{"id":5065,"date":"2015-06-29T11:15:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2015-06-29T11:15:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T10:15:49","slug":"40-imams-deported-from-france-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/40-imams-deported-from-france-since-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"40 imams deported from France since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Interior-Minister-Bernard-Cazeneuve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5066\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Interior-Minister-Bernard-Cazeneuve.jpg\" alt=\"Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>France has deported 40 foreign imams for \u201cpreaching hatred\u201d in the past three years, a quarter of them in the last six months, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday.<br \/>\nThe minister vowed to clamp down on mosques and preachers inciting hatred after a suspected Islamist beheaded his boss during an attack on a gas factory last week.<br \/>\nThe attack, which had the hallmarks of a terrorist act but is also believed to have personal motivations, was the second in six months in France which is battling to curb radicalization that has seen hundreds of citizens leave to wage jihad in Iraq and Syria.<br \/>\nAny \u201cforeign preacher of hate will be deported,\u201d said Cazeneuve, adding that several mosques were being investigated for inciting terrorism and if found to be doing so, \u201cwill be shut down.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe have deported 40 preachers of hatred since 2012. Since the beginning of the year we have examined 22 cases, and around 10 imams and preachers of hatred have been expelled,\u201d said Cazeneuve.<br \/>\nYassin Salhi, 35, on Sunday confessed during interrogation to killing his boss and pinning his head to a fence of the Air Products factory near the eastern city of Lyon.<br \/>\nThe severed head was discovered flanked by two Islamic flags and it later emerged he had sent a selfie of himself with the head to a number believed to belong to a French jihadist currently in Syria.<br \/>\nWhile Salhi was known to security services for links to radical Islamists in France, and his crime bore the hallmarks of a terrorist act, sources close to the investigation have suggested a personal dimension after a dispute with his employer two days earlier.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is no doubt of the personal motivations but there is a symbolism taken from the most atrocious, abject images of terrorism,\u201d said Cazeneuve.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/40-imams-deported-from-france-since-2012\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has deported 40 foreign imams for \u201cpreaching hatred\u201d in the past three years, a quarter of them in the last six months, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday. 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