French Government Backs New Organization to Combat Anti-Muslim Discrimination

"I have heard the proposal to create a national association to fight anti-Muslim acts. This is an association that we can subsidize, that we can help, of course, since it would not be a religious association but a social purpose association," said Gérald Darmanin in an interview with SaphirNews at the end of the first edition of the FORIF. Also, he said that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, has commissioned two parliamentarians to make a direct and complete report on anti-religious acts. "They will make proposals and submit their report at the end of March. We will obviously adopt the proposals," the minister promised.

"In general, and I have announced it, we are tripling the envelope that we already make available for mosques to protect themselves with video surveillance cameras, because obviously the attacks are totally unacceptable," the minister hammered, stressing that this is a problem that should not be neglected. He also suggests that the denunciation of anti-religious acts, and in particular anti-Muslim (Islamophobic) acts, be done within a republican framework by Muslims themselves with the tools of the State.