The draft legislation, which has been criticized for stigmatizing Moslems and giving the state new powers to limit speech and religious groups, is backed by a clear majority of MPs in the National Assembly.
President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party rallies around the law, with 347 National Assembly politicians voting in favor, 151 against and 65 abstaining.
Well done, guys!
The text will now be submitted to the upper house Senate, where Macron’s party does not hold a majority.Good luck. Here’s hoping they also choose to have a spine.
"It’s an extremely strong secular offensive," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told RTL radio ahead of the vote. "It’s a tough text... but necessary for the republic."Among the more than 70 separate articles, the law expands the ability of the state to close places of worship and religious schools, as well as to ban bully boy preachers.
Amid concerns about the funding of mosques by
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor..., Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
or Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, it requires religious groups to declare large foreign donations and have their accounts certified.