Presidential candidate Arnaud Montebourg pleaded on Saturday to "translate into correctional" imams and "preachers" who call for disobeying French law.
"We will never accept that political Islamism imposes on our country its educational and obscurantist conception of the world, its conception of relations between women and men which call into question the neutrality of the public service", he said. in his speech at the Rose Festival in Frangy-en-Bresse.
"Today, it is certain imams, fortunately in the minority, who call for disobeying the law, preachers and individuals who intimidate women who do not wear the veil for the convenience of men, who must be brought to correctional", said the former minister.
"It's in the 1905 law on the separation of church and state, why don't we apply it?
"He asked himself, promising to" fight political Islamism step by step because it will have to be dismantled.
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Attack on Zemmour
In his speech, he also attacked Eric Zemmour, whom he presented to the hoots of the public as "a fashionable extremist, a televangelist who benefits from free hours of television all year round", for his proposal to “rename first names of sounding and foreign origin”.
Recalling that his mother's name is Leïla, he denounced this desire for "collective sorting of a new" Zemmourian "administration which would be responsible for renaming those whom it arbitrarily judges as good or bad French".
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