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France deports radical imam

Published on 8 January 2010 - 1:32pm
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France has deported a radical imam to Egypt. The imam is accused of inciting visitors to mosques in the Paris suburbs to violence against the West. The authorities say that he is the 29th imam to be deported from France since 2001.

France is taking tough measures to prevent new rioting in the suburbs of Paris. The worst incidents took place in 2005, when gangs of youths took to the streets, fighting the police for days on end.

A draft bill has been unveiled in France by its ruling party proposing penalties for Muslim women covering their faces. The law would fine anyone wearing a Burqa or Niqab in public 750 euro. Suggestions have also been made that Muslim men who force their wives to wear the full veil should face even heavier fines.

 

Photo: French banlieu (flickr / ronniegrob)

 

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Hiram 8 January 2010 - 7:49pm / USA

"France is taking tough measures to prevent new rioting in the suburbs of Paris. The worst incidents took place in 2005, when gangs of youths took to the streets, fighting the police for days on end.".........When this news article stated "France is taking tough measures to prevent new rioting in the suburbs of Paris.", it implied the riots were caused by imams who incited violence against the West; and, those imams who incite religious riots will be deported as a tough stance against those who incite others. { Now excuses have been used to down play the riots as gang of youths who rioted because of the lack of jobs for them in France but this article indirectly puts the riots on imams who incited the riots. { If one looks closer at the youths (not all were youths) and the imams inciting them, one can see that the ones being incited were Muslims. If one looks at recent German history, one can see where Hitler used religious hate of the unemployed youth to attack and destroy Jewish stores, buildings, and human lives. { Religious hate is moving across Europe and the ones instagating the riots are using religion to ignite the fires of hate. The authorities, just like in the 1930s are refusing to believe it is spreading and to justify their riots as a group of youths or a gang of youths. The unemployment situation may have something to do with the riots but the fuel to start the rioters is religion, i.e. "you worked hard to get an education but the Christian or Jewish companies don't hire Muslims and only give Jews and Christians the best jobs." It is easy to see how the imams incited the French riots and maybe the Dutch riots but no one (except Wilders and few others)will notice until it is too late.

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