What will Macron do against political Islam in France
Political Islam: the Castex government will present a law on December 9, the contents of which have been illustrated by President Macron. The in-depth study by Enrico Martial
The French theme of "separatism" is not immediately understandable for us, it concerns the tendencies of groups and communities to apply norms and rules different from the laws of the State. It is part of the broader question of the diffusion of practices and behaviors in contrast with French law and customs. It remains alive in a recurring way and goes back at least to the public debate aroused by a case of a school in Creil, near Paris, in which the use of the veil to two thirteen-year-olds was banned in October 1989, at the time of the fall of the wall of Berlin, Salman Rushdie and Lionel Jospin then minister of education. Although ridden by the far right, it affected all French governments and parties, right and left: it is part of the package that unites the issues of social integration, fragile neighborhoods (on which, for example, advantageous taxation has been intervened) , radicalization and terrorism.
On this open game, the government of Jean Castex will present a law on 9 December next, the contents of which were illustrated by President Emmanuel Macron on 2 October in Les Mureaux, in the Yvelines department of the Paris region.
WHAT DOES SEPARATISM MEAN
Macron has distinguished "separatism" from "communitarianism" in recent times, so as not to mix the legitimacy and value of differences, including regional ones (the Breton, Occitan community, minorities, etc.) with respect to the formal and substantial violation of the legal system . He talked about it in the "republican reconquest" district of Bourtzwiller, in Mulhouse on February 18, 2020, when the coronavirus began to circulate and in the following months it delayed its political consequences and therefore the legislative proposal. The focus on the legal and political aspect also makes it possible to save the constitutional question of freedoms, including religious ones, and to include other cases besides that of the Islamic area, as happened with the "separatist" behavior of groups of Chechens they did justice for themselves in their own punitive raids, such as June 12, 2020 in Dijon.
A LAW IN SIX POINTS IN PREPARATION
In any case, the measures that will make up the bill of 9 December can be reduced to six points, still to be written carefully to avoid the obstacle of a judgment by the Constitutional Court. In addition to intervening on training, local decisions, associations and public services, it also states the desire to reduce the direct influence of some third states that appoint seconded teachers or finance mosques, study centers and associations – such as Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Firstly, since there has been a sharp increase in home schooling with an Islamic imprint (30 thousand children, President Macron pointed out, often in closed structures, welcomed by women in niqabs, to learn only prayers,) education it will become compulsory in school buildings from the age of three. Distance education (a national pride since the First World War, organized by the CNED) will be limited to health reasons.
Secondly, municipal acts in conflict with national rules or constitutional principles will be more easily challenged by prefects, for example in the introduction of confessional menus in school canteens, or in the creation of separate timetables for access to sports activities for men. and women. For example, controversies are recurrent and complex on gender separation in swimming pools, as in Normandy (cited by Macron) or in Mantes-la-Jolie or La Verpillière, not far from Grenoble. The prefects will also be able to take the place of the mayors, whom Macron indicates he wants to support also with respect to local and group pressures to which they are subjected.
The law in preparation provides that the state can dissolve associations more easily, also for violation of personal rights or psychological or physical pressures. Public contributions will be conditional on compliance with secular principles with the signing of a document of principles, already in force in some regions (a Charter of secularism in Hauts-De-France, Ile de France, Center-Val de Loire, but also in Montpellier), under penalty of reimbursement of the sums paid.
The system created in 1977 for teaching the language and culture of the country of origin (ELCO) in schools, also to facilitate relations and return, is reformed, with new agreements with Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey (which does not appreciate ) but also with Croatia, Portugal, Serbia and Italy. Teachers will no longer be paid and hired by their countries of origin, but by the French system.
The obligation of sectarian neutrality of public officials will also be extended to the staff of companies that operate through public concessions, as in the case of urban transport: a worker at the ticket office cannot cover herself with a veil.
Finally, the financing of mosques will pass within the legislative framework of associations required to greater accounting transparency (the law of 1905). Furthermore, a procedure will be envisaged to prevent radicalized groups from taking control of associations and therefore of mosques. The imams themselves will have to be trained in France, with an internal cultural responsibility, and an end to the approximately 300 imams "detached" from their countries of origin, Turkey, Morocco and Algeria, with a replacement process that will take about four years.
COMMENTS AND BASIC CONSENT
Some comments complain about the lack of integration with other measures in progress – for example of a social nature for distressed neighborhoods – or of public safety, such as the initiatives for the 47 "Republican Reconquest Neighborhoods" (QRR) born in 2018. The measures and the law in preparation seems to be a stage in a broader path, which was also part of a report by the information services (DGSI) discussed at the Elysée in December 2019, which identified 150 neighborhoods and areas exposed to Islamic radicalization. Moreover, in view of the presidential elections of 2022, Macron strengthens security issues and his right flank, on which Les Républicains insist, and in particular the president of the Haut-De-France region, Bertrand Xavier.
However, the underlying consensus is broad, despite some fine-tuning on the left and mandatory criticisms, if we consider that the Senate Report of 7 July 2020 proposes similar measures and was adopted unanimously.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-fara-macron-contro-lislam-politico/ on Mon, 05 Oct 2020 06:36:35 +0000.