Paris (AFP)
The head of the National Rally Marine Le Pen judged Sunday "positive" the agreement reached on Saturday by the leaders of the CFCM on a "charter of principles" of Islam which should kick off a vast restructuring of the second religion in France.
"I'm not going to be choosy. Me, anything that goes in the direction of the investment of a certain number of religious leaders in the respect of the law of the Republic, that seems positive to me," he said. -she declared on BFMTV.
However, she said she waited "for everyone to sign it", saying that groups that do not sign "must be dissolved and banned".
Torn from a hard fight, this text of seven to eight pages notably reaffirms "the principle of equality between men and women", the "compatibility" of the Muslim faith with the Republic and also insists on "the rejection of the instrumentalisation of the 'Islam for political ends' and the 'non-interference' of foreign states, the president of the French Council for Muslim Culture, Mohammed Moussaoui, detailed on Saturday.
This text, which also seals "the rejection of certain allegedly Muslim customary practices", must be validated, perhaps on Sunday, by all the federations of the CFCM before being presented to President Emmanuel Macron.
"Finally a text on the values of the Republic!", "It is good news", welcomed on Europe 1 and Cnews the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR) who paid "tribute to President Moussaoui and to its two vice-presidents ".
This formal reaffirmation of republican principles was requested from the leaders of the CFCM in mid-November by the President of the Republic in the wake of his offensive against "separatism" and radical Islam, which has since been formalized in a draft law submitted Monday to Parliament.
Nearly 1,700 amendments were tabled on this text "confirming respect for the principles of the Republic" in committee throughout the week, as a prelude to the debates in the hemicycle from February 1.
Deeming the government's text "ineffective", Marine Le Pen said she would propose "a counter-project", a "bill to fight against Islamism" in order to fight "against the Islamist ideology" that she called it "totalitarian and murderous".
The head of the RN said she supported the amendment defended in particular by the majority MP Aurore Bergé on the ban on the veil for little girls, which was finally declared inadmissible on Sunday.
Commenting on this rejection, Marine Le Pen then estimated on Twitter that the government demonstrated, "once again, that beyond words, it has no desire to fight against Islamist cancer".
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