The authorities in Marseille have closed down a clandestine Salafist school.
Many thanks to FreeZoxee for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | Is it true that at this moment a clandestine Muslim school is being shut down? | |
| 00:10 | Yes, this is accurate, and fits with what I said a few weeks ago, | |
| 00:15 | and a direct result of a law we passed in July, | |
| 00:19 | which provides us with the judicial tools to close schools that are not officially recognized , | |
| 00:24 | and in particular those related to Islamic fundamentalism, | |
| 00:28 | in other words Salafist ones; well, they will be closed. | |
| 00:31 | That’s the case of a school that is being shut down today | |
| 00:35 | in the heart of the 14th borough in Marseille, for the very reason that it is a clandestine school, | |
| 00:40 | which doesn’t fit… —So you are closing a school because it is clandestine | |
| 00:47 | and because it promotes Islamist ghettoization. | |
| 00:53 | Yes that’s it. This school does not abide by the rules we set last July… |
It is a start.
My concern with any government powers to close muslim schools or mosques is that such laws and powers can be bought and sold.