 PARIS - The leader of a national Islamic group in France has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering activities linked to extremist Muslims, police said Tuesday. Dhaou Meskine, the secretary general of the Council of Imams of France, was apprehended Monday with 20 members of his family and aides as part of a swoop ordered by Paris prosecutors.
| Leader of a national Islamic group involved in money laundering? Golly, that's never happened before. |
Many of the arrests took place in the northwest Seine-Maritime region, where Meskine and his family have bought property with the aim of building a leisure park, officers said.
| IslamWorld! Just imagine the attractions ... |
Meskine, of Tunisian background, helped start inter-religious dialogue in France between Christians, Jews and Muslims.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy consulted him several times in his dealings with FranceÂ’s Muslim community, which is western EuropeÂ’s largest with an estimated five million members. In 2001, Meskine founded FranceÂ’s first private Muslim high school, which is located in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.
| The guy sounds neck-deep in all sorts of Islamic doings. Prob'ly knows all sorts of interesting people. Wonder if the French are ripping his background apart piece by piece? |
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