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Around one hundred elected officials protested against the illegal Muslim street prayers that have been taking place for several months in Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine). The mayor Rémi Muzeau and the president of the Region, Valérie Pécresse, are calling for the State to react.
At the behest of Rémi Muzeau, mayor LR [mainstream right-wing party] for Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine), around one hundred right-wing elected officials for the Paris region met this Friday on the forecourt of the City Hall to protest against the illegal street prayers that have taken place every Friday at the same place.The conflict between the town council and the Muslim associations in Clichy has been going on since 23 March, the date of the first demonstration by worshippers in Clichy to protest against the expulsion of two Muslim associations from a building that belonged to the city and was serving as a prayer room, following a decision by the Council of State in 2016.The conflict has bogged down for months between the two parties because, on one side, the associations demand that a mosque be opened in the city, and, on the other, the mayor declares that there is already a 1500 m2 place of worship in the urban area. In 2015, Rémi Muzeau inaugurated a cultural centre for the Muslim community of Clichy, with two prayers rooms inside. But the associations say they are too small to cope with busy days, particularly for Friday prayers.
Pécresse at the mayor’s side
This Friday, around noon, around one hundred elected officials met to protest. At the same time, the street prayer was supposed to take place but very few of the faithful were present. The elected officials then walked through the adjacent streets singing “La Marseillaise”.
I find it bizarre that these elected officials, including the mayor and the president of the region, apparently don’t have enough power to force police or prosecutors to act against the Mohammedans.
It is obviously a violation of the legal concept of laicité in the French Republic (separation of religion and secularism in public spaces which actually amounts to no presentation of the former). Also, the excuse Moslems make, that they HAVE to pray in the open streets because there are simply not enough mosques in the area to meet their needs, is a bald-faced lie: for these Friday prayer sessions, they usually bus in or round up hundreds of Moslems from far outlying areas to come and pretend to be local Moslems, as a way of demanding more mosques. It is high time some official had the courage and integrity to openly expose this racket and then refuse to agree to any more mosques and to threaten that, if open prayer sessions continue, the officials will close down the present mosques. Only one side is fighting this war so far, and although 100 officials protesting sounds impressive, there is nothing quite like bringing down the law with a thud on the heads of the seditious and would be conquerors.
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Stop using the word right wing! And also Racist, bigot and islamaphobia need to be consigned to the rubbish bin. Stop name calling its unproductive and causes racial unrest.
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