Macron Calls for Combating Islamist Terrorism

Nawal Sayed

French President Emmanuel Macron called for combating what he named “Islamist Terrorism,” and his call was condemned by many of his twitter followers.

“For our dead, for our children, we will always fight against Islamist terrorism. And in the end, we will win,” Macron tweeted on Tuesday.

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In response to his tweet, one of Macron’s twitter followers replied as saying: “Islam has nothing to do with terrorism.”

Another twitter follower replied "Obviously since even Muslim countries are undergoing terrorism.”

“France is one of the largest exporters of terrorism. You forget what you did in Algeria and Africa,” another follower said.

A french woman replied as saying that she liked the French president’s tweet only for writing about the dead victims, but not for liking his words about Islam.

Macron and Political Islam in France

In April, speaking in a gilded hall at the Elysee Palace, seated behind a white desk with the French tricolor and European Union flags flanking him, Macron took reporters’ questions for nearly two-and-a-half hours, part of an effort to redress the rocky relationship he has developed with the media.

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Almost three years into his five-year term, Macron attempted to quell nearly one year of “yellow vest” anti-government protests that have shaken his authority.

In this event, the 41-year-old president, a former investment banker and economy minister, stressed that he would be “uncompromising” in his approach to what he defined as a “political Islam” within France that sought to break with the rest of the country.

France May Impose Halal Tax!

In a report for the Montaigne Institute, Macron has considered an idea of a “halal tax” − a small levy, collected by Muslims themselves, on halal products, pilgrimages and donations

The idea was floated in a report for that leading French think tank, and submitted to the French president Macron by Hakim El Karoui, a French banker-turned-academic whose uncle, Hamed Karoui, served as Tunisian prime minister for ten years.

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