Emmanuel Macron presented a law against radicals …

From Paris. The bloody fanaticism of radical Islamism led the French executive to prepare new legislation which aims to dismantle the influence of this current in society, to protect public officials, in particular those in national education, from the radical threat, to demand that associations conform to the requirements of secularism, to establish more transparency in cults and, finally, to restrict the education of minors of age in households. The bill by which “republican principles” are reaffirmed is a consequence of the jihadist attacks which have shaken French society in recent months. There were two that shocked society: on October 16, 2020, the professor Samuel dead He was beheaded by a young Chechen near the Bois-d’Aulne high school. The murderer, Abdouallakh Anzorov |, took revenge on the history and geography teacher because Samuel Patay had shown his students the caricatures of Muhammad published by the weekly Charlie Hebdo. On October 29, a 21-year-old Tunisian who arrived in France a few days ago, Brahim Aouissaoui, burst into the Notre-Dame de la Assomption basilica, in the heart of Nice, and he also beheaded a man and two women.

The bill which reached the Council of Ministers on Wednesday will be presented to the National Assembly in early 2021. The debates are expected to be lively. The parliamentary majority is divided around the text and the central concept of secularism on which French society is based. Exactly these days are the 115th anniversary of the call Law of secularism Thanks to which are guaranteed freedom of worship and the absolute neutrality of the State with regard to the various religions. Precisely, the defense of this model assumed by President Emmanuel Macron after the attacks sparked a wave of protests, protests against France in the Arab-Muslim world, as well as the boycott of French products. The law contains many provisions, but it responds, for the most part, to the strategy of French President Emmanuel Macron, whose objective is to contain “Islamist separatism”. However, the resulting text is a sort of compromise between presidential goals and gestures directed against Muslims to allay fears that the law specifically targeted the six million Muslims residing in France. She also sought to appease the controversy born after the attacks and the position defended by Macron in favor of secularism and the right to blasphemy. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was one of the most critical and aggressive leaders against the French presidency. The French Prime Minister, Jean Castex, declared that this bill “is not a text against religions, nor against the Muslim religion in particular. On the contrary, it is a law of freedom, a law of protection, a law of emancipation from religious fundamentalism ”. In an interview published in the evening The world, the chief executive underlined the fact that “the enemy of the Republic is a political ideology called radical Islamism”. In early October 2020, Emmanuel Macron sketched a first model of this text. At first it was called the “law against separatism”, but the attacks of the same month of October changed its nature, but not its objectives: to fight against radical influence in the districts of the country and to carry out a kind of pedagogy. comprehensive to prevent many Muslim sectors continue to believe that their religious imperatives are above the laws of the Republic.

The bill has two parts. With the first, it is a question of guaranteeing “the free exercise of worship” and, with the second, of guaranteeing respect for republican values. The first part will focus particularly on the supervision of the financing and operation of the many religious associations active in the country. For example, the project establishes the obligation to sign a document in which associations requesting state subsidies undertake to respect the values ​​of the Republic already support equality between men and women. There was always a lot more than suspicion surrounding the actual activity carried out by many religious associations, more focused on indoctrination than other activities. The project also sanctions the use of virginity certificates, strengthens control over polygamy and forced marriages in which very young women are often forced into marriage. Local authorities will also ensure that utilities maintain a neutral line, without making any time or gender concessions.

An article of the bill provides imprisonment for anyone who threatens, harasses or attacks a member of the public service, what happened to Professor Samuel Patay. Those who disseminate information relating to “private, family or professional life” intended to find a person whose location endangers their physical integrity will also be penalized. The bill adopted this Wednesday by the Council of Ministers is far from having reached a consensus. The The presidential majority in the Assembly will not appear united in the discussion and many critical sectors consider that Macron’s law is a very heavy blow to all religious cults.