This Saturday, May 3, François Bayrou spoke about the murder of Aboubakar Cissé in the Mosque of the Grand-Combe. The opportunity for him to defend loudly the use of the word “Islamophobia” to qualify this attack.
François Bayrou, the Prime Minister, delivered an interview for the “Sunday newspaper” this Saturday, May 3. An interview where he publicly defended the use of the word “Islamophobia” while part of the political class criticizes his job after the murder of the young faithful Muslim Aboubakar Cissé.
Matignon chief explains: “You have to have the courage to say things as they are. To refuse a word because we do not want to look face to face 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. 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?
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.“
-A word that is not unanimous
For some of the right or left, this word “Islamophobia” is not necessarily appreciated by everyone. Indeed, for many the word “hatred of Muslims” seemed more appropriate to them.
In 2021, the socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj explained to challenge this term which he considered as a “eminently political and pernicious concept“.
For its part, the right either does not fully adhere to this term. For good reason, Bruno Retailleau had explained: “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 of not using it. “
Posted on May 4 at 9:59 am, Jérémie Pol, 6medias
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