A law is being considered in the French assembly that would see camps being established for people that are considered “radical”, even though they may not have committed crimes. RT News reports that a far-right politician in France’s national assembly, Guillaume Peltier, has tabled a bill that could result in “internment camps” for Muslims.

If the bill, which has been criticized by human rights activists, were to become law, French citizens who are on so-called radicalization watchlists would find themselves detained in “administrative detention centers.”

French lawmakers have reportedly been unable to come up with a working definition of the term ‘radicalization’ to date. Muslims fear that if the Bill was made law, members of the faith who disagree with the government would be labelled as radicals and extremists.

Peltier said that France was already monitoring more than 22 000 people, not all of whom are Muslim, who are on a so-called radical list. However, according to RT News, Peltier’s speech left no doubt that the new law is aimed at Muslims.

While it isn’t clear yet, when, if at all, the proposed bill will pass into law, recent extreme French measures against France’s Muslim population have been described as “massive and unprecedented.” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin recently announced that the state is to monitor and control 76 of the country’s mosques, with some expected to be closed down. France’s anti-Islamophobia reporting group is also to be shut down in a move which Human Rights Watch said “risks further stigmatizing Muslims in France.”

Umm Muhammed Umar