The ethnic policies of Leviathan (I)
1, Flanders will carry out the first official recognition of mosques in 2007, Flemish Minister of Civic Integration Marino Keulen said on Tuesday. This recognition, conditioned by the fight against extremism and the defense of a pluralist society, will be accompanied by subsidies for buildings. This concerns the implementation of the Flemish decree on the financing of religions, the management of religions having been partially regionalized after the Lambermont agreements in 2001. The Regions are therefore competent for the recognition of “local religious communities”. To obtain this recognition, Marino Keulen imposed several conditions, including those of accepting a pluralistic society and using Dutch as much as possible in the functioning of the community. Ministers of religion will have to be “integrated” and communities will have to fight extremism. The first seven mosques recognized by Flanders will be recognized in 2007. The salaries of their imams will be granted by the federal government, with the Minister of Justice retaining responsibility for worship. Flanders will be able to grant subsidies for construction files. Possible support could be provided by the province. In Flanders, where some 150,000 Muslims live according to Marino Keulen, the recognition of mosques and the conditions linked to it should make it possible to “normalize relations with Islam and remove its cult from religion.” “back room”, commented the Flemish minister. “This must contribute to Flemish Islam,” he added. The Executive of Muslims in Belgium has yet to provide the Flemish Region with a list of priority mosques. The administration will examine these files, in particular by questioning local authorities and State Security. The Flemish budget planned for 2007 is 3.7 million euros. (La Libre 07/11/2006)
2, After administrative-legal adventures lasting eight months, the al-Kindi Muslim high school located in the suburbs of Lyon should open next Monday. “We will welcome our first students when we return from the February holidays,” confides Tareque Ziouar, member of the al-Kindi association. The Higher Council of Education (CSE), a national representative body, meeting in restricted jurisdiction yesterday afternoon, gave its agreement to the opening of the high school. The body considered that a final obstacle – problems of hygiene and security of the establishment mentioned by the rector of the Lyon academy – was not sufficiently established to justify the opening opposition. The rector of Lyon, Alain Morvan, rejected the application due to the presence of an open gas pipe and possible soil pollution. For eight months, the rector has refused three successive files, notably calling into question rooms that are too small, non-standard bathrooms and then “fictitious management”. So many arguments rejected. Alain Morvan, who would have publicly described the project leaders as “fundamentalists”, according to La Croix, recently declared that he wanted to fight “until the last breath for the interests of children”. Its room for maneuver appears weak today. Only an appeal from the Minister of Education to the Council of State could suspend the opening of the establishment. At the moment, around thirty children are pre-registered in sixth and fifth grade. Ultimately, around 150 students are expected. (Le Figaro 03/05/2007)
Islam and Flemish nationalism, same fight? State power in European countries has no clear strategy other than to establish Islam permanently in Europe. Islam is an international reality and involves extensive networks. If little Flanders wants to control it by giving it the term “Flemish” and giving it administrative status, its approach to channeling deviance in Dutch fashion is perhaps presumptuous. It is also presumptuous for the State to arrogate to itself a right of “recognition” with regard to social groups and organizations. We don’t dare think of what it would be possible to achieve with an annual budget of 3.7 million euros for a concrete project, in favor of the environment or against poverty for example…
As for the Muslim high school in Lyon, the information available is unclear. If it is a private establishment, other denominations already existed. And if it is a state establishment, the French state, which wants to be secular, is caught in flagrant denial of its ancestral strategy consisting of separating the Church from the State. The reluctance raised by this opening of a high school is less linked to the confessional aspect itself than to the massive presence of an ethnically different population, whose sustainability can thus be organized. The opening of this type of establishment means in concrete terms that this population will not dissolve into the native population, nor will it return to the country.
In Germany, more recently, an official judgment refusing an accelerated divorce to a Muslim woman, a refusal pronounced with reference to Koranic law, caused a scandal, highlighting the progressive installation of a parallel society of Muslim obedience.
The common denominator in these policies (because, let us have no doubt, they are explicit or implicit policies) is that they admit and promote the establishment of Muslim immigration in Europe. The colonization of the Northern hemisphere by the peoples of the South, increasingly important despite the reassuring assertions of governments, is nevertheless fraught with explosive situations, especially associated with the collapse of the Churches in Europe.
