French Report: Islamists infiltrate the Republican institutions of France, threat to national cohesion

The report, drafted by two senior civil servants, claims there is evidence for a policy “enterism” (infilming) by the Muslim Brotherhood in public organs, such as schools and local governance.

According to this report, presented Wednesday to President Emmanuel Macron, Islamistism presents national cohesion risk, reports the report. BBCFollow Periscope.

After a meeting of his security cabinet, Macron urged the government to come up with “new proposals” until early next month take into account the seriousness of the report's conclusions.

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According to an Elyze official who wanted to remain anonymous, there is a new <x0fenomen ʹ enterism ʹ which is different from separatism”.

While separatism meant Muslims living in a parallel society in France, “entism means getting involved in republican infrastructure... in order to change it from the inside. He wants to hide... and works from below”, the official said.

In a copy of the report published in the newspaper Le Figaro, the authors identified the Federation of Muslims of France (FMF) as France's leading edition of the historic Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded 100 years ago to promote a return to essential Islamic values.

They said that the FMF controlled 139 places of worship in France, with 68 others connected by about 7% of the total. The organisation also conducted around 280 associations, in sports, education, charity and other areas, as well as 21 schools.

The goal of the movement was to create “cosystems at the local level” to build Muslim life from east to death”.

“Movement officials, who are former activists, enter into a relationship with local authority... Social norms, beards, clothing, fasting are gradually imposed as the ecosystem hardens”, the authors write.

What happens is that religious practices become stricter, with a high level of girls wearing abaya (long paths) and a massive and visible increase in the number of young girls wearing Islamic headscarves. Some are only five or six years old. ”

The Federation furiously rejected “any charges that accompany us with an external policy programme, or an intervention strategy'”.

The confusion of Islam with political Islam and radicalism is not only dangerous, but also against productive for the Republic itself”, the FMF said. “After these baseless accusations, there is a plan to stigmatize Islam and Muslims. ”

The report has been used by supporters of a strict application of France's secular laws, which aim to exclude all religions from public life.

Interior Minister Bruno Retaillau, who was elected leader on Sunday of the conservative party Les Républicains, warned on Tuesday of “ylamism under the radar trying to penetrate institutions, whose final goal is to bend all French society under the Law of Wisdom”.

Municipal elections will be held in France next year, and Retailleau é, who has gained reputation as a hardliner, has said he is concerned about the possibility of the candidates' Islamic lists.

The leader of the extreme left, Jean-Luk Mélenchon, warned that “lamobia has crossed the line”, accusing the president's security cabinet of adopting “theories illusion” both of Retaillau and of the leader of the far-right National Rally, Marine Le Pen.

The authors of the report, who visited 10 different regions of France and four other European countries, concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood was losing influence in the Middle East and North Africa, and thus was targeting Europe, supported by money from Turkey and Qatar.

“Giving a Western view of the ideology to be introduced into Europe, (Muslim Brotherhood) tries to lay down the roots of a Middle East tradition, while hiding a subversive fundamentalistism”, they wrote./Periscopi/