Under the impact of the new crown epidemic in 2020, countries are economic facing recession, social contradictions are prominent, and countries in Europe have the momentum and controversy of anti-extremism Islam.
With the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, President Macron announced plans for tougher law, against what he called "Islam separatism" and the defence of secular values.
Macron said in a long-awaited speech by the French public that a few of France's estimated 6 million Muslim population are at "antisocial" risk.
His recommendations included stricter supervision of school education and control over foreign funding of mosque.
But some accuse Macron of trying to suppress French Islam.
Macron then warned against "humiliating" Muslim or linking Islam religion to counter-terrorism.
He said at a joint journalist meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel :" We must stand with all our compatriots. The implication is clear: the French Muslim are also part of the French citizen.
In European countries, there are similar principles of equality and secularism. Yet identity and cultural identity have often become controversial in europe, especially the context of an increase in immigration, economic disorder, cultural conflict and social unrest in the last decade, and the growing influence of the second largest religion Islam religion in europe, ranked by its population.
Equality of belief
Under France's strict secularist principles (laicite), according to and state must be separated. His idea was that people of different religions and beliefs were equal before law.
Macron said that "Islam separatism" was a danger to France, as it had its own, above all law, that often led to "antisocial" formation.
He stated that this form of sectarianism often "does not conform to the principles law by the French Republic" and often results in children being unable to attend school and participate in sports, culture and other community activities in France.
The measures announced by Macron will form a legislation, and will be submitted to the French parliament for approval by the end of 2020.
They include:
Macron also said France must take more steps to provide economic opportunities and social mobility for immigrant communities, adding that militants often fill the vacuum.
The British Broadcasting Corporation Paris-based journalist Hugh Scofield said Macron's statement was the result of discussions with French religious leaders and intellectuals in recent months. The Elysee Palace approach shows that Macron wants to talk openly about this sensitive issue and will not be embarrassed by it.
He added that many also believed that Macron's statement was intended to attract right-wing voters before the 2022 presidential election.
French reaction
A few Muslim reacted angrily to Macron's proposal.
Many in the country's largest Muslim population in western europe complain of authorities taking advantage of secularism to explicitly target them, such as banning students from wearing Muslim headscarves at school and in the workplace (hijab, wrapping heads and necks but not covering them).
"Repression of Muslim has always been a threat, and now it has become a commitment ," French activist Yasir Luati wrote on his blog. "
Luati said in his blog that Macron buried French secularist principles, stirred the extreme right and the anti- Muslim left, severely restricted family education during the global Coronavirus pandemic, and threat the safety of Muslim students.
The controversy over the conflict of thought and the conflict of Muslim immigrants to French traditional culture have persisted since the bloody and terrorist attacks in France, including Islam Charlie Hebdo.
mainland Europe
Nor is France the only country in Europe to worry about extreme Islam trends, and disputes are common throughout mainland Europe.
especially Muslim migration to Europe (including refugee) has increased rapidly in recent years, with internationalization, the Middle East and North Africa war and the activism of extremist Islam organizations, including some of the more extreme and conservative religious figures. So many conservatives in Europe mainland worried about European Islam.
A woman wearing a niqab veil
The vast majority of Muslim emigrating to Europe share democracy and freedom basic values of equality, but also want to retain their beliefs and habits. And the rapid arrival of immigration, often also impact on local social economic.
Unemployment rates are generally high in European Muslim, according to a study Muslim Germany, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Switzerland by the Berlin Centre for Social Sciences, mainly due to a lack of language skills, a lack of inter-ethnic social ties and a traditional gender role view in which many Muslim women do not work outside the family. Discrimination by employers can also lead to unemployment being a small part of the reason.
The recession in Europe's economic caused by the new crown epidemic in 2020 is likely to increase the conflict. of economic pressure
economic pressure has not only given Islam extremist groups a chance, but Europe's mainland multi-national right-wing anti- Islam groups have also risen.
Culture conflict, New Crown Epidemic and International Politics
Politicians and officials in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and other countries dispute the extent to which Muslim should be allowed to wear traditional clothes, especially headscarves and veils.
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But the need to wear a mask once disputed the law to ban fines for masked offenders in the 2020 outbreak. Muslim who went out wearing masked, semi-faced clothes were stopped and fined by the police, but they stressed that it was unfair to face the mask to prevent infection.
National politics may also complicate such disputes.
Turkey, for example, has been in constant friction with France on international and regional issues since 2020. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gave a harsh commentary on Turkish television on Macron's remarks to "defend French secularist values" and especially Macron's claim that Islam world is in crisis.
How would his remarks accusing France of "Macron acting like a colonial governor" reverberate among Turkish immigrants, Europe's biggest Muslim group?
