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Macron’s “Islamist Separatism” Discourse Is An Islamophobic Hysteria

During his speech, which lasted about 70 minutes, he identified the problem and this taboo-free approach: “There is an Islamic separatism that endangers our society, our capacity to live together, our Republic; it is first trying to establish a hostile society parallel to the Republic, and then take it over!” The president did not mention terror, terrorists, or a terrorist organization, and even said he distinguished these Islamic separatists from the rest of Muslims in France.

Communal India: Past, Present and Future

 The demographic puzzle of two Muslim majority nations (Pakistan and Bangladesh) neighboring India has played a part in the continuous fudging of numbers of the actual figure of Muslims in the nation (official government estimates of 200 million could easily be much larger due to poor rural and urban households either underrepresented or ignored).