Thursday, February 10, 2022
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(news advertisment-DW-news-February 10, 2022) National Rally (RN) far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and especially former Pandit Eric Zemour have often spoken out against Islam in the face of security and terrorism threats. Picked up
His messages are sometimes backed by conservative right-wing officials and allies of President Emmanuel Macron.
It is difficult to imagine such a fierce campaign against Islam in France's neighbors Britain and Germany, even though both countries have a large Muslim minority.
In France, however, the Algerian war of independence still echoes the recent jihadist attack of 2015.
Zemor is competing with Le Pen and traditional right-wing candidate Valerie Packers to reach the second round run-off against President McCormack.
He described the northern French town of Rubaie on Monday as "Afghanistan, two hours from Paris." Following his statement, there has once again been an uproar over Islam and Muslims.
French citizens, who are Muslims, live in the French way and do not think that Sharia law is superior to the laws of the republic," he told France Inter Radio.
Such comments have added to the already tense atmosphere.
The formal division of the church and state in France in 1905 made secularism the cornerstone of the identity of the modern republic. The Macron government then introduced a new law in 2021, which the president called important to prevent "Islamic separatism" and defend national identity.
France and Muslims
The end of colonial rule led to large-scale migration to France in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the economic crisis of the 1970s had a negative impact on the economic development of these migrants.
Britain and Germany also experienced large influxes of refugees after World War II, but no other European colonial power fought a war whose brutality,duration and consequences could be compared to that of the Algerian War of Independence.
"The problem of emigration is particularly acute in France, as it evokes the horrific memory of the Algerian war," said political scientist Pascal Perrinio. Have left. "
Muslims fear
But Islam has been debated in France for decades, and in 2011 the country was banned from wearing the niqab.
But many Muslims, who make up about nine percent of the country's population, are shocked by the current level of rhetoric in the current presidential election.
Fatima Bouet de la Masonio, a Tunisian-born psychologist and author of the book An Arab Woman in France, says: "Sometimes I wish I could understand how violent this statement is.
To be honest, sometimes we just want to meet Arabs to tell each other how bad things have gotten," he added.
Right-wing Marine Le Pen reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election. His father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, also said that repeated unilateral statements against Islam and immigrants had shocked most parts of France.
French Muslims fear that such rhetoric has now become commonplace and that support for the statement is growing on media news and social networks. Fatima, a 38-year-old social worker from Lorraine in central France, said: "I feel very bad, very bad." Yes, those who fought for its liberation, on my parents, who came to build its roads, and on me, who respected all the principles of democracy and integration.
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A few days ago, my five-year-old daughter told me she didn't like being an Arab," she said sadly. have been.
Kamil works for a charity. According to him, the attacks on the night of November 13, 2015 have changed everything.
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For prominent sociologist Ahmed Bobkar, "a dam has broken" and now there is a "complete lack of restraint" on those who accuse Muslims of failing to integrate.
However, I am not convinced that French society is as racist as we call it," he said. It is the politicians who are creating racism in the masses without anticipating the consequences. "
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