السبت، 24 أغسطس 2013

Muslims in France ... Paranoid and social marginalization

Muslims in France ... Paranoid and social marginalization

Network news: The Muslims in France, one of the largest religious minority in this country EU, as is the Islamic religion second in France after Christianity in terms of numbers, but they Aahun many challenges and difficulties within French society, most notably the lack of social integration and differences between French culture and Islamic as well as the spread of the phenomenon of Islamophobia, especially if the attacks on Muslims and racist insults directed to them, has increased steadily in the past years as portrayed by some politicians and the media are increasingly Islam as a problem for the French community.
Also increased the racial dimension against Muslims by inciting hatred against them, in the absence of merger that led to the creation of ghettos social, as exposed France's Muslims to repression, marginalization and an attempt to blur the identity under the guise of so-called "war on terror", and suffers Muslims in France of the picture negative propagated by some government agencies and most of the media, especially after the events of the violence that occurred in different parts of the country.
It also noted a polling official and unofficial recent refusal to street French Muslims within their community, they consider that the Islamic religion does not fit with the values ​​of French society liberation, there is still controversy societal and political about the veil continues, law prohibits headscarves for female workers in the civil service and schoolgirls public schools, but adults who use public service ban does not apply to them, and also under a law passed in April 2011, is prohibited to hide the face in public places under penalty of a fine on the violator. It is between Dress forbidden in public places under this law niqab and burqa, had already signed several events to intercept police for veiled women.
So most analysts believe that such Jurists laws in the country that is the European example of tolerance and acceptance of others opposed and contradictory principles of human rights and freedoms as embodied these laws are an assault on two main two rights to freedom of belief and freedom of opinion.
They argue Jurists that the political parties that espouse some ideas extreme right on issues important to them such as immigration and consumption of halal meat and wear the niqab and other issues, that will harm the Muslims in the future, and it gives the data above the goal is to undermine Islam and Muslims and tarnish their image the media, but most Muslims France seeks to address this discrimination openness and social work to win the future less hostile.
Growing anti-Muslim acts in France
In a related development reported by the Committee against Islamophobia that hostility increases as the issue of Islam and news headlines, for example, when Islamist killed seven people last year when he accused a Muslim pupils politicians stealing food from their colleagues.
The Committee welcomed the decision issued by the European Parliament to lift the legal immunity for Marine Le Pen leader of the extreme right in France in preparation for the investigation with charges of racism after he likened Muslims who pray in the streets in France occupying Nazi of the country, the committee said in its annual report that the acts against Muslims rose to 469 and the reality year last year from 298 in 2011 and 188 in 2010. The increase in line with the results of other recent reports also pointed to increased levels of anti-Semitism and racism in France. According to Reuters.
He said Sami ذباح Chairman of the Committee that Lupin and politicians, others create enough rhetoric of Muslims, who number in France by about five million people make up the largest Muslim minority in Europe, but they are not receiving the representation of mentions in politics and business, said, "There is a link between political rhetoric and the increase in those violent acts and discrimination against Muslims, "the report described the civil service French as" a conductor main hatred of Islam "and said that some of its employees Icddon often in Nevsar policy of secularism and refuse to provide services to the veiled, and across ذباح hoped to order the investigating judge to refer to Lupin to trial Because of her remarks about Muslims who pray in the street, which is leading to the closure of some streets in the big cities for brief periods, and based leader of the right-wing to the immunity conferred by its membership in the European Parliament to reject the call, which sent her to appear before the investigating judge, said to my TV. F.. M after the European Parliament's decision to lift the immunity of her "stand by my words and I will defend it in court."
Three-quarters of French people have a negative image of Islam
As he says about three-quarters of the French (73%) said they had a negative image of Islam, as are other religions positively to the large majority of the French, according to a poll released, according to the poll, which was conducted by the Office of تيلدر Institute Montinah as part of a program aired on network LCD My television, the 87% of the French have a good picture of Buddhism, and 76% from the Protestant and 69% of Catholic and 64% from Judaism, but this ratio declining to 26% for Islam, declined to 1% to give the opinion, though 52% of the French consider that Islam is a religion like all other religions, and 40% believe that the presence of Islam in France enriches the French culture, the only 36% believe that the rituals of Islam, consistent with the laws of the Republic, and approved 33% of the respondents said they do not know Islam well and only 32% believe that the values ​​are consistent with the values ​​of French society. According to Agence France Presse.
For the rites of Islam, 77% consider that the pilgrimage is consistent with life in French society, but this percentage is low to 55% for consumption of halal meat, and 51% for the Eid al-Adha and 47% for the month of Ramadan and 36% to pray five times a day. And finds only 10% of the French that a veil in public places, in line with the French community, and finally finds 80% of French Muslims in France are able to practice their religion in good conditions.
The words or phrases that come spontaneously to the mind of the respondents, while thinking of Islam "zero tolerance" and "fundamentalism," and then "Koran" and "women" and "mosque" as well as "Ramadan" and "intolerance" and "terrorism," and make survey entitled "Look the French to the Islamic religion," online at 9 and April 10 on a sample of 1189 people representing the French people aged 18 years and above, and comes poll after investigation conducted by Ipsos at the end of January to the newspaper Le Monde and considered it about three French-quarters also said that Islam is not consistent with the values ​​of the Republic.
France's Muslims to vote heavily with the left
As according to a study carried out by the Foundation ايفوب and published in the newspaper Le Figaro said France's Muslims vote heavily to the left side, an option strengthen during the presidential election year 2012 compared with the elections of 2007, during the first round of the presidential elections in 2012 won Francois Hollande 57% of the vote, Muslims compared to only 7% of the right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy. During the second session and reached this percentage with Holland to 86%, which won the day of the election after he won 51.6% of the votes of the French in general, and the election campaign in 2012 witnessed a heated debate about Islam have been strengthened with the launch of the right debate about the veil and halal, adding this The study "does not exist any segment of society voted this density as well as the Socialist candidate, as the voice of the Muslims." According to Agence France Presse.
She continued the study, "The control of the left on the Muslim voters is not new, but it strengthened compared with the elections of 2007 presidential", for example, the candidate of the left radical Jean-Luc Malanchon won in the elections of the year 2012 11% of the votes of the French, but he won 20% of the votes of Muslims .
Protests and violence in Paris suburb
On the other hand, remained a French police in the event of vigilance in the suburb of territory west of the French capital Paris, a day after clashes between police officers and demonstrators were protesting against the arrest of a person refused police searched for excavating his wife. Was evacuated for this man, a French convert to Islam, during the day and was placed under judicial control that is called to appear before the court soon, and looked around the police station in the dust-free, but about thirty element of riot police remained in place, said a government official in the department Arar Corbin de Mango said reinforcements will be retained in the neighborhood "as long as we feel the threats," calling on the population to "calm."
For his part, French Interior Minister Manuel Falls during his stay in Marseille in the south of the country, "nothing justifies the violence which is totally unacceptable," adding, "We have returned public order to dust were deployed large numbers of police and would remain there throughout the weekend" , during clashes in the suburbs of the People of Paris, was injured boy in the 14-year-old seriously injured in the eye, according to a prosecutor in Versailles during a press conference in the dust, and the witnesses reported earlier that the boy suffered a bullet from the "Flash Paul" a weapon non-lethal used by the police. And assigned a public inspection at the National Police uncover the circumstances of the incident, witnesses reported that clashes broke out between police officers and between 200 and 400 protesters gathered in front of the police station in the dust after the arrest of a man refused to intercept the police to his wife, excavating, said Attorney General Vincent Lucas said the man tried to strangle a police officer During the incident. According to Agence France Presse.
The union said combating anti-Islam, quoting the woman excavating that her husband was responding to "provocations police" and that he was beaten, and the Interior Minister said that "exposure to the security forces and state institutions does not make sense does not solve any problem which is not acceptable." In the ranks of the right-wing opposition, was considered and former Interior Minister Brice اورتوفو that the government "to show the courage to act decisively," either Marine Le Pen, head of the National Front (extreme right) and saw that confrontations dust "linked to the escalation of sectarian hateful fueled by large numbers of immigrants." For his part, expressed the mayor's Socialist dust Guy Malandan "shock" over the developments, noting that a large number of residents said they "resent the violence is not feasible this", and is scheduled to issue a European Court of Human Rights ruling soon on a request made by a young Muslim protests to prevent the veil in public places in France.
Controversy about the veil ignites again in France
It also sparked a controversial decision issued by a French court once again the controversy that erupted in 2004 over the veil in France, Wade Socialist President Francois Hollande, the efforts of various parties to further restrictions on the veil.
And raised the demands of a new law on the veil of Muslim anger following the decision by the top court of appeal in France last month, and lives in France, the largest Muslim community in Western Europe, estimated to number at between five and six million, and the Court of Cassation, the French officer in the custody of children in particular, was been separated from her to wear the veil, was separated from her illegally.
The socialist government was quick to warn of the threat "to the principles of secularism" which "should not stand at the door of the nursery," and all parties to the case says it is committed to secularism, but under its banner are seeking to implement a number of political and social perceptions.
And prominent religious symbols, including the headscarf, banned in public schools in France, also prohibits the wearing of the veil in public places. Was introduced to prevent religious symbols in schools in September 2004, and the ban on wearing the veil in public places in April 2011, and noted leader of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement exhibitions John Francois Kobe to "legal loophole on the application of secularism in some cases."
And resorting to the secular hides that critics of the judgment of the Court of Cassation on the veil belong to two camps, two defenders, "the French way" in life and defenders of "human values", and use the journalists Frenchmen prominent in two of the most famous radio stations French their programs to illustrate the controversy over the veil, and looked journalist Eric Zemor on RTL radio nostalgically to the seventies when the Jews of France "take off their hats as soon go out into the street," so as not to feel some embarrassment "of Tfajarham of belonging to a particular religion."
He said Zumor "This French way of coexistence" undermined by the arrival of "communities belong to the way Anglo-Saxon in life," he said, "who resist feel trapped and qualify as racists and رجعيون," In radio France Inter said Thomas Ogrand The problem does not lie in religious symbols in se, but in the Islamic veil and what it means for the "status of women in some areas," says for Ogrand if this view "has nothing to do with anti-Islam." He added that "the fight for individual freedom and for equality between the sexes."
It also justifies the defenders wear their position with reference to the secular, and welcomed the group "Rally against anti-Islam in France," the court's decision because it represents a "defense against those who يحيدون of secularism," warned Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the "French Council for the Muslim faith" against any law limiting the right of private sector employees to wear the hijab, in an article published on the website oumma.com Mousavi said that such a decision would oppose the rules of secular assault on the "two main two rights to freedom of belief and freedom of opinion." According to the BBC.
The group called a parliamentary to put the draft resolution that allows companies and institutions to the rules of the symbols and religious practices, called Holland to develop special rules kindergarten government similar to the rules in place in schools, said Holland in a television interview in the March 28 "should be the law to intervene", and it seems that public opinion tends to support the new law claimants wide area. Opinion polls conducted recently that more than 80 percent of French people oppose the wearing of headscarves in work if a woman is dealing with the public.
Marine Le Pen insists on the establishment of qualified Muslim prayers in the street "occupation"
For its part, insisted President National Front party extreme right-wing Marine Le Pen to repeat the description of the establishment of Muslim prayers in the streets in France to "occupation", on the eve of the possibility of raising the parliamentary immunity of it because of these statements, and فاخرت Le Pen in a statement to TV "LCD any" it " dared to say what he thinks all the French that is to say prayers in the street - and I tell them it is still held on French soil - is the occupation. " According to Agence France Presse.
Still Le Pen a member of the European Parliament since 2004 and يلاحقها French judiciary after a complaint was submitted after ditched a speech on the tenth of December 2010 denounced it as "prayers in the street" by Muslims, which they described as "occupation without tanks or soldiers, but it nevertheless remains an occupation, "has lifted the European Parliament immunity it may lead to the condemnation of" incitement to racial hatred, "said Le Pen" stand by my words and to lift the immunity of parliamentary Me vote upon my opponents politicians from left and right, no problem I have in it . "
Muslims have changed their religion they call a council of former Muslims in France
To that announced a number of converts from Islam in Paris, the formation of "French Muslim Council, ex" to demand the right to speak Balhadehm In criticizing the Islamic religion, said the founding members in their announcement on Facebook "We are a group of atheists and non-believers decided to confront threats and restrictions that we are exposed to in our personal lives where many of us were arrested on charges of insulting religion, "they added," Today many people are exposed to the threat of torture, imprisonment and even death for apostasy and blasphemy, heresy and their refusal to succumb to the dictates of the Islamists. "
And demands that those especially the "freedom to criticize religions and reject any restrictions the name of religion to freedom of criticism and expression and freedom of peoples and the independence of women," The formation of this Council, which includes about 30 members of different nationalities (Moroccan, Algerian, Pakistani, Iranian, Senegalese ....) in response to a call by Palestinian blogger Walid al-Husseini young (28 years old) who was detained for several months in 2010 in the West Bank on charges of spreading derogatory comments of the Prophet before resorting to France. According to Agence France Presse.
The Vintage Samra a Moroccan members of the council, told AFP "We want to raise from France Votes former Muslim condemning the lie which says that a Muslim remains a Muslim," said Samra, who lives in France five years ago and says it can not never be تجهر Balhadha in her that " This is not true ", and there are similar associations in Britain and Germany, apostasy is punishable by death in Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
IT news network - Thursday 1 / August / 2013 - 23 / Ramadan / 

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