Egyptian paper highlights CEMO seminar on French 'Separatism Law'

Published on December 10, 2020 on al-Bawaba News website

The Egyptian newspaper, al-Akhbar, has shed light on an important seminar organized by the Centre for Middle East Studies in Paris (CEMO), which was moderated by Centre Director Abdel Rahim Ali, about the French law on respect for the principles of the republic, commonly known as the 'Separatism Law'. 

The seminar was organized under the title 'Separatism Law in France ... Is it sufficient to solve the problem?'

Attending the seminar was a host of important figures, including Egyptian journalist Khaled Meri, who is the editor-in-chief of al-Akhbar newspaper and deputy of the Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists, along with French Senator Jacqueline Eustache Breneaut, rapporteur of the Special Committee on Political Islam in the French Senate, who presented a report to the government that stirred the stagnant waters of the Islamist crisis in the French society. 

Also participating in the seminar were the famous journalist Yves Trier, editor-in-chief of the popular French newspaper Le Figaro, Gilles Mihales, editor-in-chief of Kozor website, and the two writers specializing in political Islam, namely Emmanuel Razavy, editor-in-chief of the famous website Global News, and Alexandre Delval, writer for the newspaper Vallor Actual, which is widely read by the members of the French political elite.

Ali said the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood had taken root in France since the 1980s. 

The organization, he said, had one goal in mind, namely empowerment in the West.

"This empowerment takes place according to their vision through three stages that work in parallel and not in succession," Ali said. 

He added that these three stages are social empowerment through the establishment of social institutions through which French Muslims and immigrants are gathered and organized into administrative units.

This process, he said, started with seven associations in 1989.

He added that the number of association affiliated to the organization had risen to 250 in mid-2005.

Ali revealed that the name of the entity that brought all those associations together was modified according to the nature of each stage and the target required for it.

He said the name of the entity was changed from the Union of Islamic Organizations in France to the Union of Muslims of France recently.

"This aimed to suggest that the international organization of the Brotherhood is the official spokesman for all French Muslims," Ali said. 

Meri, for his part, said the terrorist Brotherhood is spread all over the world.

The movement's beginning, he said, was in Egypt.

"It owns billions of dollars, money that is recycled in most parts of the world and in Europe in particular," Meri said. 

He said the Brotherhood as a group poses major dangers to the international community.

"This group has to be dealt with intellectually as soon as possible," Meri said.