Hassen Choulghami is the self-proclaimed former imam of Drancy, a banlieue north of Paris. Born in Tunis, he lived in Lahore for several years where he attended a madrasa. There have been conflicting reports as to how he spent his time in Pakistan; while several sources state that he attended a fundamentalist madrasa and was a…
The Muslim march against terrorism stopped in Brussels on Monday. While a dozen Belgian imams attended the gathering, but the overall number of Muslims who participated was slim. “After the sacred month, imams are exhausted and must rest. They only have the months of July and August to do so. This march was planned at a…
“Our message is clear: we cannot associate Islam with these barbarians and these killers” who kill in the name of Allah, declared Hassen Chalghoumi, who has organized the Muslim march against terrorism along with Marek Halter. Surrounded by thirty imams from France, Italy, Portugal and Belgium, he called on “civil society to mobilize.” Known for…
