“Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said authorities had opened a murder investigation, for the moment ruling out a terrorism inquiry.”

“Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said on France Info today that Paris prosecutors have decided to open a murder probe over the events ‘which are not falling under terrorism at this stage of the investigation’. The spokeswoman told Franceinfo radio today the possibility of a terror motive ‘has clearly not been ruled out’. She said: ‘But it is important to emphasise – you are not a terrorist because you are Muslim and converting to Islam is not an automatic sign of radicalisation. The facts need to be looked at carefully. We do not have any indication that the perpetrator was radicalised.'”

Right: you are not a terrorist because you are Muslim and converting to Islam is not an automatic sign of radicalisation. Yet there have been numerous converts to Islam who have turned to jihad violence. Here are just a few recent examples of converts to Islam engaged in jihad terror plotting:

Missouri: Muslim US Army vet targeted military bases, federal buildings, Wall Street for jihad massacres September 24, 2019

Texas: Teen converts to Islam, says he hates America and “it was Allah’s will to turn him into a killing machine” September 21, 2019

NYC ISIS sniper “lives by Sharia. He doesn’t believe he has any obligation to abide by the American legal system.” September 13, 2019

Australia: Man converts to Islam, says of Christians “I’ve bought a scimitar and intend to cut their heads off” September 5, 2019

So in this case, you are not a terrorist because you are Muslim and converting to Islam is not an automatic sign of radicalisation, but if you are a convert to Islam who takes a knife and slaughters four people, might you be a terrorist?

French interior minister Christophe Castaner said: “There were no warning signs. This man was known inside the IT department, he worked alongside his colleagues and never presented any behavioural difficulties.” “However, there were reports that Harpon had recently been called in by his boss to explain why he refused to interact with women.”

That was a warning sign. Probably his refusal to interact with women had to do with the Sharia prohibition on interaction between men and women who are not married to each other. But Castaner almost certainly doesn’t know that, and that is one aspect of the problem here.

“Muslim-convert Paris knifeman’s arrested wife says he ‘became deranged and heard voices’ the night before attack in which he slaughtered four police colleagues – as it emerges hero officer who shot him dead had only joined force a week earlier,” by Tim Stickings, Mailonline, October 4, 2019 (thanks to Mick):