Convened in July by the préfecture of the Loire for remarks at a preaching, the Imam of Saint-Chamond and his pregnant woman received an obligation to leave the territory.
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convened by the prefect of the Loire on July 22 for the sexist judged by a preaching two days ago, the Imam of Saint-Chamond (Loire) and his pregnant wife of eight months received at the end of October a Obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). “What did I hurt? I have been in France for eight years. I work, I pay taxes and I was going to get resident status in two years,” Mmada Ahamada contests.
In the OQTF, the prefecture blames him for holding the words “calling for discrimination against women (…) and contrary to the values and laws of the Republic”. Without specifying which. In July, the controversy had been launched by the tweet of a municipal councilor (national gathering) of Saint-Chamond which had cited – and distorted – an extract from the preaching of the Imam who had proved to be a passage from the Koran. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had immediately asked the prefect to convene the Imam. Without having checked the quote in question.
A support petition for Imam was then launched on social networks. It has collected 7,067 signatures on this day, the equivalent of 20% of the population of Saint-Chamond. The Mayor The Republicans of the city, Hervé Reynaud, highlighted the values ”respect and tolerance” which animate the mosque. For its part, the prefecture advances today that this preach has “provoked a great indignation both locally and nationally” and that the presence in France of Mmada Ahamada “constitutes a threat to public order”.
“I’m still imam”
To motivate his expulsion, the prefecture also asserts that the latter “no longer brings the proof of its financial autonomy”, and this “following the decision of the Association Manager of the Mosque to separate from the person concerned ” What he denies: “I am employed by the mosque in cdi since the January 1 January and I received no letter of dismissal. I always touch my salary.” The document of the prefecture Stresses, moreover, that the mosque has “suspended” Mmada Ahamada from IMAM’s functions.
“After being summoned by the prefect with the Mosque Director, the latter asked me to no longer read the loans. But I’m still Imam and I continue my educational activities”, accurate-T- He in the room where he learns Arabic and the reading of the Qur’an to mixed classes of girls and boys and where he receives us. “It’s strange to reproach me for having been suspended by the mosque even though it is the prefecture that asked for this suspension. I do not understand this way of reasoning.”
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