Gauthier Delomez 10:07 am, October 15, 2021

Invited in the "Zoom info" Friday morning, Imam Hassen Chalghoumi recalled the importance of paying homage to Samuel Paty, assassinated by a Chechen terrorist on October 16, 2020. At the micrp of Dimitri Pavlenko, he calls "all imams and Muslims in France to make a prayer "for the teacher.

INTERVIEW

Imam Hassen Chalghoumi launches a vibrant appeal on Europe 1 on the occasion of the tribute paid to Samuel Paty, killed by a Chechen terrorist on October 16, 2020. Guest of Zoom info on Europe 1, the president of the cultural association of Muslims of Drancy asks "all imams, all Muslims in France to pray for this martyr, and the martyrs of freedom". For him, "a teacher is a sacred man. It is the role of the prophets to transmit messages, and he, he transmits messages". On this Muslim day of prayer, Hassen Chalghoumi confirms that he will talk about it in his sermon. "We are all Samuel Paty. I cried, and I cry him every day", confides the religious.

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"We must fight Islamism"

The author of

Combats d'un imam de la République

 (Le Recherches-Midi) pointed out, three days after the death of the teacher, the ideology of "Islamism, a disease of Islam", as the main culprit. of these acts.

"We must fight Islamism in all Muslim countries. Political Islam is banned in some countries. Why not ban it in France?" He protested.

And to propose a real program, in particular on the training of imams and the sorting of "real alumni in schools, prisons and also neighborhood mediators".

A year later, the Imam of Drancy wishes to congratulate "the government, which is doing a lot of initiatives in this direction, to ban Islamism".

"I really hope to see a man or a woman politician who will really decide it", continues Hassen Chalghoumi, who underlines that his fight is long standing.

"It has been eleven years that I have been saying how we can ban Islamism. First thing: the training of imams. Second thing: the Gafam (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft). They have their share of responsibility", affirms -he, by relying on the numerous publications of Net surfers in favor of Islamism: "It is unfortunately the media support which relays the speech of the hatred".