The French Parliament has recently passed a bill to ‘strengthen democratic values. Its purpose is to keep ordinary Muslims away from radical Islam. It has provisions such as prohibiting mosques from receiving external funds, preventing Muslim children from being sent to underground Islamic training sites, and calling on doctors to prove Muslim girls ‘proof of well being’. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called it an ‘attack on Islam’. Effigies of French President Emmanuel Macron were burnt there.
Meanwhile, the important question is whether the state or government should remain neutral between the jihadis and other parties? If the state is nullified, the Islamists will force the entire country to walk with impunity while thumbing the constitution. It has also started appearing in many places in Utop.
France bloodied by terror attacks, having hundreds of citizens who went to Syria in years past and thousands of French troops now fighting extremists in Mali, few disagree that radicalization is a danger. But critics also see the proposed law as a political ploy to lure the right wing to Macron’s centrist party ahead of next year’s presidential election. The wide-ranging bill, titled “Supporting respect for the principles of the Republic,” covers most aspects of French life. It has been hotly contested by some Muslims, lawmakers and others who fear the state is intruding on essential freedoms and pointing a finger at Islam, the nation’s No. 2 religion.
The bill gained added urgency after a teacher was beheaded outside Paris in October and three people were killed during a knife attack at a Nice basilica the same month. A section that makes it a crime to knowingly endanger the life of a person by providing details of their private life and location is known as the “Paty law. ` It was named for Samuel Paty, the teacher who was killed outside his school after information about where he taught was posted online in a video.
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