{"id":7234,"date":"2020-02-21T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:57:05","slug":"france-macron-vows-crackdown-on-political-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/02\/21\/france-macron-vows-crackdown-on-political-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Macron Vows Crackdown on Political Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/02\/21\/france-macron-vows-crackdown-on-political-islam\/france-politics-religion-security\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7235\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/france-macron-political-islam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/france-macron-political-islam.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/france-macron-political-islam-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new measures aimed at countering political Islam in France. The changes would limit the role that foreign governments have in France in training imams, financing mosques and educating children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>France: Macron Vows Crackdown on Political Islam<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15629\/france-crackdown-political-islam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | February 21, 2020<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new measures aimed at countering political Islam in France. The changes would limit the role that foreign governments have in France in training imams, financing mosques and educating children.<\/p>\n<p>Macron also vowed to fight what he called \u201cIslamist separatism\u201d and to lead what he described as a \u201cRepublican reconquest\u201d aimed at reasserting state control over Muslim ghettoes \u2014 so-called no-go zones (<a href=\"https:\/\/dares.travail-emploi.gouv.fr\/IMG\/pdf\/2005.09-39.2-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>zones urbaines sensibles<\/em><\/a>, sensitive urban zones) \u2014 in France.<\/p>\n<p>In a much-anticipated policy speech (full transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/emmanuel-macron\/2020\/02\/18\/proteger-les-libertes-en-luttant-contre-le-separatisme-islamiste-conference-de-presse-du-president-emmanuel-macron-a-mulhouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>), Macron, during a visit to the eastern French city of Mulhouse on February 18, said that his government would seek to combat \u201cforeign interference\u201d in how Islam is practiced, and the way that Muslim religious institutions are organized in France. \u201cThe problem is when, in the name of a religion, some people want to separate themselves from the Republic and therefore not respect its laws,\u201d he said. \u201cHere in France, there is no place for political Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15629\/france-crackdown-political-islam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new measures aimed at countering political Islam in France. 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