[lit-ideas] France wrestles with radical Islam

 http://www.iht.com/articles/517806.htm France wrestles with radical Islam 
Craig S. Smith
Friday, April 30, 2004 


VÉNISSIEUX, France This town's largest mosque is temporarily leaderless, 
after its chief cleric was expelled from France last week for advocating wife 
beating, stoning and other medieval Islamic views at odds with the principles 
of 
the modern French state.

The cleric, Abdelkader Bouziane, was the fifth cleric expelled from France 
this year on charges that they were spreading a dangerously divisive brand of 
radical Islam. The country has kicked out dozens since 2001.

"The government cannot tolerate the public statement of views that are 
contrary to human rights, attack the dignity of women and call for hate or 
violence," the country's new interior minister, Dominique de Villepin, said 
last 
weekend." 

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