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France orders mosque closed after 'unacceptable' preaching
AFPPublished December 28, 2021 - Updated about 15 hours ago
This picture shows closed doors at the entrance of the mosque in Beauvais, northern France, on December 28. — AFP
France has ordered the closure of a mosque in the north of the country because of what authorities told AFP on Tuesday was the radical nature of its imam's preaching.
The mosque in Beauvais, a town of 50,000 people some 100 kilometres north of Paris, will remain shut for six months, according to the prefecture of the Oise region where Beauvais is located.
It said the sermons there incite hatred, violence and “defend jihad”.
The move on the mosque, which has a congregation of about 400, comes two weeks after Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he had triggered the procedure to close the site because the imam there “is targeting Christians, homosexuals and Jews” in his sermons.
This, the minister said, was “unacceptable”.
Local authorities were legally bound to observe a 10-day period of information-gathering before taking action, but told AFP on Tuesday that the mosque would now be shut within two days.
Local daily Courrier Picard reported this month that the mosque's imam was a recent convert to Islam.
A lawyer for the association managing the mosque told AFP that it had filed for an injunction to overturn the ban.
The lawyer, Samim Bolaky, said there would be a court hearing on the appeal within 48 hours.
The authorities said the imam, who the association claims had preached only occasionally and had now been suspended, was in fact a regular presence at the mosque, according to the official document citing the reasons for the closure seen by AFP.
It said the imam had called the jihad, a term for war against the enemies of Islam, a “duty”, and had glorified its fighters as “heroes” who protected Islam against Western influence.
He had also labelled non-Muslims as “enemies”, it said.
“The terrorist threat remains at a very high level” and the closure had “the aim of forestalling acts of terrorism being committed”, the document said.
The French government announced earlier this year that it would step up checks of places of worship and associations suspected of spreading radical Islamic propaganda.
The crackdown came after the October 2020 murder of teacher Samuel Paty who was targeted following an online campaign against him for having shown blasphemous caricatures of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo during a civics class.
Following the killing, President Emmanuel Macron had said that “Islamists want our future” and vowed not to "give up cartoons".
The interior ministry said this month that around 100 mosques and Muslim prayer halls out of France's total number of more than 2,600 have been investigated over recent months because of suspicion that they were spreading “separatist” ideology.
Six sites were being probed with a view to closing them down on the basis of French laws against extremism and Islamist separatism, it said.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1666314/france-orders-mosque-closed-after-unacceptable-preaching
Windsor Castle: Queen 'assassination' bid video probed
Police are investigating a video linked to a man who was found with a crossbow at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day.
The footage, obtained by The Sun newspaper, appears to show a masked person in a hoodie holding a crossbow.
They are shown addressing the camera saying they wanted to "assassinate the Queen" in a "revenge" mission.
Scotland Yard confirmed detectives were "assessing the contents of a video" following the arrest of a 19-year-old man from Southampton.
The police spokesman declined to comment on the identity of the person in the video.
Buckingham Palace has also declined to comment.
A 19-year-old suspect was sectioned under the Mental Health Act after being found in the castle grounds.
He was arrested at about 08:30 GMT on Christmas Day and was initially held on suspicion of breach or trespass of a protected site, and possession of an offensive weapon.
The Queen was in residence at Windsor Castle for Christmas and was due to be joined for lunch by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, as well as the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-59799994
China slams US over space station near misses with Musk satellites
Two "close encounters" between a Chinese space station and satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX have sparked outrage against the US billionaire among Chinese web users.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the United States had ignored obligations under outer space treaties, putting astronauts at risk.
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Chinese space station Tiangong had to maneuver to avoid colliding with a Starlink satellite — produced by a division of Elon Musk's SpaceX — according to a note submitted by China to the United Nations space agency earlier this month.
The Chinese station was forced to move two times, once in July and another time in October.
The note said the incidents "constituted dangers to the life or health of astronauts aboard the China Space Station."
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Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian called on the US to act responsibly in space.
"The US… ignores its obligations under international treaties, posing a serious threat to the lives and safety of astronauts," Lijian said during a press conference.
Beijing said in its note to the UN that members of the Outer Space Treaty, which forms the basis of international space law, are also responsible for actions by their nongovernment entities.
The private American company SpaceX is independent of the US military and civilian space agency NASA.
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Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics warned that any collision would likely "completely demolish" the Chinese space station and kill everyone on board.
"We've really noticed the increase in the number of close passes since Starlink started getting deployed," he told French news agency AFP.
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According to McDowell, this is because more objects are entering Earth's orbit and with higher frequency.
Starlink operates some 2,000 satellites that aim to provide widespread internet access.
The core module of China's Tiangong, meanwhile, entered orbit earlier this year and is expected to become fully operational next year.
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Beijing's warning on Tuesday prompted Chinese internet users to lash out at Musk. The billionaire is typically widely admired in China for his business accomplishments; his electric car company, Tesla, sells tens of thousands of vehicles in China each month.
"Prepare to boycott Tesla," said one user of the popular Chinese social media platform Weibo.
"How ironic that Chinese people buy Tesla, contributing large sums of money so Musk can launch Starlink, and then he (nearly) crashes into China's space station," another person wrote.
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