France closes 12 worship sites due to ‘political Islamism’ Secretary of state Nunez says shouldn't be confused with Islam

(ANSAmed) French Secretary of State to the Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said Friday that France has closed various businesses, schools, places of worship and associations in about 15 neighbourhoods in the country “hit by political Islamism and communitarianism.”

“We are fighting against political Islamism, which believes that the law of God is higher than that of the Republic,” Nunez said on France 2, highlighting that “political Islamism” shouldn’t be “confused with Islam.”

Nunez said that in about 15 neighbourhoods in French cities, “a bit fewer than 130 beverage shops were closed, 12 places of worship, four schools, and nine associations.”

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