BY AGENCIES
ISTANBUL ISLAMOPHOBIA DEC 08, 2020
Visitors leave the Paris Grand Mosque during an open day weekend for mosques in France, on January 10, 2016. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Charles Platiau
The U.S. envoy on religious freedom on Tuesday voiced concern about France, warning aganist “heavy-handed” measures as President Emmanuel Macron targets Islam.
“I am concerned, obviously, for what’s happening in France,” Ambassador Sam Brownback told reporters when asked about Macron’s initiative.
“When you get heavy-handed, the situation can get worse,” he said, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
France is home to the largest population of Muslims in Europe, and Islam is the second-largest religion practiced in the country after Catholicism.
The international community was shocked by the knifing of two people outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo in September, the beheading of Samuel Paty on Oct. 16, and the brutal killing of three people inside Nice’s Notre Dame Basilica on Oct. 29.
The attacks prompted French officials to look for a scapegoat, and the Muslim community was targeted.
While the country fervently defends the anti-Muslim provocative caricatures under the pretense of free speech, numerous agencies, newspapers and magazines have been removing articles and changing their content on the orders of the French government. Since the beginning of November, the French government has managed to muscle their way in and affect the actions of four prominent news outlets, including the Financial Times, Politico, Le Monde and the Associated Press (AP).
Last month, Macron said he will not prevent the publishing of the cartoons under the pretext of freedom of speech, sparking outrage among the Muslim world. While French Muslims have accused him of trying to repress their religion and legitimizing Islamophobia, several Muslim-majority countries, including Turkey and Pakistan, have also condemned Macron’s attitude toward Muslims and Islam, with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saying the French leader needs a “mental health check.”
Multiple protests and boycotts against French products have taken place all around the world upon Macron’s anti-Muslim remarks.
source http://www.dailysabah.com
Categories: Europe, Europe and Australia, European Union, France, Free speach, Free Speech
US envoy voices concern over religious freedom in France. I am not interested in the US voicing concern about religion. The US is blind to their own interests, on their knees to the jews since WW2. They are ignoring the Kaiser’s warning “WWI the jews behind the trouble” the jews are blinding the World through the selfimposed ignorance of the US. Uk also in the know. I am that soldier who is doing the telling.
Neither France nor any other country is against the Islam but are against the Countries which Propagating Islamic extremism, hatred & jihad in the name of Islam US U.S. envoy should understand What Turkey & Pakistan is doing with whole world in the name of Islam. Country which has faced three Islamist attacks in a month will definitely make laws to protect citizens of his country. Muslims of France should not worry, law is not against them. Law is to protect the Children’s from being Islamic radicalized. Those people will have fear who are doing radicalization in the name of Islam or teaching the extremist / radicalized ideology to their children’s. People with extremist / radicalized ideology should have terror from this law. Extremist / Radicalized ideology is dangerous for any country being it a Muslim / Christian / etc.
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