After 58 years of presence in France and 20 years of preaching, Imam Hassan Iquioussen is officially expelled from the territory.
“
This preacher has been making hate speech against the values of France for years
”, justified Gérald Darmanin on August 2 in the hemicycle, confirming that he had signed the expulsion order.
The cause ?
“
His positions are contrary to our principles of secularism and equality between women and men
”, affirms the minister, referring in particular to reprehensible remarks “
about Jews, women or even the attacks
”.
Some figures, especially on the left, immediately stepped up.
A tribune on Médiapart, signed by around forty intellectuals, religious and political leftists, denounced on August 3 an attack on “
freedom of opinion and expression
”.
LFI deputy David Guiraud, on Twitter, wondered: “
Why France did not use the legal tools available to condemn comments (…) dating if…
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