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hi anthony ok welcome to the stream on today's episode a new proposed law in salts and the controversy surrounding it the anti separatists bill is its purpose is to stop radicalization but there are many muslims in science who feel that it targets them in the way they wish to practice staff face so online their rallies their campaigns around a couple of different hashtags through instance put to shame or he jabal hands off my hip jab hash tag for all it's his job you can join that discussion with us right

now on you to jump into the comment section or be part of today's shot. as a french muslim woman i am exhausted and angry to see once again the policing on my beliefs my choices and my body. my country has made me choose between my head up and my education my career my engagement risk course and my drinking is an armed swamp thing to shoprite my my nieces and schools as i 1st citizen i am strict over my most basic human rights. so we act together with other friends when we're raising awareness calling for saudi authorities with the hash tag but to show our job to put an end to this implicit sexism and tire muslim hatred before it's too late there's

a lot to talk about we will be doing that with marco yes really and welcome to the stream marco introduce yourself to international audience ara one my name is marco a work at. national. good to have you so welcome back to the story with our audience who you are what you do. when we say yes we want even more human rights and civil liberties activist committee for justice and a leader with used on and also host of the broadcast league regaled nice to having a bat and marion welcome to the stream introduce yourself to us i'm dr myriam from ranker irish and a research associate at so a center for islamic studies so i guess i have to tell you an audience as well we invited the minister of gender equality for france to our conversation we also asked a number of members of the national to join us and everybody that we talked to said they they were on

a vailable but i want to take you back to last october when president mccaughan gave us at al-jazeera an exclusive interview and he specifically talked about the anti separatist spill here yes. it is a bill of law to combat the violent extremist groups and individuals who are active in france in the name of islam it is designed to protect all french people and more broadly and indeed specifically those of the muslim faith. so what do we intend to do prevent them from taking children out of school the children of the republic we also intend to put a stop to the financing linked to terrorists which enables them to pursue their activities in so financial transparency and above all something which for me is essentially an affront ensuring that everyone irrespective of their faith or religion fully observes the legislation of the french republic that is essential when you heard about the bill as i just got to get an instant reaction is i want to

see way your minds are right now your reaction marion that. i mean i think president michael has worked really hard to present a very different face to the international media then what he has domestically in france and hearing their you know talk of protecting children somehow you know stopping the funding of terrorism that has actually manifested that in the bill has been you know prohibiting essentially islamic schooling and children being. trained you know schools at home which is a fundamental right but also this idea of funding terrorism what we're actually seeing in the bill is the stopping of funding of netflix what we're talking about is international funding which has historically been one of the only means for mosques to get bill in france being stopped so you know this is a major issue we're talking about a country in which there's already a major. inequality in the levels of provisions when it comes to places of worship

around 4500 mosques in france to cater to around 6000000 people comparatively speaking there are 45000 churches 40000 of those are actually funded by the state to cater for about 3200000 catholics just to give you a comparative lot of the head. well millikan it becomes unbearable or to see the president live in such a comfortable manner he spoke of children being to get out of school so they pass laws of to exclude lydia girls who wear a scarf since 2004 when they are excluded and their community set up scores are not the government cracks down on those scores and water to shut them down when families can't afford private school is another homeschooling they want to keep those kids from receiving home schooling no the problem is an immature macaque would not name one single most important position calling for separatism but i can tell you there with public is the one excluding the corners of those ones excluded

that these separatists and the last part how can we fight a separate isn't what we want what the government does not find a fight the systemic discrimination muslims group through are to walk us even to access to health care honestly it has really become bearable for us i am just looking marco at how amnesty and international are viewing this out and separatist bell on my laptop fronts republican valiance norris discrimination which will be very brief but pick out some of the points of this bill that i've given you as amnesty international human rights organization concern what are the problem. yet the nina actually raises many concerns in terms of. clearly it was. actually very problematic. including the fact that for example i'm going off any organizations we have used ascribe to so-called republicans on trial

we obviously constantly to be fair and could actually needs to restrict in i'm going to ask stations a way to restrict actually watched. this. program raise results pressure and. also that organization and can actually you know it's president. you know way that is not compliant with an honest brady was not an increase. and actually and we sat in silence i'm seeing organizations that do not i believe government part of this area and she's really problematic in communication nation against the community it particularly as muslims when we look at you know the context in which has been

compiled. arguments that have context what context shall i be able to reach the youth that there has been a lot of imagination and all of. this is fine but. without it i mean they should all be wet. one of things that i wanted to do was just to give you a sense of the atmosphere in france i told you about these viral campaigns where well people are incensed with some of these provisions of this this antisepsis bill still a bill right now but they're also in support i've seen on you tube some support well some good news is saying right now france is doing a good thing good idea good plan france this is sebastian chen you who i'm going to say is a right when national assembly representative and as a a fair description of him this is what he said about this proposed law.

is rather a bunch of measures that seem to us to be going in the right direction when they seem to be going in the right direction we voted for these amendments overall the text is not up to the challenge we don't want to vote against it so as not to oppose it everything that can help to fight against radical islam in our country must be implemented however small it may be and here in this case it is tiny france is a tiny not to say ridiculous. yes if this is such a division of reaction we're going it is anti separatists bill and i'm just wondering does the government have advisors who are actually practicing muslims because some of these positions filled very extreme. but you would be shocked if the most radical version of the so-called shot of the mamas of was actually written by the grand mosque with various so that shows that even a salute to morgan has issues are in cahoots with the government and that's why you

know it is on the up or there was shortages of muslims to stand and take back control of their old organizations not listening to this person going to save us yes you knew a far right activist and politician he said out into this goes against radical islam when are these people going to define what a what isn't because right now we have amendments i guess hey jeff pearlman is listed mother's list in school was in prison for ship was going charities and even prohibiting filling flags in weddings if that's not a political and agnes what if war being waged against muslims specifically but illiterate it could be extended to the wider french society because these measures to date yes there is you to implement because you can shut down to organizations that tomorrow on this he can be should devotee of the government decides to because that would be there too subversive and too quick order of the republican this we are witnessing the down to what they don't want spyware affronts towards

a return to what used to go to fascism then this point if i may is that it might even mccall and his minister of education and the minister of interior all again dup in order to have a court reelected to the of the next and elections the problem is that they claim to unite of france against an enemy with then but they are actually targeting the very foundations of france one just 11 sentence article one of the french constitution the republic respects all religions where is that constitution today and where is its occupation under anybody when michael. we're i'd love for you to listen to some of the french women that we spoke to a little bit earlier and their reaction to this and to separate a spell of us and other countries approaches in freshening recent people rise makes them feel more and more excluded and marginalized then

a longer fevered village french estates i respect you now as they can drive the fashion model who are the works in france the only thing this bill will separate is the muslim woman from the public space between freedom and liberation for our believe it's clear that someone more free and another is it is a totally when she who and the more public among them and probably making woman from wanting to dread having wish it in the way in defense of women's rights because the heater is part of our work. there and what we actually have you been saying. well look i think you what you raise is question of religiousness receive and i think that it's come up consistently when we've seen proposals from the government that there is clearly the kindest interpretation is a lack of religious literacy in the highest levels of the french government but you could also argue that actually historically the french government has consistently of what we did listening to and responding to the french muslim community and

instead has always chosen to define an interlocutor that it could control and provide limits to what that particular association should do so for example the c.f.c. m. which is you know a government created body muslim body i should perk which is essentially held up as somehow being representative of the wider muslim community but has very little actual support from the wider community is just one indication of this sense that the government doesn't actually want to hear what french muslims have to say and doesn't actually in that sense have the you know in my in mind from my perspective there's a dereliction of duty from the government here you know these are french citizens and it is their right to practice their religion just like it is the right of every citizen within that country and from the minute the government ignores that portion of the citizenry and actually creates laws that specifically target them you know whatever it says publicly i think that's very clear to most people in fact it's

probably quite clear to those who supported it's actually going against the very principles on which the republic is built and i think that's the saddest and most worrying part of this whole debacle is that muslims are on the front line when it comes to this particular bill but what we're talking about is the disintegration of the very principles on which the republic has been built town which historically am presently friends muslims have always supported the republic they don't have a problem with that it's just the government's instrumental ization of these. concept essentially to gain more votes away from the far right in regained that cereno many many american came to power as a sensor candidate he's now very much flirting with the right. so mary i think and i want to put some of these questions to me that are coming from you tube audience because they want to react and interact with you so i'm going to put this one to you mark a brief response if i can get one from emmanuelle says the government has no

religion but it must control over the tins for the benefit of all citizens or religions must respect the laws and also respect other religions market reacts. yes if not up to this day to not be in front of not in iran not in for a good to tell actually we ran them out that we are going to want to dress how to dress what we are or what not where i was very very important principle the 2nd one is that we need to remember what actually meant life day in and in 05 when actually . there was introduced. they this they had actually should they are away from their own leaders in the should enable all everyone to practice religion really is what that actually want and you're trying to that's what actually lies their needs which means that we see. the moment as i would say exactly the contrary we have seen exactly the contrary the last 20 years the french government the

french authorities being part about your progress in their district it really just practice we have always there it is going to embark particularly on the most yes i see noting ahead i want to take you to take on this comment here from storyboard writing thank you for being part of the show today is that most of the legislation presented in this bill more of a response to find nationalism and actual terrorism. what a force of course it's not and sort of terrorism otherwise they would have asked the questions of why these attacks are happening and one of the keep happening the 2nd question is is there really are we to remove to the or school. nationalism in france not course others before a muslims appeared in food prices and you know what happened in the 19 thirty's and forty's but what we see today is we also see the quibbling regime that we call the 5th republic birth born in 1958 people think france is

a republic it is not it is only a compromise between a monarchy and a republic the 958 constitution was born out of a coup d'etat it order to have a president called charles de gaulle and because that's where the sight of a retiring with very few checks and balances a week parliament the judiciary is not really independent because the prosecutor is nominated by the executive branch of power on top of it we have skyrocketing inequalities a 100000 people have died in france other of the 19000000 people have for they don't look up the poverty line 300000 students are now coming up for out food beds because they are starving in the missile dependent the only answer of the government to hundreds of like is protests predecessor to one of the why the french population is and we cannot grant you a bright future but we take what we can graduate but i guess your muslim neighbors i.e. the enemy within so right now the only thing governments have is an identity but it except if i may add one thing michael well i spoke about the 1905 law

we have to keep in mind that it is again setting us up back to the colonies why in 1000 or 5 there are the separated the church and state that was never applied in the colonies or if order to keep islam under control and this is exactly what's happened today france of the law exists it is up red when it comes to catholics and others of but when it comes to muslims they can. not a benefit of for me it's like you are in a regular game it anytime freedom or liberty is that you know i want to go to your advantage we redid the game show there was only games it and have you not be able to organize a surgeon the 19 of 5 lot is not at the head with guns to muslims and that's exactly what this government is doing let me just bring everyone up to date where of what is beginning to happen in france and i'm going to share this tweet with you here too must have been fire bombs and vandalized in france in the past 24 hours

i'm going to scoot up here this is just from the past few days which will give you an idea of why we were asking this seemingly provoked of question is from it's legalizing islamophobia marco what kind of impact have you seen in terms of the way the government is dealing and talking to ms and communities and then what is happening down on the ground in terms of their safety and in terms of their security. we have often had crimes perpetrated against muslims actually as in the context of for example after violent attacks after terrorist attacks you know we always i mean we have where we've been as a french and response from the french authorities that often disproportionate response that often embed actually as you are types against them indeed actually is usually associated with the hate crimes with the ta action against. the bought or stood against muslims on the street including my website that repeatedly in the

context in the law actually lived in the last. 60 years unfortunately what's happening is not is nothing new. with the in fact in the context of the state of emergency after the power is a fact of. the government actually replying with the message emergency measures we disproportionately measures and these actually create redeclare must that is what i have been in or a muslim community in the brom. i want to talk about what will happen next because this is a bill it's not a law and even in france there are discussions about fine tuning this bill and not everybody can agree on it vary a little tank thankfully not everybody can agree with there absolutely and i think

you know those battle in my view for the very soul of france happening right now in this bill is just one example of that you know the bill has since gone through the senate in the summit senate it actually was hardened in other words there were additional the visions added to it which were even more worrying you know suggestions now that you would remove that welfare for all students who were absentee absent from school and this is clearly aimed at the fact that you know there were no provisions for children for example to take a day off school for aid which is a big celebration we were at 10000000 people in france for whom it is as just as important as christmas is for christians all secular people and so we could now imagine that french muslims many of whom offer more impoverished communities and maybe dependent on welfare could have those welfare payments removed these a punitive measures we're seeing mothers who would be wanting to accompany their

children in an active civic duty on say a school outing now being banned we've seen muslim women who would like to go you know in stay healthy when the middle of a massive health pandemic they want to go swimming no they can't now there are provisions suggesting that you wouldn't be able to wear a full length swimming suit to a swimming pool all of this very much creates a climate which i think is increasingly clear and dividing france into 2 parts and i think it's important to remember that just as very hard i was given very quickly that then we'll see so quickly because i'm always is really curious and we've got you here right now is not quite the only doing this to get more far right follow us is he afraid to lose to the pen in the next elections that's a very swift answer in god. i don't think he's afraid of losing to ben i think he's keen to take. some of that appends electorate

and in fact he doesn't the far right have been used as a corner sort of scare crow in french politics to say oh no you know the far right might win quick vote for us but actually what we've seen is on the left and the right there are policies that have very much in line with what the far right has been pushing for decades now they have set the agenda when it comes to the civic cohesion social cohesion and particularly when it comes to miss dems and now they are french as essentially have set the tone thank you very m i want to leave this conversation with the world his job the day ambassador because this conversation is about science but it does much further than fronts actually explains why. with this potential hit job then people all over the world are feeling it really even how special an internship is this year through the world of job day fast for unity in job 30 where there are a lot of not in the flames britain's opinion fasting anywhere in jobs just stand in

solidarity and some of them have even chosen to do this because their friends and i think people just hope that france will understand and will learn what it is there be any why the job is so important the jobs parade in italy it's our fate to act to worship to god his job is modesty his job is our choice and friends truth is oppression do you think that they are saving us from a question but they're not they're doing we're pressing a conversation about a bill in saul's that has gone global thank you so much. miriam for helping us understand in a much deeper way much appreciate that move on to what we will be doing next week on the stream next week we are dedicating all of our shows to climate action and climate crisis so if you would like to be part of those shows you know what you could be following on the jump into the comment section as many of our youth she was day to day and also follow us that at a.j.

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our objective here is to impose costs for what we feel are. unacceptable action.