Bologna imam expelled for voicing support for Hamas State security reasons cited as Pakistani cleric booted out

October 8, 2024   

(ANSA) An imam of a Bologna mosque was expelled from Italy after voicing support for Hamas on Tuesday.

Pakistani Zulfiqar Khan, imam of the mosque on via Jacopo di Paolo in Bologna, was taken to the police station to be expelled.

Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi signed a decree of expulsion from the national territory for state security reasons after it was reported that Zulfiqar expressed a fundamentalist vision of the concept of jihad and, among other things, exalted the martyrdom and work of the mujahideen in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, voicing support for Hamas.

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