Muslims in France say President Emmanuel Macron has divided the country with the controversial remarks on Islam he has repeatedly made in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
Amid tension between the government and French Muslims, Macron on Monday posted a photo on Twitter saying \u201cWe are one,\u201d which Yasser Louati, head of the Justice and Liberties For All Committee, called a \u201cjoke,\u201d accusing the president of \u201cexcluding Muslim citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did we go from France being celebrated in the Muslim world or the Arab world for its refusal to join America in destroying Iraq in 2003 to France today being boycotted under Emmanuel Macron?\u201d Louati asked in an interview with Anadolu Agency, adding that Macron lacks an understanding of foreign policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis arrogance has not only divided the French population but also brought it to a crisis,\u201d the human rights activist added.<\/p>\n
Farid Hafez, a political scientist and lecturer at the University of Salzburg in Austria, described Macron’s move as “the manifestation of discrimination based on the law.”<\/p>\n
“Macron is following his strategy of creating a French Muslim identity that is first of all invisible and secondly politically harmless, not questioning the status quo of France’s discriminatory policies vis-a-vis its Muslim population,” he said.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 2, Macron announced a controversial plan to tackle what he calls \u201cIslamic separatism\u201d in France, claiming that the faith of Islam is in \u201ccrisis\u201d all over the world and promising to \u201cfree Islam in France from foreign influences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last week, he defended blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, saying France would \u201cnot give up our cartoons\u201d after the brutal murder of high school teacher Samuel Paty, who showed provocative caricatures in a class.<\/p>\n
At least 73 mosques, private schools, and workplaces in France, a country that has the largest Muslim minority in Western Europe with around 5 million, have been shut down so far this year, according to the French Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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