فرنسا: مجموعات أوروبية تشارك في مؤتمر للتعبير عن معاداة الإسلام

تَجَمَّع العديد من المجموعات المتطرفة من مختلف البلدان الأوروبية السبت الماضي بالعاصمة الفرنسية "باريس"; من أجل حشد المزيد من الأصوات السياسية الماركسية والنسائية والعلمانية المتشددة واليمينية; للتنسيق بينها ضد ما أسموه "أسلمة أوروبا".

وقد لقي هذا الاجتماع انتقاد المجتمع الإسلامي والجمعيات اليسارية; حيث استنكر "محمد موسوي" الذي أكد أن هذا الاجتماع يهدد الوحدة الوطنية; ويشكل خطرًا على فرص العيش المشترك.

وقد اتُهم المنظمون للاجتماع بإثارة الكراهية, في ظل تأسف المجلس الإسلامي على رفض السلطات إلغاء الاجتماع الذي تضمن رموزًا من ممثلي الأحزاب اليمينية من "سويسرا" و"فرنسا" و"الدنمارك" وغيرها من بلدان أوروبا.

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Anti-Muslim groups descend on Paris

Groups from across Europe yesterday gathered in the French capital to give voice to increasingly pronounced anti-Islam sentiments on the continent. Claiming to represent a wide range of political opinion, from Marxists and feminists to hardcore secularists and right-wing activists, the groups said they would coordinate their fight against what they call the Islamisation of Europe.

French Muslim and left-wing groups denounced the gathering that drew about 500 people as divisive. The president of the mainstream French Council of the Muslim Faith, Mohammed Moussaoui, said, "We are strongly in favour of the right to free expression but we feel that such a meeting is a threat to national unity and to our ability to live together."

He accused the organisers of incitement to hatred but the authorities rejected the council's appeal to have the meeting banned. The police cordoned off the area near the hall where the gathering took place but only a few dozen people showed up for a counter-demonstration.

Anti-Islam groups have gained political momentum in several European countries in recent years. In Denmark and the Netherlands, political parties with a strong anti-Islam element are crucial in supporting minority governments. And in Sweden, a similar party for the first time crossed the electoral threshold in September.

The key personality of the Paris meeting, unmistakably, was Oskar Freysinger of the Swiss People's Party who initiated the referendum last year in which the Swiss voted to ban the construction of minarets. The ponytailed politician, who was trailed by bodyguards in bomber jackets and black shades, was mobbed like a rock star by the crowd of mostly middle-aged and elderly Frenchmen and women.