[wvns] Montreal Imam Deported to Tunisia
Imam loses fight to stay
Deportation to Tunisia set for today
The Gazette
Monday, October 22, 2007
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=592740ea-46c5-497d-949c-af3f7c5b0dc5
An outspoken Montreal imam lost his attempt yesterday to persuade a
Federal Court to stop his deportation to Tunisia scheduled for today.
Saïd Jaziri, who has been one of Quebec's most quoted Muslim leaders
during the debate on reasonable accommodation, was ordered deported
after his refugee status, granted in 1998, was revoked last June.
It was revoked after authorities discovered Jaziri, a Tunisian native,
had not disclosed a criminal conviction in France in 1994. That
conviction was related to his role in an assault on an individual
whose actions had led to the closing of a prayer room.
Jaziri, spiritual leader of a Bélanger St. E. mosque, is married and
expecting a child with his wife, Nancy Ann Adams of Laval. He was
arrested last Monday after he was judged likely not to show up for his
deportation.
Jaziri, who has bragged about converting at least one Quebec woman a
week to Islam over the past few years, drew criticism recently for
stating in a television interview with TV5 host Luck Mervil that
homosexuality was an illness.
He also has complained about alleged heavy infiltration of mosques by
federal intelligence operatives.
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