“Racist”, “Islamophobic”, “discriminatory”: the former president of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) attacks the surveillance of Muslim places of worship

Although the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) has been disbanded since 2020, its former spokesperson and executive director, Marwan Muhammad, continues to spread ambiguous statements on social networks. Most recently, on Wednesday December 29, he spoke about the fight against jihadism and the surveillance of Muslim places of worship. According to him, there is a simple way to “evaluate the Islamophobia of the French government”, namely to publish the data on the controls carried out at places of worship. And he does not hesitate to become ironic, accusing the government of targeting only mosques.

“Either this data shows that the government controls all places of worship […] in a balanced way, without deliberately and justifiably focusing on a particular religion”, which he thinks would be a very good thing, as “we would then all be reassured”, he scoffs. Or “political opportunists misuse public funds for racist profiling and discriminatory treatment of Muslims”, as he calls it, and calls this “Islamophobia”. He therefore demands that the data be published by the government “unless there is something to hide”.

At the same time, he denounces the government’s use of “state resources for purposes of surveillance, record keeping, intimidation and discriminatory treatment of Muslims”. A thread that did not leave some internet users cold. One of them asked him if he knew any “Christian or Jewish jihadists”. Another replied that there were no ” such bloody crimes in the name of Christianity and Judaism” in France.

In July, as a guest on Turkish television, Marwan Muhammad told numerous lies about the situation of Muslims in France. He claimed that the French government had “sent the police everywhere to monitor the Muslim communities in France” to see “if they were sacrificing sheep and celebrating Eid”. He added that in France “the mere fact that you practise your religion is a source of stigmatisation”.

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