Islam phobia sponsored by the state in France encourages violence Islam phobia

On June 27, the El Hoda Mosque in Roslon in southern France was attacked and sabotaged. Windows are destroyed and furniture turned. The walls were dressed with racist leaflets. Earlier in the same month, a burning Quran was placed at the entrance to a mosque in Philipan from Lyon.

Unfortunately, the phobia of Islam did not stop in France when sabotage.

On May 31, Hichem Miraoui, a Tunisian citizen, was shot by his French neighbor in a village near the French Riviera; Another Muslim man was also shot but survived. A month ago, Abykar Cis, a financial citizen, was stabbed to death in a mosque in the town of Los Angeles Combi by a French citizen.

There was a significant increase in Islamic works in France – something that the French authorities are still reluctant publicly. one a report An increase of 72 percent in these incidents between January and March 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.

There are many factors that contributed to this, but among them centralization are Islamic rhetorical policies and anti -Muslims.

The latest repetition of this is the launch of a a report Entitled “The Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Political in France” by the French government. The document claims that the Muslim Brotherhood and “political Islam” infiltrate the French institutions and threaten the organizations and names of social names as they have links to the group.

The report was issued a few days before the murder of Mirawi, and two weeks after the French authorities entered the homes of many founding members of the Brussels Group against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE) who live in France.

With the emergence of anti -Muslims and discrimination attacks in France, it is increasingly difficult to believe that the obsession of the French state and the French government with what they call “Islamic separatism” is not, in fact, inciting violence against the French Muslim population.

The idea that French Muslims threaten the French state in one way or another through their expression of their identity, and French has defended the far right for decades. But in late 2010, it entered the main current by adopting the middle politicians and the media.

In 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron, who also embraced the term “separatist”, called for the creation of “French Islam”, an expression of the leadership of Islamic institutions and control of them to serve the interest of the French state. At the heart of this project, the idea of ​​maintaining “social cohesion” stood, which actually means suppressing the opposition.

In the following years, the French state began working on its obsession with controlling Muslims with more and more strict policies. Between 2018 and 2020, it was closed 672 Muslim entitiesIncluding schools and mosques.

In November 2020, the French collective authorities forced the phobia of Islam in France (CCIF), a non -profit organization that documents the terrorism of Islam, on the solution; Then the organization was reshaped in Brussels. In December of that year, they targeted 76 mosquesThey accused them of “Islamic separatism” and threatening them to close.

In 2021, the French Parliament passed the so -called Anti -weakness lawWhich included a variety of measures to combat the supposed “Islamic separatism”. Among them is the extension of the ban on religious symbols in the public sector, restrictions on the Association of Home Education and Sports, new rules for organizations that receive state subsidies, more police places, etc.

By January 2022, the French government I mentioned She searched more than 24,000 Islamic organizations and companies, closed more than 700 and acquired 46 million euros ($ 54 million) in assets.

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The report issued in May, like many official data and initiatives, was not aimed at clarifying policy or ensuring legal accuracy. It was supposed to politicize the Islamic identity, remove the political opposition and facilitate a new wave of state attacks on Islamic civil society.

The report calls many Islamic organizations, accusing them of links to the Muslim Brotherhood. He also argues that campaigns against Islamophobia are a tool for the organization. According to the report, the Muslim Brotherhood uses an anti -Islam activity to the secular policies and depiction of the state as racist.

This framework aims to nullify legitimate criticism of discriminatory laws and practices, and to frame any general recognition of the anti -Muslim racism as a valid Islamic rulers. The implicit meaning is clear: the Islamic vision and the opposition is not just suspicious – it is dangerous.

The report also dives into theories of Islamic conspiracy or Islam-Islamic-the idea that the “Islamists” and the leftists have a strategic alliance. It claims that the colonial movement is the challenge of Islam and references a march against Islamophobia on November 10, 2019, and it is a collective mobilization that attracted the participants from all over the political spectrum, including the left.

The report, which was assigned by the former militant interior minister and the Minister of Justice now Gerald Darmanin, who returned in 2021 accused The right -wing extremist leader Marine Le Pen is “very soft” on Islam.

All this – the report, legislation, police raids and rhetorical attacks against the French Islamic community – follows the long French colonial tradition of seeking government and controlling the Muslim population. The French political center had to embrace the terror of Islam to contain its falling popularity. This may help in narrow electoral victories high right, but this will be short -term. The most important effect will be a salted and cherished Muslim community that will increase in the state’s violence and hatred in the country.

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