Italy: Imam deported, deemed threat to national security

Italy expelled a Turin imam to his native Morocco Wednesday after his sermons were secretly filmed and his views were deemed a threat to public security, officials said.


Mohamed Kohaila, who had been living in Italy for years, was deported in the evening, according to the Interior Ministry.


The ministry said that checks from local and national anti-terrorism authorities showed that Kohaila was inciting "violently anti-Western behavior" and maintained relations with extremists close to militant jihadists.


Kohaila was a close aide to another Moroccan-born imam in Turin, Bourki Bouchta, who was deemed an extremist and expelled from Italy in 2005, police in the northern Italian city said.


Kohaila denies inciting anti-Western sentiment, according to the ANSA news agency.

The imam was secretly filmed during his sermons at Turin mosque last year. The footage was broadcast on TV in March by public network RAI.


Following the show, prosecutors in Turin then opened an investigation into whether he was spreading anti-Western propaganda and extremist views close to al-Qaida, police said. However, prosecutors opted not to press charges.


Italy has often resorted to expelling foreigners in recent years if they are considered threats to public security.


Source: IHT (English)

See also: Link Roundup (Italy:Milan imam convicted of terror charges)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

But how can possibly this be? We are relentlessly lectured that this is a religion of peace.

Well ultimately, actions speak much louder than words. And it's a pity for the alleged 'peaceful muslims' we cannot believe a single word you say, thanks to the Koran sanctioned practice of 'taqiya' (that's the Islamic belief that bald faced lying is perfectly OK if it advances the agenda of the prophet)

And so your words have zero credibility and trustworthiness. That's gotta suck.

Taqiya is a concept every freedom loving Westerner needs to become aware of. Through it your own decency is used as a weapon against you - and that is the definition of evil.