Emmanuel Macron, the President of France is not exactly the most admirable of Western leaders. He suffers from a sense of aloofness that doesn’t endear himself to people and his terrible ‘green’ policies have ensured that the country faced over a year of Gilet Jaune protests. His mismanagement of the covid situation and his toddler-like tantrums over Brexit have not helped his public image. However there is one area where Macron scores much higher than the weak leaders of other Western nations, including Britain’s Boris Johnson and that is over the issue of Islam. When it comes to defending the UK from dangerous Muslims and violent Muslim groups I’ve come to refer to Johnson as ‘Cuck Boris’.

Unlike other leaders in the West, Emmanuel Macron has at least stood up for secularism and the right to speak freely about Islam. He’s recognised that whilst there are many Muslims who are indeed peaceful and loyal individuals, the same cannot be said for aspects of Islamic theology and some Islamic groups.

Macron, possibly for electoral reasons as he faces a big challenge from the National Rally party, but maybe not, wants to reduce the influence of Islamic extremism on French society and I have no problem with supporting him on this issue. Unfortunately, not all large Muslim groups want to get behind President Macron and deal with what is becoming and increasing problem in France, that of Islamic extremism and violence.

According to a report in France24, two relatively large and influential Islamic groups in France have refused to get on board with President Macron’s plan to deal more robustly with Islamic extremism, something that may give a clue to the nature of some Islamic groups that operate in France. From what I can gather the groups that have refused to support President Macron’s anti-extremism plan are not small outlier groups but are instead groups with a significant degree of support from within the Islamic community in France.

France24 said:

Three Muslim groups refused on Wednesday to back an anti-extremism charter pushed by French officials following a spate of jihadist-inspired attacks, dealing a blow to a flagship initiative of President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

The charter rejects “instrumentalising” Islam for political ends and affirms equality between men and women, while denouncing practices such as female circumcisions, forced marriages or “virginity certificates” for brides.

French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), a body set up almost 20 years ago to enable dialogue between the government and the Muslim community, broadly welcomed the charter and five of its eight federations signed on Sunday.

However, the other three groups said on Wednesday they could not join their colleagues.

“We believe that certain passages and formulations in the text submitted are likely to weaken the bonds of trust between the Muslims of France and the nation,” the three groups said in a statement.

None of what the French government looks to me to be outrageous or extreme. All the French government is asking is that Muslims don’t kill people and don’t treat women like shit. It’s very instructive that even these relatively minor requests to obey French law and custom are being rejected. I had to smile at the comment from the groups that rejected Macron’s anti-extremism plan that the plan ‘broke the bonds of trust’ between France and Muslims. Personally I think that this bond of trust between the French people and its Muslims was broken long ago when Muslims turned suburbs into war zones, beheaded Catholic Priests, harassed Jews on the streets of Paris, murdered cartoonists and killed teachers.

The Muslim groups who rejected Macron’s anti-extremism plan also whined that the plans ‘dishonoured’ Muslims and had an ‘accusatory tone’. Well no shit Sherlock. What did these groups expect would happen when a Western secular government started asking awkward questions about Mohammedanism? Why on earth should an advanced Western nation show honour to a seventh century death cult, it would be like a modern leader paying homage to the witch burners of old? Also maybe these Muslim groups should realise that there would be no need for any ‘accusatory tone’ when dealing with Islam were it not for the fact that there have been so many truly awful and deadly Islamic terror attacks aimed at France and the French people.

President Macron has his work cut out trying to deal with the growing problem of Islamic extremism in France. The rejection of the plan by these large and influential groups is indeed a blow to Macron’s plans but it also may have a positive outcome in so far as now the French people will see the true face of political Islam, the violent, obstructionist and rejectionist face that it hides behind dishonest claims that it is a ‘religion of peace’.