France shuts down mosque for six months for harbouring ‘radical Islam’

France authorities has ordered the closure of a mosque in Allonnes close to Le Mans for harbouring ‘radical Islam’ and ‘legitimising terrorist attacks’. Interior minister Gerald Darmanin mentioned that the managers and imams on the mosque allowed actions that run counter to the ‘values of the Republic’. 
The mosque has been shut down for six months, Darmanin mentioned, including that the financial institution accounts of the mosque’s directors have been additionally seized.
The costs in opposition to the mosque embody inciting hatred in direction of France, Westerners, Christians, and Jews. “The sermons propagated in this mosque cultivating hatred toward France,” Darmanin wrote on Twitter, defending the closure. The administration mentioned that other than hatred and discrimination”, the mosque additionally promoted “the establishment of sharia” in France.
Along with the mosque, a Quranic faculty hosted by it additionally has been closed, saying that “armed jihad” was promoted within the faculty. A pasted signal on the door of the varsity mentioned on Wednesday that the lessons have been “suspended until further notice.”
The French Interior Minister additionally added that plans are underway to close down seven extra associations or spiritual buildings by the top of the yr. The minister additionally knowledgeable in regards to the closure of 13 spiritual associations since President Emmanuel Macron took workplace in Elysee Palace.
The Sarthe Governorate on Oct. 25 launched an announcement saying that the mosque with a congregation of 300 folks in Allonnes was closed for six months on the grounds that it “defended radical Islam.” The purge was a part of a marketing campaign that has been criticized worldwide by worldwide human rights organizations in addition to international leaders, notably in Muslim-majority nations.
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The purge is part of a marketing campaign launched by France to fight the menace of Islamism that’s steadily rising within the nation and whose ugly manifestation was witnessed final yr within the type of the brutal killing of a French trainer for reportedly reproducing photos of Prophet Muhammad. 
Samuel Paty, a faculty trainer, was publicly beheaded by a radical Islamist for displaying a caricature of Prophet Muhammad to his college students. He was beheaded by a Russian refugee Abdoullakh Abouyezidovitch who was impressed by an internet marketing campaign that was run in opposition to Paty for alleged blasphemy.
The incident had sparked a nationwide reckoning in regards to the threats posed by the prevalence of Islamism and establishments that performed very important position in supporting and selling it. French President Emmanuel Macron determined to understand the nettle and introduced that his authorities would take measures to curb what he described as Islamist separatism. 
92 of the overall 2,500 mosques have been closed down as part of the French authorities’s clampdown in opposition to Islamic extremism since September 2020. The residence permits of 36,000 foreigners have been been canceled on the grounds that they posed a risk to public order.
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The French authorities had earlier this yr additionally handed the “anti-separatism” legislation that was assumed to counter the menace of Islamist-driven assaults. The invoice contained a variety of measures on the neutrality of the civil service, the battle in opposition to on-line hatred and the safety of civil servants equivalent to academics.
A provision of the legislation launched an offence for wilfully endangering the lifetime of others via spreading details about an individual’s personal life. It carried punishments of as much as three years in jail and a €45,000 high quality.
Another outstanding measure within the invoice mentioned associations must be signatories of a republican dedication contract to qualify for state subsidies.
The legislation granted sweeping powers to the authorities to intervene in mosques and associations on administration associated queries in addition to in issues associated to funds of associations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).