Sarkozy launched a political offensive on Islam in France
painted on the facade of a French church
The President held a working meeting with the parliamentary group of his party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), to establish a timetable for action.
very short term, the UMP has decided to hold a large national convention this spring, to discuss these topics: places of worship, content of preaching imams, language that Muslims should speak sermons in mosques and places of worship, the financing of Islam in France, prayer in the streets ...
The UMP convention will have the advice of Muslim religious hierarchies and the episcopate, to avoid tension "undesirable" and propose possible government decrees and draft Law
Following the conclusions of the work of the UMP, the government will consider proposing legislation that will from next summer and fall, when the French presidential campaign will begin to take on increasing importance.
Meanwhile, Nicolas Sarkozy justified his new political offensive staff with regard to Islam in France, for these reasons: "We are paying now, the lack of a national debate over immigration during the 70 and 80 of the last century. Islam and secularism something similar happening now. It is our duty to raise these issues with clarity, lest they become problems, rotting in a few years. "
Addressing the deputies of the UMP, Sarkozy insists on the social, cultural and political problem in these terms: " What are the limits that should or should not put Islam in France? France can not accept that Muslims suffer any tax or otherwise. Ours is a secular society. We launched the discussion of the burka. And we have legislated on the matter. Things are clear. We have also a national debate on the street preaching and prayer. It is necessary to get a "corpus" national of the post of Islam and religions, to apply from 2011. "
Juan Pedro Quiñonero
ABC.es
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