LE FIGARO.
- Since when has France been confronted with Islamist preachers?
Bernard Rougier.
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Three periods are distinguished.
From the 1970s, the tabligh movement developed in the factories to fight against what its followers designated, in their vocabulary, as a “risk of de-Islamization” caused by acculturation in the host countries.
For this, the immigrant workers had to learn to become Muslims again by the literal imitation of the life of the Prophet.
Then, until the mid-1980s, France was a fallback base for the Muslim Brotherhood.
It was not until 1989 that the latter considered that France was, in itself, a land of preaching well assumed.
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This change of strategy crystallized with the affair of the three schoolgirls refusing to remove their veil in class in Creil.
The third wave arrives in the 1990s: Europe and France will be, in a way, the collateral victims of the Gulf War…
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