فرنسا: استخدام القوائم الطلابية لحصر عدد الأطفال المسلمين

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أثار "روبرت مينارد" - عمدة مدينة "بيزيه" الواقعة جنوب "فرنسا" - حالة واسعة من الجدل وصفها الإعلام بالفضيحة، بعد تنفيذه تطبيقًا عنصريًّا ضد الطلاب المسلمين، واستخدام قوائم الفصول لمعرفة عدد الطلاب المسلمين، وهو ما يخالف القانون الذي يحظر حصر الأفراد على أساس العِرْق أو الدين.

وقد لقِيت الواقعة انتقادات شديدة، ومن المتوقَّع أن يُعاقَب العمدة بالسجن خمس سنوات، ودفْع غرامة 300 ألف يورو؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Counting Muslim kids: A very French scandal

Robert Menard the mayor of Beziers a town in the south of France kicked off a very French controversy this week and it's one that rears its head every so often and never fails to provoke a row.

Essentially by profiling Muslim children in his town - which he did by the very un-scientific method of counting them as Muslim if they had a Muslim sounding French name – Menard broke a French law that has proved a conundrum for years and is the source of much criticism.

Despite being a multi-ethnic country under France's strict secularism laws, it is forbidden to keep statistics on people's religion or ethnicity.

Menard obviously knew the rules, brought in back in 1978, but he went ahead and did it anyway, even though he risks a punishment of up to five years in prison and a €300,000 fine.

Under France’s ethos of egalité all citizens are treated the same and they are not categorized into ethnic groups. It means that we don't know the exact size of the country's Muslim or Jewish populations, only that they are estimated at around five million and 500,000 respectively.

We also don't know the true size of the country's black population, which has been estimated at anything between 1 million and 1.8 million.

As Patrick Simon from France’s National institute of Demographic studies noted, this ban on statistics gathering would seem barmy to those in another multi-racial countries across the Atlantic or the English Channel.