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Sarkozy reopened the debate on Islam in France before the elections

Behind Sarkozy purposes as to reopen the debate on Islam in France is the unstoppable rise in the polls of the National Front, Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen , head of training since January.
Sarkozy sees how he escaped his voters located to the right. Yesterday, at a luncheon with members of his group, the President, according to Le Figaro, he turned to his co-religionists in the following way: "There is a growing gap between what is published in daily newspapers and real concerns people. The racists of yesterday have become populist. Our political, and then the Parliament, should address these issues. "

Sarkozy reopens the debate on Islam in France before the elections

The president's initiative responds to the unstoppable rise in the polls National Front of Le Pen Marine

The Union for a Popular Movement, UMP, the party of center-right Nicolas Sarkozy, organized on April 5 a political convention focused on a single controversial issue: Islam in France.

This was revealed in today's edition of the newspaper Le Figaro. Beyond the mere call, the proposal indicates the extent to which Sarkozy is determined to revive the debate on Islam in France to the 2012 presidential election. Already last week, in a television interview, Sarkozy warned and advocated a "French Islam" before "Islam France.

Behind these purposes is the unstoppable rise in the polls the National Front, Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, head of training since January. Sarkozy sees how he escaped voters located to the right. Yesterday, at a luncheon with members of his group, the President, according to Le Figaro, went to their counterparts in the following way: "There is a growing gap between what we publish daily newspapers and the people's real concerns. The racists of yesterday have become popular. Our political, and then the Parliament, should address these issues. "

No cite, Sarkozy alluded directly to Marine Le Pen, who had complained months before being elected that Muslims pray in the street in France and, in January, got a poll published by the weekly magazine Marianne, 18% of the votes in a hypothetical presidential election.


Thus, the convention will address issues such as the number of mosques in France, the training of imams, the language they must use in prayer or the funding of Muslim worship.

The initiative has been quick to receive criticism from the opposition Socialist Party spokesman French (PS), Jean-Marc Ayrault, made clear the dangerous intentions Sarkozy's election: "He wants to compete with Marine Le Pen, but in these issues it is always faster."

Sarkozy's government and organized in 2009 a controversial debate about national identity, following a string of controversies, finally falling to analyze the role of Islam in French society and forgotten months later.

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