France’s Macron Details Plan Targeting Islamist ‘Separatism’

France’s Macron Details Plan Targeting Islamist ‘Separatism’
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech to present his strategy to fight separatism, in Les Mureaux, outside Paris, on Oct. 2, 2020. Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP
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PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron, trying to rid France of what authorities call a “parallel society” of radical Muslims thriving outside the values of the nation, laid out a series of measures on Friday in a proposed law that would disrupt the education, finances, and other means of indoctrination of the vulnerable.

Macron has coined the term “separatism” to describe the underworld that thrives in some neighborhoods around France where Muslims with a radical vision of their religion take control of the local population to inculcate their beliefs.