Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
The problem with that is pick any decade over the last 60 years and you have a range of factions, groups etc even nation states, who were the dominant activists at any particular time. There might if you thought about it be just a few clues as to why this is the case. To label Muslims as one homogenous group is typical lazy thinking!

Ah you ahve just demonstrated your interpretation of what Macron is doing, he is actually defending France as a secular nation and your interpretation of what the terrorist acts in France are also wide of the mark. Its not a an attempt to impose minority's belief system, its the action of the few radical crazy's, its not even organised just deranged individuals.

You don't have to look far to see a country where radical christians adopt the same tactics!

As for immigration, this requires a concerted plan to resolve the issues of why people migrate, it isn't possible to simply stop them coming, but if one removes the incentives, which are generally war, poverty etc then it would be much reduced. The Eu and other western countries could do this if they wanted to, it takes a concerted approach and cooperative working.
President Macron is not merely overreacting to the actions of a 'few radical crazys'. He is dealing with the threat posed by muslims (as described above) and its refusal to allow free speech. He understands that the overwhelmiing majjorityy of muslims reject the idea of insulting their Prrophet and are willing to protest violently until Macron apologises. This objection to Macron and is decision to clamp down on the spread of radical Islam is, not surprisingly, creating widespread protests throughout many countries in the East although admitteedly
these violent protests are not helped by inflammotaryy comments by Pakistani leaders.

It's possible to argue that Macron has one eye on the forthcoming Ffrence election, knoweing that Le Penn may well increase her vote but that's a different matter.