Controversy Erupts Over Alleged Muslim Prayer Room at French School

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Controversy Erupts Over Alleged Muslim Prayer Room at French School

A college in Pau is accused of having set up a "prayer room" for Muslim students as part of a trip to Arette, about fifty kilometers in the Pyrenees.

A futile controversy?! Alerted by the "Parents vigilants" collective, a network of parents created by Éric Zemmour’s party to fight against what they call the "great indoctrination" allegedly promoted by the public school, Annick Pillot, a former candidate in the fifth constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques for Reconquête! in the legislative elections, accuses the Clermont college in Pau of having "yielded" to an "obvious intimidation of a religious community," "which imposes its own religious practice on all the students in the 4th grade classes," by setting up a "prayer room" for Muslim students as part of a trip to Arette, about fifty kilometers in the Pyrenees, reports Le Parisien.

"You would have made this decision under the pressure of a group of Muslim parents who would have conditioned the participation of their children in this outing by demanding the provision of rooms reserved for Islamic prayers," during the three trips organized between September 27 and October 6, denounces this departmental delegate of Reconquête! in