Bologna Imam Zulfiqar Khan removed from Italian national territory for reasons of state security.
According to the police, Khan, of Pakistani origin, "manifested a fundamentalist vision of the concept of jihad, had contacts with figures of ultra-radical Islam" and, among other things, had exalted the martyrdom of the mujahideen in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, claiming support for Hamas.
Furthermore, according to the provision signed by the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi after the police investigations, in his sermons the head of the mosque in via Jacopo di Paolo allegedly used discriminatory expressions towards homosexuals and women.
"It is sad to note - said the imam's lawyer Francesco Murru - that we have returned to a police state and to the prosecution of alleged crimes of opinion".
"We finally sent him home," commented instead the deputy prime minister and leader of the League Matteo Salvini who already in the summer had asked for the expulsion of the 54-year-old, after he had denounced the undersecretary to the presidency of the Council Alessandro Morelli and the honorary consul of Israel Marco Carrai in June.
(Online Union)
