Europe EditionFurious Macron Dressed Down Ministers After Botched Leak of Muslim Brotherhood Report
- French President Emmanuel Macron angrily reprimanded his ministers on May 21 during a Defense Council meeting about a leaked report on the Muslim Brotherhood's influence in France.
- The report leaked earlier that week, was 73 pages long, and detailed the Brotherhood's strategy to infiltrate French institutions aiming to impose Sharia law, sparking political tensions.
- The study described the Brotherhood's reach in education and social sectors with local control enforcing Islamic customs, and highlighted cities like Lille, Lyon, and Marseille as affected areas.
- Macron said he was "extremely unhappy" with his ministers' inadequate responses, while far-right leader Marine Le Pen called the threat a "deadly danger, requiring more than half-measures."
- The leak intensified political debate about Islam in France, exposing a government struggle to address Islamist influence amidst accusations of passivity and rising Islamophobia.
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Macron SLAMS His Own Cabinet After Report on Muslim Brotherhood’s Influence in France Gets Leaked - Interior Minister Retailleau Seen as Gearing up To Run for President
When he gets a little break from his almost non-stop warmongering over the Ukraine conflict, French President tries to do a bit of work on his country’s manifold problems – but unsurprisingly, he finds his government to be a mess.
"It's not going well", "it's not serious": Emmanuel Macron skilfully reframed his ministers on Wednesday, Bruno Retailleau in the lead, at a defence council dedicated to Islamist enterrism in France, judging that the proposals made were not up to the "gravity of the facts". ...
A visible Emmanuel Macron critically criticized ministers during a meeting of the Defence Chamber on Wednesday, following a report on the influence of the Muslim Brethren in France, according to a high-level government official.
The document, prepared by the intelligence services at the request of the Ministry of the Interior, gives an alarming picture of the influence and extension of this network, which already has some 139 places of worship and 68 “near” places of worship, as well as 280 associations operating in areas such as education, Islamic finance, youth, etc.
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