Muslims under surveillance, Islam criminalised: Marwan Muhammad spreads conspiracy theories on Turkish television

In the studio of a Turkish public TV channel, it should seem delicate to give lessons in civil liberties and tolerance. But that is exactly what Marwan Muhammad, the former French president of the Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France (CCIF), did on Saturday July 24. In a conspiratorial television report uncovered by the weekly MARIANNE, the Islamist activist gives an implausible description of the situation of Muslims in France. According to him, during the Eid-el-Kebir festival, the French authorities “sent police everywhere on the streets to monitor France’s Muslim communities”.According to him, the aim was “to see if Muslims sacrifice sheep, celebrate Eid or how they organise themselves. “Today, in France, the very practice of his religion is stigmatised and criminalised,” Muhammad continued, referring to the case of imams who were expelled from France “because the Ministry of the Interior disagreed with their statements”.

Marwan Muhammad refers to the imams of the mosques of Saint-Chamond (Loire) and Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine), who were expelled from France after making extremist comments during religious sermons – especially against women. As MARIANNE emphasises, it is hardly surprising that Marwan Muhammad supports these imams. His career as an Islamist lobbyist in France has been going on for a while. As early as 2013, the weekly recalls, he showed up at the side of the Salafist imam Nader Abou Anas. After becoming president of the CCIF, he defended the theories of the Muslim Brotherhood and stood up for the defunct Baraka City association, whose founder, Idriss Sihamedi, refused to shake hands with women.Even worse, recalls MARIANNE, Sihamedi had refused to condemn the 2015 attacks – without losing Marwan Muhammad’s support – in a broadcast on Canal+ in January 2016. Since the Baraka City case, Idriss Sihamedi has gone into exile… to Turkey, a known “human rights country”, from where Marwan Muhammad eventually called for “an international investigation into the situation of Muslim communities”. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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