On June 8, 2015, the trial began in a Paris court of 15 members of the banned terrorist group Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride), who are accused of preparing and planning terrorist attacks on French Jews and businesses, and other targets. French police who arrested the individuals found incriminating documents, and also three AK-47 assault rifles, grenades, and pistols in the possession of the group. Forsane Alizza has an extreme Salafist ideology and is skilled in sophisticated, provocative propaganda videos and social networks.  Its original aim when founded in August 2010 was said to be to protest “Islamophobia.”  But an attack, with anti-Semitic outbursts, on a McDonald’s (not usually considered a Jewish name) restaurant in Limoges showed its immediate turn to violence. Mohamed Achamlane, the self-proclaimed emir of Morocco, who was born in Nantes, France in 1977 and was the head of Forsane Alizza, had been arrested in 2012 and received a...(Read Full Article)