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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – French President Emmanuel Macron in a newspaper issued an ultimatum to the French Muslim Worship Council (CFCM /French Council of Muslim Worship,) to sign the “Republican Values” letter.
Through this ultimatum for the next 15 days, the French Muslim Worship Council was asked to sign the agreement.
The ultimatum comes amid accusations that the Macron government is stigmatizing Muslims following three separate terror attacks, which the public condemns.
Marcon wants the CFCM to publicly declare that Islam is just a religion and not a political movement.
 Photo: Demo at the French Embassy (CNBC Indonesia / Andrean Kristianto)Demo at the French Embassy (CNBC Indonesia / Andrean Kristianto) |
Furthermore, it also wants to prevent other Muslim countries from helping the French Muslim community that is under siege in what Paris sees as “foreign interference.”
Yasser Louati, a French human rights defender who heads the NGO Committee for Justice and Freedoms for All, said Macron’s latest move was seen as “distracting the public from its own inability to prevent attacks.”
“This also reaffirms the idea that there is a link between terrorism and the surveillance of Muslim minorities,” Louati added, as quoted by TRT World, on Sunday (11/22/2020).
He said the bill, to be discussed next month, states that the government will dissolve Muslim NGOs if “their actions threaten human dignity” or if they “exert psychological or physical pressure on others.”
“The law on the dissolution of organizations in France is already very problematic,” said Marco Perolini, Western European researcher at Amnesty International speaking to TRT World.
France’s largest Muslim charity, BarakaCity, has been shut down by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin without judicial oversight.
Its founder, Idriss Sihamed, recently spoke to TRT World and said the closure was for political reasons.
The new law, according to Perolini, will not only give the state more reasons to dissolve the NGOs, but also, for example, “organizations could be dissolved if their activities violate a very vague ‘human dignity’,” he explained.
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