Saint-Sulpice Church Embraces Jihadi Mosque
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
Paris’ largest Catholic church has welcomed Muslims from an extremist mosque owing allegiance to a radical Islamic sect banned by Saudi Arabia and under investigation by European intelligence agencies for links to terrorism.
Saint-Sulpice church, only slightly smaller than Notre-Dame cathedral, hosted a choir from the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Mosque at a Muslim–Catholic event held last Sunday celebrating the concordat signed by Pope Francis and Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb in February 2019.
Omar Mosque made international news after the French government arrested and deported its president, Muhammad Hammami, a Tunisian imam, in 2012 for preaching violent jihad and anti-Semitic hatred and calling for wives to be whipped to death. The mosque’s current imam is Hamadi Hammami, the son of the expelled preacher.
The Mosque’s Radical Connections
The mosque, located on Jean-Pierre Timbaud Street in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, is run by Tablighi Jamaat (“Proselytizing Group”) — a secretive movement that “has long been directly involved in the sponsorship of terrorist groups,” as per geopolitical analyst Alex Alexiev.
In December 2021, Saudi Arabia banned Tablighi Jamaat, calling it a “danger to society” and “one of the gates of terrorism, even if they claim otherwise.” The movement is also banned in Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Faithful Catholics responded with outrage after a video of Bp. Georges Pontier singing with the Islamic choir from the extremist mosque was released on French social media. Pontier is currently the interim apostolic administrator of the archdiocese of Paris.
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