Muslim women along with Catholics attend the prayer meet for a French priest who was victim of 'jihadist' attack
To show their solidarity and share sorrow following the brutal jihadist murder of a priest, Muslims attended Catholic mass in churches around France on Sunday (July 31). More than 100 Muslims were among the 2,000 faithful who packed the 11th-century Gothic cathedral of Rouen, near the Normandy town where two jihadi teenagers slit the throat of 85-year-old Father Jacques Hamel.
'I thank you in the name of all Christians,' Rouen Archbishop Dominique Lebrun told them. 'In this way you are affirming that you reject death and violence in the name of God.' A few policemen and soldiers stood guard outside but did not conduct searches, seeking to reassure a jittery population after the second jihadist attack in less than a fortnight.
In the southern city of Nice, where a jihadist carried out a rampage in a truck on July 14, claiming 84 lives, local imam Otaman Aissaoui led a delegation of Muslims to a Catholic mass.
'Being united is a response to the act of horror and barbarism,' Aissaoui said.
Notre Dame church in southwestern Bordeaux also welcomed a Muslim delegation, led by the city's top imam, Tareq Oubrou. 'It's an occasion to show (Muslims) that we do not confuse Islam with Islamism, Muslim with jihadist,' said Reverend Jean Rouet.
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