{"id":73593,"date":"2021-03-09T14:15:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=73593"},"modified":"2021-03-14T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T15:40:41","slug":"french-government-looks-for-ways-to-close-down-more-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/73593-french-government-looks-for-ways-to-close-down-more-mosques\/","title":{"rendered":"French government looks for ways to close down more mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-09_20-00-38-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-09_20-00-38-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-09_20-00-38-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-09_20-00-38-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-09_20-00-38-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-09_20-00-38.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The anti-Muslim climate in France is normalizing a general crackdown on the country\u2019s 6 million-strong Muslim community.<br>France\u2019s right-wing Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin in a statement expressed his displeasure at not being able to close down more mosques in the country.<br>Darmanin made the comments in response to a parliamentary question about mosques that the government sees as promoting \u201cseparatism.\u201d<br>&#8220;The laws of the Republic do not allow us to close these places of worship,&#8221; he said.<br>That hasn\u2019t stopped the government of French President Emmanuel Macron from closing down 17 mosques for violating vague \u201csecurity laws\u201d or not having the right \u201csafety standards.\u201d An additional 89 mosques are also under surveillance.<br>There is increasing concern amongst French civil society, international human rights organizations and local Muslims who fear that Macron\u2019s government is disproportionately targeting Muslims in a bid to curry favor with far-right voters with presidential elections just over one year away.<br>Darmanin\u2019s comments also come at a time when the French parliament is in the final stages of approving a controversial Separatism Bill, which some have seen as a tool created to specifically target the country\u2019s Muslim community.<br>Amnesty International has accused the French government of doubling down \u201con their perpetual smear campaign against French Muslims\u201d and of launching their \u201cown attack on freedom of expression\u201d as a means of silencing the country\u2019s Muslim community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-Muslim climate in France is normalizing a general crackdown on the country\u2019s 6 million-strong Muslim community.France\u2019s right-wing Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin in a statement expressed his displeasure at not being able to close down more mosques in the country.Darmanin made the comments in response to a parliamentary question about mosques that the government sees &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,30],"tags":[70,501],"class_list":["post-73593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-french","tag-mosques"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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