• France clamps down on Muslim extremists by halting appointment of foreign clerics

    France clamps down on Muslim extremists by halting appointment of foreign clerics
    A newly enacted law in France aims to reform how Islam is viewed by society. The law, which bans foreign imams from operating in the country, is an attempt by the government to combat religious extremism in a highly secularized nation. Foreign imams already in the country will either be sent back to their country of origin or take on new, lower-level positions at local mosques.  The government will appoint religious leaders and others to a body called the Forum of Islam in France, where the

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