At the beginning of October, Macron prompted a widespread backlash from Muslims by unveiling his “plan to defend secularism.” The reaction of many Muslims to Macron’s statement that “Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today” ironically proves Macron’s point.
Macron’s only mistake is his failure to note that Islam has been in a “crisis” for 1,400 years, as it is the only religion that teaches its adherents to be unwilling to live peaceably with others unless the non-Muslims are in a state of submission.
There is a direct link between Islam, terrorism and radicalization, and it is evident worldwide. Salafism is being spread in mosques and madrassas all over the world. It is the ignoring of this fact that has enabled this ideology to spread even further and more aggressively, cloaked by the veil of “Islamophobia” accusations.
“‘Stop stigmatising us’, French Muslims tell Macron,” by Rebecca Rosman, Al Jazeera, October 6, 2020:
In a divisive speech last Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron outlined proposals on how to challenge what he called “Islamist separatism”.
“Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today, we are not just seeing this in our country,” Macron said during a nearly two hour speech in the northwest Paris suburb of Les Mureaux.
Muslims across the world responded with anger, with many viewing the speech, which was centred around protecting the ideal of French secularism, as an attempt to pander to the far right….
“Behind this law, there is a real stigmatisation,” Nagib Azergui, founder of the Union of French Muslim Democrats political party, told Al Jazeera. “[The proposal] is making a direct link between Muslims, terrorism and radicalisation.”
Azergui said he feared the consequences of that could be an increase in Islamophobia throughout the country.
“We’re in a state of vigilance where people are calling the police and saying my neighbour who has a beard or wears a headscarf is a threat.”
France’s Interior Ministry recorded 154 Islamophobic incidents in 2019, a 54-percent increase from 2019.
The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), which uses a different method of calculation, said it recorded approximately 2,000 instances of Islamophobia in the same year.
In response to Macron’s speech, 100 prominent French Muslims signed an open letter calling on the government to stop stigmatising Muslims, especially women and working-class Muslims.
“Stop stigmatising Muslim women, whether they wear a headscarf or not, whose clothing choices have become a subject of national debate,” they said. “Stop the escalation of empty political and media debates. Stop the indictment of any speaker, Muslim or not, who does not subscribe to the racist speeches that have become omnipresent on our screens.”…