“Refusing a word because we don’t want to look in front of reality is an attitude that I have already encountered in my political life. Here, the facts are clear: a 22 -year -old boy, murdered in a mosque while he prayed. And his attacker films his death by uttering insults against Allah. So I ask the question: if it is not hatred directed against Islam, what is it? Why refuse the right words? He adds.
“I see the detestation of Muslims and Islam, the detestation of Jews and Judaism. And the detestation of Christians. With crimes in the three cases, “he said.
This term is practically not used by the right, which disputes it.
More and more used by the left
“There is an ideological connotation of the term Islamophobia very marked with regard to the Muslim Brotherhood, who means that in our ministry, we take the precaution not to use it,” explained the Minister of the Interior and Potential Future Patron of the Party Les Républicains Bruno Retailleau after the murder of Aboubakar Cissé in the Gard.
A large part of the left used it, but that was not the case a few years ago.
“Admittedly, Islamophobic is a word that we do not like. Certainly, we prefer to fight the hatred of Muslims. But the question posed today is not at all that of the right or not to criticize a religion, ”wrote Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2019.
At the time, the left was decreasing on the need to participate or not in a “against Islamophobia” march organized by the collective against Islamophobia in France, dissolved since accused of links with the Muslim Brotherhood. Insoumis now use this word very largely.
A political term?
“Let those who try to drown the subject against the backdrop of semantic acrobatics wake up,” castigated MEP Rima Hassan during the week.
In 2021, the socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj explained to challenge this term which he considered as a “eminently political and pernicious concept”. “The political battle always begins with the battle of words. This word allows them to increase the dispute of secular laws, he said then.
