Alain Policar faraway from the Council of Elders of Secularism after controversial feedback on the veil at college | EUROtoday

According to this collective, which called for the expulsion of the researcher from the Council, his positions contest “the merits of the 2004 law, he resorts to arguments used by Islamist entryism, whose fallacious process is based on denial of reality and the inversion of values. Through this process, Mr. Policar comes to consider the 2004 law as discriminatory and the wearing of the veil as an act that is not proselytizing, but on the contrary emancipatory. The author suggesting that, because it is too difficult to apply, ineffective and even illegitimate, it should therefore be abolished.

“Alain Policar suggests actually revisiting this law by applying it differently depending on the case. This is unacceptable for Nicole Belloubet. The law is the law. There can be no ambiguity regarding such an important law, a pacification law which has enabled school heads not to find themselves alone in these situations,” confides these near the minister. In her speech to the elders of secularism, the minister maintained that the remarks made by Alain Policar “tend to diminish the law of 2004, as a member of the CSL but outside it, is not compatible with this quality of membership.

“I am not at all in favor of the veil”

For his part, Alain Policar denies having declared to RFI that “the veil was a vector of emancipation”, but rather “that it may be thought of by younger veiled ladies as a method of emancipation by accepting the prescriptions of their atmosphere.

“But I don’t take this reasoning on my own. I am not at all in favor of the veil and I am made to be a supporter of Islamist entryism. But I tolerate it,” maintains Alain Policar, earlier than including: “My position is as follows: the hunt for the veil plays into the hands of the Islamists, that there is an objective complicity between the intransigent application of secularism and the Islamists , who are just waiting to say to Muslims: “see, we don't like you here, you belong to the community of believers and not to that of citizens”. This is what I denounce, in useless. »

Alain Policar, who’s irritated that his freedom of expression as an skilled and never a civil servant was not revered, nonetheless accepts the minister's choice. “Secularism is a basic precept to which I adhere with out the slightest restriction. Contrary to what some have argued, I’m not in favor of Anglo-Saxon secularism. I believe, nonetheless, that our secular mannequin of strict separation and state neutrality should have just a little flexibility in its utility, to the extent that this rigidity is exploited by our enemies. But by saying that, I’ve grow to be an enemy of the Republic, whereas I consider, quite the opposite, to be one of many fiercest supporters of secularism. »