Nicolas Sarkozy: 'We have to act against radical preachers'
Posted on 07/29/2005 5:40:29 PM PDT by summer
Nicolas Sarkozy: 'We have to act against radical preachers'
The gulf between British and French treatment of preachers of hatred and violence was thrown sharply into focus yesterday when France announced the summary expulsion of a dozen Islamists between now and the end of August.
A tough new anti-terrorism package was unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and a popular centre-Right politician.
His proposals reflect French determination to act swiftly against extremists in defiance of the human rights lobby, which is noticeably less vocal in France than in Britain.
Imams and their followers who fuel anti-western feeling among impressionable young French Muslims will be rounded up and returned to their countries of origin, most commonly in France's case to its former north African colonies.
Mr Sarkozy also revealed that as many as 12 French mosques associated with provocative anti-western preaching were under surveillance. Imams indulging in inflammatory rhetoric will be expelled even if their religious status is recognised by mainstream Muslim bodies.
Those who have assumed French citizenship will not be protected from deportation. Mr Sarkozy said he will reactivate measures, "already available in our penal code but simply not used", to strip undesirables of their adopted nationality. "We have to act against radical preachers capable of influencing the youngest and most weak-minded," Mr Sarkozy told the French daily Le Parisien.
The first to be caught in the new round of expulsions is an Algerian, Rena Ameuroud, whose brother Abderraham was jailed in France earlier this year for his part in a jihadist training exercise in the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris. He faces immediate deportation for allegedly urging fellow-worshippers at a Parisian mosque to engage in "holy war"....
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But I thought the French didn't have anything to fear from the Muslims. They have no troops in Iraq after all . . .
Oops - sorry about all those italics!
A step in the right direction...
I guess someone is on the ball over there...
I agree.
you beat me to it. chirac knows this could have easily been Paris instead of London.
So, France must deport... France...
Absolutely.
We don't want them back!
Lefty movie stars aside, I think this is great - maybe it means that Muslims will think twice before trying to destroy the society that has harbored them. Although, personally, I think all they will do is lay low for awhile, plot, and then come back to strike when we are least expecting it.
i read somewhere, not long ago, that the NETHERLANDS of all places, has now adolpted the most restrictive immigration policy in all of Europe. They don't want ANY of these people now.
WHY - so they can go recruit in their homeland? They should have dealt with them "old school".
And the Brits aren't even going to pass a law until October! Their island may well be gone before that, they really need to get their parliment working.
The French don't play games. The Muslims are given the choice to either shape-up or ship-out.
I think it's great, too. These terrorists/extremists have to get that everyone in the world has a greivance about something or other, but killing innocent people is not the way to the negociating table.
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