She then spoke about another of her key policies, banning the wearing of headscarves in public, arguing that women should be freed from “Islamist pressure”. Macron argued that it was wrong to confuse Islam with Islamism. Her policy, he said, would lead to a “civil war” and a betrayal of French values: “You will make the police run down the street after girls with headscarves and [Jewish] boys carrying a statue. “It was intolerant and it was pushing millions of people out of the public space because of their religion,” he said.
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