The anti-France preaching of the imam of Bagnols-sur-Cèze earned him a request for withdrawal of his residence permit from the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. “I cannot imagine that this imam followed a solid training course to make insulting remarks about the flag,” asserts Islamologist Bernard Godard.
In French Islam there is more and more rational management and this limits the expression of this type of imams, he adds.