Samir AMGHAR, a teacher-researcher at the Free University of Brussels, explains what the term "Islamism" means for Muslims: "...it has become in the familiar language, for the Muslim community, the idea that one practices an orthodox Islam, an Islam faithful to the texts..."
Haoues Seniguer; Lecturer at Sciences Po Lyon, returns to the origin of the word "salafism": "...I have the intimate conviction that one tends to Islamise the term while it is not Islamic in the first sense of the term. "Salaf" is what precedes, what precedes it, it does not necessarily have a regligious connotation...".
The third edition of the Val d'Oise Muslim Fair was held at the Pontoise Exhibition Centre. But some preachers invited to speak in the gallery of the salon provoked controversy. Some of their comments on the internet are in question. The laicity observatory in the Val d'Oise alerted the president. Interviewed Laurence MARCHAND-TAILLADE, President of the Laicity Observatory of Val d'Oise, said: "Today what we have asked either that these preachers do not have the floor, this is what we asked the prefect of Val d'Oise, or that they revise their remarks, we do not wish there to be abuses in the department...". Interview with Abder ROCAB, co-organizer of the Muslim Salon of Val d'Oise who explains: "We are not going to choose today people who are in a French black-list, these people are not blacklisted by the Ministry of the Interior...". Interview with Yannick BLANC, prefect of Val d'Oise: "Meetings are not prohibited unless there is a clear risk to public order and this is not the case here...".
Report on the mosque of La Fraternité in Aubervilliers in Seine Saint Denis. The police carried out several administrative searches there. The mosque is said to be a relay of Salafism promoting fundamentalist Islam. Interview with Nabil ENNASRI, president of the Collective of Muslims of France who explains: "The Salafism today in France which actually stands in the streets in some mosques, is absolutely not the one calling for war with France...". Interview with Bernard GODARD, former official of the Ministry of the Interior and specialist of Islam.
Report on the controversy related to the remarks of the imam of Vénissieux Abdelkader Bouziane in an interview given to Lyon magazine. The Muslim community of Vénissieux reacted to these remarks. The mayor of Vénissieux intends to file a complaint. Interview with Azzedine GACI, Secretary General of the Council of Muslim Worship, he explains: "We cannot live today in France, in the heart of Europe and make these remarks of another age...". André Gerin, Mayor of Vénissieux: "I want absolutely, that the Republic, that the Ministry of the Interior, that the Keeper of the Seals make a decision regarding this interview, we cannot let things like this say in the country, which are contrary to our republican values..." [
In France, Salafism thrives. In the Lyon region, about twenty mosques would be involved and would promote an Islam of origin. Interview with Kamel KABTANE, rector of the Great Mosque of Lyon: "...are small groups, they have no imposing mosques...".
The INA Galaxy 
