French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the country is to shut down mosques, cut foreign funding and police the content delivered in sermons in a massive crackdown on Islamic fundamentalism.
The comments come following the murder of 86-year-old
French Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel who was killed on the altar
during morning mass last Tuesday and three separate massacres in the
country in just over a year.
In a newspaper
interview Prime Minister Valls says the Republic has been forced to
intervene to drive out the "poison" of radical Islamism.
And
he has announced plans to shut down mosques supporting Salafism, an
ultra-orthodox religious-political ideology based on a belief in
"physical" jihadism practised by some followers of the Sunni faith.
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