French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the coverage of what the Anglo-American media called the terrorist attacks on France and the subsequent repercussions, and accused him of granting legitimacy to violence, according to a report published by the American New York Times.

The report - prepared by the newspaper's correspondent Ben Smith - quoted Macron as saying that the English-language media, especially the American media, are trying to impose their own values ​​on a different society.

The French president said that the Anglo-American media "held France responsible (for the attacks) instead of blaming those who committed a number of terrorist acts that began on October 16 with the murder of history teacher Samuel Patty, who offered his students during a class on freedom of expression fees from The satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo mocks the Prophet Muhammad.

Referring to the simultaneous attacks on France on the 13th of November 2015, which targeted a theater, a sports stadium and cafes in Paris and killed 130 people, Macron said, "When France was attacked 5 years ago, all countries of the world supported us, so when I see - In this context - many newspapers from countries that I believe share values ​​with us, and journalists writing in a country that inherited the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, when I see them granting legitimacy to this violence and saying that the core of the problem is racism in France and Islamophobia, then I say that the founding principles have been lost.

The newspaper’s correspondent, who explained that the French president called him from his office at the Elysee Palace to upload his complaints from the American media, commented that granting legitimacy to violence is one of the most serious charges that the media can throw at, and it is similar to the accusations that Americans used to hear from US President Donald Trump and ignore them .

The reporter said that Macron believes that the foreign media have failed to understand the "secularism" that is based on the separation between the state and the church, which arose at the beginning of the 20th century, when the state wrested control of the school system from the Catholic Church.

He noted that the issue of secularism has received increased attention this year as the French presidential elections 2022 approach, in which Macron is likely to face the leader of the far-right Marine Le Pen.

According to the newspaper's report, Macron did not initially campaign to change France's approach to the Muslim minority, but at the beginning of October he delivered a speech denouncing what he called "Islamic isolationism", and promised to fight it, starting with the foreign training that imams receive in France and the halal meals that he received. He served in some restaurants, and called for the restructuring of Islam into "an enlightening Islam," while his interior minister used inflammatory language such as that used by the extreme right.