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Executive Summary - Operation Luxor: Unraveling the myths behind Austria's largest ever peacetime police raids

November 9, 2021

<h4 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" style="text-align: center;" data-fontsize="18" data-lineheight="23.94px">This forms part of CAGE’s report <em>Operation Luxor: Unraveling the myths behind Austria's largest ever peacetime police raids</em></h4> <h4 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" style="text-align: center;" data-fontsize="18" data-lineheight="23.94px">Download the report <a href="https://www.cage.ngo/product/operation-luxor-unravelling-the-myths-behind-austrias-largest-ever-peacetime-police-raids-report">here</a></h4> <h4 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" style="text-align: center;" data-fontsize="18" data-lineheight="23.94px">View the rest of the project at our report hub <a href="https://www.cage.ngo/operation-luxor-report">here</a></h4> <hr /> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Executive Summary</span></h1> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the early hours of 9</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> November 2020, the Austrian government carried out its largest wave of peacetime police raids in post-war Austria, against Muslim citizens of the country: codenamed </span><i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Operation Luxor.</span></i></i></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The raids, overseen by Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, were carried out simultaneously at 70 homes across four federal states, mobilising 930 people including police officers, special unit agents and constitutional protection officials.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To date, no-one affected by the raids has been charged for any offence, despite having their lives turned upside down - and Austrian courts have declared the raids unlawful, while rejecting the ‘academic’ rationale which formed the basis of the raids.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet in the year since, legislative means to crack down on ‘Political Islam’ have continued apace in the country, including with the introduction of the draconian </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anti-Terror Bill.</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Austrian government’s claims to be cracking down on so-called ‘Political Islam’ have served to create a very hostile environment for Muslims in the country, compounded by the work of the official </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Documentation Centre for Political Islam </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">run by figures with connections to the far-right globally. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This report documents developments around Operation Luxor, as the state narrative on the raids came undone, as well as maneuvers by the Austrian state over the past year. For the first time, we document testimonies from individuals directly impacted by the raids of Operation Luxor.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">What this year-long campaign since November 2020 has obscured is deep failings on the part of the Austrian government to keep its citizens safe. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">It has emerged that foreign and national intelligence services, including the military, had warned the government beforehand of an expected attack on Austrian soil. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When attacks struck Vienna on 2nd November 2020, the government was reportedly too focused on preparing for Operation Luxor to deal with intelligence on this actual attack.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet rather than reflect on this as a failing within the existing political system of Austria, the government has sought to grant itself greater powers to surveil and manage Muslims in the country.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Institutions like the Documentation Centre for Political Islam, as well as its ‘Islam Map’ documenting the names and addresses of Muslim organisations in the country, are enabling Islamophobic attacks by the Austrian far-right with the tacit approval of the Austrian state.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alongside such institutions, Austrian media commentators have played a central role in legitimising the actions of the Austrian state, including with regards to Operation Luxor.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The entanglement of the Austrian media and the government was exposed in a major corruption scandal unveiled by the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Office of the Public Prosecutor for Economic Affairs and Corruption, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">which culminated in the dramatic resignation of Sebastian Kurz as Austrian Chancellor in October 2021.</span></span></li> <li>In the context of counter-terrorism, Operation Luxor fits in with an international trend whereby the use of unilateral executive powers against those suspected of involvement in terrorism has increased, limiting judicial checks and eroding the rule of law and accountability.</li> <li>Despite facing a series of scandals and setbacks, the Austrian government seems determined to develop and export their draconian policies internationally.This report provides a window into the realities behind the rhetoric and bluster of the Austrian government, and issues an urgent call for those inside and outside of Austria to firmly resist and oppose the country’s troubling turn.</li> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"></li> </ul> </li> </ul>   <h1><b>Recommendations</b></h1>   <h2><b>For the Austrian government: </b></h2> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">All open investigations against victims of the Operation Luxor raids must be dropped and the victims have to be fully vindicated by due process, especially after the higher regional court declaring Operation Luxor as unlawful.</span></span></li> <li>As demanded by <i>Farid Hafez Support Committee</i>, which consists of almost 350 experts we urge the political leadership in Austria, especially the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Justice, to appoint an independent investigative commission to investigate Operation Luxor and issue its findings.</li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Documentation Centre for Political Islam</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which is financed and led by the government, should be closed. </span></li> <li>An official, formal public state commitment to investigate Operation Luxor, especially the human and children’s rights violations and the violations of the right to a fair trial.</li> <li>Independent non-government external authority must be established to hold police misconduct to account.</li> <li>To reject the draconian Anti-Terror Bill, and cease exporting its divisive campaign against ‘Political Islam’.</li> <li>The resignation of public prosecutor Mag. Winklhofer and the dismissal of Documentation Centre ‘experts’ Heiko Heinisch & Nina Scholz, all of whom materially contributed to Operation Luxor.</li> <li>Stop harassing and terrorising its Muslim minorities and allow them to fully exercise their freedom of religion, freedom of opinion and freedom of speech as much as everybody else in the country.</li> <li>Support and fund psychosocial support for the children and adults impacted by Operation Luxor.</li> <li>Muslims are the only religious group in Austria where the intelligence service regularly meets with community leaders. We call for an end of the extraordinary means and state surveillance that the Austrian Muslim community is currently subject to.</li> </ul>   <h2><b>For civil society and NGOs</b></h2> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Civil society and NGOs should extend immediate solidarity and support to those individuals and organisations impacted by Operation Luxor in their struggle for accountability and justice.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In doing so, they should avoid legitimising state-sponsored binaries between ‘good Muslims’ and ‘bad Islamists’.</span></span></li> <li>Oppose the Anti-Terror Bill as repressive and Islamophobic, and opening the door for a broader crackdown across Austrian society. If it passes into law, Austrian civil society should campaign for its repeal.</li> <li>Organisations like CAGE alongside UN Human Rights Rapporteurs have long documented the use of flawed ‘science’ in legitimising repressive ‘counter-extremism’ policies.</li> <li>Civil Society organisations in Austria should educate themselves, inform others and campaign forcefully against the counter-extremism policies now taking root in the country.</li> <li>Campaign for the closure of the <i>Documentation Centre of Political Islam </i>and its projects, including the Islam Map.</li> <li>Challenge Austrian media and hold them to journalistic standards and ethics to stem the worrying trend of media-disseminated false information, of the media whipping up Islamophobia or of the media uncritically promoting the government line.</li> </ul>   <h2><b>For targeted communities in Austria</b></h2> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extend solidarity and support to those individuals and organisations impacted by Operation Luxor - the ostracisation of those targeted by such campaigns and policies can often serve as a compound injustice.</span></span></li> <li>To ensure that community leaders do not continue to serve as ‘middlemen’ with intelligence services or contribute to the securitisation of Muslim communities.</li> <li>Mosque and community leaders should cease their practice of regular engagement with Austrian security services, which is not expected of other faith communities.</li> <li>Defend the right of Muslims in Austria to practice political freedoms, and challenge censorship of Islamic expression - rather than accepting ‘second class citizen’ status.</li> <li>Oppose the Anti-Terror Bill. If it passes into law, campaign for its repeal.</li> <li>Refuse the Austrian state’s agenda criminalising Muslim communities, and nourish those networks within the community.</li> </ul>

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“We are starting to spread Terror”: How France became an Islamophobic totalitarian regime

October 12, 2021

<div class="post-content"> <div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-1" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><div class="fusion-text"> <h4 class="entry-title fusion-post-title fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="18" data-lineheight="23.94px" style="--fontSize: 18; line-height: 1.33; --minFontSize: 18;"><em style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Rayan Freschi describes how the French state, emboldened by its dissolution of critical Muslim-led and Islamic organisations in the country, is now more openly promoting its deeply Islamophobic and totalitarian ‘Systematic Obstruction’ policies.<br> </strong></em></h4> </div> <h5 data-fontsize="16" style="--fontSize: 16; line-height: 1.13; --minFontSize: 16;" data-lineheight="18.08px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><em>This article is published as part of CAGE’s new series of expert essays ‘<a href="http://cage.ngo/perspectives">Perspectives on the War On Terror</a>‘.</em></h5> <h4 data-fontsize="18" style="--fontSize: 18; line-height: 1.33; --minFontSize: 18;" data-lineheight="23.94px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"></h4> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-2" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>The month of September has presented serious challenges to the French Muslim community. Each week has been punctuated with events which, in one way or another, have influenced the daily lives of the entire Muslim community.</p> <p>First the “Trial of the Century” into the 2015 Bataclan attacks, which began on the 8th of September, was used by some to nurture the idea that Muslims were inherently violent.</p> <p>Then the government announced the <a href="https://www.cage.ngo/french-government-ramps-up-its-policy-of-dissolving-muslim-organisations-by-decree">dissolution of an Islamic publishing house,</a> NAWA editions, while the Council of State – the highest French administrative court – validated the 2020 dissolutions of one of the largest Muslim charities and the leading Muslim human rights group in France.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-3" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>If these events were not enough, the month ended on an even more bitter note. The French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin gave an <a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/gerald-darmanin-et-marlene-schiappa-nous-n-avons-jamais-autant-fait-contre-l-islamisme-politique-20210928">appalling interview</a> to Le Figaro on September 28 which requires a closer look.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-4" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><strong>The unveiling of a State-led persecution</strong></h3> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-5" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>Back in July 2021, CAGE highlighted the infamous<a href="https://www.cage.ngo/fact-sheet-frances-systematic-obstruction-policy-on-muslims"> ‘Systematic Obstruction’ policy</a>, whose staggering numbers demonstrated the existence of a State-led persecution. As of June 2021, the policy led to the closure of 615 mosques, schools, organizations or businesses run by Muslims, 23,158 controls and €44 million seized by the State. We also stated that the State was willingly covering up its sins, by refusing to actively promote the policy to the public since its beginning in February 2018.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-width: 0.5px 0.5px 1px 1px; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-style: solid; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><span class=" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none"><img width="300" height="208" title="norbu-gyachung-Zjp6bW0gv2E-unsplash" src="https://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/norbu-gyachung-Zjp6bW0gv2E-unsplash-e1627054180403-300x208.jpg" class="img-responsive wp-image-28943"></span><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-6" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h5 class="entry-title fusion-post-title" style="text-align: center;" data-fontsize="30" data-lineheight="33.9px"><span style="color: #ff6600;">See: </span><a href="https://www.cage.ngo/fact-sheet-frances-systematic-obstruction-policy-on-muslims"><span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Fact Sheet: France’s Systematic Obstruction policy on Muslims</span></span></a></h5> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last" style="width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-7" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>Darmanin’s interview with Le Figaro should be considered as a turning point in the government’s public relations strategy: for the first time, the Minister of the Interior publicly promoted to a mainstream media the results of the draconian “Systematic Obstruction” policy and announced the future closure of a further ten Muslim organisations.</p> <p>At first, this move could be regarded as a very risky one. However, a better assessment of the current political framework helps us in understanding why the State feels comfortable enough to unveil its blatant anti-Muslim persecution</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-8" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>After having silenced the most vocal anti-Islamophobia organisations, the French government faces an almost empty domestic field where it can share the results of its anti-Muslim policy without having to fear the accusation of persecuting an entire minority.</p> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-9" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>The almost deafening silence which followed the announcements proved the existence of a deep cultural framework of Islamophobia which feeds the State’s policies – and is nurtured in return by them. We should then bear in mind the current presidential race in which Macron’s party will try to seduce part of the right and far-right electorate by demonstrating how he rules Muslims with an iron fist.</p> <p>This can bolster the President’s chances of being reelected, especially if he faces Eric Zemmour – a French Islamophobic polemist who famously stated that Nazism was not as intolerant as Islâm and who wants to prohibit the use of ‘Muhammad’ as a first name – in the second round of the election.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-10" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><strong>The Republican psychological warfare</strong></h3> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-11" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>However, another element needs to be highlighted here. In the interview, Darmanin explained very explicitly the overarching spirit of the State policies regarding Muslims:</p> <blockquote> <p><i>“We are beginning to spread terror among those who wanted to impose it on us.”</i></p> </blockquote> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-12" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>This quote echoes the words Macron pronounced after the infamous Samuel Paty murder in October 2020:</p> <blockquote> <p><i>“Fear must change sides. I want Islamists to feel in danger at any time of the day or night.”</i></p> </blockquote> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first" style="width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-13" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>From October onwards, the Systematic Obstruction intensified leading to the dissolutions of the larger Muslim human rights group, one of the largest Muslim charities and 27 daily checks on mosques, Muslim led businesses or schools.</p> <p>This language proves that the stringent pressure exercised by the State on the Muslim community has a specific goal: to instil anxiety and fear in the hearts of Muslims, so to force their assimilation and complete submission to the State’s de facto ideology and religion, laîcité.</p> <p>It perfectly fits the now-official French approach towards Muslims, war through administrative and legal measures going along with psychological warfare.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-9 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-14" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><em><span style="color: #999999;">“After having silenced the most vocal anti-Islamophobia organisations, the French government faces an almost empty domestic field where it can share its policies without having to fear the accusation of persecuting an entire minority”</span> </em></h3> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-10 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-15" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>Moreover, it also proves how Muslims are perceived by the French state: blind aggressors in the making whose inherent violence is due to a religion “<i>in crisis</i>” – in the words of Macron. The State’s solution is to raise the voice against the perceived threat and secularise, subdue and politically silence the belief system of the imaginary menace.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-5 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-11 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-16" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><strong>A totalitarian Republic reinvigorated by propaganda and persecution</strong></h3> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-17" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>The implementation of the ‘Systematic Obstruction’ policy is supervised by an official organ,  the <i>Inter-ministerial committee against Delinquency and Radicalisation</i>. With the advent of the Systematic Obstruction, the committee went through major changes.</p> <p>A new section was created, the “Republican Counter-Discourse Unit”,  whose task according to the Darmanin interview is to “<i>monitor social networks, flush out the influencers of the “jihadosphere” and prevent their lies and threats from spreading</i>”.</p> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-18" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>However, when one scrutinises the Twitter account of the organ you will be surprised to discover that the committee functions as a propaganda unit whose function is to whitewash the French State’s Islamophobic persecution framing any form of Muslim critical dissent as a dangerous form of “<i>islamist separatism</i>” which needs to be silenced – and any accusation of State sponsored Islamophobia as “<i>fake news</i>”.</p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-12 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-19" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><span style="color: #999999;">Minister of the Interior Darmanin explained very explicitly the overarching spirit of the State policies regarding Muslims: </span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: center; --fontSize: 26; line-height: 1.62;" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="42.12px" class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated"><span style="color: #999999;"><i>“We are beginning to spread terror among those who wanted to impose it on us.”</i></span></h3> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-13 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last" style="width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-20" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p>For example, it tweeted that the official Turkish news agency Anadolu Agency or the now dissolved CCIF were spreading “<i>fake news”</i> against France because of their denunciation of French systemic Islamophobia.</p> <p>As it was evidenced by numerous scholars – including Aissam Ait Yahya from the now dissolved NAWA Publishing House – French Enlightenment, which is the philosophical backbone of the French State, is a strong fertile ground for totalitarianism and terror.</p> <p>To quote Robespierre:</p> <p>“<i>There are no other citizens in a Republic than Republicans. Royalists… conspirators are nothing but aliens, or rather enemies.”</i></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-14 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; padding: 0px; min-height: 0px;"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-21" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These words, this totalitarian approach which cannot accept </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">any</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> opposition to the Republic, has withstood the test of time. Still, those who are not perceived as sufficiently submitted to the State are deemed aliens and enemies. During the “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Terror era</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">”, dissenters were massacred by Robespierre. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Closer to our era during the second World War, Vichy France identified the “four confederate States” – an expression coined by far-right French writer Charles Maurras – composed of protestants, jews, free-masons and immigrants as being members of the “Anti-France” front which deserved to be persecuted. Nowadays, a new systematic purge based on Islamophobia, persecution and propaganda gives new life to a State that rediscovers and fully embraces its totalitarian roots. The French cycle of hate, deeply anchored in French history and culture, is nearing a new climax. </span></p> <p>Nowadays, a new systematic purge based on Islamophobia, persecution and propaganda gives new life to a State that rediscovers and fully embraces its totalitarian roots.</p> <p>A new terror is spreading again, targeting French Muslims. It is time to unveil it at the international level to avoid the terrible and costly mistakes of the past.</p> </div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-22" style="transform:translate3d(0,0,0);"><p><em>Images used courtesy of Flickr/<a class="owner-name truncate" title="Go to Jacques Paquier's photostream" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/125671268@N02/47688347902/in/photolist-2fE4foS-rdYxcp-qyqXDY-rvjn3x-rdRYSN-qyD2NK-rvjp1a-rc7bnT-rdRXkQ-r56af3-r5697S-rGLnB6-rJw5cA-s26ixX-rJuU3C-rJuUfS-rJCVGK-r568Jh-r569DJ-rJw6Tb-s26jAi-s22v4B-rzMXST-s26iq2-rJCUca-rzMXkv-rvqrek" data-track="attributionNameClick">Jacques Paquier</a></em></p> </div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-6 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;"><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-15 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy" style="background-position: left top; 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“We are starting to spread Terror”: How France became an Islamophobic totalitarian regime

October 12, 2021

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Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Schools

July 15, 2021

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Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Schools

July 15, 2021

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Executive Summary - Operation Luxor: Unraveling the myths behind Austria's largest ever peacetime police raids

“We are starting to spread Terror”: How France became an Islamophobic totalitarian regime

“We are starting to spread Terror”: How France became an Islamophobic totalitarian regime

Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Schools

Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Schools

20 Years of TACT: Justice under Threat

Application to Deproscribe Hamas

Report: Britain's Apartheid Apologists

Complaint against Egypt to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

New Report Examines Muslim Duty Towards Prisoners

DISCHARGING THE OBLIGATION: Muslim Captives and the Principle of Sufficiency in a Globalised World

The Conscious Muslim Guide

THE GAMES OF SHAME: CAN THE 2024 PARIS OLYMPICS WHITEWASH GENOCIDE AND WIDESPREAD EXCLUSION?

Unnecessary and Disproportional: The Killings of Anwar and Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki

Johannesburg Declaration on Israel's Settler-Colonialism, Apartheid and Genocide: Towards a Global Anti-Apartheid Movement for Palestine

Over 400 UK Imams and scholars reject Gove's new extremism definition and call on Muslims to support MEND, CAGE and The Muslim Association of Britain

European Policy Briefing: Special Edition on Palestine

Censoring Palestine, From Schools to Workplaces

Expert Opinions on Israel’s “right to exist” by Professor John Dugard SC and Professor Avi Shlaim

We are Beginning to Spread Terror - French

Muslim Scholars demand an end to War on Terror

Aafia Siddiqui: A case of lies and inconsistencies report

Letter to the EC president

Human Rights Council Complaint Procedure Form

20 Years of TACT: Justice Under Threat report

Exploiting the Pandemic

Coronavirus Bill: Extra powers must be subject to strict oversight and must end with the pandemic

Letter to Home Secretary

Over 100 leading academics and campaigners call for end to PREVENT and back CAGE’s alternative 8-point plan

Beyond PREVENT: A Real Alternative To Securitised Policies report

Schedule 7: Harassment at Borders

Response to Narratives of Division by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

CCE Exposed Report

Letter from National Prevent Coordinator Nik Adams

Response to National PREVENT coordinator

Separating Families – How PREVENT Seeks the Removal of Children report

Response to call for Working Definition of 'Islamophobia'

Torture in America: FBI & DOD torture of Ali al-Marri on the Charleston Naval Brig - Report

Africa Review: Ethiopia report

The 'Science' of Pre-Crime

Consent Denied report

External Review into CAGE’s handling of the Mohammed Emwazi Affair report

Submission to Home Affairs Select Committee

CAGE’s response to Henry Jackson Society

Failing Our Communities: A case study approach to understanding PREVENT

CAGE Brochure

Challenging the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill

ISC inquiry NGO joint letter

Criminalising Non-Violent Organisations

Serious Crime Bill Submission

Repression of Palestine solidarity in Schools 2021

Blowback report

Submission to the Home Office on Schedule 7

The PREVENT strategy: A cradle to grave police-state report

Tackling Extremism in the UK: Part I

Tackling Extremism in the UK: Part II

We are Beginning to Spread Terror - English

Guantanamo Begins at Home report

CagePrisoners Annual Report 2010-11

Djamel Beghal - British and French complicity in torture report

Good Muslim Bad Muslim: A response to the revised PREVENT strategy report

Too blunt for just outcomes report

Fabricating Terrorism III: British Complicity In Renditions And Torture report

The Horn Of Africa Inquistion The Latest Profile In The War On Terror report

Operation Luxor: Unravelling the Myths behind Austria's Largest Ever Peacetime Raids

Detention Immorality report

Blacklisted report

Guantanamo’s Hidden History: Shocking statistics of starvation

Fabricating Terrorism II: British Complicity in Renditions and Torture report

Devoid of the Rule of Law: Pakistan’s ‘War on Terror’

Citizens No More: ‘War on Terror’ Abuses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Off the Record report

Inside Africa’s War on Terror: War on Terror Detentions in the Horn of Africa report

Foreign Nationals Rendered To Guantánamo Bay-Style Detention And Abuse In Ethiopia report

Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan report

Detention in the name of the War on Terror report