A daycare instead of a mosque. This is the option chosen by the mayor of Nice, against the advice of the Prefect of Alpes-Maritimes. Even without being a historian, we know a bit of History.
Under monarchies, empires, and republics, we have always managed to oversee the presence of religious communities in our country.
The Edict of Nantes, in 1598, had already allowed France to put an end to a civil and religious war with the Protestants.
On August 26, 1789, it was written: “No one should be troubled for their opinions, even religious ones, provided that their manifestation does not disturb the public order established by law.”
In 1801, we knew how to sign the Concordat to normalize relations between different religions (including Catholicism) and the French state.
In 1905, Aristide Briand passed his law on the separation of churches and state, which is still in effect today (this is our secularism).
Since then, 90 mosques have been built on French territory. A mosque should no more be considered the arrival of Sharia in our city than the construction of a new church would ban abortion.
Therefore, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Vichy, Reims, Besanรงon, Ambรฉrieu in Bugey… all have their mosques.
Also, 86 synagogues, 48 Buddhist temples, around 10,000 active Catholic churches out of the 50,000 existing ones have been built on our territory: see “https://patrimoine.blog.pelerin.info”, not to mention the dozens of Russian, Serbian, Armenian, Greek Orthodox churches, plus Mormons, Adventists…
A collaboration between the Opera houses of Nice and Tel Aviv: that is very good. The COP 22 in Marrakech is very good too.
by Christian Rezeau, association For Nice
