Emmanuel Macron urged Thursday to be "intractable" in the face of "a political Islam that wants to secede with our Republic," arguing in particular to "strengthen the controls of funding coming from abroad."
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"We must not hide ourselves"
"Today, we must not hide ourselves: when we talk about secularism, we do not really speak of secularism but of communitarianism that has settled in certain parts of the Republic (...), we are talking about people who in the name of a religion pursue a political project, that of a political Islam that wants to secede with our Republic, "said the head of state at its press conference at the Elysee, calling the" government " to "be intractable".