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ÉLITE FRANÇAISE

NUMÉRO 11, NOVEMBRE 2020

Will Islamophobia come back to light??

Rawane Nader

We all have opinions and beliefs that we recognize, described Macron's statements as rude and lack of
defend and state, but what matters is how these respect for the Islamic religion.
opinions will affect society in general. These Erdogan was not the only person who objected to
statements are sometimes disastrous, especially in this conference, but the Mufti of the Sultanate of
the political domain and especially when it comes to Oman ” Sheikh Ahmad Bin Hamad Al-Khalili ”,
a public figure. Just one statement from this criticized the speech and described it as an
personality can turn the scales of the world. In unprecedented attack on the Islamic religion.
addition, it could create an intellectual war between Moreover, the Islamic Research Academy in Al-
Nations. Azhar issued a statement rejecting Macron's
This is what happened with French President statements and facing him false accusations of
Macron on October 2, 2020, at his press conference, Islam, false accusations and not related to Islam
which provoked controversy over his statements and because it always calls for peace and tolerance
actions. This speech was aimed at consolidating the among human beings.
values of secularism in education and life in general We find that this speech provoked controversy
and extending the veil ban to the private sector, and because it is not the first speech of its kind, but
the aim is to combat Islamic isolationism that seeks several months ago Macron had spoken about
to create a regime that would deny the Republic. what he called Islamic isolationism and described
Macron also confirmed during his conference his it as a political project for separation from the
view of Islam, where he sees that Islam lives in a big Republic. With these speeches, we find that Islam
crisis not only in France but also in the whole world, is highly influenced and that there is a mixture of
confirming his desire to fight Islamic separatism. concepts between true Islam and terrorism. Thus
The concept of Islamophobia has emerged again for reintroducing the concept of Islamophobia and the
electoral reasons, and there are views that what was spread of racism among people, which does not
said at the Macron conference is a preparation for affect people only, but it has an impact on states
passing racist laws and procedures against the and on political relations between countries as it
Gentiles Muslims, because of the isolation policies of has happened In the United States in 2001, which
governments with immigrant Muslims. This speech resulted in racism and persecution of Muslims at
provoked a lot of controversy in some countries, this time. It is therefore necessary to verify the
including Turkey, where Erdogan held a conference, sources before declaring them, to be dictated
in which he declared that Macron attacks Islam to because their results are disastrous for the
cover the crisis in France and its failed policy, and countries.
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