Saturday, March 26, 2011

SEEN FROM GERMANY - What is a good Muslim?

Point of sail, minaret or muezzin, no faithful praying to Allah in the streets: the French good Muslim is a Muslim invisible - at least for Nicolas Sarkozy. Against the backdrop of real and growing Islamophobia in society, he defines the discretion goal of assimilation. From his point of view, it is incumbent on Muslims to integrate so they do not notice them.

And they still have a long way to go, says Sarkozy in the light of the increasing popularity of Marine Le Pen. The revival of the extreme right, anti-Muslim resentment fueled by, for Sarkozy is a real cause for concern. At least in the context of his reelection to the presidency. Sarkozy does not leave the matter to the President of the FN.

In attempting to define an "Islam of France", it counts even anticipate. In this debate, it is the Muslims themselves become the problem, more than the prejudices and barriers to integration. Thus, the fact that, for lack of space in the mosques, some believers pray outside in the streets of Marseilles, Paris and Lyon became an affair of state.

Marine Le Pen, for whom the public expression of piety is an intentional provocation, holds the same kind of speech. Like Thilo Sarrazin [author of a pamphlet entitled "Germany is doomed"] in Germany, she stirs up resentment and offers no solution. And as in France, because of the strict separation of civil and religious, the state has no right to make a concrete contribution to integration by financing mosques or by forming the clergy, he shall not take place name of secularism.

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