(AFP) After months of controversy and 135 hours of parliamentary debate, MPs in France are set to approve a draft law to crack down on what has been termed “Islamist separatism” on Tuesday.
AFP examines what is, and what isn’t, in the new legislation.
– Why a new law now?
French President Emmanuel Macron laid the groundwork with a much-anticipated speech on October 2 about what he called the “fight against separatism.”
Macron denounced a trend of “Islamist separatism” that sought to create a “counter-society” rejecting the [country’s] strict form of secularism, equality between the sexes, and other parts of French law.
