The Leftist/Islamic alliance becomes more obvious, and more open about its goals, by the day.
“Macron promotes anti-Muslim ‘free speech’ hypocrisy after terrorist killing,” by Will Morrow, World Socialist Web Site, October 18, 2020:
Within less than 48 hours of the terrorist attack and murder of a teacher near Paris on Friday afternoon, the entire French political establishment has joined a campaign for “national unity” behind strengthened anti-Muslim laws….
The horrific murder of Paty has immediately been exploited by the administration of Emmanuel Macron to intensify its anti-Muslim campaign. The government has declared that the attack demonstrates the necessity for its already-proposed law on Islamic “separatism,” which will be introduced before parliament on December 9, and may now be further strengthened.
It includes a ban on Islamic schools where girls wear the headscarf, but no similar restrictions on Christian educational institutions, and gives the state vast powers to dissolve any association which does not adhere to “Republican values,” as determined by the prime minister….
Speaking on Friday evening, Emmanuel Macron sought to present his government as the moral defender of “Republican” values and free speech threatened by the menace of Islam. “It is not accidental that tonight, a teacher was killed by a terrorist, because he wanted to kill the Republic in its values, its Enlightenment, the possibility to make our children—wherever they come from, that they believe or do not believe, whatever their religion—into free citizens. This is our battle, and it is existential.”
He added that “they will not pass. The obscurantism and violence that accompanies it will not win,” and called on “all compatriots, at this time, to form a block, to be united without any distinction.”…
The ruling elite is seeking to use the outrage in the population at the terror attack to build support for Macron’s reactionary program, whipping up an atmosphere of anti-Muslim hysteria….