France last week deported an imam after footage emerged of him appearing to preach hate. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, who has lived in France since 1986 and has fathered five children, was put on a plane to his native Tunisia less than 12 hours after he was arrested in his home town of Bagnols-sur-Ceze in the south of France. ‘We will not let people get away with anything,’ declared Gerald Darmanin.
The consequence of Britain’s institutional appeasement is now being seen on streets, in parliament and in council meetings across the country
The Interior Minister attributed the imam’s expulsion to the recent immigration law, proof in other words, that this is a government that will not tolerate Islamic extremism. According to Le Monde, however, Mahjoubi’s rhetoric had contravened existing laws as it constituted ‘acts of explicit and deliberate incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a specific person or group of people’.
The official expulsion order described how recent sermons by Mahjoubi encouraged discrimination against women and Jews (whom he described as ‘the enemy’, according to the order) and France and the West in general.
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