Report Warns of Islamic Radicalization in France
by Judith Bergman • November 4, 2020 at 5:00 am
The commission found the consequences of radicalization alarming, particularly the "dissemination of behaviors that... directly affect freedom of conscience, equality between men and women, and the rights of homosexual persons".
"Under the guise of Islamophobia, political Islam was able to thrive by making people believe it could be nonviolent ". — Mohammed Sifaoui, journalist.
The report concludes that there is a risk of political infiltration from extremists in general and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular, especially in municipal councils.
The report sets forth 44 proposals in a multi-pronged effort to deal with radicalism.
A report published in July by a commission of inquiry of the French Senate, the upper house of the French Parliament, has found that "Islamist radicalization" is a "reality" in France. The commission of inquiry, made up of approximately thirty senators, interviewed a large number of researchers, politicians and other experts on the subject.
The commission found the consequences of radicalization alarming, particularly the "dissemination of behaviors that... directly affect freedom of conscience, equality between men and women, and the rights of homosexual persons".
"[T]his religious revival, for some, is accompanied by a desire to affirm their belief in the public space, in the company, in the school, and of recognition by institutions and public services, which conflicts with the laws of the Republic and secularism".
