Imam Mohamed Tataiat is tried by the Toulouse Court of Appeal for “provoking racial hatred” during a sermon in 2017.
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The imam of the great mosque of Toulouse Mohamed Tataiat is tried by the Toulouse Court of Appeal this Monday, May 30. He is being prosecuted for “incitement to racial hatred” during a sermon broadcast on video on social networks in December 2017. He is accused of having called on Muslims to kill Jews.
The imam was released by the Toulouse Criminal Court on September 14, 2021. But the prosecution appealed the decision. ” The court does not find in the remarks made by Mohammed Tataïat any desire to provoke hatred or discrimination,” said the president of the court, as reported by Le Figaro. “The comments may have been made recklessly, but not with a desire to discriminate. »
A controversial sermon by Imam Mohamed Tataiat in Toulouse
The alleged facts occurred in 2017. In a sermon given in Arabic, Mohamed Tataiat quotes a hadith, a saying of the prophetwhich, according to the translation made for the survey, states: “The day of judgment will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, the Jew will hide behind the tree and the stone, and the tree and the stone will say ‘ oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him”.
The video went unnoticed until the summer of 2018, when it was spotted by the Middle East Media Research Institute’s Memri TV site. A strong emotion ensued, especially in the Jewish community. The Toulouse public prosecutor’s office is opening a preliminary investigation after receiving a report. Nearly a dozen associations are taking civil action. For his part, the imam expresses his regrets and points out, on France 3a misinterpretation of his lyrics due to a “translation somewhat altered and taken out of context”.
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