{"id":98916,"date":"2020-10-28T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=98916"},"modified":"2020-10-28T18:51:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:51:22","slug":"macron-targeting-radicals-not-islam-says-french-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=98916","title":{"rendered":"Macron targeting radicals, not Islam, says French Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 (Bernama) &#8212; The French Embassy in Malaysia on Wednesday said France does not favour or stigmatise any religion and it guarantees their peaceful co-existence within the laws and principles of the republic, amid calls by Muslims to boycott French products.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The embassy, in a statement here, said&nbsp;President Emmanuel Macron&nbsp;did not target the Muslim community in France but only an ideology&nbsp;\u2013 radical Islamism&nbsp; \u2013 that should be isolated and fought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe President clearly indicated that he would be intransigent concerning any generalisation, distinguishing the vast majority of French citizens of Muslim faith from the militant and separatist minority who are hostile to the values of the Republic, and who are moreover a burden for the former,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some countries in the Muslim world had called for a campaign to boycott French products following Macron\u2019s October 2 remarks which were perceived to criticise Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The embassy also said it noted that some personalities have tried to start the anti-French products campaign in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are\u00a0heartened by the assurances given by Malaysian authorities that the Malaysian government does not condone such appeals,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 (Bernama) &#8212; The French Embassy in Malaysia on Wednesday said France does not favour or stigmatise any religion and it guarantees their peaceful co-existence within the laws and principles of the republic, amid calls by Muslims to boycott French products.\u00a0 The embassy, in a statement here, said&nbsp;President Emmanuel Macron&nbsp;did not target [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":96782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,209,318,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98916"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}