DISINFO: France is banning Christmas symbols
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: kp.ru (archived)*
  • Date of publication: December 20, 2017
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 93
  • Countries / regions discussed: France
Tags:
Jihad Islamic extremism Christmas Christianity Terrorism

DISINFO: France is banning Christmas symbols

SUMMARY

France is banning Christmas symbols. It has announced to set up a counter-terror prosecutor’s office, but actually France is not fighting with terrorists and jihadists but with its own Christian past. No one says it out loud that all this is done to please the liberals and their “best friends” – radical islamists.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation. In France religious symbols are prohibited from public institutions as an application of the principle of the separation of church and state. For background on the legislation, that also bans Muslim headscarves and Jewish skullcaps, read more here. Further debunking by the Insider.

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