Deportations? I like the sound of it, but I won’t be holding my breath. How will the French state separate the “radicals” from the “moderates?” Its an impossible task. And who is Tareq Oubrou, the grand imam of Bordeaux?  Is he a radical, a stealth jihadist or a ‘moderate?’ Is he going to be deported or will the French state cave in to his demands and rewrite history to make Muslims feel better about themselves?
(CNN)Â — The French Interior Ministry announced Monday it has deported two Muslims and plans to expel three more in a crackdown after the killing of seven people by a suspected Islamic extremist.
A statement by Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the moves were part of “an acceleration of the deportation procedures of foreign Islamic radicals.”
An Islamic militant from Algeria who was involved in 1994 attacks in Marrakech, Morocco, was sent to his home country Monday, the statement said. In addition, a Malian imam was returned to his home country for sermons that promoted anti-Semitism and rejection of the West, it said.
Deportation proceedings also have started or are planned against three others: an imam of Saudi nationality, a militant Islamist from Tunisia and an imam from Turkey, the statement said.
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