President Macron has undertaken a crackdown on what he calls Islamist separatism and radical Islam
PARIS – Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France 's largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometres from their middle-class suburban Parisian home.
The crackdown seeks to limit foreign influence over Muslim institutions in France and tackle what Macron has said is a long-term Islamist plan to take control of the French Republic. "I feel betrayed. I feel singled out, smeared, slandered," Misita said. "I feel 100% French, but it creates a divide. A small divide with your own country."Despite raising about 1 million euros in donations from individuals, enrolment for next year has dropped to about 500 students, from 800, headmaster Eric Dufour told Reuters in May.
Reuters spoke to more than a dozen current and former headmasters and teachers in ten Muslim schools, who said the establishments were being targeted, including being censured on flimsy grounds, and that perceived discrimination was preventing them integrating more closely with the state system. While some of the five closed Muslim schools taught conservative versions of Islam, according to the education ministry statements and closure orders, the headmasters and teachers Reuters spoke to emphasised their schools' efforts to create a mainstream and tolerant teaching environment.
In a reply to Reuters, the ministry reiterated that financial opacity was widespread at Avicenne, saying it awaited the court's final ruling. It said the school could appeal the funding refusal.France has a tradition of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish schools that allow religious expression within the constraints of lay principles broadly excluding religion from public life.
There are 127 Muslim schools, according to FNEM. Only ten benefit from state funding, a report from the public audit office said last year. "The problem is an ideology which claims its own laws should be superior to those of the Republic," he said.
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