The French cabinet has approved a bill aimed at tackling radical Islam after a recent series of attacks by extremists.

(TIME MAGAZINE)

The draft law, part of a long-term drive by President Emmanuel Macron to uphold secular values, tightens rules on home-schooling and hate speech.

Some critics, both in France and abroad, have accused his government using it to target religion.

But Prime Minister Jean Castex called it "a law of protection" that would free Muslims from the grip of radicals.

He insisted that the text was not "aimed against religions or against the Muslim religion in particular".

(Lupni.com/BBC)