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France: Imam berated Jews and women, yet authorities tolerated his sermons and occasionally cultivated him as an ally

Apr 7, 2018 11:48 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

He is being deported now, but this is coming far too late.

No ordinary preacher, El Hadi Doudi is perhaps France’s leading proponent of fundamentalist Islam. His influence extends throughout Europe, where his lawyer says the cleric is the only imam authorized to issue fatwas.

In his preaching “he has often berated Jews, women and the modern world, yet the authorities have tolerated his hard-line sermons and occasionally cultivated him as an ally.” Regrettably, this is a troubling pattern all over the West, with Islamic hate preachers tolerated and authorities even collaborating with them, or the mainstream media making excuses for them. Recall how the Toronto Star covered for the imam Ayman Elkasrawy after he prayed for the destruction of the Jews.

Just three days ago, Jihad Watch reported that the French overwhelmingly back the deportation of  jihadi suspects, and the banning of “radical Islam,” following the most recent deadly attack that left four murdered by an Islamic State jihadist in southern France.

“Too Radical for France, a Muslim Clergyman Faces Deportation,” by Adam Nossiter, New York Times, April 5, 2018:

MARSEILLE, France — No ordinary preacher, El Hadi Doudi is perhaps France’s leading proponent of fundamentalist Islam. His influence extends throughout Europe, where his lawyer says the cleric is the only imam authorized to issue fatwas. Over 37 years, he has often berated Jews, women and the modern world, yet the authorities have tolerated his hard-line sermons and occasionally cultivated him as an ally.

That was until now.

The government of President Emmanuel Macron appears poised to expel the preacher in one of the most striking examples of its hardening stance toward radical Islam. Mr. Macron has already used his huge majority in Parliament to inscribe into law some government tactics — searches and seizures, house arrests, shutting down mosques — that had been applied before only as part of the state of emergency put in place after terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people in November 2015.

The case of Imam Doudi, 63, who was born in Algeria and is not a French citizen, is part of a high-profile effort by the Macron administration to intensify scrutiny of Muslim clerics and, in some cases, to deport them. Some analysts say that Mr. Macron is using it to display toughness, as European governments struggle for tools to battle radical Islam, and as he fends off political challenges from the far right.

“They want to make an example of him,” said Vincent Geisser, an Islam expert at the University of Aix-Marseille. “It’s got more to do with communicating firmness.”

The tough line is another example of the unique stance Mr. Macron has taken since winning office almost a year ago. He is hailed globally as a great defender of liberal democracy, a voice of reason in a Europe awash in angry populism. Yet he has also assumed great executive powers, alarming critics who have charged the Macron government with overreaching in areas like immigration, and who now worry about his approach to fighting terrorism.

France was hardly passive toward extremism in the past; the Interior Ministry kicked out 40 Muslim clerics from 2012 to 2015, and another 52 people, including clerics, over the last 28 months. Not all of those recent expulsions have come during Mr. Macron’s time in office, yet his government seems determined to make clear that France now has a far lower tolerance for radical preaching…..

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  1. Andy says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 12:28 pm

    The hypocracy never ends.

    • Andy says

      Apr 7, 2018 at 12:45 pm

      This isn’t about Right vs Left; it’s about right vs wrong.

      Liberal Hypocrisy on Islam

  2. Rev G says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 12:28 pm

    Wait….so even el “Howdy Doody” has been co-opted by islam?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 7, 2018 at 5:33 pm

      Now *that* is hilarious, Rev G!

  3. elee says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 1:19 pm

    From the geniuses who sat behind the Maginot line and scoffed at Hitler.

  4. WPM says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 2:01 pm

    His lawyer said he is the only Imam that is authorized to issue Fatwas in Europe is there a permit in Europe or anywhere else for a Imam to issue Fatwas in Europe? Does he get a little rubber state issued stamp from the E.U that said Fatwas that he inks up and stamps on a piece of paper with your name address work place when he issues a Fatwa on you? Does he get approval for who to issue a fatwa on ,all Imams can issue fatwas ,there is no central authority in Islam you French idiots .All Imams and Mosque should be watched calls for violence are many times started there. Any Imam can issue a fatwa it is his duty to Allah .This Imam was just more public about it ,kick out one fatwa issuing Imam import in seventy five more makes sense? Put a band aid on a gapping knife wound makes about as much sense as the French reaction to the Islamic invasion ,the surrender monkeys of Europe.

  5. TKF says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 2:10 pm

    Time to send ALL of these Islamist bozos back to the nearest Muslim ruled turd pile of their choice.

  6. WPM says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    Western Europe has thrown in the towel electing Islamic appeases again and again in the last 20 years. I see civil war there before this decade is over .Just a little over the 100 year mark of the end of world war one.

  7. PRCS says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    “Islamic hate preachers”

    Preaching “Allah’s” word.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    France: Imam berated Jews and women, yet authorities tolerated his sermons and occasionally cultivated him as an ally
    ……………………

    How many more cases are there like this? All too many.

    Glad that El Hadi Doudi is finally being deported, but this should have happened long since.

  9. Eur says

    Apr 7, 2018 at 7:08 pm

    What a crazy appearance religious Muslims have. They say that you do not have to judge people because of their appearance … but the crazy people abound among the Muslim population … they are a plague.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 8, 2018 at 12:59 pm

      Islamic clothing, dressing and hair styles come from the OCD disorders of Mohammed. Mohammed was OBSESSED with making his followers LOOK DIFFERENT from the DIRTY KUFAAR so that Muslims would recognize one another from a distance and not MURDER other Muslims accidently when they were HUNTING FOR PLUNDER, RAPE, VANDALISM, etc.

      The clipped mustache with full beard is one of Mohammed OCD hair styles incumbent on all Muslim males.

    • Save Europe says

      Apr 8, 2018 at 7:25 pm

      The pyjamas their men wear, makes me want to vomit, frankly.

  10. mortimer says

    Apr 8, 2018 at 12:54 pm

    France has tens of thousands of JIHADISTS who are COILED TO STRIKE.

    These same jihadists have almost ONE MILLION JIHAD SUPPORTERS who believe in jihad and would be willing to help jihadists, hide them, feed them, clothe them, provide money, etc.

    France must immediately develop protocols for the ABSOLUTE DEPROGRAMMING of Muslims right out of Islam.

  11. mortimer says

    Apr 8, 2018 at 1:02 pm

    Deporting those residents who are advocating vigilantism, genocide and crimes against KAFIRS in general, should lead to an immediate revocation of the right of residency and result in a government secret service agent escorting the suspect to the airport in handcuffs and being escorted to any Muslim country that will receive him.

  12. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 9, 2018 at 5:18 am

    One down. Lots more to go.

    How many mosques are there in France? How many imams?

    Give this guy the boot. Shut down his mosque. Wait a week or so, and then find the next one. And the next and the next… I’ll bet it wouldn’t be hard to find solid evidence justifying more shutdowns, and more expulsions.

    And every mosque that is shut down should be razed to the ground, and resumed by the infidel State, for infidel purposes.

    How do you eat an elephant?

    One bite at a time.

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