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France: Macron announces plans to fight ‘Islamist separatism,’ Muslim leaders claim victim status

Oct 4, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer 19 Comments

This same scenario plays out all over the West, including in the United States: counterterror measures, and efforts to preserve Western society and culture against the spread of oppressive Sharia measures, are met with charges of “repression of Muslims,” anti-Muslim “hate,” “Islamophobia,” “racism” and the like. Faced with such charges, most Western authorities, and most people in the West in general, fold up and immediately begin groveling. The victim card has been extraordinarily effective for Islamic advocacy groups in opposing and destroying efforts to stop jihad violence and Islamization; if Macron actually moves to implement these plans, watch for a crescendo of this drama and victimhood-mongering in France. Western nations, you see, are not allowed to defend their culture and identity. Only non-Western countries have that privilege.

“France’s Macron vows to fight ‘Islamist separatism,'” BBC, October 3, 2020:

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans for tougher laws to tackle what he called “Islamist separatism” and defend secular values.

In a keenly awaited speech, Mr Macron said a minority of France’s estimated six million Muslims were in danger of forming a “counter-society”.

His proposals include stricter oversight of schooling and control over foreign funding of mosques….

But his comments were condemned by some Muslim activists who accused him of trying to repress Islam in the country.

Under France’s strict principles of secularism, or laïcité, the government is separated by law from religious institutions. The idea is that people of different religions and beliefs are equal before the law.

The country also has the largest population of Muslims in Western Europe. Many complain the authorities use secularism to specifically target them, for instance in banning the hijab.

Speaking outside Paris on Friday, Mr Macron said radical Islam was a danger to France because it held its own laws above all others and “often results in the creation of a counter-society”.

He said this form of sectarianism often translated into children being kept out of school, and the use of sporting, cultural and other community activities as a “pretext to teach principles that do not conform to the laws of the republic”.

“Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today, we are not just seeing this in our country.”

The measures announced by the president will form legislation that will go to parliament before the end of the year.

They include:

stricter monitoring of sports organisations and other associations so that they do not become a front for Islamist teaching
an end to the system of imams being sent to France from abroad
improved oversight of the financing of mosques
home-schooling restricted….

“The repression of Muslims has been a threat, now it is a promise,” tweeted French human rights activist Yasser Louati.

“In a one hour speech #Macron burried [sic] #laïcité, emboldened the far right, anti-Muslim leftists and threatened the lives of Muslim students by calling for drastic limits on home schooling despite a global pandemic.”

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  1. Avenger says

    Oct 4, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    France is in real trouble if they can’t integrate their muslim population. Some areas in France look like Islamabad.
    Macron is the only Western leader confronting Turkey’s hegemony in the Mediterranean and Armenia. Of course he will be branded islamophobic by Merkels Germany.

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 4, 2020 at 7:23 pm

      Avenger says,

      “France is in real trouble if they can’t integrate their muslim population.”

      How do you integrate people who refuse to integrate / assimilate into traditional French native culture?

      Reply
  2. Martin says

    Oct 4, 2020 at 12:33 pm

    Egypt’s Al-Azhar hits back at Macron’s ‘racist’ remarks on Islam

    Scholars at Egypt’s prestigious Sunni Islamic institution, Al-Azhar, have denounced remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron on “Islamist separatism” as “racist” and spreading “hate speech”.

    Macron on Friday unveiled plans to defend France’s secular values against radical Islam, describing Islam as a religion “in crisis” worldwide.

    “He made false accusations against Islam, that have nothing to do with the true essence of this religion,” Al-Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy said in statement late Saturday.

    […]”Such racist statements will inflame the feelings of two billion Muslim followers” around the world, and block the path to constructive dialogue, the statement added.

    Macron also warned against the creation of a “counter-society” holding its own laws among France’s Muslims.

    Al-Azhar said making “false accusations about Islam or other religions, such separatism and isolationism” went against the actual “reality of what these religions call for.”

    […]On Thursday, Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb voiced “immense anger” at the use by some Western officials of the term “Islamist terrorism”, without heeding its ramifications.

    He said in a Tweet that such terms constitute “an insult” to the religion and its followers, and warned against their use by officials, public figures and intellects.

    https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/10/4/egypts-al-azhar-hits-back-at-macrons-racist-islam-remarks

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  3. Dude says

    Oct 4, 2020 at 1:44 pm

    Of course they have to lie about their reason for being in your country. Otherwise you would hang them all for sedition and tyranny today.
    But just look around. It’s a global village and their plan hasn’t changed in seventeen hundred years, everywhere in the world. The details of the plan are documented in their books, previous conquests glorified, your country’s destruction, the next on the list.
    Yes. Monsieur Macron, lead the world with a deafening wake-up call.

    Reply
  4. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 4, 2020 at 3:20 pm

    “Mr Macron said radical Islam was a danger to France because it held its own laws above all others and “often results in the creation of a counter-society”.

    Memo to M. Macron:
    “Radical Islam” is identical with ordinary basic Islam.
    Islam’s rules COMMAND a “counter-society”.
    Islam’s rules COMMAND muslims to make Islam “above all others”.
    The consent of the governed is neither needed nor sought.
    Islam is imposed “by the power of the sword” (bin Laden).

    Reply
    • tim gallagher says

      Oct 4, 2020 at 5:23 pm

      I heard a presenter on the radio in Australia this morning mention this announcement by Macron that he was going to try to crack down on “radical islam” in France. I think the presenter mentioned that there had been 250 deaths over recent years in France caused by Muslim attacks. I thought exactly what you mention in the memo, Michael. It is just ordinary, evil Islam, not radical Islam, that is the problem. Still, I always like to hear about one of the western leaders seeming to wake up a bit. It’s better than nothing. However, I think that there might be already too many Muslims in France to fight back against the malignant influence of Islam on French society. Your memo to Macron is spot on. I always think that islam is completely incompatible with our values. It is them or us. There’s no getting along with islam.

      Reply
    • Check Burry says

      Oct 5, 2020 at 8:21 am

      Meanwhile macron uses a wet lettuce.

      Reply
  5. RichardL says

    Oct 4, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    Macron has absolutely no intentions of going after political islam; it is all political theatre. Not sure how many times he has announced BS like that. Take a train from Paris to CDG and you will experience islamic France.

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    • JohnTheRevelator says

      Oct 4, 2020 at 11:14 pm

      Agreed, the Left is weak, which is why the Muslims vote for them to prevent the right wing from taking power. The only hope of saving France is to vote for Marine Le Pen. Likewise for other western nations, you need leaders who are ready, willing and able to ban Islam and deport Muslims.

      If you don’t have tough as nails leaders like that, then in decades Muslims will outbreed your population and impose Islamic. The stronger Muslims get by numbers and determination, the more difficult it will be to defeat Islam and the worse the battle to save your country. It’s best to fight against Islam now while they’re only 5-10% of your population.

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      • JohnTheRevelator says

        Oct 5, 2020 at 4:49 am

        *Islamic rule

        Reply
      • James Lincoln says

        Oct 5, 2020 at 7:51 am

        JohnTheRevelator,

        Excellent and accurate post, my compliments.

        Three “tough as nails” leaders that immediately come to mind:

        US Pres. Donald J Trump

        Viktor Orbán Prime Minister of Hungary

        Andrzej Duda President of Poland

        Reply
  6. gravenimage says

    Oct 4, 2020 at 11:19 pm

    France: Macron announces plans to fight ‘Islamist separatism,’ Muslim leaders claim victim status
    ……………..

    What? We can’t rape and murder you and force you to submit to Islam? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa…

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    • tim gallagher says

      Oct 5, 2020 at 4:40 am

      Spot on, gravenimage. How dare we infidels interfere with the Muslim agenda or interfere with their barbaric contributions to our societies, such as their rape gangs, their terrorist attacks,etc. That’s so unfair of those French infidels to do that. Those poor old Muslims are the victims yet again. It’s the usual BS from the Muslims and their defenders, isn’t it. Anywhere that Muslims get power the non-Muslims are treated like garbage.

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      • gravenimage says

        Oct 5, 2020 at 9:46 pm

        Agreed, Tim.

        Reply
  7. juleonly says

    Oct 5, 2020 at 3:24 am

    I applaud his words but I do remember about 3 years ago he said near the same things like…no foreign building of mosques, no sending imams/clerics outside of France to be taught because France was going to teach French Islam within, No outside Muslim speakers coming into mosques, they must Be French to live in France with citizenship and all French laws must be followed……. Well?? What happened to all that with passing years? What happened to any of it?
    (is there an election coming up or is he really facing a little reality)

    Reply
    • Check Burry says

      Oct 5, 2020 at 8:25 am

      Sweet FA

      Reply
  8. Aunty Podes says

    Oct 5, 2020 at 5:47 am

    La belle Vichy France lay on her back and spread her legs to the Nazi regime …
    She has done the same for Islam …
    Too late now – and the Brit’s are incapable of rescuing them now …
    They are already well on the way to the same fate.

    Reply
  9. Giacomo Latta says

    Oct 5, 2020 at 9:35 am

    ‘Speaking outside Paris on Friday, Mr Macron said radical Islam was a danger to France because it held its own laws above all others and “often results in the creation of a counter-society”.’
    Congratulations on your epiphany, M. Macron. Join forces with Mme Le Pen and the twenty million other French who have already had one with more ease than you and close the door on those who want to destroy the Republic, not make it great again.

    Reply
  10. peter says

    Oct 5, 2020 at 11:35 pm

    The muslim has really become very insolent . How dare you Kaffir stand up to mighty master muslim! If the state of affair continues ,soon a muslim man will have a whip hand over infidel!

    Reply

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