Majoub Majoubi is a Tunisian citizen and imam who has been living in France for the past 40 years. France has been very good to him. He’s raised five children, taking full advantage of the generous welfare state’s benefits, which increase with the number of children in a family. He now runs a construction company; it’s unclear if he also owns it. He has recently been making menacing remarks in his khutbas (Friday sermons) about Jews, about women, and about France, the country he lives in, that led the hard-nosed Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, to cancel his residence permit and to order his expulsion back to Tunisia. He’s living just outside Tunis now, but he’s determined to return to France, a country he hates, but where he wants to spend the rest of his life.
Robert Spencer wrote about Majoubi here, and more on the expulsion, and on Majoubi’s determination to sue the French government so that he may return to France, can be found here: “Tunisian Imam Expelled By France Says to Appeal Decision,” AFP, February 25, 2024:
A Tunisian imam expelled from France for alleged hate speech said on Friday he would take legal action in a bid to overturn the decision.
Mahjoub Mahjoubi, from the town of Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the south of France, denounced his removal as “arbitrary”. The 52-year-old was arrested and then deported to Tunisia on Thursday, where he arrived shortly before midnight aboard a flight from Paris.
Mahjoubi had been in France since the 1980s and is married with five children. All of his children are French citizens, but he is not and had his residency permit cancelled on Sunday by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. The official order for Mahjoubi’s expulsion, seen by AFP, said that in sermons in February he had given a “retrograde, intolerant and violent” image of Islam that would encourage behaviour against French values, discrimination against women, “tensions with the Jewish community” and “jihadist radicalization.”
The imam also referred to “the Jewish people as the enemy”, according to the order, which said Mahjoubi called for “the destruction of Western society”.
Where shall we begin? First of all, Majoub Majoubi cared so little for France itself that he never bothered to acquire French citizenship, despite living in the country for forty years, ever since he was twelve years old. He has no interest in the indigenous French, who as Infidels are, for Majoub Majoubi, “the most vile of created beings.” He is accused by the French government of giving sermons that “encourage behavior against French values”; these “values” must be a reference to, inter alia, the secularism imposed by the official policy of laicité, that insists on keeping religion and state apart. The French state recognize the equality of the sexes, exhibits tolerance for homosexuality, and demands adherence to the laws made by the non-Muslim secular state, rather than to the Sharia, the holy law of Islam that is the only legal regime that Majoubi, as a devout Muslim, recognizes as legitimate. How unfair of the French government to want to keep such a man from living in France, just because he preaches hatred of Jews, contempt for women, and calls on his rapt audience of fellow Muslims “to destroy Western society.”
He had his residency permit cancelled because of his “retrograde, intolerant, and violent” sermons that the Minister of the Interior said encouraged discrimination against women, which as a good Muslim Majoub Majoubi would of course want to uphold, and accused him of creating “tensions with the Jewish community,” which is a mild way of describing Majoubi’s rants against “the Jews as the enemy,” who, as the Qur’an teaches, are “the strongest in their enmity to Islam.” (5:82) Majoubi in his “retrograde, intolerant, and violent” sermons was attacking not Israelis, but all Jews. His views are shared by many Muslims, and in his recent sermons he had been adding his own dose to the toxic atmosphere of Jew-hatred that Islam naturally encourages. And what he and other imams in France preach has had real-world consequences. For more than a decade, Muslims have been torturing and murdering Jews in France. The victims include Ilan Halimi (tortured to death over a three-week-period by a Muslim gang), Sarah Halimi, Mireile Knoll (a Holocaust survivor), Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and his young sons Gabriel (4) and Aryeh (5) , Myriam Monsonego (4), and four Jewish men killed at the Hyper Cacher kosher market — Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, a Tunisian college student, and François-Michel Saada. Every Jew killed in France for at least the last two decades has been murdered by a Muslim, or sometimes, as in the case of Ilan Halimi, by a gang of Muslims.
The imam was also accused of sharing a video in which he described the “tricolour” — without specifying if he meant the French flag — as “satanic” and of “no value with Allah”. Mahjoubi, defending himself, said it had been a “slip of the tongue” and that he was referring to rivalries between football supporters of different Maghrebi nations during the recent African Cup of Nations.
Mahjoubi’s claim is preposterous. Why would he have alluded to a certain “tricolore” and described it as “satanic” and of “no value with Allah” if he was only — according to him — discussing a rivalry between maghrébin sports teams? Besides, none of the Maghreb nations has a flag that is simply a “tricolor” — all of them contain a crescent-and-five-pointed star in their centers; no one ever refers to their flags as the “tricolor.” Everyone in France knows that “the tricolor” refers to the French flag, just as everyone understands that when “the Hexagon” is mentioned, that signifies France.
“I will fight to return to France where I have lived for 40 years,” the imam told AFP in his in-laws’ house in Soliman, 30 kilometres (19 miles) east of Tunis. Mahjoubi, who runs a construction company, said his family, including his youngest child who is in hospital for cancer treatment, depended entirely on him. “My lawyer is going to take legal action in France if the court does not grant me justice, I will appeal, and then I will appeal to the European Court” of Human Rights, he added….
Majoubi is 52 years old. I very much doubt that his children are still dependent on him, as he claims. And the fact that one of his children has cancer should have no bearing on whether the French state judges him sufficiently dangerous to have his residency permit pulled. He is the manager of a construction company; is he also that company’s owner? In any case, the generous French state does not let people starve. If his children are still minors, the French state will provide their mother with benefits, including family allowances, for their upkeep; they have no need to depend on him. If they are now adults, they should be able to be employed. and again, have no need to depend on him. He is using this false claim, that his children are helplessly dependent on him – and is careful to add the tear-jerker about a daughter with cancer – in order to get the French state to renege, and let him back into the country whose people and government he so despises.
Majoub Majoubi had so little interest in, and no affection for, France, so that in 40 years he never applied to be a citizen. Why should France now be forced to keep Majoubi, who has been expressing his hatred of the country in his sermons as an imam? He has ranted about Western decadence, about the need to keep women subservient, about the duty to view “the Jews as the enemy” and to act accordingly on that perception. He has called publicly for “the destruction of Western society.” Such a statement does not admit of ambiguity. He hates the French, and France, and the entire West, but still thinks it terribly unfair for him to be prevented from living in the country he hates. If a non-citizen with his venomous and murderous views, that the imam Majoub Majoubi conveys to other Muslims, can’t be prevented from living in France, then who can?
WPM says
A parasite does not want to lose its host .An Iman does not want to be expelled from France ,40 years of living on the tee of western welfare never try to be a citizen of France in spirit or in legal form. Enjoy the return to your “mother country” the country you are a legal citizen of .
Mike says
This imam reminds me of a spoiled rich kid in his late teens or early twenties, whose parents have always been super nice to him, and who have given him everything, but then acts like a total abusive ingrate.
maria says
he should be jailed all his life and if he tries to escape kill him
John Smith says
The last census reported 5,720, 000 muslims living in France. Well done France you’ve managed to get rid one, but the job wont be complete until you get rid of the remaining 5,719,999.
Rick Gordon says
Imagine the ‘peace’ if those who hate the society and country where they reside would simply move to the place that they prefer …… what a great change for all!
Yogi says
He is piece of scum nothing else , He wants money that’s it .. forget about work .. stupid west is absolutely dumb. Extremely dumb, including Germany , Britain, Sweden and on and on ..