“Very clearly it is France that is attacked,” Macron said after travelling quickly to Nice. The killings came at a time when the government’s recent words and deeds have put it at odds with Muslims in France and abroad, including heads of state like President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. And Muslim leaders have condemned Macron for what they describe as a kind of collective punishment of France’s Muslims. The string of attacks over the past five years has moved France to the right politically. But he worried aloud that terrorist attacks had instilled a fear of Islam in the national psyche.

Source: bd News24 October 30, 2020 08:03 UTC