As there is a rise in Islamic radicalism all over Europe, France has taken a bold move to shut six mosques and break up several associations suspected of producing radical Islamic propaganda, Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin said on Tuesday (September 28).
Darmanin told Le Figaro newspaper that places of worship, “suspected of being radical and flagged by the intelligence services had been checked since November 2020. Of those, action to shut down six in five different departments across France had been launched,”.
The French government is also looking into the dissolution of the Islamist publishers Nawa and the Black African Defence League (LDNA) because it incites the extermination of the Jews and legitimises the stoning of homosexuals.
Although LDNA is an anti sematic and organised a protest against police violence in front of the US embassy in Paris in June last year.
Last week, the Council of State, France’s highest administrative court, approved the government’s move to dissolve the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) and Baraka City.
All such changes took place after the brutal murder of a teacher, Samuel Paty, who was targeted following an online campaign against him for having shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo during a civics class.
Paty’s murder sent a shockwave across France and there was universal condemnation against this murder in the name of Islam and French President Emmanuel Macron said that in France people have the right to blaspheme.
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