French lawyer slams EU over post featuring Muslim woman
A French lawyer criticised European Union (EU) over an advertisement for its conference on the ‘Future of Europe’ event, featuring a Muslim woman wearing headscarf.
According to the details, social media outburst puts France’s treatment of its minority Muslim population-the largest in Europe, back in the spotlight. Thibault de Montbrial, an advisor to France’s centre-right presidential hopeful Valerie Pecresse, said that use of such an image to illustrate the future of Europe left him “speechless”.
“The Muslim Brotherhood dared not dream of it, the useful idiots did. For my part, I will fight with all my might to avoid such a future of Europe,” he tweeted on Wednesday, citing the political group founded in Egypt almost a century ago.
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The poster for the ongoing event, which gives EU citizens the freedom to have their say on possible reforms of the bloc’s policies, regulations and institutions, includes a call to “make your voice heard” and states “the future is in your hands”.
As a reaction to Montbrial’s Islamophobic comment, Mehreen Khan, EU correspondent for the ‘Financial Times’ newspaper stated that the bloc was “once again being accused of being a clandestine Islamist plot puppeteered by the “Muslim Brotherhood” because there is a Muslim woman on a poster.”
Khan highlighted the remarks made by French reporter, Jean Quatremer, who claimed there were known “links” between the European Commission-the bloc’s executive arm-and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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“But nothing changes because the EU is less and less democratic,” added Quatremer, who is also serving as the European correspondent for France’s liberation newspaper.
It should also be noted that last month, the French Senate voted in favour of banning headscarves in sports competition.
That move came a year after legislators in the French Parliament’s lower house approved the so-called “separatism” bill to strengthen oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs in an attempt to protect France from “radical Islamists” and promote “respect for French values”.
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