Petunjuk terakhir mengatakan, bahwa wartawan Perancis,
Georges Malbrunot (Le Figaro) dan Christian Chesnot
(Radio France International) bakal dilepaskan
hari ini, Jum'at waktu Iraq. Demikian penjelasan menlu
Dominique de Villepin. Semula mereka disandra
gerombolan dari luar Iraq. Diplomat Perancis telah
mengadakan pembicaraan di Iraq dan Jordan. Gerombolan
penyandera semula menuntut pemerintah Perancis untuk
membatalkan UU yang mulai berlaku hari Kamis kemarin,
yang melarang anak perempuan memakai jilbab di sekolah
negeri. Ultimatum gerombolan itu untuk menggorok
leher wartawan jatuh Senin lalu tanpa insiden,
ultimatum kedua jatuh hari Selasa juga tanpa insiden.
Pemerintah Perancis akhirnya menang karena benar, dan
tidak tunduk begitu saja pada ancaman terroris di
Iraq. Sikap Perancis yang tegas menolak tuntutan
teroris untuk mencabut larangan mengenakan jilbab
disekolah negara atau 2 wartawannya dieksekusi,
membuahkan dua hasil sekaligus. Bukan saja wartawan
yang diculik dibebaskan, tapi juga dukungan dari ormas
Islam di Perancis terhadap larangan itu.
Salam,
RM
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September 1, 2004
A Show of Unity in France
(The New York Times)
Major French Islamic groups and the political
opposition have rallied behind the government's
defiance of Iraqi kidnappers who seized two French
journalists last month and demanded that France revoke
its ban on the wearing of Islamic head scarves in
state schools. The display of unity was encouraging.
The head-scarf ban may be ill conceived and
discriminatory, but French education policy should not
be set by terrorists. Islamic leaders in France are
forcefully making that point, too.
The journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges
Malbrunot, disappeared on Aug. 20 on the road from
Baghdad to Najaf. On Saturday, the Islamic Army in
Iraq, a previously unknown militant group, said it had
kidnapped them and demanded that France revoke the
head-scarf ban. A group with a similar name is
believed to have killed an Italian journalist, Enzo
Baldoni, last week.
Kidnappers have gone after citizens of several
countries in post-Saddam Iraq, but until now their
demands have almost always been linked to the
withdrawal of troops, as was the case with Mr.
Baldoni.
In response to the demand, the French government said
the head-scarf ban would be strictly applied when
classes resume on Thursday, after the summer vacation.
And Fouad Alami, secretary general of the Union of
French Islamic Organizations, recommended that
students observe the ban, which the group opposes.
This response undercuts the Iraqi militants' attempt
to divide French society and the continent's
reactionary fears about its immigrant populations. We
hope it awakens French society to just how baseless
the widespread anti-Muslim prejudices really are.
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