(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 8 - An imam of a Bologna mosque was
expelled from Italy after voicing support for Hamas on Tuesday.
Pakistani Zulfiqar Khan, imam of the mosque on via Jacopo di
Paolo in Bologna, was taken to the police station to be
expelled.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosisigned a decree of expulsion
from the national territory for state security reasons after it
was reported that Zulfiqar expressed a fundamentalist vision of
the concept of jihad and, among other things, exalted the
martyrdom and work of the mujahideen in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, voicing support for Hamas.
The imam's lawyer Francesco Murru spoke of "a return to a police
state and the prosecution of crimes of opinion". (ANSA).
Bologna imam expelled for voicing support for Hamas
State security reasons cited as Pakistani cleric booted out