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The President of the French Council for Muslim Worship (CFCM) deplores a “latent racism“And”electoral debates” too much “centered“On Islam, in a forum where he calls on presidential candidates to avoid”harmful amalgamsTo national unity.
«Diversion“Of Muslim faith and religious practices”by extremists (…) calls on our part and on the part of our fellow citizens a vigilance and a firm and continuous fight in order to protect each other», Writes Mohammed Moussaoui in The world dated Friday January 14.
«But should we accept that the electoral debates are centered on our religion, as if this were the source of all our difficulties and all our ills? Is it necessary for all that to fall into an essentialist discourse which erects walls between citizens and creates division in our country?He asks. According to him, “it is clear that, under the guise of the fight once morest extremism claiming to be Islam, the speech of some has almost become a call to get rid of Muslims in France».
«It is a fact: debates and polemics around the Muslim religion have multiplied, a latent racism, which wants to be imperceptible, hidden under the acceptable exterior of freedom of expression, manifests itself more and more openly.He adds. So he calls “the men and women aspiring to the management of the public affairs of our country to calmly stay the course, avoiding anything that can cause confusion, amalgamations and risks of stigmatization detrimental to our unity and our national cohesion».
Candidates must, alongside all other matters of concern to the French, “also be concerned regarding identity extremism which feeds a form of hatred once morest Muslims in France“, he asks.
