‘Islam is in crisis all over the world,’ Macron says, vowing to step up fight against religious radicalism in France
2 Oct 2020
FILE PHOTO: Members of the Muslim community pray during Friday prayers inside the mosque in Frejus, France. September 2016. © Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters
French President Emmanuel Macron said that Islam is struggling with fundamentalism worldwide, not just in his country. He laid out measures to uphold the principles of secularism as the “cement” of France.
Speaking in Les Mureaux, a suburb of Paris, Macron said that authorities must step up the fight against radical Islamism, which “often leads to the creation of a counter-society” within a state. He warned, however, that one must not fall “into a trap” of stigmatizing all Muslims.
"Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today,
we are not just seeing this in our country."
Macron explained that the “deep crisis is caused by the tensions between fundamentalism, its religious and political projects that... lead to very strong radicalization.”
The president went on to say that by allowing the “ghettoization” in Muslim neighborhoods “we have built our own separatism.”
“We have concentrated populations according to their origins, [while] not creating enough diversity, enough economic and social mobility,” Macron said, calling for “Islam in France to be freed from foreign influence.”
Among the measures to combat radical groups, Macron said that the government would present a bill in December to strengthen a landmark 1905 law that officially separated church and state in France. He said that the display of religion will continue to be outlawed in school and public service.
These all seem like reasonable ideas and would probably work to a degree. But I think they are too late. Also, secularising Islam is a doomed strategy. It may work for a short while but eventually, people will return to their roots especially when they see other European countries deal with Islamification in a more dramatic way.
Radical Muslims must be separated from the rest of society even before they commit or plan acts of terrorism. They are not sane people and should be locked up.
Wife of German rapper convicted of terrorism charges
The widow of a German-born rapper who joined the Islamic State extremist group in Syria before being killed in an airstrike has herself been convicted of membership in a terrorist organization
By DAVID RISING Associated Press
2 October 2020, 04:18
BERLIN -- The widow of a German-born rapper who joined the Islamic State extremist group in Syria and was killed in an airstrike was herself convicted Friday of membership in a terrorist organization.
The Hamburg state court sentenced Omaima A., 36, to three years in prison, the dpa news agency reported.
Deso Dogg and his invisible wife
The Hamburg-born woman of Tunisian heritage, whose last name wasn't provided in line with German privacy laws, was also convicted of failing to properly care for her children, weapons violations and aiding in the enslavement of a Yazidi girl.
The woman followed her first husband to Syria in 2015 and lived in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa with their three children, according to the court.
After her husband was killed in 2015, she married his friend, German rapper Denis Cuspert, who went by the stage name Deso Dogg before giving up the profession and joining IS.
Cuspert, who toured in the U.S. in 2006, lent his voice to record anthems for the militants to use in recruiting videos they circulated online.
The U.S. government designated him a “global terrorist.” The Pentagon initially said in 2015 that Cuspert was killed in an airstrike, but withdrew the claim the following year. In 2018, Islamic State announced the Cuspert had been killed in an airstrike in Syria.
By that time, Omaima A. had already returned to Germany.
Germany has been aggressively prosecuting both men and women who have returned after fighting with the Islamic State group or other extremist groups in the Middle East. On Friday, federal prosecutors said a German woman had been arrested at Frankfurt airport on her return from Syria on allegations she was a member of IS.
The suspect, identified only as Kim A., faces charges of membership in a terrorist organization and other crimes. She's alleged to have traveled to Syria with her husband, Onur E., in 2014 where both joined the Islamic State.
Onur E. is said to have undergone military training and then fought against Syrian government troops with the group. He is also alleged to have taught Kim A. how to use an assault rifle.
The two were given homes to live in that the Islamic State had seized from their rightful owners.
A. fled Syria in 2016, and returned to Germany on Thursday on a flight from Turkey, authorities said. It was not clear what happened to her husband.
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