2023-10-26 10:00:00
After Molenbeek in 2016, it was Schaerbeek, the town of residence of Abdelsalem Lassoued, that countless foreign media focused on last Tuesday, the day following the attack in Brussels. Once the media pressure had subsided, the association of (eleven) Schaerbeek mosques was keen, in the presence of local elected officials, to condemn the terrorist acts. “The attacker claims to have an ideology which is not our Islam advocated in our mosques nor that of the Muslim community in our country. We advocate the only true Islam, a religion of peace and fraternity.”
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In the Bilal mosque, between rue d’Aerschot and rue de Brabant, representatives of the eleven mosques of the city of donkeys sat alongside Cécile Jodogne, Bernard Clerfayt, Mehmet Bilge and the alderman of Cults Quentin Van Den Hove to reaffirm their work “hand in hand for a very long time in order to […] ensure that worship is carried out in accordance with the legal framework in this area.”
Outside the walls, limited levers
Representatives of the Muslim community concede: it happens that certain individuals disrupt the notions of living together advocated within them. In this case, the disruptors are immediately escorted to the exit, and are reported to the police. “Such collaboration is important in order to be able to prevent abuses and maintain permanent contact. […] The ADMS and the local authorities would nevertheless like the federal government to be able to help them with better collaboration and assistance within a legal framework, because today, the means of action are very limited.”
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The day following the attack, some residents of the Lassoued district made the same observation, and pointed out the importance of “big brothers” in bringing young people, often influenced by social networks, back on the right path. “These big brothers still have to have good intentions,” says Bernard Clerfayt, “several associations do street work,” adds Cécile Jodogne. In Schaerbeek, more than 30 workers fulfill this function, a very high number for the Brussels region, adds the impeded mayor.
Some fathers present consider the Internet as a threat to the radicalization of their children. To counter this, mosques have very few levers, except that of opening up to the society around them, by inviting schools, neighbors, or other religions to attend. meet. With, ultimately, a common point highlighted by a faithful: “the people who come to pray here, like me, were raised here. In the end, we are all of Brussels culture.”
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