Source: Worldcrunch:
PARIS – French police shot and killed a man, and arrested 12 others in countrywide anti-terrorist raids this past weekend.
True, this is no terrorist network of the kind that fomented the September 11 attacks in 2001, or in London in 2004. But the small group of radicals dismantled Saturday in Cannes, Strasbourg and the Paris region is still a threat, according to authorities.
“This is the epitome, the apotheosis of a long series of events,” Manuel Valls, France’s Interior Minister, told Le Monde. “Here is a group, a small network of people who share a criminal past, radical Islam, and jihadist projects abroad and perhaps also in France. It is a hybrid form of radicalism, with young French converts to Islam.”
Samir Amghar, a specialist in Salafism, believes that there is nothing new in this kind of homegrown radicalism. “Since the 1990s, we have seen the rise of a sort of Islamic criminality, mixing petty and organized crime and radical Islam. But now there seems to be a new twist, where people who are on the fringe of a society which they reject turn to petty crime, under cover of religion, to finance jihadist networks.”
This is quite interesting to note that those who convert and join Ahmadiyyat,the true Islam become very very peaceful and down to earth servants of God almighty. Very humble and nonchalant. On the other side if these new converts join any other sect of Islam ,usually they become extreme in their demeanor and threat to the society. They grow their beards long and wear pants above their ankles and start wearing a small cotton cap. We see these kinds of converts in America as well but thankfully the government is relentless in their pursuit and eliminate such rascals who are bringing bad name to our peaceful religion.