"
In a country which has suffered terrorist attacks with more than 300 killed in recent years, we cannot pretend that it does not exist
", hammered Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Monday, on the set of "Talk Le Figaro ".
Three months ago, Samuel Paty, a college professor, paid the price for Islamist barbarism for showing Muhammad's cartoons as part of a course on freedom of expression.
According to a survey carried out by Ifop for the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, one in two teachers censor themselves.
“Islam is present in mainland France.
He was not in the days of Jules Ferry.
It is a susceptible religion, which implies efforts to teach freedom of expression,
”argues the former Minister of National Education.
"I am not criticizing Mr. Blanquer's policy, I consider that he is doing the maximum, it is delicate work.
"
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However, he recalls that the State is responsible for public security, social cohesion and public health and,
"in these various capacities, it is entitled to intervene", he
judges.
In the bill on the strengthening of republican principles, the word Islam is not pronounced: "
We must distinguish radical Islamism, which is clearly our adversary, which must be eradicated, and then Islam as religion practiced by 1.8 billion human beings who, in general, practice it in a quiet way
,
”
insists the former minister of François Mitterrand.
Convinced that it is necessary to complete the law of 1905 because at the time
“Islam was not present on metropolitan soil”,
Chevènement reminds that secularism is not turned against religions, but allows their free expression from when we admit that there is a common space, “
the republican space
”.
Underlining a certain crisis of Islam on a global scale, he pleads for the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM) to reform: "
If we do not get the latter to set up a Council national imams, we will have done nothing
”, warns the former Minister of the Interior.