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For François Fillon, France is facing "a social crisis" and "a long-lasting war"

2020-10-20T16:48:56.417Z


The former prime minister comes out of his silence, in L'Express, after the conflict in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.


François Fillon wrote

Vaincre le totalitarisme Islamique

in September 2016. Four years later, and the day after the conflict in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the former prime minister came out of his silence, in the weekly

L'Express

, for deliver his analysis in the face of the spread of radical Islam in France and have “

the courage to say that there is a problem with the Muslim religion, and not the others

”.

"We have to show a lot of modesty, avoid definitive formulas, 'they will not pass' or 'fear will change sides', because we are facing a social crisis", he

indicates by returning, without quoting it, to the remarks made last Friday by Emmanuel Macron.

For François Fillon, it is about a “

global fight

” which goes well beyond the school but which touches all the society whereas “

a significant part of the Muslim community refuses to integrate, to accept the rules of the Republic and of living together.

The situation at school is only the consequence of this general situation

”.

This is why, according to the former prime minister,

"the school and teachers cannot, on their own, fight against a phenomenon which results in the tilting of entire districts into

a form of separatism, to use the word of the President of the Republic

.

Reason why, also, François Fillon considers it necessary to "

banish the veil from all public space

", in "

schools, universities, at school and even in all establishments open to the public

", he explains. .

"

The worsening of the situation is obvious

"

A word that François Fillon does not take on his account.

“The engine of this refusal of integration is not only

the imposition on the world of the rules, values, dogmas of the Muslim religion

.

This is why I am talking about totalitarianism, ”he

explains.

Islamist separatism begins when Muslims want to live according to their customs, their laws, their organization on the fringes of the Republic;

Islamic totalitarianism corresponds to a global project which consists in imposing on the world the rules, the ideology of the Muslim religion

”, he distinguishes by calling on the government to go further than“

half-measures

”on the control of immigration or the reform of the right to asylum.

It is wrong to say that the state is powerless today

,” replies the former prime minister.

"

The alleged powerlessness of the State is most often linked to the pusillanimity of its leaders or their inability to take controversial decisions which will earn them the wrath of the moralizers who dominate the public debate on this subject

", he argues.

For François Fillon, it is urgent to act.

"

The number of preachers, of the faithful themselves who now adhere to the idea that religious rules, sharia, are imposed on republican rules, on the laws of their country, has increased considerably

," he worries. he in

L'Express

.

There are more and more signs.

Among them, the wearing of the veil, intransigence on the subjects of ritual slaughter, the permanent contestation of the calendar, of History itself ...

", recalls François Fillon, who warns:"

the worsening of the situation is obvious

”.

According to the former prime minister, this worsening is all the more "

sensitive

" in France as "

we have strong and insufficiently controlled immigration, and a national project that is too weak to ensure integration.

The lack of confidence in us, in our culture, in our past, reached delusional heights with the contestation of all the great figures of history, the debunking of statues, the permanent trial against all the leaders of our country of be either slavers or sexual predators.

"

The former prime minister urges the French of Muslim faith to react.

They “

cannot content themselves with making a few protests in a low voice when there is a tragedy: they must fight without weakness the excesses of a part of theirs

”.

In this context, for François Fillon it is necessary "

to outlaw the most radical organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood

".

"

We certainly did not go far enough

"

In the interview, François Fillon takes care to respond to the criticisms currently made of him for having buried the Obin report on religious symbols at school.

In 2004, when Inspector Jean-Pierre Obin made it public, François Fillon was Minister of National Education.

“This report was not ignored, I quote the Obin report in my book

Overcoming Islamic Totalitarianism

, and I explain in particular that, when it was made public, we were both in the process of implementing the circular on secularism and to finalize the reform of the school with a few tens of thousands of demonstrators every day under the windows of the ministry ",

argues François Fillon, even if he concedes it:"

Of course, we are surely not gone far enough

”.

If he does not "

absolve himself of all responsibility in the fact that we have not sufficiently taken into account the radicalization of postures at school

", he nevertheless recalls his positions taken on all of these subjects. .

"

I was one of the few in the Raffarin government to defend the law on the veil at school

."

In this "

long-term war

" which is looming, François Fillon invites to "

name things

" severely judges "

the blindness of a large part of the left on Islamization

" and "

the responsibility of trade unions, mostly of the left, who have long considered that any critical speech against Muslims or immigration was stigmatizing or extreme right

”.

Faced with the scale of the task, for François Fillon, “

it is essential that we decree a form of general mobilization and that we put aside political ulterior motives

”.

Source: lefigaro

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