France’s Interior Minister Vows Crackdown on Islamist Extremism

"What is very worrying is that we are now facing the radicality of a very active minority who clearly want to undermine the fundamental values of our state and the very principle of the French nation," the minister said in an interview with the newspaper Le Figaro. According to him, there is an avowed political project on the part of those who want to put an end to the French nation "as we know it". That is why he calls for combating Islamism with the utmost energy.

Gérald Darmanin wants to make the fight against political Islam his battle horse. "We must reaffirm a principle of secularism with a religion that is perfectly compatible with the Republic, which sometimes suffers from a multiplicity of interlocutors and foreign influences," he said.

For the minister, it is time for the French authorities to know who is financing what on the soil of the Republic. "This is not the case today despite the work of the intelligence services and the prefects," he hinted. "Believers, whatever their religion, have their place in the Republic on the sole condition that their faith is never superior to the law," he hammered, calling to "fight against this ’taqiya’" practiced by the Muslim Brotherhood.