Macron says Islam 'is in crisis all over the world' as he unveils proposal to rid France of Islamic 'separatism' which has created a 'parallel society' living outside the country's values
- French President said Islam was in crisis due to 'extreme hardening' of positions
- Macron announced that the government would present a draft law this year
- It is aimed at strengthening secularism in France against 'Islamist separatism'
Emmanuel Macron has described Islam as 'a religion that is in crisis all over the world' as he unveiled a proposal to battle Islamic radicalism which had created a 'parallel society' living outside of French values.
In a keynote speech lasting more than an hour, France's head of state said earlier today that Islam was in crisis due to 'an extreme hardening' of positions in recent years.
He said the government would this year present a draft law aimed at strengthening secularism in France against what Macron described as 'Islamist separatism' in the country.
Macron has coined the term 'separatism' to describe the underworld that thrives in some neighborhoods around France where Muslims with a radical vision of their religion take control of the local population to inculcate their beliefs.
But members of France's six-million-strong Muslim community — the largest in Western Europe — immediately accused him of stirring up Islamophobic and racist feeling so as to appeal to far-Right voters.
Emmanuel Macron (pictured earlier today) has described Islam as 'a religion that is in crisis all over the world' as he unveiled a proposal to battle Islamic radicalism which had created a 'parallel society' living outside of French values
In a speech broadcast live from Les Mureaux, north of Paris, Mr Macron said 'we must tackle Islamist separatism' while not 'stigmatising all Muslims'.
A new law will allow the dissolution of religious groups that 'attack the dignity of people, using psychological or physical pressure, and break the values of France'.
There will also be an end to the system of 'seconded Imams' which allows extremist clerics and other preachers to be trained abroad before moving to France.
'We ourselves are going to train our Imams and Chanters in France, and therefore we must detach this link which is what is called consular Islam,' said Mr Macron.
He said all French Imams would have to be certified from now on and could be shut down at any time.
The equivalent of more than £9.7million will be spent of work France's Islam Foundation – a moderate organisation which promotes traditional Muslim study in culture, history and science.
Mr Macron said this would help to ensure the dominance of a religion 'respects the values of the Republic'.
Some 1,700 private Muslim school and colleges currently teach around 85,000 children in France.
Today's speech comes as a trial is underway in Paris over the deadly January 2015 attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo (above) and a kosher supermarket by French-born Islamic extremist
Mr Macron said all 'will now be the subject of even stronger supervision,' and that action would be taken against any sign of extremism.
But Yassar Louati, a prominent civil liberties activist based in Paris, said: 'The repression of Muslims has been a threat, now it is a promise.'
Mr Louati said Mr Macron's new measures 'emboldened the far-Right and anti-Muslim leftists'.
Today's speech comes as a trial is underway in Paris over the deadly January 2015 attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket by French-born Islamic extremists.
Last week, a man from Pakistan stabbed two people near Charlie Hebdo's former offices in anger over its publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
The law is expected to go before parliament for debate in the first part of next year.
The EU has been overrun and done. No one learned from the Crusades.
ReplyDeletePoliticians are the greatest hypocrites in the entire world and all of history. Political parties, leaders and the lower branches of political life have been advertising white countries to be overrun for 50 years. Now they have death-bed repentance. To hell with the lot of you.
ReplyDeleteMacron the Moron.
ReplyDeleteThere are certain ethnic groups that will never assimilate into the host's society.
And Muslims are one of those groups. It is embedded in their religion, that anyone not of their faith is an unbeliever. A piranha. An outsider, worthy of scorn, and worse.
No amount of "laws" will change these deeply rooted, core beliefs, and his ignorance of this reality exposes his basic stupidity.
You are right Macron is stupid, but then you are equally ignorant and bigoted.
DeleteYou clearly have no conception of Islam nor have you any understanding of the Quran.
Nowhere does it make claims of Piranha, nor does it call them outsiders or suggest scorn.It calls all believers of the Book as co-religionists and only prohibits worship of multiple gods by Pagans.
If you learned the history of Islam you would understand why this is so.
The fact that Islam co-existed with numerous religions (including pagans, Hindus etc.)until the British partitioned India and the USA decided to use Islam as a rallying point to attack Russia in Afghanistan seems to have escaped your attention.
Your comments (and Macron's) show your lack of education and intelligence.
Smart people do not comment on things they know nothing about.
Your book says one thing, but your people do quite something else.
DeleteI don't study Islam or the Quran because it is just another revealed religion, and therefore just another mortal's interpretation of what our creator wants from us. No one knows this, no one ever has known this, and no one ever will.