A word cracks the government, but also the whole political class. François Bayrou therefore wanted to remind his ministers that she was her position. The Prime Minister thus defended in the JDD His use of the term “Islamophobic”, after the murder of a Muslim in a mosque last week.
“We must have the courage to say things as they are,” insists the tenant of Matignon in this interview published on Saturday evening on the newspaper’s website.
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“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. “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,” said Interior Minister 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 “, thus wrote Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2019. At the time, the left was discovered on the need to participate or not in a walk” against Islamophobia “organized by the collective against Islamophobia in France, dissolved since accused of links with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Insoumis now use this word very largely. “Let those who try to drown the subject against a backdrop of semantic acrobatics wake up,” castigated MEP Rima Hassan in the week.
Fabien Roussel prefers another term
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.
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Its use is still not widespread everywhere on the left. The boss of the French Communist Party Fabien Roussel thus prefers the term “anti-muslim hatred”.
