Question for written answer E-006218/2020 to the Commission Rule 138 Jaak Madison (ID), Marco Campomenosi (ID), Nicolaus Fest (ID), Laura Huhtasaari (ID), Peter Kofod (ID), Maximilian Krah (ID), Ioannis Lagos (NI), Guido Reil (ID), Hermann Tertsch (ECR), Tom Vandendriessche (ID), Harald Vilimsky (ID), Marco Zanni (ID), Bernhard Zimniok (ID), Gerolf Annemans (ID), Marcel de Graaff (ID) Subject: Islamic attacks in Europe and the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration On 16 October 2020, teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in France for showing a Muhammad cartoon as part of a class on freedom of expression. The attacker was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, who posted a picture of the decapitated head on Twitter with the caption ‘I have executed one of the dogs from hell who dared to put Muhammad down’. On 29 October 2020, another three people were barbarically killed in France. A man was killed inside the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, while a woman was nearly completely decapitated in front of the same church. Another woman was stabbed several times – she managed to escape the church but later succumbed to her injuries. The attacker shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ during the attacks. According to reports, he entered Europe through Lampedusa from a safe third country, Tunisia. Evidently, both these attacks are the direct result of the EU’s liberal migration policy. 1. Will the Commission actively step up efforts to protect European citizens from Islamic terrorism and revise the Pact on Asylum and Migration as announced on 23 September 2020? 2. Why does the Commission continue to draw arbitrary distinctions between Islam and so-called Islamic extremism? PE656.772v01-00.