France deported an Islamic mosque leader Thursday who was accused of leading a group that advocates terrorism, the Interior Ministry said. The expulsion of Midhat Guler is part of a growing French crackdown against radical Muslim clerics. Guler, a Turkish national, was taken out of France by plane, but the ministry did not indicate what the destination was. “This expulsion is motivated by the threat that this person represented to the public order,” the ministry said in a statement. “Mr. Guler is in fact a leader in France of a Turkish Islamic extremist movement called ‘Kaplan’ that preaches use of violence and terrorism.” Full Story