Macron’s Separatism Bill — a new liberal inquisition

Muhammad Jalal
4 min readNov 19, 2020

I was asked to put together a political briefing on Macron’s so-called bill to outlaw separatism. Here is an edited copy (with thanks to Zakaria K).

The ‘separatism’ Bill announced by Emmanuel Macron on the 2nd October is currently working its way through the institutions of the French executive. The proposed law is called the “Bill to Reinforce Secularism and Republican…

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Muhammad Jalal

Politics lecturer, London. Host of The Thinking Muslim Podcast