Paris,<\/p>\n
France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Friday it would be a criminal offense for Muslim parents to be upset with a teacher for showing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad in lessons to their children.<\/p>\n
“Parents who go to a teacher to tell them to stop teaching cartoons protected by freedom of speech, tomorrow that will be a criminal. offense,” he said during an interview with Europe 1. They could face prosecution, even deportation.<\/p>\n
“And a judge can\u00a0 this is extremely important\u00a0 a judge will be able to say, ‘If you’re a foreigner who commits this crime, you can leave this country.'”<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron pledged a crackdown against what he called, \u201cIslamist separatism” to defend France’s secular values, and argued that controversial cartoons should be defended on free speech grounds.<\/p>\n
Critics, however, accused Macron of politically exploiting recent terror attacks, adopting a populist far-right discourse about Muslims in an attempt to appeal to right-wing voters.<\/p>\n
Macron took steps Wednesday to impose a “charter of Republican values” on the Muslim community and gave a 15-day deadline for the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) to accept the charter.<\/p>\n
Eight leaders of the CFCM met with Macron and Darmanin at the Elysee Palace for talks Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In a return of good faith, the CFCM will create a National Council of Imams to offer official accreditation to imams living on French soil, according to media reports.<\/p>\n
Macron’s charter of Republican values will forbid “foreign interference” in Muslim groups and will state explicitly that Islam is not a political movement but a religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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