by Christine Douglass-Williams
United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, has come out in support of French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments about Muslim integration.
Amid upheaval across the Muslim world over France’s Muhammad cartoons and defense of the freedom of expression, the United Arab Emirates’ minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, has come out in support of French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments about Muslim integration.
Despite Gargash’s good intentions, however, the widespread backlash against Macron, with tens of thousands of Muslims calling for “the death of France,” should be a wake-up call to Western globalists, as well as to all people who value freedom. The reaction indicates that those Muslims who accept Sharia’s tenets on blasphemy have no interest in integration. Those who think this way have no place in Western societies; at the same time, some who immigrate to the West expect to be welcomed with open arms while harboring an intention to work toward the imposition of Sharia blasphemy laws in their new home. Accordingly, it is only prudent to beware of the hijrah.
“UAE minister backs Emmanuel Macron’s remarks on Muslims,” Al-Jazeera, November 2, 2020:
A prominent United Arab Emirates minister has called on Muslims to accept the stance of French President Emmanuel Macron on his claims about the need for “integration” in Western societies.
“[Muslims] have to listen carefully to what Macron said in his speech. He doesn’t want to isolate Muslims in the West, and he is totally right,” Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs, said in an interview on Monday with the German daily Die Welt.
He said Muslims “need to be integrated in a better way” in Western nations.
“The French state has the right to search for ways to achieve this in parallel with combating extremism and societal closure,” he added.
Gargash rejected accusations against the French president that he seeks to exclude Muslims living in France.
‘Freedom to draw’
The Emirati minister’s statements come amid ongoing protests in the Arab and Muslim world against Macron’s remarks on Islam, in which he accused Muslims of “separatism” and defended publishing the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.Following intense boycott campaigns of French products across the Arab and Muslim world, Macron lowered his tone and said he understood the feelings of Muslims over the cartoons.
“I understand the sentiments being expressed and I respect them,” the French president said in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera on Saturday….
Christine Douglass-Williams
Source: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/11/uae-minister-defies-global-islamic-fury-and-backs-macrons-remarks-on-muslims-needing-to-integrate-in-west
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