PARIS: France has deported 40 overseas imams for allegedly preaching hatred in the past three years.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that a quarter of them were deported in the last six months. Cazeneuve said that any foreign preacher of hate will be deported. He added that several mosques were being investigated for inciting terrorism and if found to be doing so would be shut down.
Cazeneuve said, “We 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.”
