Mon 02 November 2020:
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) minister on Monday called on Muslims to accept the stances of French President Emmanuel Macron on claim of “integration”.
“[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 “are in need to be integrated in a better way, the French state has the right to search for ways to achieve this in parallel with combating extremism and societal closure”.
Gargash rejected accusations against the French president that he seeks to exclude Muslims.
Macron, in an interview with Al-Jazeera, lowered his tone and said he understands the feelings of Muslims over the cartoons.
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.
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