Charming guy. “‘We began to keep an eye on him after he threatened an officer,’ the NIC officer said and noted that the Tunisian had also liked a video on Facebook celebrating the death of Christians.”

The imam Mahmoud Jebali sounds as if he would be a superb candidate for “dialogue” with Pope Francis. The Pope and the Catholic hierarchy insist that “dialogue” is the only way to end the jihad, so we can only hope that that most learned of imams, the Roman Pontiff himself, is on his way now to Padua so as to have tea with Mahmoud Jebali and explain to him that authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Qur’an reject every form of violence.

“He had never had a quiet attitude, he was controversial and arrogant with the agents, he had begun to intensify his religious practice so much that he became a charismatic leader for other Muslim prisoners. ‘The Friday prayer ceremony was held in his cell and he dressed in the typical tunic of an imam,’ they added.”

Why was this allowed to happen? How long will authorities look the other way as prisons all over the West are hotbeds of jihad recruitment?

“‘I Will Kill You and Eat Your Corpses’: Deported Radical Imam Told Prison Guards,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, January 13, 2019: