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Palestinian Cleric Claims Jihad Will Transform France Into Muslim State

© AP Photo / Boris RoesslerIn this June 28, 2014 file photo veiled women attend a speech by preacher Pierre Vogel, in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, Germany. A law that forbids any kind of full-face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, has come into force in Austria Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Only a small number of Muslim women in Austria wear full-face veils, but they have become a target for right-wing groups and political parties. France and Belgium have similar laws and the nationalist Alternative for Germany party is calling for a burqa ban there too
In this June 28, 2014 file photo veiled women attend a speech by preacher Pierre Vogel, in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, Germany. A law that forbids any kind of full-face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, has come into force in Austria Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Only a small number of Muslim women in Austria wear full-face veils, but they have become a target for right-wing groups and political parties. France and Belgium have similar laws and the nationalist Alternative for Germany party is calling for a burqa ban there too - Sputnik International
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According to the religious figure, Muslims need a state that would enable them to deliver the message of Islam to the Western world. To support his claim that Muslim culture could take over, he cited the example of the Ottoman Empire, which dominated much of southeastern Europe until the 19th century.

Palestinian cleric Abu Taqi Al-Din Al-Dari addressed Al-Aqsa mosque-goers, claiming that jihad will transform France into an Islamic state. The video of his speech was uploaded online in mid-March. 

"France will become an Islamic country through jihad; the entire world will be subject to Islamic rule," the cleric said. 

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He stressed that Muslims need a state that would enable them to deliver the message of Islam to the Western world. 

Abu Taqi Al-Din Al-Dari also expressed his view on differing attitudes towards marriage, saying that French and German youth tend not to opt for marriage and are not striving to get settled down, whereas the Muslims value such unities among couples. Therefore, the cleric assumed that by 2050, France will be inhabited mostly by Muslims, rather than French people. 

The cleric's comments come after Europol said that jihadism accounted for the most serious forms of terrorist activity in the EU.

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