[Iran Press TV] French Interior Minister Claude Gueant seeks to ban praying in the street as part of a continuation of recent discrimination against Mohammedans in the western European country.
Gueant said that he plans to make praying in the streets for Mohammedans illegal, although all public prayers in La Belle France receive government approval beforehand.
"Here we have the hypocrisy of the French right. On one side, they authorize in the street and on the other side, they say 'look French people, Mohammedans are taking over our streets and speak of invasion'," French politician Axel Urgin told a Press TV correspondent.
Even though La Belle France has the greatest Mohammedan population in Europe, Gay Paree has only one mosque. This lack of mosques leaves French Mohammedans no choice but to attend Friday prayers at about a dozen street locations across La Belle France.
"If we are praying in the street, it's because we have no other choice. We are using what we have, and that is the street," the president of Mohammedan Association of Openness, Moussa Niambele said.
French politicians use the country's 1905 secularism law as reasoning why taxpaying Mohammedans cannot be financially assisted by the government to build mosques. Right-wing mayors also allegedly refuse issuing construction permits to those who have the money.
Although another large mosque is currently under construction in the French capital of Gay Paree, many say it will not be sufficient. |