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There was no link between extremism and Islam: French PM

PARIS – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that there was no link between extremism and Islam, Thenewstribe.com learnt from International media.

While talking to a conference aimed at improving ties with France s large Muslim community, he said that we must say all of this is not Islam.

“The hate speech, anti-Semitism that hides behind anti-Zionism and hate for Israel…the self-proclaimed imams in our neighbourhoods and our prisons who are promoting violence and terrorism,” said Valls.

Five months after the militant attacks in Paris that killed 17 people and shocked the world, the government will hold a series of meetings with top officials from the roughly five million-strong Muslim community, the largest in Europe.

Participant will debate security at religious sites, the image of Islam in the media and the building of new mosques.

The forum expected to be attended by between 120-150 Muslim community leaders as well as top government official.

Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti is a French politician who has been the Prime Minister of France since 31 March 2014. He was the Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2014. He is a member of the Socialist Party.

Born in Barcelona to a Spanish father and a Swiss mother, Valls was Mayor of Évry from 2001 to 2012 and was first elected to the National Assembly of France in 2002. He is regarded as belonging to the Socialist Party’s social liberal wing, sharing common orientations with Scandinavian-style social democracy and Blairism.

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