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Religion has great potential for cleavage. Benoît Gaillard, former president of the SP Lausanne and parliamentary of the city, declares: "The SVP was launched in the perverse Islam the CVP tries to thwart him with a kind of Christian Leitkultur. The left, however, wants to protect and promote Islam.
Gaillard thinks it's wrong.With other social democrats, he is involved in the Integra-Universal group against the spearhead SP's intention of President Christian Levrat to recognize Muslim communities by public law and ask them in return for modernization measures.In June, when the SP has organized a conference on Islam, Integra-Universell has published an alternative to the SP working paper. asked whether the PS should pursue a religious policy.
Benoît Gaillard, Lausanne City Council. Image: Keystone
"With the demand to recognize Islam as a national church, the SP is digging into the identity trap like the other parties," Gaillard says in an interview with this journal. "Muslims are seen as a distinct religious community with a specific identity, not as citizens with individual rights."
Far From Individual Rights
The group is struck by the fact that had become something of a surrogate proletariat. In addition, according to Basel lawyer and historian Stephanie Siegrist, another important member of the group, after the failure of socialism, parts of social democracy would have failed to develop a vision positive for all, like the unconditional basic income. The discourse on victimization and discrimination has always been important for the SP, but under emancipatory auspices, for human rights, and later for the rights of women and gays. In the speech of Islam, the opposite occurs, says Siegrist: "Muslims are not considered as individuals and citizens, but as members of a collective. In patriarchal and political Islam, in particular, women and homosexuals are deliberately and systematically discriminated against.
Stephanie Siegrist, historian and lawyer. Screenshot: Telebasel
Siegrist and Gaillard also criticize the dialogue between SP and Muslim associations. These were the wrong person to contact because they claimed to represent the majority of Muslims authoritatively and showed clear trends in political Islam. Only 15% of local Muslims are affiliated with associations. SP should not promote conservative-fundamentalist religious communities, they say
Civil Rights as Support
Criticism of religion and patriarchy has always been constitutive in the social struggle – Democrats for emancipation, say the critics Gaillard and Siegrist, It must also apply to Islam and also to the churches of Catholic countries unconstitutional. Minorities should not be integrated as a collective, but as individuals and through political processes in the democratic society.
Problems of identity and discrimination are generally associated with negative characteristics such as skin color or religion. However, the basic element that keeps our society together is the Citizen with his civil rights. These rights are binding, while religion and denomination are fragmented. It is therefore essential to also oblige migrants to human rights, which also include women's rights.
Creating Exceptions in the Constitutional State
Public recognition is therefore not a means of integration. Opposite: a way to encourage minorities in their special requests. The factual acceptance of the Catholic Church with its sexual segregation, with bans of consecration and function for women and the exclusion of homosexuals is simply not constitutional and therefore needs to be reconsidered. Even Muslim associations are initially concerned about organizing their religious community and representing them externally. But then they wanted to create exceptions within the rule of law
And this on religious freedom, as Siegrist says. Although there is no hierarchy within human rights and religious freedom does not go beyond equal rights, it says in this sense: "Under the guise of freedom." religious, individual rights are revealed. "In patriarchal religions always at the expense of women, children and homosexuals. there is no protection against discrimination, the moral-divine law has more weight ". When wearing the headscarf in the public sphere, the democratic legal system accepted the religious-sexist law. Integra-Universal therefore advocates a ban on the burqa
"Not hostile to religion"
The Integra-Universal Group of Critical Social Democrats Engages on the Traditional Party Line : emancipation and separation of the state and religion. However, he separates himself clearly from the anti-religious laity. "They accuse us of secularism to end the discussion." The group sees itself as a friendly and secular religion. Their theses have produced a surprisingly broad echo. "We have received positive feedback from established members of the party," says Gaillard. "So we can reopen the field within the party as a spearhead."
You want to give the subject a different interpretation framework from SVP, CVP, SP leadership or Muslim associations. It should not yet – as in the minaret vote – the UDC fight against the rest of the world. The speech on the SP base is much more differentiated than the party establishment thinks. "And maybe our positions in the left are now already in the majority."
(Tages-Anzeiger)
Date created: 22.07.2018, 21:19
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