France fighting Islamist extremism, not Islam: Macron

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ French President Emmanuel Macron has said his country is fighting “Islamist separatism, never Islam”, responding to a Financial Times article that he claimed misquoted him and has since been removed from the newspaper’s website. In a letter to the editor published on Wednesday, Macron said the British paper had accused him of “stigmatising French Muslims for electoral purposes and of fostering a climate of fear and suspicion towards them”. “I will not allow anybody to claim that France, or its government, is fostering racism against Muslims,” he said. An…