Dean of Paris Mosque Declares “War” on The Retailleau Report

The report on what is described as “Islamic infiltration,” which was the subject of a cabinet meeting for French President Emmanuel Macron, continues to generate much debate due to its political and ideological implications, which could lead to fragmentation within French society, composed of multiple nationalities and ethnicities.
For the second time in less than a week, the “Grand Mosque of Paris” has weighed in on this report, described as dangerous by French researchers and academics, in a lengthy article by its dean, Shams Eddine Hafiz, published on Monday night into Tuesday on the mosque’s account on the “X” platform, “formerly Twitter.”
In it, he directed scathing criticism at this report, which categorizes French citizens based on their religion.
Shams Eddine Hafiz wrote: “There are times in history when reason falters, when the Republic, despite being built on foundations of justice and clarity, succumbs to the ease of obsession. The recently published report on the Muslim Brotherhood, alarmingly issued by government circles, is one such sinister piece of evidence.
Its purpose is not to inform, but to designate. It does not seek understanding, but isolation. In this inquisitorial mechanism, the spirit of our republican charter is assassinated.”
The dean of the Grand Mosque of Paris spoke of a “climate of fear, suspicion, and stigmatization” perpetuated by the report, which was prepared by the French Ministry of Interior, led by one of the most racist ministers in modern French history.
Shams Eddine Hafiz warned in his article that what is being tracked through this racist report “is not actions, but intentions; not crimes, but presumed affiliations; not criminal projects, but a very clear, very strong, and very Islamic presence.”
In the opinion of the article’s author, the report casts doubt on millions of Muslims. He wrote: “From the diversity of backgrounds, practices, and Islamic history in France, we paint a unified and dangerous fresco, where every believer becomes a suspect, where every mosque becomes a fortress, and where every imam becomes the voice of an obscure danger… It is an informational weapon used against a segment of the French people, the very segment we would like to silence behind a veil of technical words and vague images.”
Shams Eddine Hafiz also questioned: “Why are these accusations being published at a time when the pain suffered by our Muslim citizens is still present? Why, a few weeks after the assassination of Aboubacar Cissé while he was praying in a mosque in France, do we oppose silence with grief, and suspicion with mourning?
Angry French Muslims were awaiting a republican surge, recognition, and a word of mercy. It was a report that amounted to finger-pointing, a hurtful word, and a lack of trust.”
In a strict tone that leaves no room for doubt, Shams Eddine Hafiz expressed the Paris Mosque’s rejection of this report: “No, a thousand times no.
The Paris Mosque, an institution born from an alliance between the Republic and its Muslim soldiers who fell into its trap, cannot remain silent in the face of what it considers a moral betrayal, because this text ultimately targets not the Muslim Brotherhood, but Muslims in France, in their entirety, in their diversity, in their dignity.”
For his part, Saad Laanani, a member of the National People’s Assembly representing Algerians in France, second district, believes that “the French state, which adopts secularism as its motto and doctrine, has failed in managing a sensitive issue affecting millions of its citizens, while circles of political hatred and the far-right have succeeded in destabilizing the pillars of the French state, thereby exposing it to various internal threats.”
The MP confirmed in communication with “Echorouk” that the measures taken by the French state against Muslim communities confirm beyond any doubt that “France, after the fall of the red bogeyman (communism), is now creating another bogeyman, the green bogeyman (Islam), which has become the subject of constant attacks by circles known for their hatred and racism, even if this time it takes the name of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
He added: “Muslims in France have become Muslim Brotherhood and are now in the eye of the storm. Discrimination and contempt from the media directly affect members of the Algerian community and other Muslim communities with ugly words and inappropriate labels.”
In turn, Yazid Sabeg, a former minister of Algerian origin who served under former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, accompanied the controversy surrounding the report on “Islamic infiltration,” describing what is happening to Muslims in France in an article in “Mediapart” as a “turning point,” and called on intellectuals in France to respond to this report.
The former French minister believes that the report “is the fruit of a long drift towards a phantom state, haunted moreover by the fantasy of the internal enemy,” noting that the report “does not name facts, but judges intentions, proves nothing specific, yet hints at everything,” which is a dangerous development that recalls what Jews experienced in Europe in the 1930s, or Japanese in the United States in the 1940s.

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