Posted on 12/05/2020 5:44:01 PM PST by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Dec 2, 2020 / 03:01 am MT (CNA).- In the wake of several suspected Islamist attacks in France this year, President Emmanuel Macron has asked the country’s Muslim leaders to sign a "charter of republican values" agreeing to a rejection of Islam as a political movement.
According to the BBC, Macron’s proposed charter is one part of a wider government strategy to curb foreign influence and prevent violence and threats from extremists.
Macron has, since his 2017 election, emphasized support for secular government and has criticized what he calls “Islamist separatism,” encouraging the nation’s Muslims to integrate into French society. As part of legislation that Macron has introduced to tackle extremism, homeschooling would be restricted.
The charter will, among other things, state that Islam is a religion and not a political movement, the BBC reports.
Members of the French Council of the Muslim Faith agreed in November to form a national council of imams, and the CFCM is set to meet with Macron this week to discuss the proposed charter. The CFCM will be charged with accrediting imams.
France is home to Western Europe’s largest Muslim minority, at around 5 million.
The debate over the charter and the “French values” it contains continues following at least three suspected Islamist terrorist attacks during 2020.
In mid-October, a Muslim student beheaded teacher Samuel Paty after Paty showed his class a cartoon depicting Muhammad.
Eyewitnesses said that suspect Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov shouted “Allahu akbar”— Arabic for “God is great”— as he murdered Paty near the middle school where he taught. The 18-year-old Russian national of Chechen origin was shot dead by police shortly after the murder.
Public schools in France held a minute of silence in tribute to Paty Nov. 2, and some classrooms held discussions on freedom of expression.
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Dream on fool! Might as well embrace the knife to your neck.
Hang it all! Why didn't somebody think of that before?
And then they beheaded him.
In the name of their Islamic Republic.
All they have to do after this “embrace” is ask James Taylor to come over and sing “You’ve Got A Friend”.
Soy Buoy likes Trump?
Macron might be tied for the dumbest leader in a first world country with trudeau.
Great idea. But, PLEASE!, make him lip sync it. Or the whole agreement could go up in smoke.
Islam is a political movement. It is fascism cloaked in the sheep's clothing of a religion. Rejecting Islam as a political movement is like rejecting a lion as a carnivore. The lip service may sound pretty to some, utterly absurd to others, but either way, will still get you devoured in the end.
They can’t do that under penalty of death as followers of Mad Mo.
They can lie about it, though.
Sorry, Manny, Islam is all at once a cult, a dogma, a religion, a lifestyle, and a political movement. You’ve let five million of them in, and half of them are ready to chop off heads and plant bombs throughout France. You better tell you wife The Mommy to get the jar off the shelf and give you your balls back, and see if there’s anything left of French culture and history left worth saving.
Lots of luck with that!
Letting the fox into the hen house & then letting the fox tell you how to raise your chickens isn’t productive.
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