French government approves bill targeting Muslims

SANAA, Dec. 10 (YPA) – The French government approved a bill aimed at what it calls countering “Islamic extremism” and promoting the values ​​of the republic, after a series of recent attacks that came after the French president’s statements in defense of the offensive cartoons of the Holy Prophet, may God bless him and his family and grant them peace.
The bill tightens rules on homeschooling and hate speech, and is part of a series of measures by President Emmanuel Macron to support the values ​​of secularism.
On Wednesday, French Prime Minister Jean Castex presented the controversial bill to “enhance respect for the principles of the republic”, stressing that the text to which several international criticisms were directed is not “against religions” but in defense of “freedoms”, as he claimed.
Critics of this law, in France and abroad, argue that Macron and his government want to use the law to target the Islamic religion.