2 imams held in Spain for ISIS links

Madrid: Two Moroccan imams at a mosque on the Spanish resort island of Ibiza were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of backing the Islamic State group and inciting jihad, police said. “They publicly and repeatedly expressed on social networks their support for the terrorist group Daesh (ISIS), its methods and its Salafist-jihadist ideology,” the Civil Guard said in a statement. The Civil Guard gave the ages of the pair as 31 and 35, but did not name them. They were arrested in the tourist town of Sant Antoni de Portmany. They were “imams in a mosque, a privileged position from which to exert influence over members of the Muslim community on the island,” said the Civil Guard.