{"id":1165148,"date":"2021-12-28T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1165148"},"modified":"2021-12-28T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:49:51","slug":"france-closes-mosque-after-radical-imam-defended-jihad-incited-hatred-towards-christians-gays-and-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-closes-mosque-after-radical-imam-defended-jihad-incited-hatred-towards-christians-gays-and-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"France Closes Mosque After Radical Imam Defended Jihad, Incited Hatred Towards Christians, Gays And Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrance-closes-mosque-after-radical-imam-defended-jihad-incited-hatred-towards-christians-gays-and-jews%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1165148&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A mosque in the northern French town of Beauvais has been closed by authorities because of an imam\u2019s radical sermons, which involved defending and celebrating\u201cjihad\u201d while also inciting hatred towards Christians, homosexuals, and Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The mosque in the town north of France\u2019s capital, Paris, will be closed for six months, the regional government told AFP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe move comes two weeks after Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he had triggered the procedure to close the site because the imam there \u2018is targeting Christians, homosexuals and Jews\u2019 in his sermons,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10349737\/France-closes-mosque-imam-incited-hatred-Christians-gay-people-Jews.html\">Daily Mail<\/a> reported. The minister said that such behavior was \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also claimed that the sermons called jihadist fighters \u201cheroes,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-59791765\">BBC<\/a> added.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Interior Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin started a process to close the Great Mosque of Beauvais, with authorities giving the mosque 10 days to respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mosque\u2019s imam was a recent convert to Islam, Agence France-Presse quoted local newspaper Courrier Picard as saying. A lawyer for the association managing the mosque told the newspaper his remarks had been \u2018taken out of context,\u2019\u201d the BBC explained. \u201cThe lawyer said that the imam, who was \u2018speaking on a voluntary basis,\u2019 had been suspended from his duties. But the interior ministry said the man, who was \u2018presented as an occasional speaker but who, in reality, acts as a regular imam,\u2019 had defended \u2018a rigorous practice of Islam\u2019 and \u2018its superiority to the laws of the Republic.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This move follows Darmanin\u2019s announcement last year that the French government would be cracking down on mosques with extremist links, adding that some mosques could be closed if found guilty of encouraging \u201cseparatism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the French Interior Ministry, 100 mosques and prayer halls have been investigated in the past few months. There are more than 2,620 mosques in France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crackdown came after the October 2020 murder of teacher Samuel Paty who was targeted following an online campaign against him for having shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo during a civics class,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20211228-france-closes-mosque-north-of-paris-after-unacceptable-preaching\">France24<\/a> explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was stabbed and beheaded near his school in the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris. The perpetrator was 18-year-old Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee from Chechnya who was killed by police soon after the murder,\u201d the French outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france\/20211015-the-violence-shook-me-profoundly-teachers-students-remember-samuel-paty-s-murder\">reported<\/a> earlier this year. \u201cAnzorov had no connection with Paty or the school. He travelled from his home in Normandy to kill the teacher after watching a video posted by a pupil\u2019s father who was angry that Paty had shown students images of the prophet of Islam in a civics class. Paty was teaching the children about freedom of expression. He emphasized that they could choose not to look at the cartoons if they were offended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"> @ighaworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mosque in the northern French town of Beauvais has been closed by authorities because of an imam\u2019s radical sermons, which involved defending and celebrating\u201cjihad\u201d while also inciting hatred towards Christians, homosexuals, and Jews. The mosque in the town north of France\u2019s capital, Paris, will be closed for six months, the regional government told AFP &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}