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How Imam Iquioussen contributed to the "Islamic edification" of a generation

2022-08-03T17:30:15.563Z


INTERVIEW - Bernard Rougier, director of the Center for Arab and Oriental Studies, looks back on the career of Imam Hassan Iquioussen. According to him, the preacher, whose expulsion Gérald Darmanin wants, has played a considerable role in the re-Islamization of many young Muslims.


Bernard Rougier is also a professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris-III University and directed the collective work "The Conquered Territories of Islamism" (PUF, 2021, 368 p., €23).

LE FIGARO.

- Who is Hassan Iquioussen?

Bernard Rougier.

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Originally from Souss, Morocco, born in France, in Denain in the suburbs of Valenciennes, 58 years old, Hassan Iquioussen corresponds to a very widespread figure in the milieu of European militant Islam, that of a charismatic preacher who has been able to conquer Islamic legitimacy by capturing a young audience, both in the virtual world of social networks, with thousands of subscribers on its Facebook page and its YouTube channel (more than 150,000) and in the physical world of neighborhoods.

Over the past twenty years, he has given numerous conferences in the mosques of northern France - the place of his establishment -, in Île-de-France and in Belgium, where, even better known than in France, he was regularly invited to Islamic institutes and…

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Source: lefigaro

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