ISLAMABAD: Paris on Sunday took strong exception to a statement by Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari equating President Emmanuel Macron’s new measures to counter “Islamist separatism” in France with the anti-semitic policies of Nazi Germany. Earlier this week, President Emmanuel Macron issued a “charter of republican values”, detailing a series of steps aimed at purging France of what he declared as radical Islam. One of the measures made it necessary for school-going children to wear an identification number that would be used to ensure they are attending school. Mazari, who apparently understood that the identification number would be issued exclusively to Muslim children, censured the move, saying through the new measures, “Macron is doing to Muslims what the Nazis did to the Jews” in Nazi Germany. Macron is doing to Muslims what the Nazis did to the Jews – Muslim children will get ID numbers (other children won’t) just as Jews were forced to wear the yellow star on their clothing for identification.

Source: Pakistan Today November 22, 2020 12:56 UTC