Fadila Laanan, a regional minister, said she was “scandalised by this attack
in my community against a mosque.”
“A man is dead and that is despicable, nothing can excuse such an act.”
Within hours of the fire, several dozen local residents and members of the
mosque congregation gathered at the ruins.
“I brought my son so that he can see blind hate, what it can do,” said Ismael
Ben Mohammad, 40, adding that he felt “a sadness difficult to describe.”
Abdel Adouzeyneb, a 39-year-old real estate agent, said that imam left behind
four children.
“He was a person who was loved by everybody,” he said. “He was open, well
integrated, smiling and happy.”
The attack was the first killing of an imam in Belgium since the 1989
assassination of Abdullah Muhammad al-Ahdal, who was murdered inside his own
mosque by an Iranian group.
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