{"id":36501,"date":"2020-10-29T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=36501"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:54:39","slug":"lets-unite-against-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/policy\/france\/lets-unite-against-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's unite against Islamism"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its violent expression, Islamism struck again in France on Thursday, October 29. After the attack that claimed the life of a teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on October 16, a terrorist stabbed three people to death in the basilica in Nice. To combat this scourge, it is important to recognize and situate Islamism, a revanchist ideology that is above all political. It must be dissociated from Muslims.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Islamism is less serious than capitalism, less serious than imperialism, less serious than the plight of refugees, less serious than cancer, less serious than feminicide, less serious than road deaths, less serious than unemployment, less serious than inequality, less serious than discrimination, less serious than the climate crisis, less serious than the disappearance of ecosystems, less serious than angry youth, less serious than racism, less serious than Islamophobia, less serious than the extreme right, less serious than a \u00abcertain secularism\u00bb. There are always more serious issues than Islamism. Terrorism, of course. Islamist terrorism? Malaise...<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Discomfort because the term \u00abIslamism\u00bb is not immediately associated with what it actually is. It is a totalitarian political project based on religion, a civilizational revanchism nourished by victim paranoia. A small part of the left has found extenuating circumstances, even virtues, for it. We're talking here about political Islamism. Whether at the end of the 1970s in Iran or from the 1980s in the Maghreb, a fringe of the decolonial left, for whom the main enemy was imperialism and its counterpart neo-colonialism, Islamism, embodied at the time by political parties or central figures such as Ayatollah Khomeini, represented a promise of identity reconquest. It was seen as the culmination of independence, through which peoples reappropriated their identity stolen by colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Algeria in the early 1990s, the Islamists had only one enemy: those intellectuals and journalists known as \u00abdemocrats\u00bb or \u00abfrancophones\u00bb, disdainfully referred to as the \u00abparty of France\u00bb. The attack on Tahar Djaout in 1993, at the start of the civil war, was aimed at pluralism and freedom of expression. The attacks on Charlie Hebdo<\/em> and Professor Samuel Paty on October 16 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine are all driven by the same ideological springs. In this respect, the current situation in France in the face of Islamist terrorism bears a striking resemblance to the situation in Algeria thirty years ago. By blackmailing Islamophobia, the Islamists are trying to lock Muslims into a defensive posture. They present themselves as the only valid Muslim voice, which they are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n