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Emmanuel Macron received on Monday, October 28, the representatives of the Muslim cult to which he asked to fight against communitarianism and Islamism while the debate on the wearing of the veil resurfaced in recent weeks in France.
On paper at least, the call of Emmanuel Macron to the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) will not be long to be heard. After the Monday meeting with the President of the Republic, the representatives of the body immediately promised by announcement " very strong " announcements about the veil and Islamism in France.
Vice President Anouar Kbibech said the religious council will hold an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday. It is a question of answering the request of Emmanuel Macron for which the French Council of the Moslem worship must have a clear speech on the place of the veil in the society and in particular in the public space.
The question arose recently during a controversy over the issue of the wearing of the veil by companions during field trips.
For the president, the goal is to avoid " confusion of minds " and clearly separate religion, culture and political Islam.
How to adapt the wearing of the veil in a secular country? What are the warning signs of radicalization? These are the questions on which the CFCM must be based. Answers expected this Tuesday.
■ Analysis
For Bruno Cautrès, researcher at Cevipof, the political research center of Sciences Po Paris, Emmanuel Macron has already the presidential 2022 in mind.
It is certain that Emmanuel Macron wishes to show that he is not going to concede to anyone the themes which are the regal themes. He knows that the presidential election, the incarnation of the presidential office in the eyes of the French are of course the themes regaliens.
Bruno Cautrès, political scientist 28/10/2019 - by Marine de La Moissonnière Listen
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This Tuesday, a bill of 46 Senators from the group The Republicans (LR) will be studied in the Senate. Deposited last July, it aims to prohibit the wearing of the veil during school trips. A bill that has many precedents.
It was at the end of the 1980s that the subject of the veil at school appeared for the first time with the so-called "Creiliennes de Creil" case, north of Paris: three veiled girls found themselves temporarily excluded. The controversy swells and the Council of State decides.
The headscarf is compatible with secularism, but it is possible for school leaders to exclude on a case-by-case basis.
In 1994, the Balladur government drew up a circular targeting the wearing of the veil by distinguishing it from "discrete" religious symbols. In about ten years, nearly a hundred girls are excluded from their school for this reason.
Finally in 2004, a law eventually banned the wearing of ostentatious religious symbols in the public school.
In 2012, under the presidency of Sarkozy, the Minister of Education Luc Chatel, addresses for the first time the subject of school accompaniment. He asks that they also submit to the obligations of religious neutrality . Considering that they are part of the school sphere. But the Council of State rejects this request. He considers that these accompanying mothers are not subject to the obligations of secularism.
Six years later, senators are seeking to circumvent this jurisprudence.