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November 16, 2015
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| Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris (AFP Photo/Miguel Medina) |
Paris (AFP)
- The rector of the Great Mosque of Paris called Monday on all French imams to
lead the faithful in Friday prayers for the victims of the country's worst-ever
terror attacks.
"I
appeal to imams to take part in a solemn prayer to show our compassion and share
in the families' sorrow," rector Dalil Boubakeur told reporters.
He was
speaking after a minute of silence was observed across France and Europe in
honour of the 129 victims of the gun and suicide attacks that rocked Paris at
the weekend.
Boubakeur
voiced "horror" at the "unspeakable acts" which had
targeted "absolutely innocent" Parisians.
"We,
Muslims of France, can only insist on the need for national unity in opposing
this misfortune which has afflicted us and which attacks
indiscriminately," he said.
"We
are all victims of this barbarity," he said, repeating a call made by
religious and political leaders after a series of jihadist attacks in January
for people not to tar all Muslims with the same brush of extremism.
The suicide
bombers behind Friday's attacks on the national stadium, a packed concert hall
and bars and restaurants were "people who call themselves Muslims but who
should, by rights, be called barbarians", he said.
Boubakeur
observed the midday minute of silence on the steps of the Great Mosque,
together with a handful of worshippers.
Afterwards,
they said a prayer before listening in silence to a rendition of the
Marseillaise, the French national anthem.
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