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Italy expels Turin imam deemed threat to public security |
2008-01-10 |
Italy expelled a Turin imam to his native Morocco Wednesday after his sermons were secretly filmed and his views were deemed a threat to public security, officials said. Mohamed Kohaila, who had been living in Italy for years, was deported in the evening, according to the Interior Ministry. The ministry said local and national anti-terrorism authorities determined that Kohaila was inciting "violently anti-Western behavior" and maintained relations with extremists close to militant jihadists. Kohaila was a close aide to another Moroccan-born imam in Turin, Bourki Bouchta, who was deemed an extremist and expelled from Italy in 2005, police in the northern Italian city said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#5 #2: It's a start, a slow start, but still a start, hopefully this news will be repeated daily until the Imams left are NOT spittle spewing fanatics. Posted by: Redneck Jim|| 2008-01-10 12:40 ||Comments Top|| What, let BOTH of them stay? I'm sure Italy can find something else to expel them for. |
Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-01-10 21:57 |
#4 The ones who make speeches that are threats to public security tend to have connections that are ill advised. We've expelled an immigrant imam or several on that basis. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2008-01-10 17:32 |
#3 Can you imagine the rage this would cause if done in the States? the ACLU, the leftnuts and other assorted moonbats (but I repeat myself) would by positively hyperventilated over this 'invasion' of free speech / church and state separation/ no probable cause for the search / unvalidated parking, etc, etc... |
Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-01-10 14:02 |
#2 It's a start, a slow start, but still a start, hopefully this news will be repeated daily until the Imams left are NOT spittle spewing fanatics. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-01-10 12:40 |
#1 Given the zero tolerance given to speech critical of muslims, regardless of truth, in the EU, one should think a whole flood of Imams should be expelled or detained. |
Posted by: Ptah 2008-01-10 10:05 |