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France has said it will shut down radical mosques in response to last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris — and at least one imam thinks that’s a great idea.

Even before January’s attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, Abdelali Mamoun, the outspoken imam of Alfortville just outside Paris, has been pushing for radical Salafist mosques to be “cleaned out” and, if that fails, shut down. Now he thinks the moment may finally have come.

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“I don’t like to say this, but there were only 17 dead [after Charlie Hebdo]. Now I hope that with 129 dead they will say, ‘OK, let’s go,’ ” Mamoun told me Monday evening in Paris. “They must conduct a true reform of our institutions, which has been very timid so far.”

There are nearly 100 radical mosques among the roughly 2,500 in France, but they aren’t the biggest problem, he said. It’s the lack of competent French imams in ordinary mosques that leaves young people uneducated and prey to radicals who teach outside the mosques.