French President Emmanuel Macron proceeded to a ministerial reshuffle last week and nominated Gérald Darmanin as the new Minister of Interior. It is important to note, that in the French political system, the Minister of the interior is in charge of the cults and religious affairs. The early days of Darmanin’s mandate have been marked…
While he has not apologized for what he said (see: https://www.euro-islam.info/2009/09/11/france%e2%80%99s-interior-minister-accused-of-derogatory-comment-to-arab-man/), the French minister of the interior Brice Hortefeux explained at a breaking of fast with the CFCM (the French Council of the Muslim Faith or the Conseil français du culte musulman) that he regrets the unfair polemic that ensued following his comments last week….
France’s interior minister sparked a storm of protest and accusations of racism after a video showed him making an apparently derogatory joke about French citizens of Arab origin. “When there’s one, it’s OK,” Brice Hortefeux, a key minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government, said in the film posted on Le Monde newspaper’s site that rapidly…
