From the beginning, the tone is set. The rally against “Islamophobia and climate safely War” opens on the word of Ismahane Chouder, of all equal Moms association. At the Bourse du Travail of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), it denounces the “criminalization campaign signatories” this call.
The main anti-racist organizations such as the MRAP, LDH, SOS Racisme and LICRA have also abstained. However, the appeal was heard by the PCF and the NPA and controversies structures such as the Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF, close to the Muslim Brotherhood), the Party of the Indigenous of the Republic, the Indivisible, Presence Muslim (close to Ramadan) or the teacher Collective for the repeal of the 2004 Act (CEAL). The text denounces both Islamophobia and “ Patriot Act to the French.”
“The signatories we have a problem”
Malay in the ranks of the left. The Left Party (PG) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon refuses to join. Its general coordinator, Eric Coquerel says L’Express.. “The term Islamophobia problem for us for several years, it is indeed difficult to distinguish between the free criticism of religion and racism The text also does not cite other forms of racism. In a post-terrorist context, it would have a broader appeal … “” also continued the leader, the signatories we have a problem. It is for some organizations communitarian or organizations that have a political vision of Islam. ”
The party !, Together with the PG component of the Left Front, sharing it, the opposite view. “It is urgent that the social transformation of the left takes the action of a specific racism taking the Muslim religion as a pretext,” write several of its activists. Support to the meeting, which, they say, “of course does not mean that we share the entirety of the positions of the other signatory organizations.” Another component of the Left Front: the French Communist Party. After discussion, the PCF decided to keep his signature to the call, but it was decided not to send any representatives to the meeting, said is it instead of Colonel Fabien.
EELV divided on the subject
Capernaum also within Europe-Ecologie-Les-Greens (EELV). After a debate Tuesday on the executive board, the ecologist decided to withdraw its signature of the call. Without too much publicity about it. In Lab , the leader of EELV deputies, François de Rugy, regret that “sometimes comes to accept the unbearable speech organizations that would justify discrimination somewhere youth radicalization and bullet the attacks. ” “It’s now or never to settle this debate once and us,” he concludes.
Alas, several figures of the party, such as MEP Eva Joly, Yannick Jadot, Karima Delli or Sergio Coronado MP announced on March 3 that they support the rally. “We want to break with the colonial and contemptuous view of each other that determines discrimination, including Islamophobia, and can induce a tiny minority to fall into violent radicalism,” they write. The former national secretary Cecile Duflot, however, remains silent … “The debate is not simple. Both sides are exploiting the laments in off an influential figure EELV. There has a dangerous logic to have two left who would face: one secular and the other Islamic-compliant It is a binary vision that puts us in the shit, recognizes that person must not feed the quarrel over.. subjects as serious. ” The discomfort is more than palpable.
Require not to be anti-Semitic, sexist and homophobic: Islamophobia
On the stage of the Bourse du Travail of Saint-Denis, in front of? diverse crowd, composed of veiled and non-veiled women, young and old activists Ismahane Chouder complains that it “always ask a Muslim blamelessness” to “anti-Semitism”, “sexism” and “the homophobia. ” A requirement which would itself be “characteristic of Islamophobia.”
The Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), which then intervenes points to nothing less than a “state racism that looks like what we experienced in the 30s “. If its president Samy Debah ensures that “the French are not Islamophobic,” he warns against “people who are media and political power and who seek to divide the people.”
few Policies
To listen to these jacks vehement speech, if the policies are not rushed. Madjib Messaouedene, managing municipal councilor in Saint-Denis, took the microphone to explain the absence of the mayor (PCF) of the city Didier Paillard. If it is not there, it’s not “being accused” of wanting to retrieve voice, he said. Only elected to speak, Abderrahmane Azzouzi, former deputy mayor (SE) of Angers, who warns: “If the state does not invite Muslims to table the Republic careful what Muslims do not return to him one day the table on the head! ”
Already, some left formations prefer to forget that evening and divisions. “We want to participate in the demonstration against racism March 21, the spectrum is wider,” slips Express Eric Coquerel PG. Who observes that the state, the text of the call nevertheless deems unacceptable. The left has not finished phosphorer.
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