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In early September in Paris the trial for the attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, which left 12 dead. At the trial, the survivors decided republish cartoons about Mohammed at the origin of that massacre, to reaffirm the right to freedom of expression and blasphemy, guaranteed by French law.
The new focus on Charlie Hebdo led to the attack by a Pakistani immigrant, who wounded two boys with a knife in front of the old newsroom offices, and then to the horror of Conflans Sainte Honorine: on 16 October a Chechen refugee from 18 years in Contact with Syrian Jihadists waited for Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, to drop out of high school and behead him. The Islamic terrorist wanted to punish him because the teacher had done it a lesson on freedom of expression, as scheduled, showing some cartoons about Charlie Hebdo.
On October 21, in the course of a solemn tribute to the Sorbonne, Macron promised the murdered professor that France would continue his work, without giving up freedom of expression and cartoons.
The Turkish president, engaged in a series of demonstrations, wants to be the leader of the protest of the Muslim world against France that defends secularism. Instead of condemning the beheading of the professor, Erdogan condemns Macron who pays tribute to the professor.
Then there are the internal difficulties of Erdogan, weakened by the economic crisis and by a cultural revolution towards political Islam that does not take off. The Turkish leader then poses as a defender of the umma, the community of Muslim believers of all countries. Finally, perhaps the least visible but no less important conflict, the French mosques controlled by Ankara.
After postponements and hesitations in the first part of his mandate, the French president has decided to address the question of Islamist separatism, or rather the attempt of radical Muslims to impose their own values, those of the Koran, on the principles of the Republic. A bill, which must be presented at the beginning of December, aims to ensure a central role for the school, which will be compulsory for everyone from the age of 3, without the possibility of being educated at home or in Koranic schools.
And another important point is the end of what Macron calls Consular IslamNamely, the fact that many French mosques are financed and controlled by foreign powers: 151 imams are now paid by Turkey (mostly Turkish officials), 120 by Algeria, and 20 by Morocco. Macron wants a national Islam away from foreign influence. Erdogan does not tolerate it, and therefore unleashes a verbal war against the French president.
October 29, 2020 (change October 29, 2020 | 13:28)
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