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CHRONIC. Expelling an imam for his “hate” sermons is not only ineffective in the fight against anti-Semitism, but above all counterproductive.
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By Peggy Sastre
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LJuly 28, citing the article of the Point of Erwan Seznec, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Twitter the forthcoming expulsion of Brotherhood imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan preacher holding “for years a hate speech against the values of France”. If, at first sight, one could judge judicious that our country deprives itself of a good man preaching that a woman must “do everything to try to please her husband” or that the Jews are a bunch of“ingrate” and D’“misers”, it is worth thinking twice by recalling how much sanctioning “hate speech” is a very bad calculation for our democracies that pride themselves on being liberal. The notion is too vague, too fuzzy, too double-edged, too much used against a range that is very…
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