Author of "Democracy at the peril of the courtrooms" (Gallimard, coll. "Le Débat", 2022).
Is Islam compatible with the laws of the Republic? To ask the question in such a general way is both provocative and idle. It is also a mixture of orders that secularism has carefully separated. The secular republic should not meddle with religion, just as religion, in a secular republic, should not pretend to govern public affairs.
The recent case of the imam of Beaucaire, Yassin El Himer, leads us to give a partial but topical answer to the vast question of the compatibility between Islam and the Republic, no less than disturbing.
On October 12, the day after Hamas' atrocities in Israel, the imam posted on his Facebook account the hadith to his flock: "You will fight the Jews and get the better of them so that the stone will say: 'O Muslim! Here's a Jew hiding behind me......
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