LE FIGARO INFO – An association had planned to invite this Sunday personalities identified by Beauvau as belonging to the Salafist movement. Activists and elected officials of the RN and Reconquest! called for the event to be banned.
The metropolis of Grenoble will not be the refuge of the D’Clic association and its controversial Muslim conference. Driven out of several cities in recent weeks, the organizers of an event on Islam will not be able to settle this Sunday, January 29 in the city of Isère. The Ministry of the Interior indicates this Saturday at the Figaro that the demonstrationwill be banned“. According to our information, a municipal decree of the town of Echirolles, where the event was to be held, was signed and notified to the organizers.
The RN deputy for Isère Alexis Jolly announced on Wednesday that he had written to the ministry and to the prefect of the department about the demonstration: “These preachers advocate violence against women, polygamy, or even the superiority of Islam over the Republiche said. The president of the Reconquest! Eric Zemmour evoked particularly violent sermons and asked the question: “Do we really want an imam to be able to glorify jihad in the aftermath of Islamic attacks in Europe? “. In its wake, many local activists called for action to prevent the conference from being held.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the State services alerted on the subject, and the ministry would have identified several controversial preachers “known for their membership in the Salafist movement and their proximity to the Muslim Brotherhood movement“. In particular in question, the first scheduled guest, the imam “Ismail“, from Marseille, formerly of the As Sunna mosque at the time when it had been closed administratively by the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône.
With a certain influence with its own “blueberry institute“, and followed by more than 120,000 people on Facebook, the latter has made himself known in recent months by a controversy: he had affirmed in a filmed sermon that abandoning Islamic prayer was more serious than committing murder. In a video, the one that Eric Zemmour took over, he declares that “when you didn’t get up this morning for prayer […]tell yourself that this sin, the sahabas asked themselves the question: is it the greatest sin that does not lead to leaving Islam, more serious than having killed a hundred people? , than having consumed alcohol […] than having started I don’t know how many wars?“. He added: “Allah tells us, even when you are at war, and the sword passes over your heads, you perform the prayer in this way“. He had confirmed his position in a tweet, since deleted.
The other guest was Nader Abou Anas, also very influential on the networks, with 706,000 subscribers on YouTube. He became known for having launched that “men have authority over women. The virtuous woman obeys her husband, […] leaves her house only by her husband’s permissionand she must know that “the angels curse her all night in case she refuses her husband“. Remarks unearthed and publicized by the activist Damien Rieu, member of the Reconquête! party.
The organizer of the conference Farid Bioud would also be in the sights of the authorities, a source indicating to the Figaro that the latter would have dealt with “pork“Samuel Paty. Finally, the expected crowd would have been several hundred people and would have greatly exceeded the capacity of the room. Beauvau also expected fights likely to occur between the participants and their opponents.
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At the beginning of January, the association had tried to hold it in the town of Cabannes, in the Bouches-du-Rhône. The Reconquest party! had launched several actions to obtain the cancellation of the day. After several adventures, the organization of the event had given up after the refusal of a room renter. “I don’t want problems with anyone. Too many fools called me!“explained the latter. The team had for its part affirmed that the influx was the main reason for the cancellation: “facing the thousands of people expected for a room capacity of 600 people “, he became ” impossible to manage security under these conditions“, the association giving an appointment “soon in an even bigger place!“. On the website of the association organizing the conference, there is no direct reference to Islam: D’Clic says that it works for the “common good” and say “act throughout France but also elsewhere, in order to bring our dynamism, our determination“. But between the social and humanist missions put forward, objectives such as the “convert tracking“, or even the “creation of a sheep slaughterhouse“.
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Rejected by other municipalities in the South-East, the choice of the city of Grenoble was not due to chance: the city has experienced several controversies concerning the place of Islam in public life, in particular in May 2022 when the mayor Éric Piolle (EELV) had decided to authorize the “burkinis» in municipal swimming pools. A position fought by the State, which had in return canceled the authorization by prefectural decision.
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