Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that French President Emmanuel Macron’s talk about reshaping Islam is “rudeness and lack of manners and indicates a lack of knowledge of its borders.”
He added, during a speech, today, Tuesday, at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, that “these methods which we consider to be of little respect and devoid of respect for other religions, we do not accept them and therefore we do not allow anyone to say such statements, especially from the presidents, and the leaderships must think deeply before disclosing Those ideas and respect for minorities in their country. ”
Erdogan indicated that Macron is trying to cover up the crisis in France and the wrong policies he is following by saying that “Islam is in crisis.”
He added that “Macron’s statement that Islam is in crisis, in a city with a large Muslim population, is an explicit provocation as well as a lack of respect, and we have repeatedly called on him to respect religions.”
The Turkish president indicated that many Western countries have become sponsors of racism and anti-Islam, stressing that attacking Muslims has become one of the most important means used by European politicians to cover up their failure.
Erdogan pointed out that those who avoid confronting racism and Islamophobia commit the greatest offense to their societies.
Yesterday, Turkey condemned the French president’s proposal to defend his country’s secular values in the face of what he described as “radical” Islam, describing it as a “populist insult to Muslims.”
These criticisms of Macron’s plan, which want to “liberate Islam in France from external influences,” add to the criticisms directed at the third consecutive day to the list of disputes between the French and Turkish presidents.
And Macron delivered a speech, Friday, in which he declared that France must confront what he called “Islamic isolationism,” claiming that it seeks to “establish a parallel system and deny the French Republic.”
On Friday, Macron said in a speech that “Islam lives today in a crisis everywhere in the world,” and Paris must confront what he described as “Islamic isolationism that seeks to establish a parallel system and deny the French Republic.”
This came in conjunction with Macron’s willingness to put forward a bill against “emotional separation”, with the aim of “combating those who employ religion to question the values of the Republic.”
Macron added, “In this radical Islamic tendency, a declared determination to replace a systematic structure to circumvent the laws of the republic, establish a parallel system based on different values, and develop a different organization of society,” considering that Islam “is a religion that today is experiencing a crisis everywhere in the world.”
He announced several measures, such as forcing any association requesting state assistance to sign a secular charter, imposing tight supervision on private religious schools and strictly limiting home schooling.
Macron’s comments come eighteen months before the French presidential elections, in which he is expected to face a challenge from the right.
Macron’s statements were met with strong condemnation in Islamic countries, and the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, tweeted in French and English as well as Arabic to respond to these statements.
The Islamic Research Academy of Al-Azhar and the International Union of Muslim Scholars also denounced Macron’s statements.
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