The UK's Muslim Public Affairs Committee expressed similar displeasure with Macron, describing him as "not just a threat to law-abiding Muslim citizens, but to France & the EU itself."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest American Muslim civil-advocacy group, earlier condemned Macron for attempting to "dictate the principles of the Islamic faith," blasting the president's proposed measures as "hypocritical and dangerous."
In October, the Washington, CAIR also called on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIFR) to investigate France's ongoing campaign of "collective punishment" against the French Muslim community, as well as France's longstanding history of turning anti-religious bigotry into government policy.
CAIR recently issued a travel advisory warning American Muslims against traveling to France amid the French government's "hypocritical and dangerous" campaign of Islamophobic bigotry targeting French Muslims, mosques and Islamic organizations.
Over the past 20 years, France has implemented numerous laws designed to limit and punish the free exercise of religion, especially among Muslims. France has banned students, teachers, and public servants from wearing visible signs of their faith, including hijabs, at school or at work.
French law also forbids people from wearing religious face veils in public, while simultaneously requiring them to wear medical face masks. Muslim women in some areas of France have also been fined by police for wearing full-body swimsuits.
President of France Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech about the French Muslim community in which he claimed that 'Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today, we are not just seeing this in our country' and has expressed concern of 'Islamic separatism' and called to 'liberate' Islam.
The crackdown of Muslims comes after France saw a wave of attacks reportedly carried out by Muslim extremists. The string of violence began with the murder of schoolteacher Samuel Paty on October 16, who was beheaded by a Chechen refugee after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a lesson about free speech. Nearly two weeks later, three people were killed in a knife attack in Nice, France. The suspect is a Tunisian migrant .
Macron has become the target of protests and condemnation from around the Muslim world. Earlier this month, 50,000 people took to the streets in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka to protest against the French leader's defense of the right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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