#CharlieHebdo: The Helpless Policeman who was Murdered was . . . Muslim

January 8, 2015

#CharlieHebdo: The Helpless Policeman who was Murdered was . . . Muslim

by Kim Hirsch in Headlines, military Post Comment

One of the most horrifying scenes from the carnage in Paris during the Charlie Hebdo massacre was that of the police officer, wounded and lying on the sidewalk, his empty hands up in apparent surrender.

Now we know his name, and we find that he was, ironically, Muslim.

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He was Ahmed Merabet, a 42-year-old who was assigned to the beat near the Charlie Hebdo office. According to one source, while Merabet was lying wounded and helpless on the sidewalk, one of the assailants shouted at him, “You wanted to kill us.”

“No, we’re good, boss,” Merabet replied and showed his empty hands, whereupon he was shot in the head by the terrorist.

Being a fellow Muslim did not spare Ahmed Merabet from having terror meted out on him.

The words of Lt. Col. Ralph Peters concerning ISIS should also apply to the barbarians who murdered cartoonists and two policemen to “avenge” their prophet:

“The only way you deal with Islamic State — these bloodthirsty, blood-drunken terrorists — is to kill them, keep on killing them, until you kill the last one, then you kill his pet goat.”

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Written by Kim Hirsch

Kim is a pint-sized patriot who packs some big contradictions. She is a Baby Boomer who never became a hippie, an active Republican who first registered as a Democrat (okay, it was to help a sorority sister's father in his run for sheriff), and a devout Lutheran who practices yoga. Growing up in small-town Indiana, now living in the Kansas City metro, Kim is a conservative Midwestern gal whose heart is also in the Seattle area, where her eldest daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live. Kim is a working speech pathologist who left school system employment behind to subcontract to an agency, and has never looked back. She describes her conservatism as falling in the mold of Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles. Don't know what they are? Google them!