Former local elected, Céline Pina is an essayist and activist. She is the founder of "Viv (r) e la République", a secular and republican citizen movement calling for the fight against all totalitarianisms and for the promotion of republican values. She is the author of Guilty Silence (Kero, 2016).
Alliance Citoyenne is an association which formerly defended citizens' objectives but which has drifted towards Islamogauchism for some time. One of its missions seems to be to impose the veil everywhere: at the swimming pool, with the bath burka (invasion of swimming pools in Grenoble and Villeurbanne) or in the gyms, with the hijab.
Their latest coup took place in Lyon, they invaded a gym, Interval, rue Gambetta in the 3rd arrondissement, to force its leader to change the internal regulations, which prohibited headgear, and impose the acceptance of the hijab by force. And they won.
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It must be said that the accession of EELV to power in many cities and their ambiguity vis-à-vis racists who call themselves racialists, as with political Islam, has opened up margins for actions of destabilization. The Greens are seen as naïve and incapable of dealing with issues of insecurity, suddenly force attacks become the rule. Once we have freed ourselves from respect for the law and the regulations and we see that the authorities fold or look away, why deny ourselves to extend its power and influence? As the storming of swimming pools aroused little reaction and even fewer sanctions, why stop there? Thus, forcing oneself into a private space to impose one's own law becomes a legitimate means of action. No article mentions to what extent we are here in the use of coercion and blackmail to make others bend to his vision of things. No one mentions the abuse committed by these activists who pose as victims.
It must be said that victimization, Alliance Citoyenne controls. She uses the classic Muslim Brotherhood argument to present the veil as a freedom and presents her actions as inspired by the campaign for civil rights in the United States. Except that in France Muslim women have the same rights as others and that internal regulations apply to everyone, without discrimination. Except that the fight to impose the veil everywhere is that of political and fundamentalist Islam. Except that the veil is not a freedom, it is a sign which carries a message which has only one meaning: the woman is impure and she is not the equal of the man.
Europeans therefore do not have to feel guilty if they reject this sign and thus defend their attachment to equality. It is a magnificent fight that in the name of our common humanity we can create societies where equality in law is at the heart of citizenship. And that has consequences. Women and men do not live the same realities, depending on whether a civilization chooses equal rights and the defense of freedom; or that it refers to a culture which makes of the woman, a being biologically and definitely inferior to the man, an eternal minor. However, this fight is constantly questioned by the most archaic, among whom the Islamists are today the most demanding. As a result, reactions hostile to the veil cannot be reduced to a racist prejudice; they above all bear witness to the fact that two mental universes constructed according to incompatible logics cannot have their place within the same political society.
The hostile reactions to the veil testify to the fact that two mental universes constructed according to incompatible logics cannot have their place within the same political society.It is because they are aware of it that activists of political Islam fixate on the veil and want it to be more and more worn and claimed. This symbol shows not only that they can reject the foundations of European civilization, but that when they do, states and individuals alike submit. Through the pressure they put on and the victories they garner, the Islamists and their objective allies are demonstrating that principles and ideals are nothing without courage and that the rule of law is also based on determination. men to make it exist.
Because in the face of religious blackmail more and more frequent in companies and in the face of the difficulties that this was likely to pose, one of the solutions proposed was precisely the adoption of internal regulations, which made it possible to push out of the private field, often identity claims under the guise of religious. As such, whether a sports hall, a business or any private place welcoming its customers has internal regulations to specify what is authorized or not and chooses to legislate on the possibility of accepting or not a cover -chef is legitimate. The fact that the Citizen Alliance is invading the room, until the rules are changed as a result of the pressure exerted, is serious. But the worst is this fear which paralyzes those in charge, whether public or private, and gives the impression that too many men want the advantages of power, while being unable to exercise its responsibilities and show firmness. when the going gets tough. This is how we see first-hand that the law is not a protection if those responsible are cowardly.
The fact that the Citizen Alliance is invading the room, until the rules are changed as a result of the pressure exerted, is serious.One can also wonder what would happen if the Ku Klux Klan showed up in a gym asking that non-whites wear a badge in order to show that they recognize their inferiority, thus imposing their dogmas, those- this being contrary to the humanist and egalitarian culture to which we belong. We would scream scandal and that would be good! On the other hand, when it comes to imposing a mark of inferiority on the woman, there everyone agrees. It's still a bit curious. Or rather it shows that racial ideology having been politically and culturally fought, we know how to react when situations send us back to precise historical contexts (slavery, apartheid, segregation, persecution of Jews, Shoah…). We know how to identify the evil that is in the reference to race, so much so that the fear of being called "racist" has become one of the basic tactics of political Islam and racialist ideologies to impose their demands. in the political field. The paradox is that today, for fear of being suspected of racism or rejection of Muslims, it is to sexism that our leaders are opening the door.
