[bq="CaptainXtra"] "@CaptainXtra":/forums/generals/topics/tartarus?post_id=5077776#post_5077776
[bq="CaptainXtra"] "@tehwatever":/forums/generals/topics/tartarus?post_id=5077766#post_5077766
I’m not sure if you heard but Pro-Palestine protests in France were being cracked down on pretty hard.
Mostly because protests related to The Israel-Palestine conflict are allegedly banned over there in croissant country.
So what you see here in this image is apparently illegal:
!https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/000_1514KV.jpg?resize=1200%2C630! [/bq]
You know, this shouldn’t be a large surprise considering how France is kinda known for it’s not too kind stance towards Islamic Beliefs.
I mean y’all heard about that Hijab ban right? [/bq]
In this case, I believe it's more that the interdiction of that protest (under the pretext that a similar protest back in 2014 ended in violences) is in line with the securitarian orientation taken by Macron's government those past months than some low-key muslim scapegoating (even if that part of his policies, what with the closing of mosques and the dissolution of the CCIF, goes in the same sense).
The reason is simple: Macron knows the only chance he has to be re-elected next year is to face Marine Le Pen in the second round, therefore he's pushing security as the main issue to address in the public eye (one that always has the favors of the right, and especially the far-right), like Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy did before him (and yes, surreptitiously stoking the islamophobic sentiment is another thing that works well).
Also let's not forget that the overwhelming majority of right-wingers are siding with Israel, so there's that too.