Please. Poor them. They are the real victims of this now, aren't they...?!

The closing of mosques, many of which are literally breeding "extremist ideology" (in France and elsewhere, be it the UK and others), is a bad sign?

How?

If they don't want mosques closed, then why don't they take action and inspect their own communities?

Run education programmes in those very mosques to catch and (hopefully) avert extremist elements?

I used to attend lectures at the prestigious London Central Mosque over a year, just a couple of years ago.

I heard and saw with my own eyes the Deputy General of this large mosque being asked by a man in the audience during a lecture whether "we should kill apostates" - and giving the most lacklustre, ambiguous response which I describe in detail here: https://bit.ly/3mpyGtp

Surely these places, individuals and rhetoric should be under close surveillance for the safety of the public and society?

But such speeches are given right under the roof of the most-well known mosques in the country - to people who are ready to act on the advice given.

And people feel offended - "alienated" - that such places get closed down?

Again...excuse me?!