(Algemeiner) A Moroccan imam was on the run from the French authorities on Wednesday after being subjected to a court order expelling him from the country for antisemitic and misogynist incitement.
A decision on Tuesday of the Council of State, the highest court in France, ordered the expulsion of Hassan Iquioussen, 58, an imam based in the northern town of Valenciennes who reaches an audience of thousands globally through his YouTube and Facebook accounts. The French interior ministry had ordered the deportation of Iquioussen, who holds Moroccan citizenship, in July, citing his “especially virulent antisemitic speech” as well as his sermons advocating the “submission” of women to men.
France’s interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, hailed the court’s verdict as a “great victory for the republic,” confirming that the imam would be “expelled from the national territory.”
