{"id":44865,"date":"2022-01-13T19:25:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=44865"},"modified":"2024-04-28T20:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:21:01","slug":"mr-rts-director-dont-hush-up-islamism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/company\/media\/mr-rts-director-dont-hush-up-islamism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Director of RTS, don't keep quiet about Islamism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pascal Crittin, Director of RTS,

How can you let a guest make shocking and untrue statements without reacting? Today, Thursday, January 13, in the 12h45<\/em> from RTS<\/a>, with guest Ugo Palheta, co-author of the book Facing the fascist threat<\/em>, developing arguments in response to a question about \u2019Islamophobia\u00ab, asserted that France, through its military interventions <\/meta>\u00abin Mali and <\/meta>Central African Republic<\/meta>\u00bb(no doubt he meant Burkina Faso in the latter case, as the Central African Republic is very largely Christian), helped to construct an image of Islam and Muslims as an \u00abexternal enemy\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This discourse is false and dangerous. France is intervening militarily in the Sahel against jihadist organizations, which commit atrocities and whose aim is to establish Islamist regimes, which a large proportion of the indigenous populations do not want, either because they have already experienced such regimes, or because they never want to have to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It's worth noting that the argument of French military interventions in Syria and Iraq is the one (among others) used by the perpetrators of the November 13, 2015 attacks, whose alleged accomplices are currently on trial in Paris, to justify their acts. Of course, I'm not saying that Mr. Palheta doesn't condemn these acts, that they don't horrify him as they do all of us - that wouldn't make sense. What I am criticizing him for is a discourse that may lead one to believe that France provoked the crimes it suffered on its territory. But that's forgetting the hatred and resentment against the West that Islamist ideology has been fostering for many decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there's the fact that, in the years leading up to the 2015 attacks in France, figures from political Islam in France (some of them allied with the Manif pour tous, or even close to the anti-Semitic Alain Soral), were quietly talking about the benefits of installing a Salafist-style Islamist regime in Mali, a country that had \u00abevery right to live out its experiences\".\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read also, by the same author Alain Soral, \u00abextreme right\u00bb and that's it?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that Mr. Palheta, in his contribution to today's 12:45 program, fails to distinguish between Islam and Islamism, between Muslims and Islamists, will come as no surprise to those (many of whom are quite happy to live in society with Muslims) who are interested in these issues and who, for their part, make this crucial distinction between faith in God and a politico-religious ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Palheta is perhaps one of those who believe that the fight against Islamism, whether armed abroad or political in Europe or elsewhere, is part of a neo-colonial vision, that Islamism is nothing more than an expression of the identity and militancy of Muslims who, as we shall see, have every right to do what they want with Islam (except kill, of course), given France's colonial past, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

You should know, Mr. Director, that many Muslims, most of them progressive, have had enough of this supposedly supportive but in reality miserabilistic vision, and that, either having been through Islamism themselves, or having suffered from it, or having rubbed shoulders with it, no longer want to hear that Islamist regimes can be good for Muslims in the name of a differentialism worthy of the reactionary New Right, or that French military interventions in the Sahel would create \"new forms of oppression\". \u00abthe image of a \u00abenemy from outside\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot, in the name of the necessary fight against the extreme right and its dangers, abdicate in the face of Islamism. To do so would be cowardly and would only increase the push of the extreme right. Anyone acting in good faith understands, moreover, that the Islamist attacks of 2015, 2016 and 2017 helped fuel the far-right vote and strengthen a threatening ultra-right. This was even one of the aims of these terrorists: to provoke chaos in our democracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n