Churches turned into mosques: Sarkozy under fire from critics – L’Express

By signing the petition Denis Tillinac in Current Values ​​, which requires that the French are not churches turned into mosques, Nicolas Sarkozy has provoked the ire of some of his own training. Although this appeal was also signed by MPs Eric Ciotti, Valérie Boyer or the Grognarde Sarkozyism Nadine Morano, it has not been by other tenors party Republicans.

“I will not sign this petition because I think they are trying (…) to stir around this subject, which does not really exist, reacted Friday Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, vice -president of the party, on France Info. (…) It is not a subject of immense actuality, it is not a question that arises every day (…) So why do it? Why look cleaving? Why try to make it a subject so it is not really one? “, was upset by the hon.

“It is not better when a church becomes a nightclub or restaurant,” said she also found before attacking, apparently aiming Nicolas Sarkozy: “All these people who talk to us civilization about the Church, are they really fit into the churches? Those who bring the church to a civilization project have sometimes forgotten the Gospel message. The gospel message is made of universalism, no nationalism. The gospel message is made projections into the future, no traditionalism. ”

“A false problem”

Even the old pen Nicolas Sarkozy, Henri Guaino, who had validated the famous expression “long coat churches and cathedrals “which covers France, said, according to Le Parisien ,” only fuel the debate does not seem likely to ease tensions. ” The deputy of Yvelines, like Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, recalled that the rector of the Paris Mosque Dalil Boubaker, who proposed transforming some churches in Muslim places of worship, was “back on his words.”

Even its minaret in the camp Bruno Le Maire has also been asked by Current Values ​​ to the petition. “We said no, L’Express says the entourage of the deputy of the Eure. We all agree that churches are not turned into mosques but this is a false problem. And then, we must stop talking about religion at every turn. We, we want to talk of the nation, no religion! ”

The entourage Alain Juppe announced that former Prime Minister was also contacted to sign the appeal and that he also declined the proposal.