The leader of the far-right French party National Front, Marine Le Pen, said on Sunday she would ban "all religious symbols” including Jewish skull caps, if elected president, seeing it as a "sacrifice" necessary to fight against radical Islam.
"I will prohibit overt signs in the public space," Le Pen said in an interview Sunday with France’s BFMTV station. She said she would extend a 2004 law banning religious symbols in schools to all public spaces.
"I know it's a sacrifice, but I think the situation is too serious these days (...) I think every French person, including our Jewish compatriots, can understand that if we ask them for a sacrifice in order to help fight against the advance of this Islamic extremism (...) they will make the effort, they will understand, I am absolutely convinced because it will be in the best interests of the nation," she explained.
One of the world's most secular countries, France strongly separates religion and public life, arguing a common arena without religious connotations helps avoid sectarian conflicts and encourages equality.
The country has banned wearing conspicuous religious symbols in its public primary and secondary schools in what is also known as the “headscarf ban.”
[i24news.tv]
17/10/16
"I will prohibit overt signs in the public space," Le Pen said in an interview Sunday with France’s BFMTV station. She said she would extend a 2004 law banning religious symbols in schools to all public spaces.
"I know it's a sacrifice, but I think the situation is too serious these days (...) I think every French person, including our Jewish compatriots, can understand that if we ask them for a sacrifice in order to help fight against the advance of this Islamic extremism (...) they will make the effort, they will understand, I am absolutely convinced because it will be in the best interests of the nation," she explained.
One of the world's most secular countries, France strongly separates religion and public life, arguing a common arena without religious connotations helps avoid sectarian conflicts and encourages equality.
The country has banned wearing conspicuous religious symbols in its public primary and secondary schools in what is also known as the “headscarf ban.”
[i24news.tv]
17/10/16
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