It is striking to re-listen to Jean-Luc Mélenchon from 2010 unambiguously denouncing the wearing of the burqa in the public space. On Laurent Ruquier’s set, the leader of La France insoumise strongly condemns “the obscene idea of considering that a woman is a stake, a game, and that a man can only look at her with a predator’s eye” .
Thirteen years later, the same judge that the ban on abayas at school is “a new absurd entirely artificial religious war over a feminine habit”. Which Mélenchon to devote to?
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Only certainty, in more than ten years, the hesitations in the face of ostensibly religious signs or outfits in the secular enclosures of the Republic have remained the same. Is it stigma? Don’t these women have the right to be able to wear whatever they want? Aren’t we overdoing it for a few hundred cases? Conversely, are we not giving in to the proselytism of a resolutely offensive political Islam?
The Jean-Luc Mélenchon of 2010 is unambiguous: “it is not a question of stigmatization, since it is people who stigmatize themselves. (…) It is a provocation of certain fundamentalist circles against the Republic. »
Today, two pitfalls are to be avoided. Minimize the problem when reports of attacks on secularism jumped 120% last year (4,170), or on the contrary overreact to a problem identified and now dealt with by the government.
“The predisposition to become a citizen must prevail over the heaviness of ideological affiliation or the separatist traits of difference”, summarizes the president of the Foundation of Islam of France, Ghaleb Bencheikh. If secularism no longer imposes itself, the education of the Republic must therefore redouble its efforts, because it remains the fundamental link between citizens.
2023-08-30 20:09:14
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