(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Manifest: France-Maghreb: The secular left against homophobia (fr, pt)

At the "AKI for all" 2 February 2014, a banner in Arabic and French showed "French Muslims 
say no to gay marriage." Muslim and Catholic reactionary parties have been able to reach. 
Associations Maghreb diaspora reacted in sharp text against homophobia, against conspiracy 
theories, and the gender of the two sides of the Mediterranean. ---- The text, titled "We 
do not recognize ...", with the full list of signatories is available on the website of 
the Association of North African workers in France (ATMF). ---- At the moment, in our 
country, the struggle for dignity, freedom and equality are raging, we are witnessing a 
surge in France conservative and reactionary forces carriers inequality: inequality 
between women and men claimed, under the guise of defending gender differences that would 
supposedly threatened; inequality between homosexuals and heterosexuals, with the 
questioning of the marriage law for all; inequality between "races", which finds the word 
citizenship: a Minister of treated black monkey, shouted in the middle of the street and, 
more importantly, by children and exploited racist. However, we do not want that for our 
children.

At the "AKI for all" of Sunday, February 2, 2014, written in Arabic and French banner 
displayed "French Muslims say no to gay marriage." Some are found in this slogan and 
display their reactionary tendencies, it does not surprise us and that is their choice. 
But for our part, we do not recognize: neither in this slogan, we who fight here and 
there, against the marginalization and stigmatization of homosexuals in delusions or the 
threat of lack of differentiation between the sexes in occasion of "ABCD equality" 
experienced in schools, that we must constantly defend here and there, equal rights 
between women and men; nor racist or complotistes about - that this plot is fantasized 
like the "Arab", "Muslims", or like the "Jews" - we who had to face the fantasy plot of 
"the West" to defend our country's freedom of conscience , which can not go without the 
secularization of law.

Our memory is that of independence struggles for equality between peoples, social 
struggles of the 1970s claiming "equal pay for equal work" movements like "The march for 
equality and against racism" 1983 associations support the struggles of women in the 
Maghreb countries.

In the name of this memory we reach here and there, the forces that are fighting against 
all the inequalities and freedoms.

A Paris February 10, 2014

First signatories: ACTIVE - AFAPREDESA - AIDDA - Democratic Association of Tunisians in 
France (ADTF) - Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Morocco (ASDHOM) - 
Association of Moroccans in France (AMF) - Association of North African workers in France 
( ATMF) - Association of Tunisians in France (FRA) - Association Citizen Engagement - 
CLAP-Villeurbanne - Algerian in France Collective ACDA (Action for Change and Democracy in 
Algeria) - Collective 3 C - Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Rights rights in 
Tunisia (CRLDHT) - Board of migrants in Morocco - Declaration citizen-Geneva - Democracy 
and citizen watch - EMCEMO - Civic Engagement - Tunisian Federation for citizenship of 
both sides (FTCR) - Women Lute (Valencia) - Plural Women - Palestine Citizenship Forum - 
Forum Euro-Mediterranean Solidarity (FORSEM) - United Front immigrations and popular areas 
- Immigration Democracy Development - The Perseudes (Aix-en-Provence) - Manifesto freedoms 
- Citizen Movement Tunisians in France (MCTF) - euromarocaine Platform Migration, 
development, citizenship, democracy - Survival Network Africa Migration - Euro-Maghreb 
Network Citizenship and Culture (REMCC) - Out of colonialism - Tunisia Culture and 
Solidarity - United-To-It