Macron promises a radical change for his country: it’s time to wake up

There is already a five-point plan to combat Islamist tendencies, and a new law will be passed in December, the president said.

“The problem arises from the ideology that its laws should take precedence over the laws of the Republic,” Macron said, speaking in the poor little town of Les Mureaux, 40 km northwest of Paris.

The president chose neither the place nor the time of his speech, says Martina Meister, a correspondent for the German daily Die Welt for France. Les Miuro worked as a marriage for police officers. in summer, in their own homes, in the eyes of a three-year-old son, Islamists cut their throats; and on October 3 of the previous year. In the Paris police prefecture, an Islamist knife killed four and wounded two of his colleagues.

After that incident, no one could deny that Islamist terror had infiltrated even the country’s security structures, the German journalist said.

And that the situation in France is really serious is revealed by a recent poll published by the public opinion research institute Ifop: almost a third of young French Muslims elevate Sharia law above the laws of the Republic. So it’s not just about the Islamist terrorist attacks that have already claimed 250 lives in France. It is about how Islam has affected daily life.

Do not forget that there are 66 million. the country now has a population of around 6 million Muslims.

“Women don’t sit in cafes anymore”

“2,500 mosques have been built in France in the shortest possible time, and slowly this is exactly what radical Islamists are demanding: the Muslim minority is separating from the rest of the nation.” We have come to terms with this development on the basis of the duty to be tolerant, “said French philosopher Elisabetha Badinter three years ago in a speech with Germany’s most famous feminist, Alice Schwarzer.

Badinter said she was able to witness these changes from her own experience: “Five years ago, as a woman, I could sit quietly in the cafes of Oberville or La Courneuve (Aubervilliers and La Courneuve, a suburb of Paris). Now that is the past. Women just don’t sit in cafes anymore, he told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. – There has been a rapid increase in the number of women covering their faces. They wear what I call the uniform of the Muslim Brotherhood (International Islamic Organization – ed.). Of course, this is only the case in certain neighborhoods. However, I see that the five-year-old girls are now covered with veils. The ban on wearing a burqa does not change anything ”.

This was due to the fact that many socially vulnerable families were under the influence of the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood, and the word imam was valued more there than by the teacher. The word of the teacher is seen as the expression of mainstream society, and some parents encourage their children to listen to the imam rather than the teacher, said philosopher E. Banditer.

Macron admits: “We ourselves created this separatism”

One of the country’s most famous sociologists, the Orientalist Gilles Kepel, has long seen these trends of dissociation from Muslim communities. In his books he warned that these processes could end in the final disintegration of society: “Islam has become extremely political with us. Under its influence, many Muslims refuse to identify with French society. This can be seen even in the growing number of Muslims wearing headgear. The extreme right reacts with great irritation to such breaches of identity “, – in 2017. said the scientist, who at the time advised and accompanied E. Macron in the electoral campaign.

Now the president himself has openly mentioned the signs of isolation of Muslim communities: when men refuse to shake a woman’s hand, when in swimming pools, women are given separate time when private religious schools emerge.

“It just came to our attention then. Our Republic has allowed ghettos to emerge,” admitted E. Macron. The ideologues of Islamist separatism “designed their project on the basis of our failures and cowards”, and the “trauma of the colonial experience” in France provided a favorable environment for it.

The French have ignored Islamism in their country for too long and are now “reaping the rewards of ignoring it,” Ahmad Mansour, a German psychologist and expert on Islam, responded in response to a speech by the neighboring country’s president.

Having experienced in his youth how easy it is to fall under Islamist influence, he now works to protect young German Muslims from radicalization through various projects.

The call repeatedly called “wake up”

The reason for the “warning”, the “need to wake up” was repeated in the strong speech of the French president.

Macron set out to combat demonstrations of Muslim radicalization and separatism and presented a five-point plan of action. In order to free French Islam from foreign influence, the control of mosques and Muslim societies will be strengthened, especially their financing, not only will the financing of imams from abroad be stopped, but the importation of imams from Turkey will also be carried out. , Morocco, Tunisia, imams in France in the future.

The teaching of children in the home and in Koranic schools, where Islamist attitudes are presented to children, will be severely restricted. Furthermore, housing laws will be “radically changed” to prevent ghetto formation.

This speech by the French president could be a turning point from which reality will no longer be ignored, and what Macronas unequivocally calls “radical Islam”, a “political ideology” aimed not only at fragmenting French society but also overwhelming it. . , Comments M. Meister, correspondent for Die Welt in Paris.

French reaction

The sensitive issue of Islamic radicalization has been hotly debated in France for many years, with opposing camps dubbing each other “Islamophobes” or “Islamic Left” (Islamic Euchisism): the political extreme left, as revealed by G. Kepelis in his studies, sympathizing with Islamists and jihadists contain a revolutionary force that fights against “Western capitalism and Islam”.

In his speech, the president managed to “keep his balance on the rope,” acknowledged the left-leaning French daily Libération, citing harsh criticism from the leftist camp.

Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon called Macrono’s speech “a completely unnecessary and dramatic staging” that allegedly seeks to stigmatize Islam. This only creates a “harmful atmosphere”.

Nothing more should have been expected: for the political left, all criticism of Islam is “Islamophobia”.

On the contrary, those on the right who see Islam as incompatible with the values ​​of the Republic consider that Macrono’s five-point plan does not go far enough. They ask for more specific rules and prohibitions.

The French Muslim Association was also in a hurry to criticize the language. According to its leader, the president did not choose those words, we have to speak not of separatism, but of radical and political Islam, with which the Muslim association itself has been fighting for many years.

The wake-up call has yet to be heard in neighboring Germany

Macron’s speech resonated in Germany, where there are similar tendencies toward Islamic radicalization and the dissociation of some Muslims. Let’s remember: France has the largest Muslim community in Europe, Germany the second largest.

Macron described Islam as “a religion in crisis around the world today” and demanded what has become one of the biggest taboos in Germany: a new “enlightened Islam.”

He promised to introduce a law regulating Islam later this winter with specific political requirements. Could we imagine Angela Merkel or Frank Walter Steinmeier (federal president – ed.) Giving a similar speech? Just a bau, ”commented renowned journalist Ulrich Reiz in Focus magazine.

“Islamism in France has become very self-assured, arrogant and arrogant. It threatens the whole of Europe. Germany must also take on the task of fighting Islam,” wrote Mansour, an Islamist scholar, in a speech to Cicero in response. to the president’s speech.

According to him, there is also no lack of “conscious or unconscious solutions that promote the formation of parallel societies” in Germany. Mansour is particularly critical of the cooperation of state institutions with “dubious Islamic and Islamist communities financed with taxpayer money, but seeking to exclude Muslims rather than involve them.”

Germany’s biggest problem is tolerance towards its enemies

In Germany, Islamist tendencies, such as the Palestinian psychologist Mansour, the lawyer Seyran Ates, who grew up in a family of Turkish immigrants, or the sociologist Necla Kelek and the professor of political science of Syrian origin Bassam Tibi, remain the most open and persistent in Islam.

Criticisms of Islam are neither Islamophobic nor racist, says Egyptian political scientist Abdel-Samad, who has lived in Germany for a quarter of a century and has become a great enemy of Islamists through his statements, books and public speeches. .

The German government, state institutions and the two great churches are making a mistake in cooperating with religious organizations that represent political Islam, since the aim of these organizations is not to integrate Muslims but to develop their own infrastructures under the guise of cooperation. .

“From Love to Germany: A Warning” is the latest book by a 48-year-old Egyptian, an exemplary immigrant. Germany’s biggest mistake, Abdel-Samad, considers that its struggle with its enemies, including radical Islam, is not determined enough, due to misunderstood tolerance.