Investigators in Paris on Monday were studying a video in which a Pakistani man accused people of attacking people with a meat cleaver on Friday after he performed a “resistance” act after a Republican cartoon mocking Prophet Muhammad in Charlie Hebdo magazine. .
French media reported that the suspect, identified as Zaheer Hassan Mehmood, had the video on his mobile phone. Mahmoud was arrested shortly after two people were injured in front of old satirical magazine officials. Officials said his clothes were stained with blood.
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In a video that could not be independently verified by Fox News, Mahmoud identified himself as saying he came from Mandi Bahauddin in Pakistan’s Punjab province, and began to cry before reciting a poem praising the Prophet Muhammad.
He said, “If I am feeling emotional, let me explain: here, in France, the strategy of the Prophet Muhammad was made,” he said in Urdu. “Today I’m Sept. 25. I’m going to resist.”
Charlie Hebdo regularly mocks statistics of all religions in his publications.
Mehmood’s father Arshad Mehmood praised his son’s violent actions.
“My heart is full of joy,” he told newsline New Pakistan. “I can sacrifice my five sons to save the honor of the Prophet.”
“I can sacrifice my five sons to save the honor of the Prophet.”
Arshad Mehmood said that his son called him and said that “the prophet of God has chosen him; and he has commissioned him to kill the slanderers.”
Zaheer Hassan Mehmood preceded him by saying that he had received spiritual guidance from a Sunni cleric and the founder of Dawat-e-Islami, Ilyas Qadri. Qadri believes that the person who slanders should be prosecuted by the police but he also believes that the law should not be enforced if another person is motivated to commit acts of violence by their emotions.
The cartoon in question was first published by Charlie Hebdo in 2006. His release provoked Islamic militants to say that 12 people had been killed in 2015.
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Charlie Hebdo republished the controversial cartoon earlier this month to begin the trial of 14 people with alleged links to the 2015 killers, a Reuters report said.
