A firebrand cleric who called his daughter 'Jihad' has been deported from Italy for preaching radical Islam.
Mohammed
Madad, 52, was arrested at his home in Noventa Vicentina in northern
Italy, taken to the airport and sent back to Morocco.
He
has been banned from entering Italy for the next 15 years over his
anti-western sermons and support for terrorist organisations.
Firebrand preacher Mohammed Madad, 52, has been arrested in Italy and deported back to Morocco
In
his homeland of Morocco he has a wife and four children, who were also
living in Italy until earlier this year. Police said he called one of
his two daughters Jihad but released no further details.
Madad
headed the Centre of Prayer and Islamic Culture in Noventa Vicentina,
where he arrived in December last year from the northern Italian
province of Reggio Emilia.
He was found to be preaching radical Islam and as local media reports, he also preached an extremist Salafist ideology.
Salafism
is an ultra-conservative reform movement within Sunni Islam that
emerged in the second half of the 19th-century and advocated a return to
the traditions of the 'devout ancestors.'
The
charges against the Islamic priest include threats to state security in
various forms - such as supporting terrorist organisations or
activities, including international ones.
Madad has been banned from entering Italy for the next 15 years over his anti-western sermons
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