Marine Le Pen on Muslim Street Prayers
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 00:04 | Voilà France of Monsieur Macron and Monsieur Fillon! | |
| 00:08 | Voilà the result of ten years of laxity when nothing was done to fight | |
| 00:12 | communitarianism. Worse: communitarianism was maintained, almost encouraged, | |
| 00:16 | by national politicians, while declined at the local level: totally insane. | |
| 00:20 | The street prayers that now take place every week in Clichy, | |
| 00:24 | the Paris quarter, are of course shocking to the inhabitants. I already denounced | |
| 00:28 | years ago the generalized indifference, and I repeat it strongly today: | |
| 00:33 | Streets are public spaces, where religion shouldn’t be expressed. | |
| 00:37 | I respect all religions and all beliefs. I think that faith, no matter | |
| 00:41 | which one, eminently deserves respect, but that it is a personal measure | |
| 00:45 | that one has in one’s heart and that one expresses, that one shares in a temple when | |
| 00:49 | practising [his religion]. But there’s no justification for tolerating those proselytizing displays | |
| 00:53 | in the public space. We know very well that those inacceptable drifts | |
| 00:57 | are the hotbeds of the radicalization. [We know] | |
| 01:01 | that when authorizing this type of manifestation, the public authority is initiating a move that is | |
| 01:05 | no longer strictly religious, but that is ideological, political and that | |
| 01:09 | clearly goes against national unity. Even worse: this communitarian reflex | |
| 01:14 | has terrible consequences for the radicalization and the indoctrination of “youths”, | |
| 01:18 | who are encouraged to cultivate an unacceptable form of rejection of secularism | |
| 01:22 | that is the essential principle of our Republic, and who are even encouraged to | |
| 01:26 | nurture a true hatred for France. So we could deliberate ad infinitum on the responsibility | |
| 01:30 | of this or that municipality for the conditions and results of this situation, | |
| 01:34 | but it’s not the point: it’s appropriate now to send an extremely strong answer | |
| 01:38 | and apply some basic principles that I remind you of in my presidential promises. | |
| 01:42 | In any case society doesn’t have to finance the construction | |
| 01:46 | of temples [mosques]. It’s the responsibility of the faithful and | |
| 01:50 | and, of course of those for whom it is their religion. The funding | |
| 01:54 | cannot of course be coming from foreign powers either, since we know fairly well | |
| 01:58 | that they might be trying — through such means — to propagate an ideology in France contrary to | |
| 02:03 | our Republic. I don’t want clientelist practices | |
| 02:07 | to develop in France from which some municipalities would try to buy votes | |
| 02:11 | by — unacceptably — bypassing the 1905 law | |
| 02:15 | that defined secularity in France and clearly organized | |
| 02:19 | the relationship between public power and religion. Finally, I would like to directly | |
| 02:23 | address my Muslim compatriots: to tell them that I am on the side of the huge majority | |
| 02:27 | of them, who live their faith and their religion in a totally peaceful way | |
| 02:31 | with respect to republican rules, and who are the first to be shocked by the | |
| 02:35 | tendencies I am denouncing. Because it is they who are the first victims | |
| 02:39 | of the deplorable image that is driven by this hijacking of religion | |
| 02:43 | that my Muslim compatriots, and the rest of the nation — believers or not — | |
| 02:47 | need to know that I am going to lead, as the head of state, a strict policy | |
| 02:52 | concerning that subject, deeply anchored in a respect for the rules of secularism | |
| 02:56 | in order for us all, together, united as French people, to be able simultaneously to | |
| 03:00 | protect religious freedom and the non-impingement of religions on the public space. |
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