MANCHESTER – Shocking news came from the City of Manchester. Manchester United midfielder, Paul pogba, was preached The Sun resigning from the French National Team (Timnas) because of his religion, Islam, was insulted by the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
Emmanuel Macron recently issued a statement that angered Muslims. He said the state’s secularism was France’s national identity. Limiting freedom of expression to safeguard the feelings of a people is called Macron can destroy the unity of the country.
(Pogba while defending the French national team)
Therefore, Macron campaigned to defend the value of secularism. However, this secularism is not necessarily applicable to all things, including making caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad as examples of lessons.
For your information, a French history teacher named Samuel Paty made the caricature of the Prophet Muhammad as a case example. It’s just that, the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad SAW is considered a serious offense for Muslims. This is because the Islamic tradition explicitly prohibits the image of Muhammad and Allah.
Samuel Paty came under fire in the end. A few days later Samuel Paty was found lifeless in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris.
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In Macron’s view, the perpetrator in the murder of Samuel Paty was a domestic militant Islamic group or commonly known as Cheikh Yassine. Because of this, Macron asked the group to be disbanded for the common good.
In addition, Macron also asked the Pantin Mosque which is located on the northeastern outskirts of Paris to be closed. This is because one of the congregation members of the mosque is the guardian of the student where Samuel Paty taught.
