Unbelievable! Over 100 Muslims Attend Catholic Church To Worship With Christians [Photo]

L-R I man Salem and Imam Bin Muhammed stand during a mass in the church Santa Maria in Rome. AFP

It was a sight to behold as Muslims attended
Catholic mass in churches around France on
Sunday to show solidarity and sorrow after the
brutal jihadist murder of a priest.
AFP reports that 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.”
The delegation was led by Nice’s top imam
Otaman Aissaoui in the southern city where a
jihadist carried out a rampage in a truck on
Bastille Day, claiming 84 lives and injuring 435
including many Muslims.
“Being united is a response to the act of horror
and barbarism,” he said.
It was also the same thing at the Notre Dame
church in southwestern Bordeaux were a Muslim
delegation, led by the city’s top imam Tareq
Oubrou attended the mass.
“It’s an occasion to show (Muslims) that we do
not confuse Islam with Islamism, Muslim with
jihadist,” said Reverend Jean Rouet.
The Muslims were responding to a call by the
French Muslim council CFCM to show their
“solidarity and compassion” over the priest’s
murder on Tuesday.
Said a woman wearing a beige headscarf who
sat in a back pew at a church in central Paris:
“I’m a practising Muslim and I came to share my
sorrow and tell you that we are brothers and
sisters.”
Giving her name only as Sadia, she added softly:
“What happened is beyond comprehension.”
AFP further reported that the most poignant
moment of Sunday’s mass in Rouen was the sign
of peace, a regular part of the liturgy when the
faithful turn to greet each other in the pews,
either shaking hands or kissing.
Archbishop Lebrun used the moment to step into
the congregation and greet Muslim leaders
attending, as well as three nuns who were at the
church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray when Hamel
was murdered.
Outside the Rouen cathedral a few policemen
and soldiers stood guard but did not conduct
searches, seeking to reassure a jittery population
after the second jihadist attack in less than a
fortnight.
Both of the 19-year-olds attackers, Adel
Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean, had been on
intelligence services’ radar and had tried to go
to Syria.