Manuel
Valls ‘open’ to ban on foreign funding of French mosques
French
prime minister says relationship with Islam needs to be reinvented.
By
Cynthia Kroet
7/29/16, 9:09 AM CET
Updated 7/29/16,
10:42 AM CET
French Prime
Minister Manuel Valls is “open” to the idea of imposing a
temporary ban on foreign financing of the construction of mosques in
his country, he said on Friday.
France needs to
“invent a new relationship with Islam” and Imams should be
trained locally, “not elsewhere,” Valls added in an interview
with Le Monde.
Valls labeled a
“failure” the fact that one of the two men who killed a priest in
a church on Tuesday had been under house arrest with an electronic
tag pending trial and was able to take part in the attack. He said
the incident showed that judges needed to take a “different,
case-by-case, approach.”
The prime minister
said fighting terrorism was not just the responsibility of the
government, but all of society needed to get involved.
Valls’ remarks
follow a spate of terror attacks in France, several of which have
been linked to ISIL.
Authors:
Cynthia Kroet
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