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Emmanuel Macron
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French President Emmanuel Macron wants to counter increasing Islamist tendencies in his country.
"What we have to fight is Islamist separatism," said Macron on a visit to the impoverished Paris suburb of Les Mureaux.
"The problem is an ideology that claims its own laws should be superior to those of the republic."
A bill to combat Islamist separatism will be presented to parliament early next year.
This is intended, for example, to severely limit home teaching.
This is to prevent children from being "indoctrinated" in unregistered schools that deviate from the national curriculum.
Macron announced that it would be easier for the authorities to dissolve clubs in the future.
"We have to go to the end."
He recalled the knife attack near the former editorial offices of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo", in which two people were seriously injured last week.
The 25-year-old suspect is being investigated on suspicion of terrorism.
The French government is increasingly concerned about signs of - often non-violent - radicalization within Muslim communities, government officials said.
They point to the refusal of some Muslim men to shake hands with women and to swimming pools that give men and women alternate time slots.
The instruction to girls aged four and over to wear a full face veil and the spread of religious "madrassa" schools are also viewed critically.
France follows a strict form of secularism known as "secularism".
It aims to strictly separate religion and public life.
The principle was enshrined in law in 1905 after a violent dispute with the Catholic Church.
The left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticized Macron for not having been at the end of the EU summit because of the speech and called him a "deserter".
The President was represented by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) on the second day of the top meeting in Brussels.
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