France: threats against an imam opposed to the burqa and close to the Jews
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Imam Hassen Chalghoumi: "I do not have a beard, I shake the hands of women and my children are in private Catholic"
PARIS - About 80 people irrupted Monday night in the mosque at Drancy, near Paris, where they have made threats against Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, close to the Jewish community who has recently called for ban of the burqa.
- "A commando of eighty people, not masked face, burst into the mosque where there were some 200 followers," reported a counsellor of the Conference of Imams, chaired by Mr. Chalghoumi who requested anonymity.
"They forced their way and took the microphone after a stampede. They then issued threats and curses at the imam, calling him a “disbeliever”, “ apostate” and saying we'll liquidate his case, this imam of Jews ", he added.
The Conference of Imams, launched in 2009 in Drancy, is a collective that promotes an "interfaith dialogue and promoting an open Islam.
Hassen Chalghoumi has recently supported a law banning the burqa in France, stating that the full veil is "a prison for women, a tool of gender domination and Islamic indoctrination.
A parliamentary commission recommended on Tuesday that France pronounces solemnly against the full Islamic veil and takes steps to ban it in the government, hospitals and public transport.
The imam of Drancy also maintains good relations with representatives of the Jewish community. "Some do not forgive him for having allowed his mosque, shoes removed, the president of the CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions), Richard Prasquier," said the adviser.
In January 2009, the imam of the car had been vandalized and Hassen Chalghoumi had reported receiving threats on his mobile phone and warnings in the street.
Three years earlier, his home had been sacked after he called on Muslims worldwide to respect the Jewish memory, the memorial of Drancy, a city where Jews were gathered before being deported to Nazi camps.
Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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