(Spectator-UK) Ayaan Hirsi Ali - A week ago, French President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to end "Islamic separatism" in France because a minority of the country's six million Muslims risk forming a "counter-society." That Macron even gave an anti-Islamism speech was a sign of how fast the debate is moving in France. Now we have an avowed centrist like Macron warning that the "final goal" of the "ideology" of Islamism is to "take complete control" of society. Macron also said the "challenge is to fight against those who go off the rails in the name of religion...while protecting those who believe in Islam and are full citizens of the republic." A great many French Muslims are fighting against the Islamists. The writer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, served as a member of the Dutch parliament.
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