The Prime Minister intends to launch a dialogue intended to fight against the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists in France.
Manuel Valls saw action against the excesses of Islam. A month after his speech to the National Assembly, in which he assured that France was at war “against terrorism, jihadism and radical Islam,” the prime minister said Thursday before the Senate a series of consultations on the future of the organization of the Muslim faith in France. These meetings will be led by the Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, also Minister of Religious Affairs. The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) will participate but will be far from a position of strength. Twelve years after its creation, the finding of failure is shared to the Presidency of the Republic, where Francois Hollande himself estimated last week that this body had “not enough capacity to uphold a number of rules , principles, throughout the territory. “
By the number of subjects it addresses, the reorganization of Islam in France is the puzzle. There was first the issue of funding. It crystallizes on the construction of mosques, it will actually well beyond. “How can we accept that Islam in France receives funding from a number of foreign countries, whatever they are? This is the first question that must be asked. And if installed, well that means it is necessary to take a number of steps to tomorrow prevent such funding, especially when they reinforce a number of behaviors, “argued Manuel Valls. In France, regular controversies arise on the financing of places of worship by some Arab countries, especially the Gulf.
Therefore, there is also the question of sermons uttered in these mosques. According to Prime Minister, it is necessary and “worry about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, worry about the influence of a number of Salafist groups that are found in a number of areas.” Now this ultra-Orthodox movement gained ground in mosques until now control a hundred places of worship in 2300.
Hence the request of François Hollande his Prime Minister to work on the training of imams. The subject is sensitive in mosques but also in prisons where jihadist failover takes place. Today, 180 Muslim chaplains “official” operate in places of detention, a figure far below the needs in the eyes of experts.
“How can we accept that the Islam of France receives funding from a number of foreign countries, whatever they are? “
Problem, apart from unknown or opaque organizations, the body of imams n ‘ no official representation. “Muslims are not seeking a representative body – that’s the wish of the authorities – they would like a purely religious body that can give opinions and find arguments to respond legitimately to the radicalization of some young people,” says AFP M’hammed Henniche, Secretary General of the Union of Muslim Associations of Seine-Saint-Denis. For the government, the site is immense. It is also political.
While Manuel Valls called not to make this issue “an election issue” might foment divisions of the country. But the Republican momentum born terrorist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the supermarket Hyper Hide also had its downside. PS, we denounce strengthening Islamophobia whose vote National Front feeds. He appeared in the Doubs during a by-election when the FN candidate has qualified in the first round and narrowly failed the second. To the right and left, is feared to see the departmental and regional elections this year will lead to a further rise of the extreme right.
Now the government offensive against the application of radical Islamism work and time, that voters may not be willing to grant it. Ultimately, it is the whole question of the compatibility of Islam with democracy being asked. There are still two years, the subject had caused controversy on the left, where Manuel Valls had raised the issue at a government seminar. “It took an amazing course,” was then a minister lamented. The executive is no longer there. Now he is trying to draw a line between republican Islam “tolerant, universal and benevolent” defended by Manuel Valls and radical Islam assailed by the same.
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