Posted on 12/09/2015 12:35:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
France is planning on shutting down dozens of mosques, and a top Islamic leader is staunchly supporting the move.
Hassan El Alaoui, who's in charge of all Muslim prison chaplains in France, told Al Jazeera anywhere between 100 and 160 Muslim worship centers will be closed.
He added that the mosques would be shuttered "because they are run illegally without proper licenses, they preach hatred or use takfiri speech," meaning they denounce other Muslims for not being truly adherent to the Quran.
The crackdown on extremist speech would affect roughly 4 to 6 percent of the countries 2,600 total mosques. Three have already been closed following the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris that left 130 people dead.
But while some Muslims like El Alaoui are concerned about the rhetoric being used at mosques, others are concerned closing houses of worship infringes on civil liberties.
In France, emergency powers, like those enacted after the Paris attacks, are supposed to last just 12 days. But the Senate voted to extend that period to three months. Since that vote, police have searched over 2,200 homes and detained more than 200 people.
The director of Amnesty International's European program said the powers are only supposed to be used in the case of an imminent threat but that "much more of this was preventative and speculative rather than linked to intelligence on [the attacks]."
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So we should let them plot the overthrow of our Constitution, government and all other religions. OK got it.
Uh.....”that’s not who we are”?
Right???
It’s a start.
Those folks need to be attending cult meetings back where they came from.
Is Jean Carre going to write them an angry letter?
He had James Taylor sing them a song “You’ve Got A Friend”. How’s their friendship going in the wake of further terrorist attacks?
The Imam in the White Mosque will be very upset with the Frogs.
He’ll stamp his itsy bitsy footsie.
OK, so when we have evidence of treason, we close the building where the conspirators met at, instead of prosecuting the conspirators.
OK, got it.
Any government that can arbitrarily close a Mosque without due process today could close a Baptist Church tomorrow.
Russia is bombing the sh** out of them.
France is closing their mosques.
Yet somehow I still believe that America will remain THE Great Satan to them.
A Mosque and a Roach Motel have a lot in common. The implicit threat of killing is how they keep their "faithful" in line.
This is amazing! France is doing what the current occupant of the white house will never do.
Did you ever think you’d look at France and realize in some ways they’re doing things better than the U.S.A.? (current administration)
I'm glad you brought this up. The irony of this situation is that we are the Great Satan because of leftist, immoral Hollywood! Go to the movies or watch American TV outside of the US. If that was the only thing you knew about the U.S., you too would conclude that we were the Great Satan.
Our media is far more unsettling to them than our military meddling or Donald Trump's pronouncements.
Trump 2016!
I swear Trump is being fed information before everyone else... He is always a couple weeks ahead of the headlines..
Its Le Pen and the National Front that are driving these actions.
A good start.
DUH.. Islam is a “religion” of oppression fear torture and death. Any mosque is filled with hate..........
“....others are concerned closing houses of worship infringes on civil liberties”
I knew I would read that in there somewhere.
The killer’s feeeeeelings are always more important.
We have always been closer to the French than to the British.
As a testament to Obama’s priorities... the major world leaders all went to Paris to march in solidarity with Hollande after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Clearly absent from the above event was none other than -— Barack Obama of the United States ( I’m sorry to have to say this ).
But after the recent terrorist attacks, Obama now goes to Paris.... to attend a summit on Global Warming !!
Tell me whose priorities are screwed up here.
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