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Sunday, April 16, 2017

Marine Le Pen on Muslim Street Prayers



Marine Le Pen on Muslim Street Prayers

Below is a message from Marine Le Pen to French voters about the growing numbers (multitudes) of culture-enrichers in the streets with their, er, derrières elevated towards the sky.



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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