On September 21, when Éric Zemmour published a poster on Twitter published by the European Commission on which a child poses, all smiles, with an Islamic scarf around her head that only reveals the center of her face, the first reaction of Internet users is to ask the former presidential candidate what his source is.
Many even believe in a photo montage, and for good reason: the poster cannot be found.
If it was published on the internet, then it left as quickly as it appeared...
However, the web archives are formal: at 7am that day, the official Twitter account of the European Erasmus program did post the poster in question, which has since been removed without any other form of explanation given the start of the controversy.
The communication medium, adorned with the logo of the European Commission, announces the unveiling of the winners of the 2022 edition of the “
European Innovative Teaching Award
”.
This prize for innovative teaching, established within the framework of the Erasmus programme, now rewards each year school projects that renew teaching methods and are selected by the European Union.
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Nothing to do at first sight, therefore, with the question of wearing the veil or even the demonstrations which are violently shaking Iran these days.
The European institutions have simply taken the habit of sprinkling their flyers, posters, visuals, videos and other stories with representations of women wearing the veil, attracting more or less each time the remonstrances of the French right, which sees in it a attempt to trivialize this garment which French law continues to consider as an ostentatious religious sign - and to prohibit, in particular, in public schools.
But the veiling this time of a little girl barely old enough to go to college caused an even stronger reaction.
And if Jordan Bardella, Nicolas Bay or even Marine Le Pen joined Éric Zemmour in denouncing the "
submission
" or the "
propaganda
" of the European Commission, they were joined by political figures who did not quite belong to the same edge.
So Nathalie Loiseau, MEP and member of the Horizons party, who was also moved: “
No and no, not in my name.
When the Commission lets this kind of visual pass, nothing goes.
[...] Europe must fight against all interference.
All
,” she tweeted.
The issue of banning the veil in certain public places in France is widely debated in Europe, where associations defending Islamist precepts are regularly associated with European policies in favor of equality.
For them, France is sticking to an Islamophobic position, denounced at length in conferences, studies and reports...sometimes published with the assistance, particularly financial, of the European Union.
A situation that has repeatedly led the French government to alert Brussels, without great results so far.
