26 July 2016
The Muslim Council of Britain is shocked and horrified to learn about the attack today at a church in Normandy, France where a priest has been brutally murdered and others seriously injured.
The Secretary General of the MCB, Harun Khan said, “I condemn this barbaric attack on an elderly compatriot of faith. It is utterly reprehensible, and there is no justification for such a cowardly act. Many outlets have reported that Father Jacques Hamel has served in the Church in St-Etienne-du-Rouvray for many decades, and we mourn his demise. My thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones, and hope those injured make a full and swift recovery”.
The MCB endorses the statement by the French Muslim civil society organisation Collectif Comtre L’Islamophobie en France (CCIF) in saying, ‘(We) stand in solidarity with the Catholic community’.