Thursday, May 06, 2004

It's about time the French started

applying their isolationist attitudes properly:

France tries to soften local style of Islam

Officials there have deported two allegedly radical clerics, leading a Europe-wide crackdown.

By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

PARIS – As European governments crack down on radical imams as part of their battle against Islamic terrorism, they have laid bare a central problem for millions of their Muslim citizens: a lack of homegrown religious leaders to guide their integration into Western societies.
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Dalil Boubaker, the head of Paris's Grand Mosque, is harsher. "There are 1,500 places of Islamic worship in France," he says. "Five hundred of them have proper imams. The other thousand are clowns."


So we finally hear from a moderate Muslim leader.

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