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appalachiablue

(41,052 posts)
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 03:53 PM Nov 2020

France's Macron Issues 'Republican Values' Ultimatum To Muslim Leaders

Source: BBC News

French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to accept a "charter of republican values" as part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam. On Wednesday he gave the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) a 15-day ultimatum to accept the charter.

The CFCM has agreed to create a National Council of Imams, which will reportedly issue imams with official accreditation which could be withdrawn. It follows three suspected Islamist attacks in little more than a month. The charter will state that Islam is a religion and not a political movement, while also prohibiting "foreign interference" in Muslim groups.

Mr Macron has strongly defended French secularism in the wake of the attacks, which included the beheading of a teacher who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class discussion last month. Late on Wednesday, the president and his interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, met eight CFCM leaders at the Élysée palace.

"Two principles will be inscribed in black and white [in the charter]: the rejection of political Islam and any foreign interference," one source told the Le Parisien newspaper after the meeting. The formation of the National Council of Imams was also agreed upon. President Macron has also announced new measures to tackle what he called "Islamist separatism" in France...


Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55001167





- Protesters have condemned President Macron over his comments about Islam.
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France's Macron Issues 'Republican Values' Ultimatum To Muslim Leaders (Original Post) appalachiablue Nov 2020 OP
Islam is a religion and not a political movement ffr Nov 2020 #1
What is stopping you? Moostache Nov 2020 #2
whoda thought they would gather behind a nazi hero mdbl Nov 2020 #3
I love France. And they take their secular state very serious. GulfCoast66 Nov 2020 #4
A long time coming. Codeine Nov 2020 #5
Well, it could be trainspotting or stamp collecting if people stopped taking it so seriously. GoneOffShore Nov 2020 #6
What a fantastically appropriate Pratchett quote. nt Codeine Nov 2020 #7

ffr

(22,645 posts)
1. Islam is a religion and not a political movement
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 04:08 PM
Nov 2020

I wish I could say the same thing about conservatism.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. What is stopping you?
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 04:16 PM
Nov 2020

Conservatism is dead anyway....and 'Trumpism' is DEFINITELY a religion, its adherents display all the characteristics of a cult to boot.

Trumpism is a cult every bit as much as NVXIUM or Scientology or Heaven's Gate.

mdbl

(4,972 posts)
3. whoda thought they would gather behind a nazi hero
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 10:31 PM
Nov 2020

Trump is following Hitler's playbook, albeit badly but it's sickening nonetheless.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
4. I love France. And they take their secular state very serious.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 09:13 AM
Nov 2020

They killed a shit-ton of priest during their revolution since the church was part and parcel of the kingship. I hope they don’t get too worked up.

GoneOffShore

(17,309 posts)
6. Well, it could be trainspotting or stamp collecting if people stopped taking it so seriously.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 11:13 AM
Nov 2020

“The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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