It is time to treat Imams as professionals, and thus subject to the rules for basic qualification and code of conduct.
For too long Imam's in the West and in Pakistan have been treated as a non-professional and thus there has been little effort to standardize the practice of hiring and firing Imams.
Think about it. If an imported IT or a doctor behaves unethically, there are laws in place to punish him. And yet Imams like Bakri or this Hilali cartoon continue to live off the society without any consequences for their sub-par behavior.
It also the right time to rely more on the locally born and educated Imams and drastically reduce the import of dimwit people in the name religious leaders. To some degree this has already started happening, and visa consulates in Pakistan are now very strict about granting permission to the so-called religious leaders.
Please read the entire post and dont take statements out of context. He was specifically pointing to backward-minded Muslims who enjoy all the benefits of living in a first world country and then claim that everything in the country is absolutely bad.They try to reform the country that they live in and not the country that they belong to and owe their allegiance tol.