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To: FJB who wrote (11286)1/10/2008 9:52:34 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20106
 
Italy expels Muslim cleric on security fears
Reuters ^ | 9 Jan 2008

africa.reuters.com

ROME - Italy expelled on Wednesday a Muslim cleric accused of spreading anti-Western propaganda from his mosque in the northern city of Turin, flying him back to his native Morocco despite his denials of wrongdoing.

Mohammed Kohaila, who has been living with his family in Italy for the past 15 years, spent much of 2007 defending himself after a television programme accused him of extremism. Using a hidden camera, it showed excerpts of prayers he read including one which said that Allah would kill those people who worship multiple gods. It also showed pamphlets inside the mosque that advocated al Qaeda and jihad....

Kohaila, who sought to sue the TV programme for defamation, said last year his prayers were taken out of context and that he had nothing to do with the offensive pamphlets.

"I can't control everything that's distributed inside the mosque. Every so often, I've found suspicious pamphlets and I had them removed immediately," he told one Italian newspaper.

Italy's interior ministry said Kohaila's expulsion came after an exhaustive investigation that revealed "elements supporting Kohaila's dangerousness". Among those elements cited by the ministry were Kohaila's "acclaimed activities of proselytising and promoting violently anti-Western conduct", the ministry said. It also examined his "relations held with extremists close to militant jihad".

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