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French President Emmanuel Macron wants to counter the growing Islamist tendencies in his country. “What we have to fight is Islamist separatism,” Macron said on a visit to the impoverished Paris suburb of Les Mureaux.
“The problem is an ideology that affirms that its own laws must be superior to those of the republic.” A bill to combat Islamist separatism will go before parliament early next year. This is aimed, for example, at severely limiting family counseling. This is to prevent children from being “indoctrinated” in unregistered schools that deviate from the national curriculum.
Macron announced that it would be easier for the authorities to dissolve clubs in the future. “We have to go all the way.” He recalled the knife attack near the old newsroom of the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo”, in which two people were seriously injured last week. The 25-year-old suspect is being investigated on suspicion of terrorism.
The French government is increasingly concerned about signs of radicalization, often non-violent, within Muslim communities, government officials said.
They point to the refusal of some Muslim men to shake hands with women and to swimming pools, which give men and women alternate schedules. The instruction of girls aged four and over to wear a full veil and the dissemination of religious “madrassa” schools are also considered critically.
France follows a strict form of secularism known as “secularism”. Its aim is to strictly separate religion and public life. The principle was enshrined in law in 1905 after a violent dispute with the Catholic Church.
Left wing foreign politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticized Macron for not being at the end of the EU summit for the speech, calling him a “defector”. The president was represented by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) on the second day of the highest meeting in Brussels.
