Ida Hassan’s statements follow the scandal that is currently shaking France after French media published an email sent on May 11 to the directors of schools, colleges and high schools in the department of Herault (south) by a senior state official demanding information on “absenteeism” during Ramadan and the feast of Aid Al Fitr.
Asking the heads of educational centers to play the role of informers and to write reports on “school absenteeism during the period of Ramadan […] and particularly on the day of April 21, the day of Eid”, is a “totalitarian drift that reminds us of the practices of the inquisition tribunals set up in Spain at the end of the 15th century to eradicate Islam from the Iberian Peninsula following the fall of Granada,” denounced Ida Hassan.
“One is entitled to wonder if France, under the mandate of President Emmanuel Macron and the manipulations of the French deep state, is not experiencing a real totalitarian drift and is slowly but lamentably advancing towards the re-establishment of the inquisition courts, but in a more modern and sophisticated form,” wondered the academic researcher, also president and co-founder of the Hispano-Moroccan forum on security and counter-terrorism.
“Did Ramadan have an impact on absenteeism?” and “what was the rate of absenteeism on April 21 [Eid day]?” are outrageous questions contained in this “inquisition email,” stressed Ida Hassan, who called on the freedom-loving associations to denounce this totalitarian drift before the courts, and in the absence of impartiality of these courts, to resort to the European judicial authorities.
Sectarian declarations
The academic researcher noted that “the inquisition email” is not an isolated act but is, according to him, “part of a deliberate policy of the French deep state that seeks to create security crises of all kinds to divert the attention of the French on the great social unrest following the anti-social policies of President Macron, including his unpopular law of pension reform.”
Ida Hassan questioned the “hidden agenda” of recent statements by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who on Friday in New York expressed alarm at a “resurgence” of the “Sunni Islamist” terrorist threat in Europe and called on the U.S. government to step up anti-terrorism cooperation ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“We came to remind them that for Europeans and for France, the primary risk is Sunni Islamist terrorism and that anti-terrorist collaboration between intelligence services is absolutely essential,” Gerald Darmanin stressed in an interview with a French media.
“Certainly, the terrorist threat still persists and requires close international collaboration at all levels, but to play on the sectarian confrontation between Sunnis and Shiites and talk about Sunni Islamist terrorism is to play with fire,” denounced the academic researcher.
“Much more serious than the terrorist threat itself, the sectarian statements of the French minister and the words intentionally used in his recent interview with AFP, the official news agency of the French state, are, in many ways, alarming,” lamented Ida Hassan.
These serious revelations and risky exits of French officials constitute an additional layer in the gradation of measures that make France “the crucible of rampant Islamophobia in Europe and recalls another infamous episode in France: the filing of Jewish children under the scurrilous laws of Vichy and the roundup of Vél’d’Hiv,” he concluded.
