Seeing a bit of #fakenews from surprising corners here this morning.

France is NOT issuing Muslim children with a special id number to prevent radicalization.

It would not be possible: in France it is illegal for the State to record people’s religious affiliation.

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If you want to fact check the source, read the draft law is here (read article 19-20):

https://www.dalloz-actualite.fr/sites/dalloz-actualite.fr/files/resources/2020/11/projet_de_loi_confortant_les_principes_republicains.pdf

Macron">https://www.dalloz-actualite.fr/sites/dal... also didn’t announce this measure in his Oct 2nd speech. The relevant passages are below, for the full speech see:

https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2020/10/02/la-republique-en-actes-discours-du-president-de-la-republique-sur-le-theme-de-la-lutte-contre-les-separatismes">https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-...
Clearly none of this means that France doesn’t have a problem with racism and islamophobia. It DOES.

But this sort of #fakenews can be really dangerous in the current context.

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