Retailleau’s Anti-Muslims Project Sign of Far-Right’s Dominance over Political Scene in France
Despite the criticism directed by the political class in France at Retailleau, regarding the report on what was described as “Islamic infiltration,” the man is pressing ahead with his project, even accelerating its preparation in anticipation of gaining leverage in the upcoming French presidential elections in 2027, at the expense of millions of French people who practice Islam.
The bodies representing Muslims in France, led by the Grand Mosque of Paris, have long warned against the dangers of Retailleau’s report to social cohesion in France due to the political objectives of this project. However, the far-right, which has come to dictate from within the French government, has found no other way to achieve political gains than by targeting Muslims.
Given the seriousness of this report, the Grand Mosque of Paris issued three statements in a short period, and its rector, Chems-eddine Hafiz, repeatedly warned against the report, describing it as “more political than scientific” and “highly subjective and not based on objective facts and clarifications.”
So, what does the leader of the right-wing “Les Républicains” party and Minister of Interior, Bruno Retailleau, want from the Muslim community in France? And what are the objectives of this report, which, as is well known, has caused a sharp division in French society?
Saad Laanani, a representative of the Algerian community abroad (Second District in France), believes that “Retailleau’s primary strategy aims to reach power in the 2027 presidential elections by riding on the backs of Algerians in particular and the Muslim community in general.”
The member of the National People’s Assembly, in communication with “Echorouk,” expressed his disgust at this ugly exploitation: “This is a cheap means that could end up harming Algerians and exposing their lives to serious dangers,” expecting that the same scene witnessed in 2007, when former right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy made attacking residents of Parisian suburbs, who are mostly Algerians, a theme of his election campaign that led him to win those elections, will be repeated two years from now (in 2027).
Chems-eddine Hafiz had previously described, in a video broadcast on “Twitter” (formerly “X”), the French authorities’ handling of Retailleau’s report as “the Republic’s surrender” to political parties with narrow agendas. What is striking is that it originated from government circles, and it is “an inspection mechanism through which the spirit of the French state’s republican charter is assassinated.”
In the opinion of the representative for the Second District in France, another goal of this report is to “instill fear among the general French public and convince them of an existential threat to their security and daily lives, which is false, but will inevitably push them to accept provocative and discriminatory measures that they usually reject and refuse.”
The authors of this report, Representative Saad Laanani told “Echorouk,” aim to create “a state of instability and fear of foreigners, especially Algerians, as they are the most present in France, and then to produce a favorable and suitable atmosphere for threatening foreigners and leveling various accusations against them, then restricting and later prohibiting their activities.”
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One of the characteristics of human nature in such cases is fear and suspicion, and therefore, “French society, like other societies, withdraws into itself when it feels impending dangers, and after that, it produces behaviors that benefit the French far-right,” which targets the presidential elections in 2007 by all means.
Retailleau’s obsession is to “create this atmosphere and entrench it, even inflame it, so that he can achieve his goal of seizing the presidency and then making it a tool to serve deep-seated colonial hatreds and intensify economic, cultural, and political media campaigns,” says Saad Laanani, who looks beyond that, when he indicates that the main goal behind this is “an attempt to encircle Algeria and impose dominance over it by overthrowing its national model through the spread of all types of ethnic, cultural, social, and political conflicts,” to counter France’s retreat caused by the decline of its cultural, industrial, and scientific influence and weak competitiveness in various fields.
These reports and others, according to the representative, indicate “the dominance of the far-right over the political scene in France, after it was a small faction, before its strength grew through its complicity with extreme Zionist influence, which in turn has become dominant in the political and social sphere in France.”
Source: echoroukonline.com
