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“During these three months of autumn 2020, we have an offensive against Emmanuel Macron’s policy against the Islamist with four events. First, Emmanuel Macron’s speech in Beirut on September 1, 2020, he recalls the freedom to blaspheme” explains Anne-Clémentine Larroque, specialist in Islamist ideology.

“The next day, the caricatures from Chalie Hebdo are published. On October 2, we have the speech in Les Mureaux, a town 20 minutes from Conflans, a symbolic place after the Minister of the Interior, in 2019, discussed with the local authorities of Islamism. Sefrioui will call the imam of Mureaux to offer him couscous in front of the Bois d’Aulne college, where Samuel Paty works and Chnina will discuss. Sefrioui’s entire speech will evoke Macron who calls in this speech, according to them, to hate Muslims, fight Muslims and stigmatize Muslims” she continues. She quotes the speech of the President of the Republic that day. He said in particular: ‘The problem is not secularism. Secularism is the freedom to believe or not to believe, the possibility of exercising one’s religion from the moment when public order is assured. Secularism is the neutrality of the State and in no case the erasure of religions in the public space. Secularism is the cement of a united France. We must therefore firmly and precisely enforce secularism. Without letting ourselves be drawn into the trap of amalgamation set by polemicists and extremes which would consist of stigmatizing all Muslims.’

The third event is the tribute to Samuel Paty at the Sorbonne on October 21. “It will be the 3rd point. It will be very badly taken by some Muslims who see it as support for caricatures and Charlie Hebdo. There are calls for a boycott of French products, calls to attack France and Macron” explains the justice assistant.

Finally, the fourth event is “the speech of the President of the Republic on Al Jazeera (new window) with this poor understanding of Emmanuel Macron’s speeches. The word Islamist used by the president is poorly translated and that has not eased tensions,” she said.