A sign of hope that maybe Europe, or at least Italy, is not going to surrender abjectly and accept dhimmitude: “officials in Italy say they are deporting a Senegalese imam who poses a ‘great threat’ to state security.”
No doubt there will be cries of racism and bigotry all around, but Italian authorities seem to be on firm ground: “The decision follows recent statements to the media by Fall Mamour, predicting that there would be attacks on Italian soldiers in Iraq. The 39-year-old imam was already being investigated for his financial deals, an interior ministry statement said.”
A spokesman said that Mamour “was already known to authorities as somebody who received suspect funds. . . . In addition, for a long time, and even more so since the slaughter of Italian soldiers in Nasiriya, he has launched dangerous initiatives, especially in the present context of international terrorism.”
Some of these seem to indicate that he knew Italian troops in Iraq would be targeted: “Since the Nasiriya attack, several Italian newspapers have published stories on a series of predictions Mr Mamour made weeks before the bombing, in which he warned of attacks against Italian soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The imam said Italy’s troops would be targeted because they were aiding the US-led coalition, adding that further strikes would then follow on Italian soil.”
Nor is that all: “Mr Mamour – who has lived in Italy for 11 years – has previously stirred controversy by his statements on Italian television programmes. During one of the TV interviews, he said he had once fought alongside Osama bin Laden and was linked to the al-Qaeda leader by what he said was a ‘blood pact’.”