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France Likely To Close Over 100 Mosques It Says 'Preach Hatred'
ABC News KGTV ^ | 12/09/2015 | Grant Suneson

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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KEYWORDS: elections; france; immigration; islam; koran; mosque; mosques; muslim; sharia; terrorism; trump; trumpwasright
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To: SeekAndFind

Is France Mad at Trump like the UK is? Maybe not.


61 posted on 12/09/2015 5:14:11 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, unable to call a Spade a Spade...)
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To: MNDude

Even so, in Kiryat Arba you can hear open harangues over mosque loudspeakers, calling the fateful to kill the Jooooos! and I never saw any mosques being closed over there. Rabbi Dov Lior was once detained over a book review on a sefer that discussed the halachic elements of warfare and a putative Jewish monarchy, but not one Imam is hauled in just for hate speech.


62 posted on 12/09/2015 5:33:57 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder how many Mosques in this country are preaching hate?


63 posted on 12/09/2015 5:37:10 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer
I wonder how many Mosques in this country are preaching hate?

I wonder how many aren't.

64 posted on 12/09/2015 5:38:26 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Yo-Yo
A well established epigram holds that "the Constitution is not a suicide pact." If advocating and instigating lethal violence is a tenet of a religion, then practitioners of that religion must be held accountable.
65 posted on 12/09/2015 6:06:44 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
If advocating and instigating lethal violence is a tenet of a religion, then practitioners of that religion must be held accountable.

It's not just lethal violence, but lethal violence in pursuit of establishing a religion that comes with it's own government, based on laws that are fundamentally incompatible with the Constitution.

66 posted on 12/09/2015 6:11:05 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The crackdown on extremist speech would affect roughly 4 to 6 percent of the countries 2,600 total mosques.
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The patient has numerous cancers, they are only removing 6 percent of them. DEAD MAN WALKING.


67 posted on 12/09/2015 6:19:39 PM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Correct. The practitioners need to be held accountable, not the building they meet in.
68 posted on 12/09/2015 6:37:06 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SeekAndFind
they preach hatred or use takfiri speech," meaning they denounce other Muslims for not being truly adherent to the Quran.

Oh the comments I could make and the links I could post to similar behavior on here from certain posters in a specific forum ....... but I won't.

69 posted on 12/09/2015 6:42:54 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: SeekAndFind

oh,shit, it looks like another good muslim/bad muslim situation is starting to take shape in good ol’France.


70 posted on 12/09/2015 6:50:47 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: supremedoctrine

So I wonder what Barky and Josh Earnest have to say about that?


71 posted on 12/09/2015 6:57:57 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SeekAndFind
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]."

And that's a bad thing?


Morons.

72 posted on 12/09/2015 7:36:17 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: Chgogal

“Is some entity in the US keeping track of radical Imams trained in Saudi Arabia..?”

A whole bunch of them work for the Bureau of Prisons. The Saudi government generously offered to fund them. Wasn’t that nice of them?

L


73 posted on 12/09/2015 8:03:36 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Exactly, the left believes pro-life and pro-traditional marriage speech is hateful. Churches supporting those would be next.


74 posted on 12/09/2015 8:16:07 PM PST by kalee
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To: Psalm 144

Seconded. This ‘high’ of reality is only gonna last for a short while, especially considering France’s glorious military history (snort) and their fiscal state. In a very short time they’re likely to be in a ultra-left socialist stranglehold. The time to act - to get planes in the air and bombs on the ground and bulldozers on the mosques is immediately if not sooner.


75 posted on 12/09/2015 9:16:02 PM PST by Notfunnynomore
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To: MNDude

True but if they know you’re closing them down, they have to scurry like rats to the next arms stockpile, oops, I mean Mosque. Then you can track them better as they scurry about.


76 posted on 12/10/2015 2:42:29 AM PST by Netz
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To: SeekAndFind
The crackdown on extremist speech would affect roughly 4 to 6 percent of the countries 2,600 total mosques.

There is a long way to go, but I guess it's a start.

77 posted on 12/10/2015 6:07:19 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: lee martell

“Valerie Garrett wants John Kerry to use his French “

EWWWWWW..the idea of being “Frenched” by Kerry is just wrong!


78 posted on 12/11/2015 11:32:17 PM PST by mdmathis6
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