فرنسا: ساركوزي يطالب المسلمين بممارسة شعائر الدين في الخفاء

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تاريخ الإضافة: 10/12/2009 ميلادي - 22/12/1430 هجري

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افتتح الرئيس الفرنسي "نيكولا ساركوزي" مناقشات البرلمان الفرنسي حول الهجرة، بمطالبة المسلمين بممارسة الشعائر الدينية في الخفاء؛ حتى لا يتعرضوا للإقصاء على أيدي بعض عناصر المجتمع الفرنسي.

وقد أشار "ساركوزي" في مقال له - نُشر بجريدة "لوموند" الفرنسية - إلى أهمية آثار الاستفتاء السويسري لحفاظ "فرنسا" على هويتها، مؤكدًا أنه يجب علينا بدلاً من استنكار قرار منع المآذن أن نستشعر الذي يريد الكثير من الأوروبيين أن يعبروا عنه ومن بينهم الفرنسيون.

وبالرغم من مزاعم "ساركوزي" احترام جميع الأديان، إلى أن رسالته احتوت بث الطمأنينة في قلوب الفرنسيين تجاه قلقهم من التواجد الإسلامي بـ"فرنسا".

وأكد "ساركوزي" على أن أي شيء يمثل تحديًا لميراث "فرنسا" النصراني وقيم الجمهورية، فإن مآله إلى الفشل والزوال.

وقد أشارت بعض الاستفتاءات إلى أن 64% من الفرنسيين يشعرون بالقلق من المسلمين بـ"فرنسا"، كما أن 46% يؤيدون منع بناء المآذن، و40% يؤيدون حظر بناء المساجد.

الخبر من مصدره الأصلي:

Nicolas Sarkozy: Muslims must be discreet about faith

Nicolas Sarkozy stoked the debate over immigration today with a warning to Muslims to practise their religion discreetly or face rejection by moderate Islam in France.

The President voiced sympathy for Swiss voters who opted last week to ban minarets as he tried to reassert himself in a debate over national identity which he launched last month but that has since spiralled out of his control.

Over the past week, Mr Sarkozy had appeared to retreat from his original comments following a backlash over the way that they were being used against immigrants, particularly Muslims.

But in a column for Le Monde, Mr Sarkozy returned to his theme and said that the result of the Swiss referendum showed how important it was for France to define its identity.

"Instead of condemning the Swiss out of hand, we should try to understand what they meant to express and what so many people in Europe feel, including people in France," he wrote. "Nothing would be worse than denial".

Mr Sarkozy called for tolerance and underlined France's respect for all faiths, but his message was intended primarily to reassure those who are unhappy about what they see as a threatening Muslim presence in the country.

"Christians, Jews, Muslims, all believers regardless of their faith, must refrain from ostentation and provocation and ... practice their religion in humble discretion," Mr Sarkozy wrote.

Addressing himself to Muslims, he wrote that anything that could appear as a challenge to France's Christian heritage and republican values would "doom to failure" a moderate Islam in France.

In taking this line, Mr Sarkozy implicitly rejected attacks from the Left, the intellectual world and some senior figures in his own Gaullist camp over what they see as a ploy that stigmatises immigrants.

Dominique de Villepin, one of three Gaullist former prime ministers to disapprove, said today that Mr Sarkozy's debate was "rushed and brutal". Jean-Pierre Raffarin, another former premier, said that Mr Sarkozy had launched a "pub-style debate".

Mr Sarkozy's target audience is the broad swathe of conservative and rightwing voters who backed him heavily for the presidency in  2007  . He argues that defending national identity is a noble cause, opposed only by the elite. This populist line is expected to benefit his
party in national and local elections in March.

Mr Sarkozy enjoys majority public support with his opposition to Muslim women covering their faces in public. Parliament is reviewing ways of countering the practice and may propose an outright ban next month.

Opinion polls show rising unease over the population of  6 million Muslims. A survey last week found that   46 per cent favoured banning minarets, with   40 per cent against. More than   40 per cent opposed building any mosques, compared with only   19 per cent in favour.

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