Muslim community leaders in the French town where the priest, Fr. Jacques Hamel, 86, was murdered have refused to bury one of the two men who killed him. Adel Kermiche, who was 19.
The local Muslim cultural association in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray has told the media that they do not wish to “taint” Islam by associating with Kermiche, who was killed by French police after he took hostages at the town’s 17th-century stone church, alongside Abdel-Malik Petitjean, also 19, on 26 July.
Mohammed Karabila, the president of the Muslim association, who is also an imam at one of the northern French town’s mosques, told Le Parisien: “We’re not going to taint Islam with this person. We won’t participate in preparing the body or the burial.”
It would be interesting to know how they felt about the other murderer. Perhaps some are just better than others.
