest by two teenager jihadists. At least 100 Muslims were among the more than 2,000 church-goers who attended a mass at the Gothic cathedral in Rouen, just a few miles where 86-year-old Father Jacques Hamel was killed by Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean; both were 19. The pair took six hostages before slitting the throat of the priest. They were later shot dead by police when they tried to escape. “Solidarity and condolences,” Anouar Kbibech, the head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith wrote on Twitter. Outside the Gothic Cathedral, the Muslims unfurled a banner with the words “Love for All, Hate for none.” Sister Danielle, a nun who was among those taken hostage by Kermiche and Petitjean [...]
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