(Radio France) As the debate on wearing the Islamic hijab in France intensifies, President Emmanuel Macron has weighed in — saying Muslims should not be “stigmatised” and warning against what he called the “fatal shortcut” of linking Islam with terrorism.
Speaking Wednesday on the sidelines of Franco-German summit in Toulouse, Macron urged French people to unite — after a national debate was ignited when a far-right MP asked a mother volunteering on a school trip to a regional parliament to remove her headscarf.
“For 15 days everything has been confused, and there’s been a lot of irresponsibility among political commentators,” he said, adding that “communalism” was not terrorism.
