France is now sending to Tunisia an imam who advocated for jihad and discriminated against women
The Minister of the Interior of France, Gérald Darmanin, announced on Thursday the expulsion of the radical imam Mahjub Mahjubi to Tunisia. Mahjubi had been delivering sermons from the Bagnols-sur-Cèze mosque in the Gard department, in which he made antisemitic, sexist, and intolerant comments.
“This demonstrates that immigration law, without which such a swift expulsion would not have been possible, strengthens France. We will not let anything slide,” Darmanin stated on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
According to the expulsion decree, the imam “conveyed a literal, backward, intolerant, and violent conception of Islam, susceptible to encouraging behaviors contrary to the values of France,” as reported by the French channel BFM TV.
Among such behaviors was “discrimination against women,” whom he described as “inferior” and stated should be “guided and controlled by men.” Additionally, he made hateful comments against Jews, labeling them as “allies of the Antichrist.”
“The comments that incite hatred towards Jews and Israel and advocate jihad can incite followers to carry out a violent act,” the text reads, adding that the imam even claimed in another sermon that “mosques do not create fighters as in the time of the prophet Muhammad.”
Mahjubi, born in Tunisia and residing in France since 1986, is married to a French woman. His sermons sparked controversy when it was revealed that he had referred to the tricolor flag as “satanic.”
