Paris (AFP)
The mayor National Gathering of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, wished Tuesday a "good Ramadan" to the "French Muslims", in a tweet relayed by Marine Le Pen, the president of the party, engaged in a fight to "eradicate" Islamism but accused by her opponents of stigmatizing Muslims.
"I wish a good Ramadan to all my French-Muslim compatriots and particularly to my Harkis friends with whom we share the love of our beautiful country France with respect and dignity", wrote on Twitter the former number two of the RN, original blackfoot.
Many Muslims around the world begin the fasting month of Ramadan on Tuesday.
Marine Le Pen is keen to distinguish between radical "Islamists" and moderate Muslims.
"It is by expressly designating Islamism that we will deliver moderate Muslims from it," she said in January.
She then presented a bill aiming to ban "Islamist ideologies" from all spheres of society, starting with the veil - which, according to her, would imply that Jews do not wear the kippah in space either. public.
"If we had thought that Islam was not compatible with the French Republic, we would never have defended French Algeria", maintains Marine Le Pen in the April issue of the monthly L'Incorrect, close to her niece Marion Maréchal.
For the head of the RN, who is trying one year before the presidential election to moderate her speech, "many" Muslims in France "are already assimilated".
Monday on Twitter, she ruled "inadmissible" the "degradation of places of worship", Christians and Muslims, after several anti-Muslim acts recorded in recent days in western France.
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