text: French imam requests police protection after receiving death threats for criticism of terror attacks | | Express Digest
  Published: 11:10 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 11:41 GMT, 9 November 2020
  Another on the Telegram messaging service described the imam as 'your new target', calling on followers to 'execute him because he is filthier than those French infidels.
  Mr Chalghoumi, 48, a leading Muslim moderate voice, had called teacher Samuel Paty (pictured) a 'martyr for freedom of expression'
  Mr Chalghoumi, who was born in Tunisia, has lived under police guard since the 2015 Paris attacks, when Islamic State called for his 'execution'.
  'Rectors of mosques, imams, parents, civil society groups, wake up, your future is at stake,' he said.
  'We need to end the victimisation discourse. We all have rights in France, like everyone else. Parents should tell their children about the good that exists in this republic,' he said.