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Paris, France, Dec 13, 2012 \/ 04:37 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- A French cabinet member announced that\u00a0the government\u00a0will monitor certain groups for \"religious pathology,\" including a traditionalist Catholic organization, and will shut them down if it is discovered.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe objective is to identify when it's suitable to intervene to treat what has become a religious pathology,\u201d Interior Minister Manuel Valls told a conference on the official policy of secularism, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe aim is not to combat opinions by force, but to detect and understand when an opinion turns into a potentially violent and criminal excess,\u201d he said at the Dec. 11 conference.<\/p>\n

\tValls' remarks come in the wake of President Francois Hollande's announcement Dec. 9 that he would create the \u201cNational Observatory of Secularism\u201d to promote France\u2019s policy and to \u201cformulate propositions for the transmission of 'public morality,' giving it a dignified place in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHollande's announcement of the observatory was made on the anniversary of the adoption of a law in 1905 that established secularism as state policy in France. It was accompanied by the decision to honor the sociologist Emile Poulat, who helped to \u201cpromote secularism as an essential value of our living-together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSecularism (la\u00efcit\u00e9 in French) has received a boost from Hollande's Socialist government, which believes it was weakened under former President Nicolas Sarkozy.<\/p>\n

\tValls said that the government would be monitoring violence among religious radicals, including Salafist Muslims and Civitas, an organization of lay Catholics which is associated with the Society of Saint Pius X.<\/p>\n

\tHe said that Civitas is observed because its political protests flirt with \u201cthe limits of legality \u2026 All excesses are being minutely registered in case we have to consider dissolving it and defending this before a judge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCivitas is \u201ca political movement inspired by natural law and the social doctrine of the Church \u2026 engaged in the establishment of the social Kingship of Christ\u201d throughout the world, and in France in particular. It demonstrates against secularism and policies which denigrate Christianity.<\/p>\n

\tAccording to Reuters, Valls offered radicals Islamists, traditionalist Catholics, and ultra-orthodox Jews \u201cwho want to live separately from the modern world\u201d as examples of religious extremists.<\/p>\n

\tUnder the secularist policy, the government will identify \u201csects\u201d and disband faith-based groups it deems to suffer from \u201creligious pathology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tOn Oct. 31 of this year, the Tunisian imam Muhammad Hammami was expelled from France because he defended violence against women and made anti-Semitic speeches at his Parisian mosque.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe decided to be uncompromising against all those who utter hate speech against the Republic and our values,\u201d Valls said at the time.<\/p>\n

\tIn March 2012, an al-Qaeda supporter murdered three soldiers and four Jews in Toulouse, which Valls said at the conference \u201cshowed how quickly religiously radicalized people could turn to force.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSecularism in France discourages the display of religion in the public square. In 2004, Muslim women were barred from wearing hijabs in public schools.<\/p>\n

\tEducation minister Vincent Peillon told the Dec. 11 conference that the classes on secular morality would emphasize the French secularist values of equality and fraternity.<\/p>\n

\tIn an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, he said that secular morality is to \u201cunderstand what is right and to distinguish good from evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cSecularism is not about simple tolerance \u2026 it is a set of values that we have to share.\u201d<\/p>\n

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