Mixed reactions to Imam El Hadi Doudi’s expulsion to Algeria

The controversial Salafist preacher Imam El Hadi Doudi was expelled to Algeria following a lengthy legal process. The 63-year-old’s expulsion followed a deportation order issued by the French Interior Ministry on Tuesday. Doudi’s expulsion application was suspended pending a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which finally ruled in favor of the deportation on Thursday….

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Salafist preacher El Hadi Doudi expelled to Algeria

The controversial Salafist preacher Imam El Hadi Doudi was expelled to Algeria following a lengthy legal process. The 63-year-old’s expulsion followed a deportation order issued by the French interior ministry on Tuesday. Doudi’s expulsion application was suspended pending a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which finally ruled in favor of the deportation on…

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Reactions to Christophe Castaner: ‘A short time ago…our mothers wore the Catholic veil’

In a recent RTL interview Christophe Castaner stated: “Only a short time ago, in France, when even our mothers wore the Catholic veil, we did not ask the same questions.” Castaner was responding to President Macron’s comments on the veil, in which he stated it should be “tolerated,” while adding: “it is not in keeping…

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Criticism following Djamila Boutoutaou’s life sentence in Baghdad court

Djamila Boutoutaou, a 29-year-old woman of Algerian origin, told a Baghdad court she was “tricked” into moving to ISIS-controlled Iraq by her husband, Mohammed Nassereddine, a former rapper who was killed in the US-led battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS. She said: “I thought I had married a rapper. It was…

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