Turkey's ruling party for Macron: You have to face Islam's hostility instead of attacking Muslims

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party said that French President Emmanuel Macron should focus on confronting the hostility of Islam and the hostility of foreigners that is widespread in Europe instead of attacking Muslims, following an unprecedented statement by Macron last Friday in which he said that "Islam today is experiencing a crisis everywhere in the world, and on Paris." Addressing what he described as Islamic isolationism.

Justice and Development Party spokesman Omar Celik added - in a series of tweets on Twitter - that "Macron's statements support hate crimes and provide rich material for terrorist organizations such as ISIS." And Celik added that Turkey "stands in the face of any interference in the freedom of beliefs of individuals, and that the attack on Democracy and individual rights should not come from the French presidency. "

The spokesman for the ruling party in Turkey stressed that Islam is "a global religion and a religion of peace," denouncing Macron's speech in which he spoke of "forming an Islamic enlightenment through the draft law against emotional separation."

If Islam were in crisis, Macron, it would not have been the fastest spreading religion in France and the West, and you would not have waged a war against it and sought every means to prevent it from reaching the hearts of the people.

You are the ones who are experiencing a religious and humanitarian crisis and bankruptcy.

So look at your dark faces in the mirror before talking about Islam # Macron_Degage pic.twitter.com/8E5Y3NBpQp

- Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shanqeeti (@mshinqiti) October 2, 2020

Macron's statement on Islam came in the context of his government's preparations to introduce a bill against emotional separation next month, with the aim of combating those who employ religion to question the values ​​of the French Republic, the most important of which is secularism.

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Ministry and the Turkish Foreign Ministry, in turn, criticized yesterday a French bill targeting the Muslim community, and said that "no one has the right to talk about Islam that carries the meaning of peace, within the framework of wrong approaches and under the labels of enlightenment," and the ministry added that "the mentality behind the draft law Against emotional separation) will lead to dire consequences, rather than solve France's problems. "

The Turkish Foreign Ministry stressed that the Ankara authorities will closely follow developments related to the French draft resolution, and will discuss its consequences during bilateral talks with France, and in multilateral forums.

Macron's statements about Islam provoked angry reactions from non-governmental organizations in Islamic countries and in Europe. The French website Media Part published a statement signed by 100 Muslim personalities in France, including academics, businessmen, journalists, imams and health workers.

They used to say "Muslim extremists" ...

Today they directly accuse Islam as a religion ... the one who is accused has forgotten about his country's crimes in the countries that I occupied ... The

extremists accuse people of extremism ... # Macron

- Assaad Taha Asaad Taha (@Assaadtaha) October 2, 2020

The statement - titled “Separatism: 100 Muslims voted to say stop!” - said that Macron chose to target Muslims instead of terrorism, indicating that the emotional separation bill targets the freedom of Muslims and increases pressure on them, and the authors of the statement called on the French state to give up monitoring Muslims.

Personalities and institutions, and

before that, the Islamic Research Academy in Al-Azhar described the French president’s statements about Islam as “racist” and “supports hate speech.” In a statement published yesterday, Saturday, on its Facebook page, the group added that it “deplores the recent statements issued by the French president. Emmanuel Macron, in which Islam was accused of false accusations, has nothing to do with the true religion of this religion whose law calls for tolerance and peace among all human beings, even those who do not believe in it.

The International Union of Muslim Scholars also responded to Macron's statements, explaining that those convinced of Islam are increasing every day, "he is not in a crisis, but the crisis is in ignorance of his principles and facts and hatred for him and his ummah, as it is a crisis of understanding and a crisis of morals."

The union said in a statement that the problem facing Islam lies in the double standards and Islamophobia, "and in a handful of those made by the occupiers and colonialists rule Muslim countries."

The Federation affirmed that such unjustified attacks and permitting attacks on the sanctities of Islam under the guise of freedom "are what make terrorism and religious racism, and prevent peaceful coexistence based on respect for all religions and their privacy."

The Mufti of the Sultanate,

as the Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman, Sheikh Ahmed al-Khalili, responded to Macron's statements, and said that "all wise people, no matter what they disagree, are unanimous that the solution to every problem of what the world is suffering today is in Islam." That "the attempt to attach false accusations to Islam is completely failed."

In a statement, the European Council of Imams expressed its shock and deep dissatisfaction with Macron's statements regarding what he called "political Islam" and "Islamic isolationism". The Council described these statements as a violation of the rules of official political discourse by issuing general negative judgments about the Islamic religion that are not based on facts or Objective data. ”The European Council of Imams - based in Sweden - said that Macron made a" serious mistake when he did not differentiate between Islam as a religion and the complex reality of Muslims. "

The former director of the Islamic World Organization for Education, Science and Culture (ISESCO) Abdel Aziz Al-Tuwaijri published a tweet in which he said, "Macron says that Islam is going through a crisis everywhere in the world, and French television says that 4000 French convert to Islam annually, and most of them are young."