No double standards. The Great Mosque of Paris calls on the government to condemn “unequivocal” discrimination targeting Muslims, believing that the firmness hammered out this Monday by Gabriel Attal at the Crif dinner should “apply equitably to all communities”. “The Great Mosque of Paris welcomes” the Prime Minister’s statement on “inter-community tensions and the need not to let political cynicism divide our society”, said in a press release this Wednesday, May 8, the rector of the mosque, Chems-Eddine Hafiz.
“We share his concern about any attempt to exploit religious identities for partisan purposes,” he adds. For the Great Mosque, the“call for vigilance” and the “conviction” that the Prime Minister expressed “must apply equitably to all communities”. “We call on the Prime Minister and his government to set an example by explicitly and unequivocally condemning all forms of discrimination and stigmatization against French Muslims,” he adds.
Monday evening at the Crif (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France) dinner, Gabriel Attal had promised a “exemplary firmness” faced with anti-Semitism and considered that “Islamism is a serious danger for our Republic and one of the most dangerous, most destructive faces of anti-Semitism”. The rector of the Great Mosque, who recalls having participated Monday morning in the launch of “conferences for the fight against anti-Semitism” initiated by the government, is also concerned about “the extension into the public space of the false and ‘antinomic’ concept of Muslim anti-Semitism, which unfairly stigmatizes French Muslims”.