French activists and politicians interacted with a tweet by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in which he condemned the racism and Islamophobia suffered by a number of Muslims in his country.
Trudeau tweeted, “The Islamophobia and hate that threatens the comfort and stability of some Muslims in Canada is unacceptable.”
He stressed that he will work to make the country safer for the Muslim community, in addition to appointing an official representative of the authorities whose mission is to combat Islamophobia and racism.
According to the Canadian National Family Survey, the number of Muslims in the country has reached one and a half million Muslims, or 3.2% of the total population, which makes Islam the second largest religion in Canada after Christianity.
Many politicians and social media pioneers in France interacted positively with Trudeau’s tweets, and their reactions varied between mockery and criticism of President Emmanuel Macron and his government, which did nothing about what Muslims suffer in France, but rather imposed more laws targeting them, such as the “anti-separatist law” and the Law “Preserving Republican Principles” during the last two years.
“3, 2, 1… Darmanin announces the dissolution of Canada,” activist and journalist Lewis Witter said in a sarcastic tweet on his own account.
Witter’s tweet came to ridicule the practices of the French Interior Minister, Gerard Darmanin, saying that he “may permanently dissolve Canada” as a metaphor for the dissolution decisions that have been issued against associations that fight Islamophobia, Quranic schools and mosques recently in France.
Darmanin had bragged that he was behind the decisions to close more than 13 Muslim associations in France since 2017, boasting that this is three times the number closed by previous governments.
It is noteworthy that Islamophobia and racism have remained among the most important political issues and hot files in France over the past two decades, because the country contains the largest percentage of Muslims in the Western world, mainly due to immigration from the countries of Morocco, West Africa and the Middle East.
