The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And here we go again: Macron’s plan to fight ‘Islamist separatism’ amounts essentially to making France more Islamic, with more Arabic in schools and millions of euros in taxpayer money going to the Foundation for Islam in France.
And even for these proposals, which are at best toothless and at worst actively counterproductive, Macron is being denounced for “Islamophobia.” Any stand against jihad violence and Sharia oppression, even if it’s one that has you shooting yourself in the foot, will earn you this label.
“Separatism: relive Emmanuel Macron’s speech,” translated from “Séparatisme: revivez le discours d’Emmanuel Macron,” by Pierre Lepelletier and Pierre Sautreuil, Le Figaro, October 2, 2020 (thanks to Michaela):
Home schooling will be “strictly limited” at the start of the 2021 school year.
At the same time, the Head of State announced compulsory education from the age of 3, as part of the bill against separatism.
His speech was expected. Emmanuel Macron finally spoke on Friday October 2 from Les Mureaux (Yvelines) to discuss the future bill on “Islamist separatism”, which will be presented on December 9 in the Council of Ministers. If some assured that the text would not concern “only Islamism”, the Head of State immediately wanted to make things clear: “What we must tackle is Islamist separatism. This is the heart of the matter ”….
“Our horizon is simple, it is to ensure a republican presence at the bottom of each tower, at the foundation of each initiative”, declared the President of the Republic, announcing “additional investments” “with on the ground of the magistrates, of the clerks, judges, sometimes volunteers who will come to help in local tasks”, but also” police and gendarmes”.
“Where we had retreated, we must come back,” said the head of state. “We must restore meaning collectively by allowing our justice system to find the means to respond quickly, in an appropriate manner, so that everything finds meaning, for the victim as well as for the troublemaker, as for our security forces.”…
Emmanuel Macron wants “to teach more the Arabic language at school or in an extracurricular setting of which we are in charge”. The Head of State wants to put an end to the young people who “will learn it in associations which offer them the worst and manipulate them”. “Arabic, but also many other languages are the very richness of our children, of their families”, he underlined. “We must know, in our Republic, to recognize them, to exalt them, to make them live, in the republican framework in an extraordinarily uninhibited way”, indicated the president….
“We will support with up to 10 million euros initiatives that will be taken by the Foundation for Islam in France in the fields of culture, history and science”, announced the Head of State. “I am thinking in particular of the development of high-level Islamic studies at the university. I have decided that we will create a scientific institute of Islamology. We will create additional posts in higher education to continue the work on research on Muslim civilization, but also on the Mediterranean basin and Africa.”…