How can people be forbidden from following the innovator who is a sorcerer?

The questioner:
This is a questioner from outside this country who says: The imam of our village is a sorcerer, and the people

The Shaykh:
are an imam and a sorcerer. Yes.

The questioner:
The people love him because he writes for them, and they think he is on the right path, and he issues rulings for them permitting slaughter for other than Allah. His question

The Shaykh:
is what Allah willed. Yes.

The questioner:
His question is: How do I make the people in my village hate this imam, since he is close to them and beloved?

The Shaykh:
Call them to tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and tell them that whoever does such and such is a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah), a disbeliever, a mushrik who opposes the truth, and is not fit to be an imam or a role model for people. Yes.

The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.

The Shaykh:
If you are able to remove him from the imamate, it is obligatory for you to do so. Yes.