Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that France will gradually stop welcoming " seconded imams " sent by other countries, such as Turkey and Algeria, while increasing the number of imams trained in France.
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In addition to these 300 detached imams, the Head of State also announced, during a trip to Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) devoted to the fight against " Islamist separatism ", that the reception of the 300 or so will be ended. chanters ”received annually during Ramadan.
" Our enemy is separatism " but "to make a plan against Islam would be a deep mistake ", declared the president of the Republic. "Islamist separatism is incompatible with freedom and equality, incompatible with the indivisibility of the Republic and the necessary unity of the nation," he also said in a speech to local officials and residents of the neighborhood. from Bourtzwiller.
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