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Macron FRANCOIS MORI-POOL-REUTERS attends a ceremony in memory of the murdered high school teacher
French President Macron declared on October 2 that he would “fight against Islamic separatism” and said his goal would be to present a new radical Islamic countermeasures bill to the cabinet by the end of the year.
Islamic separatism means “an ideology that ignores the law of the French Republic and follows Islamic law.” There is already a “parallel society” dominated by separatists in France, and there is no solution to the extremist problem without integrating Muslims into society, Macron said.
France is a country with one of the largest Muslim populations in Western Europe, with about 6 million inhabitants. In a September poll published by the French Institute of Public Opinion, 74% of Muslims in France under the age of 25 said that Muslim beliefs were more important than the value of the Republic. The threat of Islamic separatism is more than melancholy.
Macron said it was the “cement” of secularism that united France, deciding that “France is under pressure to fight those who deviate in the name of religion.” New bills aimed at strengthening secularism and republicanism include compulsory school attendance from the age of three, national training for Muslim leaders, and increased surveillance of suspected separatist organizations and individuals. Macron emphasized that it was we who allowed the isolation of Muslims and we should not blame them, but some countries strongly criticized him.
Turkey.
Both Turkey and France are members of NATO, but France has accused Turkey of intervening in the civil war in Libya and exploring resources in the eastern Mediterranean. Even before that, Macron described NATO as a brain-dead state, and Turkish President Erdogan responded that Macron was a brain-dead state. Erdogan accused Macron’s speech of being “like a colonial governor”, rude and provocative, and tweeted that the spokesman for the AKP in Turkish power, Omer Ceriki, was the far right of the undemocratic attacks on Islam. Al Jazeera also reported that Muslims around the world have accused Macron of being angry and accepting of the far right.
On the other hand, the secretary general of the Saudi Arabia-based World Federation of Muslims (MWL), Muhammad al-Esa, said: “If we defend them (the radicals), it means that we are equal to them.” He affirmed and implicitly supported Macron’s policy. In May last year, MWL, together with more than 1,200 Muslim leaders from 139 countries, adopted the Mecca Charter, which states that it aims to combat extremists and violence and promote religious multiplicity.
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