A BC imam says the French teacher who was beheaded near Paris was a “filthy excuse of a human-being.” .Teacher Samuel Paty had recently shown his class on censorship controversial Danish cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed that Muslim people say is blasphemous..A Islamic terrorist accosted Paty in the street and beheaded him. He was shot dead by police a short time later..“Not too long ago, a teacher in France chose to show those insulting cartoons to his class, at his school,” said Canadian imam Younus Kathrada in a video published by MEMRI. .“Then about a week ago, it is said – I repeat, it is said – that a young Muslim man confronted this cursed individual, he confronted this evil-spirited man, he confronted this filthy excuse of a human-being on the street, and he beheaded him.” .Kathrada also called his followers in Victoria to boycott French goods and asks Allah to “destroy the enemies of Islam, and annihilate the heretics and the atheists.” .Just last year Kathrada told his members to not vote for “filthy” candidates who support “homosexuality, zionism” in the 2019 federal election..He also said anyone who said wishedsomeone Merry Christmas is a sin worse than murder.In Vienna on Monday, a 20-year-old “Islamist terrorist” who was released early from jail in December 2019 shot and killed four people...Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has joined Muslim leaders around the world in saying free speech shouldn’t put Islam in a bad light..“Freedom of expression is not without limits. We do not have the right, for example, to shout ‘fire!’ in a movie theatre crowded with people. There are always limits,” Trudeau told reporters..French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the killing and said France will always protect free speech rights.. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .The case has drawn angry marches around the world, at least one more terror attack in France and led to Muslim leaders decrying anyone who publishes the cartoon..Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said freedom of expression should stop if it offends more than 1.5 billion people..“We also have rights. We have the right for our feelings not to be hurt and for our values not to be hurt,” he said during an address to commemorate the Prophet Mohammad’s birthday, Reuters reported..In February 2006, the Western Standard and the Jewish Free Press reprinted the cartoons, causing world-wide controversy..Numerous complaints where filed against the Western Standard but none of them went anywhere..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
