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by Yves Mamou
• December 30, 2016 at 5:30 am
- Now, after more
than a century of separation of powers between church and state, an
intolerant and extremist Islam is disrupting the rules of the game,
invading public spaces, schools, universities and companies with the
veil, halal food and open violence.
- "By making
the public space empty of everything that brings us together...
Islamists are eager to fill it, especially in disillusioned,
brainless and uprooted young heads". — François Fillon, a
former Prime Minister of France, who is running for president in the
2017 election.
- "Secularism
is just becoming a religion opposed to all other religions",
said Tariq Ramadan, a prominent figure of the Muslim Brotherhood in
Switzerland and France. He congratulated mayors on Christmas
nativity scenes probably because he sees it as an opening for
Islamic opportunities in the public sphere. "We need a Republic
authorizing the visibility of diversity and not a Republic of
neutrality" he said.
In France, François Fillon (right), a former Prime
Minister who is running for president in the 2017 election, welcomed a
recent court decision to allow Christmas nativity scenes in city halls.
Can a French municipality erect a statue of the Virgin Mary in a
public park? The answer is No. France's Administrative Court has given
the mayor of Publier, in eastern France (population 6500), three months
to comply with the ban on religious symbols in public spaces and to
remove the statue. If the municipality fails to do so, it will be fined
€100 ($105) a day. Mayor Gaston Lacroix said he will try to relocate the
marble statue on private land.
France's 1905 Law on the Separation of the Churches and the State
(Article 2) states that "The Republic does not recognize, pay or
subsidize any religious sect"; article 28 prohibits any religious
symbol on public monuments.
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