The preacher has been accused by the French authorities of launching a speech of anti-Semitism and misogyny
Aug. 28 () –
The spokesman for the French Government, Olivier Véran, expressed this Sunday his wish that the Council of State, the highest administrative court in the country, admit the expulsion order against Imam Hasán Iquioussen, accused by the authorities of disseminating anti-Semitic speech and misogynist.
At the beginning of the month, the Paris Administrative Court suspended the imam’s expulsion to Morocco for “encouraging violence, hatred and discrimination”, in a case that highlights the tension between the French government’s new policy that tightens supervision on the Islamic communities of the country.
The court indicated that the expulsion of the imam, who maintains alleged links with the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest Islamic organizations in the world, would mean a “disproportionate interference” in his “private and family life”, according to a decision collected by ‘Le Monde ‘, which refuted a decision adopted by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, approved even by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and that Morocco had accepted in principle.
Véran has stated that a decision by the Council of State against the expulsion of the imam “would be a very bad sign”, because it is necessary to be “absolutely intransigent with the radicals”, he has made known in statements collected by BFMTV. The State Council is scheduled to issue its decision early next week.
“Without the intention of judging and commenting, even less so in advance, on a judicial decision, it seems to me that the French would not understand that an imam who makes comments like this, and who hates the Republic so much, retains his place in this country,” he declared.
The imam is one of the most followed religious figures in France’s Muslim community, with more than 170,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and nearly 43,000 on Facebook.
In 2020, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced a new plan against “Islamic separatism” in the country, for which he claimed direct responsibility, and for which he introduced an extension of the ban on the use of the headscarf, the tightening of controls on Muslim associations and changes in the school system and Islamic training.
Macron, among other additional measures, also proposed a new policy for the training of Muslim imams in France until 2024, with certification included by the French Council for Muslim worship.
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