Belgian university department sues Macron for racism

The department of Islamic studies at the European University of Benelux in Belgium issued a press release to announce its plan to file a lawsuit at the European Court in Luxembourg against French President Emmanuel Macron for his “racism” towards the Arab and Muslim communities, writes Safaa Kasraoui for Morocco World News.

The Islamic department at the university also condemned Macron’s insults towards Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in response to the recent attacks in France. In a statement it said Macron “unfortunately appears to us to insult the Prophet Muhammad”. The department said that Macron’s insults came long before the recent attacks in France that the president described as “Islamist terrorist attacks”. The department filed the lawsuit against Macron for “contempt of religions, advocacy of hatred and threatening societal peace”.

The statement issued on 26 October came in response to Macron’s controversial remarks after he said that France will not give up its cartoons that Muslims consider offensive to the Prophet Muhammad.
Full report on the Morocco World News site