Story highlights "It is absolutely necessary" to send armies to take ISIS territory, Dalil Boubakeur tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour

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Paris (CNN) Expressing outrage at ISIS' perversion of his religion, the chairman of the Grand Mosque of Paris called on Thursday for military action against the group's stronghold in Syria.

"America doesn't want to, can't send men after Iraq, after Afghanistan — no longer wants to send men to Syria," Dalil Boubakeur said in French. "And yet it is necessary, only soldiers taking back territory is the way to push them back."

"You're saying," Amanpour responded, "that you have to send armies to occupy the land that they hold?"

"It is necessary, it is necessary. It is absolutely necessary. Because all they will do is advance in the countries where they set up and terrorize people, force them to flee elsewhere. So those countries are empty for them to occupy and make their people stronger and stronger, more and more aggressive, and more and more armed."

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