they wont France is hypocrite the claim to support secularism but supply Saudi and Gulf States with advanced weaponry
Every country is a hypocrite in foreign relations in the end...especially when it has the sizeable weapons industrial capability.
But there are different levels to hypocrisy in general.
For argument sake and going to foreign affairs first, let us say France does not sell any kind of weapon to Saudi Arabia....on account of its actions in Yemen just as one example.
Is the objective to stop say Yemeni civilians from dieing?
If so what stops Saudi Arabia from importing say half-the-quality weapons in double the volume from China (to get the same power level to exert)?
Will that route lead to fewer Yemenis dieing? Every other example is like this one in the end.
France having not sold weapons for it, would still see the same results...that too by not coming in and intervening to stop the Yemenis from dieing....blood is spilled by inaction right?
So should there be neo-con style intervention and govt-overthrowing for any humans right abuse in foreign countries? You see this is a can of worms argument in the end.
But we can look at domestic policy/system for finding the key differences in the root setup.
France actually has due process and a constitution that is implemented well.
Rule of law with respect to ensuring individual citizen rights is sacrosanct.
Now compare this to a country that has provably (satellite intel that any muslim country can request to verify..to show the sizeable facilities that didnt exist just a few years before) imprisoned 1 million muslims (own citizens) and doing whos knows what with them in the end.
How many muslims in the world are calling for boycott of that country with such an evil totalitarian govt? How many are burning effigies of its leader?
How many more times angered should a Muslim be at it in first place? 1 million (action taken upon) compared to 1 Macron (words).
Surely there must be consistency in approach here? Or do you meet some stated hypocrisy with far greater hypocrisy from your own side?
France has due process for rule of law and
individual rights enshrined at the individual level.
Will it ever incarcerate the whole community for actions of a few (that PRC has done so using its stabbing incidents it claimed happened to spur it among other things).
Anyone here knows what happens in PRC when you go to one of its court with a copy of PRC constitution in hand and point out the individual rights charter and say where it is being violated? Anyone know what happened to the PRC lawyer group that last studied into it some 15 years back (even before Xi appeared on the scene)?
This is all part of the reason I find this targetting of France here and elsewhere quite unfair and grossly hypocritical than anything people can level towards Macron (and
French constitutional basis)