Presidential candidate Arnaud Montebourg urged on Saturday to "
translate into correctional
" imams and "
preachers
" who call for disobeying French law, while criticizing "
televangelist
" Eric Zemmour for his positions on Islam.
"
We will never accept that political Islamism imposes on our country its educational and obscurantist conception of the world, its conception of relations between women and men which call into question the neutrality of the public service
", he said. in his speech at the Rose Festival in Frangy-en-Bresse.
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"
Today, it is certain imams, fortunately in the minority, who call for disobeying the law, preachers and individuals who intimidate women who do not wear the veil for the convenience of men, who must be brought to correctional
", said the former minister.
"
It is in the law of 1905
" on the separation of Church and State, why is it not applied? ", He asked himself, promising to
" fight step by step political Islamism because it will have to be dismantled
”.
Éric Zemmour targeted
In his speech, he also attacked Eric Zemmour, whom he presented to the boos of the public as "
a fashionable extremist, a televangelist who benefits from free hours of television all year round
", for his proposal to
“rename first names of sounding and foreign origin
”.
Recalling that his mother's name is Leïla, he denounced this desire for “
collective sorting of a new“ Zemmourian ”administration which would be responsible for renaming those whom it arbitrarily judges as good or bad French
”.
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In his speech, Arnaud Montebourg also returned to his proposal for "
a significant salary increase
" for teachers, by reopening
"negotiations with trade unions
".
He also promised to "
put an end to the Blanquer bac
"
,
which he presented as a
"kind of supermarket where everyone helps themselves from the shelves, where privileged children find their way there much more easily than children from the middle classes and popular
”.