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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech on reshaping Islam is “impolite and lack of manners and indicates that he does not know his borders.”
He added, during a speech, Tuesday, at the Ankara Presidential Complex, that “these methods that we consider to be of little respect and devoid of respect for other religions, we do not accept and therefore we do not allow anyone to say such statements, especially of Presidents and leaders must think deeply before revealing those ideas and respect for minorities in their country. “
Erdogan indicated that Macron is trying to cover up the crisis in France and the wrong policies he is following by saying that “Islam is in crisis.”
He added that “Macron’s statement that Islam is in crisis, in a city with a large Muslim population, is an explicit provocation, as well as a lack of respect, and we have repeatedly asked him to respect religions.”
The Turkish president indicated that many Western countries have become sponsors of racism and anti-Islam, stressing that attacking Muslims has become one of the most important means used by European politicians to cover up their failure.
Erdogan pointed out that those who evade the confrontation of racism and Islamophobia commit the greatest offense to their societies.
Yesterday, Turkey condemned the French president’s proposal to defend his country’s secular values in the face of what it described as a “radical” Islam, and described it as a “populist insult to Muslims.”
These criticisms of Macron’s plan, which wants to “free Islam in France from external influences”, are in addition to the criticisms directed for the third day in a row at the list of disputes between the French and Turkish presidents.
And Macron delivered a speech on Friday in which he declared that France must confront what he called “Islamic isolationism”, claiming that it seeks “to establish a parallel system and deny the French Republic.”
On Friday, Macron said in a speech that “Islam today lives in a crisis throughout the world,” and Paris must confront what he described as “Islamic isolationism that seeks to establish a parallel system and deny the French Republic.”
This came together with Macron’s willingness to present a bill against “emotional separation”, with the aim of “combating those who use religion to question the values of the Republic.”
Macron added: “In this radical Islamic trend, there is a declared intention to replace a systematic structure to circumvent the laws of the republic, establish a parallel system based on different values and develop a different organization of society,” considering Islam ” it is a religion that today is experiencing a crisis throughout the world. “
He announced several measures, including forcing any association requesting state assistance to sign a secular charter, imposing strict supervision on private religious schools, and strictly limiting home education.
Macron’s comments come eighteen months before the French presidential election, in which he is expected to face a challenge from the right.
Macron’s statements were met with strong condemnation in Islamic countries, and Al-Azhar Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb tweeted in French and English, as well as Arabic, to respond to these statements.
The Al-Azhar Islamic Research Academy and the International Union of Muslim Scholars also denounced Macron’s remarks.
