Tel-Chai Nation

Interior minister Manuel Valls has made an announcement:

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced Sunday that the French government will be taking steps in the coming days to deport several radical Muslim clerics from the country in an effort to counter the rising tide of radical Islam and prevalent threat of “global jihadism.”

"Many radical preachers of foreign origin will be deported in the coming days." Valls said, addressing an international conference in Brussels, as reported by the French Le Nouvel Observateur.

“I do not confuse this radical Islam with Islam as practiced in France generally,” he said, “but there is a religious environment, there are groups who adhere to Salafism, which is a political process, which quite simply aims to monopolize, at the same time, associations and the educational process and which has taken a firm grip in the minds of many families.”

His remarks come shortly after the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Choukri Belaid, an outspoken critic of the country’s Islamist government.

“We will expel all these imams, these preachers, these foreigners who prey on women, hold beliefs contrary to our values and who advocate the need to fight France. From this standpoint, there is a need to be extremely resolute, and I will be,” Valls asserted.

“There is an Islamic fascism rising every­where, but this obscurantism must, of course, be condemned because it denies the democracy for which the Libyan, Tunisian and Egyptian people have fought,” Valls told Europe 1 radio.

A shame he's trying to make differentiations between "radical" and "general" when there's no real difference, but if they're getting rid of the monstrous inciters, that's a good thing. It's not a good thing, however, that he's ignoring what the "Arab spring" ended up becoming, most notably in Egypt.

Labels: anti-semitism, Egypt, France, islam, jihad, libya, misogyny, racism, terrorism, war on terror