Shafaqna English- French Ministers have accused Muslims of ‘infiltration’ and posing ‘threat to national cohesion’. They are old racist tropes given dangerous new life.
Being a Muslim in a country with a long colonial history which has also had to deal with terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam is an everyday challenge.
In May, a report commissioned by the interior ministry into the Muslim Brotherhood fuelled suspicion of all French Muslims by recycling conspiracy theories around supposed “infiltration”. The report was, as sociologist Hamza Esmili put it, “intellectually impoverished.”
Bruno Retailleau, current Interior Minister used alarmist conspiracy tropes to describe its conclusions, claiming it had identified “an apparent threat to the republic and to national cohesion” and “a quiet form of Islamist infiltration whose ultimate goal is to bring all of French society under Sharia Law”.
Sources: Guardian