France votes on anti-radicalism invoice that worries Muslims

France’s decrease home of parliament is voting Tuesday on a invoice that may strengthen authorities oversight of mosques and spiritual colleges and crackdown on polygamy and compelled marriage, amongst different measures aimed toward rooting out Islamic radicalism.
The invoice is a part of broader French efforts to combat extremism lately that gained new urgency after a trainer was beheaded in October and different assaults. President Emmanuel Macron says the efforts are additionally wanted to guard French values like gender equality and secularism from encroaching on fundamentalism in some communities.
But many French Muslims say the draft legislation limits spiritual freedom and unfairly targets them, and say France already has sufficient legal guidelines to combat terrorist violence. Critics name the invoice a political manoeuvre by Macron to win help from conservative and far-right voters forward of subsequent yr’s presidential election.

The invoice is anticipated to win approval within the National Assembly, which is dominated by Macron’s centrist social gathering, in addition to the conservative-led Senate.