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Macron presents a plan to fight radical Islam in France: "There will be no compromises"
In a speech about a week after the Paris attack, the president stressed the need to protect the country's secular values, and condemned the "Islamist separatism," which he said was in violation of French law.
Macron said the problem, in part, was a product of "ghettoization" of immigrants, aimed at strengthening the "ability to live together."
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Saturday, 03 October 2020, 04:39
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French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday (Friday) presented a plan to protect the country's secular values from radical Islam.
In a speech delivered in Les Morro, a town near Paris with a large immigrant population, Macron announced that supervision of curricula and foreign sources of funding for mosques would be increased.
The French president described Islam as a religion in "crisis" all over the world, insisting that "there will be no compromises" in the new effort to eradicate extremist religious instruction in schools and mosques.
At the same time, Macron argued that France must do more to give immigrant communities more economic and social opportunities, adding that extremists have often taken advantage of their situation.
His speech comes 18 months before the country's presidential election, where Macron is expected to face a challenge from the conservative right, due to growing public concern over the security situation in France.
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"Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today, we do not see it only in our country," Macron Blas Morro said.
He said extremists are working to convert citizens across the country, which has one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe.
Macron denounced in his speech the trend of "Islamist separatism," a contempt for state laws and seeking to create a society that puts its laws before the rest.
He argues that this segregation often results in children not being sent to school, and the use of sporting, cultural and community activities as an "excuse to teach principles that conflict with state laws."
In his speech, Macron announced that the government would submit a bill in December designed to strengthen the 1905 Basic Law that officially separated religion from the state.
Under the new law, there will be a closer scrutiny of curricula in private schools, and stricter restrictions will be placed on homeschooling that does not result from the child’s health problems.
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Under the bill, community associations that receive funding from the state will be required to sign a contract guaranteeing their commitment to secularism and the values of France.
Moreover, the supervision of the organizations will be tightened, and the law will facilitate the closure of those who violate it.
The new measures will include, among other things, a ban on the wearing of religious symbols, currently applicable to public employees, even among contractor employees who provide public services, such as public transportation operators.
Macron said there has been an increase in the number of reports of harassment by contractor workers, including bus drivers who refused to pick up women on the grounds that they were wearing "overly revealing" clothing.
In addition, the president stressed the need to "liberate Islam in France from foreign influences", noting Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.
To this end, the government will increase oversight of foreign funding of mosques and prevent the departure of imams for training outside the country, and the hosting of foreign preachers on its land.
Charities will be required to ensure a commitment to state values.
Muslim women protest against Charlie the Bedouin (Photo: Reuters)
In his speech, Macron sought to point out that the measures were not intended to reinforce prejudice or alienate Muslims in France, but for "our ability to live together."
He called for a better understanding of Islam and argued that the problem of extremism was in part a product of the "ghettoization" of cities and towns in France in which we "created separatism."
"We have concentrated populations on the basis of origin and have not created enough diversity or taken care to allow economic and social mobility," he said, adding that extremist Islamists have taken advantage of the situation and our "concession and fear."
Following the attacks that France has experienced in recent years, aimed at violating freedoms such as freedom of expression, many fear that France's values are threatened.
Therefore, the state was forced to re-examine its core values.
The speech comes a week after a man attacked two people with a knife in Paris.
Stabbing scene (Photo: AFP)
Macron's speech comes a week after a man attacked two people with a meat knife in Paris, outside the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
The government condemned the incident and defined it as Islamic terrorism.
This is when in January 2015 Charlie Hebdo men were massacred by Islamist militants in retaliation for the publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
Last January, another controversy erupted over freedom of expression, following a boy who received threats on his life after attacking Islam during an Instagram debate.
Earlier this month, controversy resurfaced after MPs walked out following a student who came in with a head covering.
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