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French state and Islam: three decades of useless efforts?

2022-02-06T19:26:32.367Z


ANALYSIS - The forum organized by the government to work on the place of Islam in France has broached issues identical to those of thirty years ago. The debate is not advancing.


What battle will Islam in France have won on February 5, 2022, Place d'Iéna, in Paris, which recalls a famous victory by Napoleon?

Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, concluded the work of the first assembly of the Forum de l'islam de France, the Forif, meeting at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council.

The representative of the Republic will even have quoted Napoleon addressing the Egyptians in 1798: “

You will be told that I have come to destroy your religion.

Don't believe them;

answer that I come to restore your rights to you, to punish the usurpers, and that I respect (…) God, his prophet and the Koran

”.

Two battles in any case were heavily lost.

The first is that of an impressive “on the spot”.

The Forif has certainly become

the "interlocutor

" of the State, but the topics covered - status of the imam, chaplains, financing - or the questions put to Minister Darmanin at the end of the session - taxation, Muslim squares in cemeteries - recall issues...

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Source: lefigaro

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