Bruno Retailleau continues to communicate his firmness. In an interview with Parisian posted online Monday evening, the Minister of the Interior states that he hopes that the “fight against the Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood” will be “one of the major priorities of these coming months”.
On the eve of the commemoration of the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher of the Porte de Vincennes in January 2015, the Minister of the Interior judges that “France could be hit again”, because “the battle against Islamic totalitarianism is far from won”. It particularly targets “political Islam” which “threatens our institutions and national cohesion”.
Retailleau wants to “expand the field of secularism”
In this interview, the tenant of Place Beauvau accuses the Muslim Brotherhood of engaging in “entryism”. To combat this, it will be necessary, according to him, to “extend the scope of secularism to other public spaces, for example to sports competitions or school outings”.
In his eyes, “the 2004 law on religious symbols must be applied to these activities: school trips are school outside the walls”. “The attendants do not have to be veiled. The veil is not just a simple piece of fabric: it is a standard for Islamism, and a marker of the inferiorization of women in relation to men,” he argues, wishing for a legislative measure to this effect. The minister is also in favor of banning the wearing of the veil at university.
“A fight against a political ideology”
Believing that “the breeding ground for terrorism is separatism and political Islam”, he also assures “Muslim citizens that (the government) is not leading a fight against their religion, which is disfigured by Islamism, but a fight against a political ideology which disfigures their religion. » “What is at stake,” he said, “are the conquests of the West such as gender equality, freedom of conscience or our French secularism.”
He further adds that there is “also the subject of migration which is also linked, in part, to that of Islamism”. Regarding immigration which he wishes to limit and which is causing debate within the government, Bruno Retailleau warns: “For my part, I will not give an inch on immigration, as on the restoration of order audience “.
