France will close radical mosques and expel their imams, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said. In an interview with the daily Le Figaro on Thursday, Sarkozy — who is popular among Jews for his hard line against anti-Semitic violence — said he would deal only with elected representatives of France’s Muslims, not with radical elements of the community.
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