{"id":519738,"date":"2023-08-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=519738"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:54:20","slug":"medine-left-islamism-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/policy\/france\/medine-left-islamism-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u00abM\u00e9dine left\u00bb and the denial of Islamism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accused of anti-Semitism following a tweet, the rapper from Le Havre was a guest at the summer universities of the ecologists and La France insoumise. Where the word Islamism is no longer uttered. At the same time, Gabriel Attal banned the wearing of the abaya in schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The central question raised by the \u2019M\u00e9dine affair\u00ab is that of responsibility. The 40-year-old French rapper, whose father is Algerian and whose mother is French, has been accused of anti-Semitism for a pun on the surname of a granddaughter of deportees, Rachel Khan: \u00bbResKHANp\u00e9e\u00ab, which sounds like \u00bbsurvivor\u00ab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A habitual provocateur, does M\u00e9dine have anything to reproach himself for? Has he or has he not dabbled in Islamism, that of the \u00abcrazy years\u00bb before the 2015 attacks in France? Years marked by exalted preaching, where hell was promised to the impure, where unveiled women were worth less than a penny, where Jews were the deceivers who had betrayed the prophet, where every brother, every sister, was called upon to conform to the laws of Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like others, the rapper from Le Havre has, since the 2000s, been crunching on this Islam set up as a political struggle and first and foremost as revenge, drawing on the victim supremacism of the Muslim Brotherhood - how can it be that the religion that holds the truth doesn't occupy first place in the world? This Islamism, while punchlines<\/em> and uppercuts<\/em> did harm to France and placed the younger generations of Muslims, M\u00e9dine included, in a constant dilemma of identity against a backdrop of their relationship with their parents, who were out to avenge the humiliations they had suffered. Such was the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly define the terms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The most disreputable aspect of this \u00abIslam will conquer\u00bb manifesto is that individuals have played and enjoyed two registers, Islam and the West. One day in Islam, another day in the West. Constraint on one side, freedom on the other. All this without any fear of the consequences, the real, terrible ones, the ones that send you to prison at the very least for lifestyle choices judged not to conform to Sharia law. In the West, the worst penalty for deviance is a bad reputation...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can't absolve people of their responsibility for playing along with an ideology that is as dangerous and backward-looking as any other. Some may now want to move on, and perhaps this is Medina's wish. But first, we need to identify the offending doctrine. Former French Islamists have done this in a courageous way, clearly setting out the terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n