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Turkey is one of the Muslim-dominated countries that is reacting critically to French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent speech on “Islamist separatism.”
French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a keynote speech on Friday in which he declared that “Islamist separatism” must be fought. The speech has drawn ire in Turkey, among other places.
In the speech, in which the French president affirms that “Islam today is a religion in crisis throughout the world,” Macron announced that a package of laws will be presented in December that reinforce existing legislation that France is a secular country. .
– We must fight against Islamist separatism. It is problematic with an ideology that demands that its laws take precedence over those of the republic, Macron said, explaining that some of the new efforts aim at zero tolerance for religious extremists who teach in schools and mosques.
“We believe that the thinking behind this bill will lead to dire consequences, rather than solve France’s problems,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a bitter statement on Sunday.
At the same time, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry expressed concern that Macron’s proposed measures would ignite growing xenophobia, racism and Islamophobia in Europe.
Even in Egypt, anger was aired against Macron’s pine on Sunday. Al-Azhar University, one of the most influential institutions in the Sunni Muslim world, issued a statement calling the speech “hateful” and “racist.”
The bill that Macron and the French government intend to introduce has been in the works for a long time, but became more topical after the September 25 knife attack in front of the former premises of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Two people were seriously injured on the spot, and the alleged perpetrator’s motive must have been that Charlie Hebdo republished the so-called Mohammed cartoons.
An attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 claimed twelve lives. A trial for that act has recently been held in Paris.
