In an interview with JDDthe Prime Minister defended his job from the term “Islamophobic”, rejected by some after the death of a faithful in a Mosque in the Gard.
“You have to have the courage to say things as they are”said François Bayrou in an interview published on Saturday evening on the website of JDD . “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 again.
A term used by a large part of the left
This term is practically not used by the right, which disputes it. “There is an ideological connotation of the term” Islamophobia “very marked vis-à-vis the Muslim Brotherhood, who means that in our ministry, we take the precaution not to use it”had explained the Minister of the Interior and the potential future boss of the Les Républicains Bruno Retailleau party 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.
-The political battle always begins with the battle of words. This word allows them to include surreptitiously but methodically challenge secular laws
Socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj in 2021
At the time, the left was torn apart on the need to participate or not in a walk “Against Islamophobia” Organized by the collective against Islamophobia in France, dissolved since because accused of links with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Insoumis now use this word very largely. “Let those who try to drown the subject against the backdrop of semantic acrobatics wake up”then lambasted the Rima Hassan MEP.
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 include surreptitiously but methodically challenge secular laws ”he said then. Its use is still not widespread everywhere on the left. The boss of the French Communist Party Fabien Roussel thus prefers the term to him “Anti-Muslims” “.
