In his closing order, the prefecture of the Oise evokes preaching “valuing the jihad” and “glorifying the fighters”. The association that manages the place of worship has filed an appeal with the Administrative Court of Amiens.
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It’s been almost ten years since the faithful of the Future Bilal Mosque, in Beauvais (Oise), gather funds to finance the construction of a new place of worship, still unfinished. It’s been over four years that meanwhile they pray a few meters from there, in a temporary prayer room. Monday, December 27, the department’s prefect, Corinne Ozechowski, has signed the decree acting the administrative closure of the places for six months, following a procedure launched on December 10. In question, the preaching of an Imam fighting “Christians, homosexuals, the Jews,” said Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on CNEWS on December 14th. “I do not have the trembling hand against people who deeply attack our republican model and France,” he added.
The imam in question, a convert from the neighboring city of Creil having studied at the Islamic University of Medina, in Saudi Arabia, would have been presented as “an occasional speaker” by the socio-cultural association Hope and fraternity (ASCEF), manager of the place of worship, while it was actually “a regular imam”.
In his closing order, the prefecture of the Oise evokes preaching “valuing the jihad as” duty “”, “glorifying the fighters he describes as” hero “at the service of the protection of religion Muslim who he said to him threatened by Western societies “, which he accuses of being” Islamophobes “, composed” of disbelievers, violents and murderers “, encouraging the faithful to” break with the Republic “and exhorting them to” Identity withdrawal “.
The man would have also defended “a rigoristic and radical practice of Islam” and advocated “a strict application of the port of the Islamic veil”, does not hesitate to hold “discriminatory or even violent words with respect to Women who do not forget this “obligation”, comparing them to “lived in hell” and legitimizing their punishment “. All of these words can “be regarded as causing violence, hatred or discrimination in order to provoke to the acts of terrorism or the apology of such acts”, is it concluded In the decree.
“Unjust to penalize the faithful”
In a statement, the city of Beauvais affirmed mid-December “Trust the state”, while emphasizing that, “in these always sensitive situations, it is necessary not to assimilate the loans of one or more -uns with all the French Muslim confession “.
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