Special Envoy to Baghdad and Mosul
Jacket fallen under a heat bordering on 50 ° C, Emmanuel Macron crossed the ruins of the caliphate of Daesh on Sunday.
"Daesh is a project of death and terrorism in the name of Islam, but which is not Islam,"
said the head of state, a few meters from the al-Noury mosque in Mosul, there where, on July 4, 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on Muslims around the world to join him at the head of his caliphate, which had just been born.
The mosque is in ruins, only a dome remains for preaching, the rest was deliberately destroyed by the jihadists, before their defeat in 2017.
"They destroyed a high Muslim place",
indignant Emmanuel Macron.
After a misunderstanding born of his remarks on
the "malaise"
which shakes Islam in the wake of the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty, the head of state wished to
"distinguish between a religion and an ideology of death ”,
in this large Sunni city of Iraq.
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