cancel2 2022
Canceled
Amid all the chaos and misery in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks, some very important facts appear to have slipped most people’s attention. The incident at the football stadium, Stade de France, for example, should have been a hundred, perhaps a thousand times worse.
ISIS’s atrocious plan was for one suicide bomber to go inside with a ticket to the game and blow himself up among the 80,000 spectators – including French President Francois Hollande - while another two waited outside to do the same as the terrified crowd fled into the streets. It was only foiled because security guards frisked him at the entrance and spotted he was wearing a suicide vest.
The bomber backed away and detonated himself. This prompted his two fellow terrorists to activate their own suicide vests. Crucially, none of them was inside the stadium. Thus only one person other than the bombers was killed. For this, we have the vigilant security guards to thank.
What needs to be made very loudly and clearly public is this: that team of security guards who saved many more lives included Muslims. We know this because one of them, a Muslim known only by his first name Zouheir, revealed the amazing story to the Wall Street Journal. He himself was stationed just inside the stadium, by the players’ tunnel and near President Hollande and helped protect people when the bombs started going off. ‘Once I saw Hollande being evacuated, I knew it wasn’t firecrackers,’ he said. Those security guards’ outstanding alertness and courage stopped what could have been a massacre of 9/11 proportions or worse.
As memorials spread and the world weeps there is nothing but a loud deafening silence from the vast majority of Muslims around the world. It's not acceptable
80,000 spectators were at the football match in Paris Friday night - and a brave guard saved that site from being infinitely worse when he turned away a suicide bomber after spotting the vest
ISIS’s atrocious plan was for one suicide bomber to go inside with a ticket to the game and blow himself up among the 80,000 spectators – including French President Francois Hollande - while another two waited outside to do the same as the terrified crowd fled into the streets. It was only foiled because security guards frisked him at the entrance and spotted he was wearing a suicide vest.
The bomber backed away and detonated himself. This prompted his two fellow terrorists to activate their own suicide vests. Crucially, none of them was inside the stadium. Thus only one person other than the bombers was killed. For this, we have the vigilant security guards to thank.
What needs to be made very loudly and clearly public is this: that team of security guards who saved many more lives included Muslims. We know this because one of them, a Muslim known only by his first name Zouheir, revealed the amazing story to the Wall Street Journal. He himself was stationed just inside the stadium, by the players’ tunnel and near President Hollande and helped protect people when the bombs started going off. ‘Once I saw Hollande being evacuated, I knew it wasn’t firecrackers,’ he said. Those security guards’ outstanding alertness and courage stopped what could have been a massacre of 9/11 proportions or worse.
As memorials spread and the world weeps there is nothing but a loud deafening silence from the vast majority of Muslims around the world. It's not acceptable
80,000 spectators were at the football match in Paris Friday night - and a brave guard saved that site from being infinitely worse when he turned away a suicide bomber after spotting the vest
