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ප්රංශයේ ආගමික නිදහස නැද්ද?
පඬියන්ට පඬි පෝතකයන්ට පඬි
නැට්ටන්ට තවත් ප්රශ්නයක්.
France shuts mosque for sermons 'defending jihad'
© AFP The Great Mosque
in Beauvais had been under investigation for alleged extremist preaching
A
mosque in the northern French region of Oise has been closed because of an
imam's radical sermons, said to have "defended jihad".
The
mosque in the town of Beauvais will remain shut for six months, local
authorities say.
Oise's
prefect said sermons there called jihadist fighters "heroes" and
incited hatred and violence.
France
has been carrying out checks on Islamic places of worship suspected of having
links to extremism.
Two
weeks ago, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said he was starting a process to
close the Great Mosque of Beauvais, 100km (62 miles) north of Paris, because
the imam was "targeting Christians, homosexuals and Jews" in his
sermons.
Authorities
gave the mosque 10 days to respond.
The
mosque's imam was a recent convert to Islam, Agence France-Presse quoted local
newspaper Courrier Picard as saying.
A
lawyer for the association managing the mosque told the newspaper his remarks
had been "taken out of context".
The
lawyer said that the imam, who was "speaking on a voluntary basis",
had been suspended from his duties.
But
the interior ministry said the man, who was "presented as an occasional
speaker but who, in reality, acts as a regular imam", had defended "a
rigorous practice of Islam" and "its superiority to the laws of the
Republic".
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Last
year, Mr Darmanin announced a crackdown on mosques with extremist links, saying some could be closed if found to be
encouraging "separatism".
It
was a response to the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty and the fatal stabbing
of three people in a cathedral in Nice in October 2020, blamed on Islamist
extremists.
France's
interior ministry said it had investigated around 100 mosques and prayer halls
over such extremism in recent months, out of a total of more than 2,620 in
France.
