France: The Damage and Diversion of Macron's "Islamist Separatism"
Posted by Arnov Paul-Choudhury | Dec 24, 2020 | Seine Saint Denis outside Paris: “From the social and economic exclusion of the banlieues has come some of France’s iconic moments of inclusion” A “religion that is in crisis all over the world today”. This is President Emmanuel Macron’s framing of Islam, with almost 6 million adherents in France. His rhetoric, in a speech on October 2, accompanied plans for the strengthening of secularization laws. He coined the term “Islamist separatism” to claim indoctrination of youth across France by Muslims, whose “radical vision of thei...
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