How Macron tries to convert the laity

VSome meetings are born out of disputes. In January 2019, two days after declaring in the press that she felt “contempt” from the head of state, secular activist Zineb El Rhazoui received a very long text message from Emmanuel Macron. “I had attacked it because it commemorated the deaths of Charlie Hebdo and from the Hyper Kosher on the very day he received the representatives of the French Council for Muslim Worship, people who had launched the accusation of Islamophobia which had killed my colleagues. I found it unbearable,” she recalls.

In the long message that Emmanuel Macron then addresses to Zineb El Rhazoui, he invokes the need. “He said to me in essence: ‘Don’t see any contempt on my part, I am President of the Republic, I have to spare everyone.’ VS…