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Friday March 26, Marwan Muhammad, former director of the CCIF tweeted “You tried to silence the CCIF, for having highlighted the structural dynamics of racism, which you actively ensure the continuity. Then you made an announcement by saying dissolve identity generation, while you are its objective allies ”. It is therefore in his name alone that Marwan challenged the government on the dissolution of his organization, dissolved last December because accused by the government of “separatism”. The decree having recorded the dissolution of the CCIF, in reality self-dissolved at the end of November, was also a perfect incarnation of the offensive that the government has been carrying out against Muslims for several months.
In response to Marwan Mouhamad’s tweet accusing the government of having “made an announcement effect” by having dissolved Génération Identitaire, the General Secretariat Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Crime and Radicalization, an interministerial committee, published a thread Incendiary tweeter, directly attacking the CCIF.
The SG-CIPDR begins by openly refuting the fact that Muslims can be the victims of Islamophobic acts, perpetrated by individuals or by the government itself. He also accuses the CCIF of having devoted all its means “to the dissemination of fake news according to which France is a racist and anti-Muslim country”. A provocation when we know that Muslims and Muslims are subjected to state racism every day, insidious in everyday life or explicit with police violence, repeated facies checks …
Under the guise of denouncing so-called “Islamophobic” acts, the #CCIF – so dear to Monsieur @Marwan_Manhammad – devoted all its means to the dissemination of #FakeNews according to which the #France would be a racist and anti-Muslim country.
https://t.co/Kmq69X1d4S-SG-CIPDR (@SG_CIPDR) March 28, 2021
In addition, the government has been leading a fierce offensive against the Muslim community since the beginning of the year, as the forceful passage of the “separatism law” renamed by Darmanin as “law consolidating the principles of the Republic” reminds us. polemics at the initiative of the Minister of Higher Education on an alleged “leftist Islam” which plagued universities in her words and so on.
In this thread tweeter, the government attacks the association on all fronts, also accusing them of “insidiously inciting hatred and division,” which he said justified the dissolution of the CCIF. In reality, the decree passed in the Council of Ministers, a succession of accusations aimed at delegitimizing the association were largely dismantled by the CCIF, which largely defended itself against these accusations.
The approach of this dissolved organization did not aim to “protect” the French Muslims – as it claimed – but, on the contrary, to make them vulnerable, to dissociate them from their fellow citizens on the basis of their confession.
-SG-CIPDR (@SG_CIPDR) March 28, 2021
The CCIF positioned itself alongside Muslims and Muslim victims of racism and Islamophobia who “seized upon the law and communication” to protect them, in the words of Marwan Muhammad. Here the SG-CIPDR accuses the association of “making vulnerable” its beneficiaries, of “dissociating them from their fellow citizens on the basis of their confession” under the guise of the fight against Islamophobia (whose existence they deny) and of protecting them. Muslims.
Already at the time, the government openly attacked collectives, associations and unions for the simple fact of having met between people who were victims of particular oppression. We think in this case of the current offensive against the UNEF, the student union at the initiative of single-sex meetings between racialized people. Indeed, right-wing and LREM deputies have called for the organization to be dissolved and Blanquer says it is thinking about “legislative developments” to make “illegal” the fact of organizing “actually racist meetings”.
The government therefore accuses associations which aim to give voice to the oppressed and protect them, as far as possible, against Islamophobic attacks by the executive while the latter relentlessly leads an “anti-Muslim” offensive that has led the CCIF to self-dissolve at the end of 2020. Already Gérald Darmanin, one of the main bearers of the “global security” law, had qualified it as “an Islamist office working against the Republic”, remarks which are still relevant today ‘hui to the government.
The SG-CIPDR ends its thread by affirming that “French people of Muslim faith are the first victims of Islamism which instrumentalizes Islam for political ends”. This sentence reveals all the hypocrisy deployed by the government which has carried out its Islamophobic and reactionary offensive relentlessly since the beginning of the year, stigmatizing Muslims and threatening with dissolution all organizations against Islamophobia like the CCIF .
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